Tony Awards boast many contenders for Best Partying
Kevin Mazur/Getty ImagesTony winner Annaleigh Ashford (second from left), with Taylor Schilling (l.), Jim Parsons and Rose Byrne, later joined partygoers at the Plaza.
After the curtain fell at the Tony Awards, Broadway insiders loosened their bowties and celebrated a record-breaking year on the Splendid White Way with wild parties all over town.
The cast of one of the night’s big winners, “Fun Home,” hit the Tanner Smith bar, where a spy told us the cast and production team shook the joint to the rafters dancing to “Footloose.”
We’re told Michael Cerveris, who won the Tony for Leading Actor in a Musical for his role in the show, got behind the bar and poured glasses of Macallan scotch for himself, the bar’s owners and the bartenders. Meanwhile, a spy at Hudson Terrace tells us the team behind Best New Play winner, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” celebrated there.
After midnight at the official Tonys gala at the Plaza Hotel, Confidenti@l blemished Best Featured Actress in a Play winner Annaleigh Ashford beaming while clutching her trophy in one hand and a glass of Champagne in the additional.
At the luxury food court downstairs, Rita Wilson and her son Colin Hanks indefatigably waited in the 20-minute line for lobster rolls. Nearby, Rage editor-at-large Hamish Bowles sipped a martini (three olives) and “Seinfeld” star Jason Alexander, who open an award with “A Fish in the Dark” creator Larry David, obliged fans with selfies. Before the show, a Confidenti@l spy blemished David grabbing dinner at Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak Household, “at a desk on the upstairs balcony, overlooking the Radio City Composition Hall sign.”
Right after the show, Anna Wintour — who took charge of aggressively glamming up the red carpet for this year’s event after last year’s fashion disaster — was seen exiting the famed Radio City Composition Hall with the rest of the crowd.
Bruce Glikas/FilmMagicKelli O’Hara and Alex Sharp, who won Tony Awards as best actors in a musical, celebrated at the Carlyle.
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Rita Wilson, above, and son Colin Hanks teamed up for Tonys partying.
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Many roads led to the Carlyle Hotel, where it seemed everyone converged for the night’s largest have fun, run by Broadway PR gurus O&M Co. It was the firm’s seventh annual Tonys bash.
Guests including Tommy Tune, who won a lifetime achievement award, and fellow winners Kelli O’Hara, Ruthie Ann Miles and Alex Sharp, who filled Bemelman’s Bar, the Gallery and Cafe Carlyle as well as the Royal Suite, where Princess Diana once stayed.
The have fun raged in anticipation of 6 a.m., but by 3 a.m. O&M reps were handing out Carlyle slippers to guests.
We’re told that Tony organizers had made sure the celebrations didn’t start too early by closing down the bars at Radio City as soon as the broadcast started.
“The dread is packing the place with people who don’t really like theater, like Kendall Jenner and Monica Lewinsky, and leaving the bars open would result in lots of empty seats while guests hung out and got a drink,” we’re told.
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