Kander won three Tonys in the category for work with his late partner Fred Ebb. Notably missing here are John Kander and Lin-Manuel Miranda for New York, New York. Kitt is nominated alongside director Cameron Crowe, who won both an Oscar and Grammy for his work on the 2000 film Almost Famous and its soundtrack. The nominees for best original score include four past winners in that category – Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman for Some Like It Hot Tom Kitt for Almost Famous and Tesori for Kimberly Akimbo. Eligible shows that were not nominated for best musical are Almost Famous, Bad Cinderella, A Beautiful Noise and KPOP. Luke (Lukasz Gottwald) and Shellback are among the producers nominated for & Juliet.

The nominees for best musical are & Juliet, a jukebox musical featuring the songs of Swedish hit machine Max Martin Shucked, with songs by country pros Shane McAnally and Brandy Clark Kimberly Akimbo, with songs by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire (who previously collaborated on Shrek the Musical), and two musicals that were based on well-known movies – Some Like It Hot, based on the 1959 Billy Wilder classic, and New York, New York, based on the 1977 Martin Scorsese film, which is widely regarded as a miss. Some Like It Hot was the nominations leader, with 13 nods, followed by & Juliet, New York, New York and Shucked with nine each and Kimberly Akimbo and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with eight each. The nominations were announced on Tuesday (May 2) by Myles Frost, who won a Tony last year for portraying Michael Jackson in the jukebox musical MJ, and Lea Michele, who stars in the current revival of Funny Girl.

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