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The 2024 Tony Awards took place on Sunday (June 16), and the musical category was stacked with productions beloved by fans and critics.
Hell’s Kitchen, Water for Elephants, Illinoise, The Outsiders and Suffs were some of the award-winning and nominated musicals at the 77th annual Tony Awards. (Missed the show? Here’s how to watch this year’s Tony Awards for free.)
With the weather getting nicer on the East Coast and summer travel heating up, it’s a great time to start planning to see one of this year’s Tony-winning and nominated musicals on Broadway.
Tickets to musicals and other productions can be purchased at sites such as Broadway.com and Telecharge, in addition to TodaysTix, StubHub and Vivid Seats, but we rounded up other ticketing sites to utilize too. Ticket prices range from around $60 and up, but prices for some of the popular shows (Hell’s Kitchen included) can range from upwards of $100 to $300, depending on demand.
Keep reading for a breakdown of each of the best musical nominees for 2024, and a couple of other buzzing musicals, and places to buy tickets.
Hell’s Kitchen
Leading the pack as the most Tony Award-nominated show of the year, Alicia Key’s Hell’s Kitchen took home two Tony Awards on Sunday (best performance by an actress in a leading role for Maleah Joi Moon and best performance in a featured role for Kecia Lewis).
Featuring music from Keys, Hell’s Kitchen is a coming-of-age story centered around a 17-year-old teen who lives in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen and dreams of blazing a path through music. The cast includes Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon, Lewis, Chris Lee and Moon.
Illinoise
The 2024 Tony Award winner for best choreography, Illinoise is based on the Sufjan Steven’s 2005 album of the same name and features “a group of friends gather around a campfire, sharing stories of first love, grief, and growing up in this new musical.” The musical was created by Tony nominee Justin Peck and Pulitzer Prize winner Jackie Sibblies Drury.
Water for Elephants
Based on the New York Times bestselling novel, Water for Elephants is a Great Depression-era story about a man who steps onto a new life path after jumping in front of a moving train and subsequently joining a traveling circus.
The Outsiders
A stage adaptation of the S.E. Hinton novel , The Outsiders follows the story of Ponyboy Curtis, a 14-year-old orphan. The musical explores classism and gang rivalries in 1960s Tulsa, featuring music from Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Justin Levine.
The Outsiders won for best musical at the Tonys.
Stereophonic
Stereophonic centers around a fictional 1976 rock band on the edge of superstardom. Featuring original music from Arcade Fire’s Will Butler, Stereophonic follows the band as they record a new album and navigate “ensuing pressures” that could end in a “breakup or a breakthrough.”
The musical won five Tony Awards out of 13 nominations (tying with Hell’s Kitchen‘s nods).
Merrily We Roll Along
The Stephen Sondheim musical is about two artists whose friendship falls apart just as their careers start to come together. The play starts at the end and takes viewers down memory lane with Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez as its stars.
Merrily We Roll Along took home four Tonys, including best revival musical.
Suffs
Suffs is a musical about the women’s suffrages movement of the early 1900s. The cast includes Shaina Taub, Jenna Bainbridge, Kim Blanck, Nikki M. James, Tsilala Brock, Jenn Colella, Ally Bonino, Hannah Cruz and Nadia Dandashi.
The musical notched six Tony nominations and won two awards.
