Works of genre interest dominated tonight’s Tony Awards 2025 ceremony.

Maybe Happy Ending led with six awards including Best Musical. Maybe Happy Ending follows two life-like helper-bots, Oliver and Claire, who discover each other in Seoul in the late 21st century and develop a connection that challenges what they believe is possible for themselves, relationships, and love.

Stranger Things: The First Shadow won three Tonys, Oh, Mary! and The Picture of Dorian Gray, two each, and Death Becomes Her, one.

Sarah Snook won Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for playing all 26 different roles in The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The following are Tony Award winners of genre interest. The complete list of winners is here.

BEST MUSICAL

• Maybe Happy Ending

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY

• Cole Escola, Oh, Mary!

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL

• Darren Criss, Maybe Happy Ending

BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL

• Michael Arden, Maybe Happy Ending

BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY

• Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary!

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY

• Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATRE

• Maybe Happy Ending, Will Aronson (music and lyrics) and Hue Park (lyrics)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

• Paul Tazewell, Death Becomes Her

BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY

• Marg Horwell, The Picture of Dorian Gray

BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL

• Dane Laffrey and George Reeve, Maybe Happy Ending

BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY

• Miriam Buether and 59, Stranger Things: The First Shadow

BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY

• Jon Clark, Stranger Things: The First Shadow

BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL

• Maybe Happy Ending, Will Aronson and Hue Park

BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY

• Paul Arditti, Stranger Things: The First Shadow

SPECIAL TONY AWARD

• The Illusions & Technical Effects of Stranger Things: The First Shadow (Jamie Harrison, Chris Fisher, Gary Beestone, and Edward Pierce)

The Wikipedia’s help has been enlisted to explain why some of these have been included.

• Oh, Mary! is set in the days leading up to Lincoln’s assassination, which occurred while he and Mary were watching Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre. The show portrays Mary as someone who longs to live a life away from politics and be a cabaret performer, while Lincoln uses her as a beard to hide his sexuality, and is often away from home dealing with the issues of the Civil War, leaving her alone in the White House.
• Maybe Happy Ending follows two life-like helper-bots, Oliver and Claire, who discover each other in Seoul in the late 21st century and develop a connection that challenges what they believe is possible for themselves, relationships, and love.
• Death Becomes Her is a musical based on the 1992 sff/h movie.
• Stranger Things: The First Shadow is a play that serves as a prequel to the events of the television series Stranger Things.
• The Picture of Dorian Gray is based on the 1891 novel of the same name by Oscar Wilde. The play has one performer portraying twenty six roles from the original novel.