NEW YORK — The Broadway musical Kinky Boots, pictured here, was honored with six Tony Awards this year, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. Kinky Boots’ sound designer, John Shivers, also picked up the 2013 Tony for Best Sound Design of a Musical. The winner for Best Sound Design of a Play was Leon Rothenberg for The Nance. The awards were presented at Radio City Music Hall June 9.
Other nominees for Best Sound Design of a Musical included Pippin (Jonathan Deans and Garth Helm); Motown the Musical (Peter Hylenski) and Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Nevin Steinberg). Other nominees for Best Sound Design of a Play included The Trip to Bountiful (John Gromada), The Testament of Mary (Mel Mercier) and Golden Boy (Peter John Still and Marc Salzberg).
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Masque Sound also noted a number of the productions it supported were in the winner’s circle.
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Masque Sound clients took home 16 Tony Awards, including John Shivers for Best Sound Design of a Musical for Kinky Boots and Leon Rothenberg for Best Sound Design of a Play for The Nance. In addition to Kinky Boots and The Nance, Masque Sound had also provided custom audio packages for winners Pippin, LUCKY GUY and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
“John Shivers (Kinky Boots), Leon Rothenberg (The Nance), Scott Lehrer (LUCKY GUY), Jonathan Deans and Garth Helm (Pippin) and Mark Bennett (Vanya) are all incredibly talented individuals and amazing sound designers,” says Stephanie Hansen, vice president and general manager, Masque Sound. “We couldn’t be happier for them to receive this prestigious industry recognition.”
