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New York — The musicals An American in Paris and Fun Home each received a leading 12 Tony Award nominations, showing two very different sides of this Broadway season.
One side is sunny — the dance-heavy stage adaptation of the 1951 musical film with George and Ira Gerswin songs — and the other moody — the dark show based on Alison Bechdel's coming of age graphic novel about her closeted and suicidal dad.
"It's nice to know if something's good, there's room for it," said Max von Essen, who earned a nomination for featured actor in a musical in American in Paris.
"There's room for a smaller, darker piece and there's room for a big, show-stopping revival show with Gershwin."
Michael Cerveris got one of the dozen nods for Fun Home — as best leading actor in a musical — and hopes that will attract more people to see his poignant show that might not initially be a lure for tourists.
"The real value of the Tonys — and I suppose any awards — is to draw attention to something that people otherwise might not seek out. So the fact that every aspect of the production has been acknowledged is the best kind of advertising," he said.
The nominations also ranged from 11-year-old Sydney Lucas in Fun Home to 82-year-old Chita Rivera, looking for her third Tony. Helen Mirren and Bradley Cooper each got nominations but Matthew Morrison from "Glee" did not get a nod in his return to Broadway.
Here are the nominations for the 2015 American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards:
Best Musical
"An American in Paris," ''Fun Home," ''Something Rotten!," ''The Visit"
