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All of the 2015 Tony winners

By Emily St. James@emilyvdw Updated Jun 7, 2015, 11:11pm EDT

Sydney Lucas and Michael Cerveris star in a scene from the Tony-winning Best Musical Fun Home.

Emily St. James was a senior correspondent for Vox, covering American identities. Before she joined Vox in 2014, she was the first TV editor of the A.V. Club.

The 69th annual Tony Awards, honoring the best in Broadway theater for the 2014-'15 season, handed out 24 golden statuettes for everything from best costume design to the best play and musical of the year. Actors Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth served as hosts.

The night's big winners were musical Fun Home and play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which each took home five prizes — including awards for Best Show, Best Direction, and Best Actor in a Leading Role (Alex Sharp for Curious Incident and Michael Cerveris for Fun Home).

Both works are adaptations of books. Curious Incident adapts Mark Haddon's novel about an autistic teenager who tries to discover who killed a neighborhood dog, while Fun Home adapts Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir where her coming-of-age and coming out as a lesbian is juxtaposed with the life and death of her closeted gay father.

The Lincoln Center revival of The King and I and the new musical version of George Gershwin's An American in Paris each won four awards. The former scored for Best Revival of a Musical and Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for Kelli O'Hara, who won her first Tony on her sixth nomination. The play The Audience also won two major awards — Leading Actress (Helen Mirren) and Featured Actor (Richard McCabe) in a play. Mirren has now won both an Oscar and a Tony for playing Queen Elizabeth II.

The 2015 Tony Awards winners

Best Musical

The cast and creative team of Fun Home takes the stage after winning the Tony for Best Musical. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

Fun Home

Best Play

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, written by Simon Stevens, from the book by Mark Haddon

Best Revival of a Musical

The King and I

Best Revival of a Play

Skylight

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

Kelli O'Hara won her first Tony Award after five previous nominations. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

Kelli O'Hara, The King and I as Anna Leonowens

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

Michael Cerveris accepts his Tony Award for his work in Fun Home. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

Michael Cerveris, Fun Home as Bruce Bechdel

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Alex Sharp won for his work as an autistic teenager in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

Alex Sharp, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time as Christopher Boone

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Helen Mirren won the Tony for Leading Actress in a Play for The Audience. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

Helen Mirren, The Audience as Queen Elizabeth II

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

Ruthie Ann Miles, The King and I as Lady Thiang

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical

Christian Borle, Something Rotten! as The Bard

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role a Play

Richard McCabe, The Audience as Prime Minister Harold Wilson

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

Annaleigh Ashford, You Can't Take It With You as Essie Carmichael

Best Direction of a Musical

Sam Gold, Fun Home

Best Direction of a Play

Marianne Elliott won for her direction of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

Marianne Elliott, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Best Score of a Musical

Jeanine Tesori (music) and Lisa Kron (lyrics), Fun Home

Best Book of a Musical

Lisa Kron, Fun Home

Best Choreography

The cast of An American in Paris performs at the Tony Awards. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

Christopher Wheeldon, An American in Paris

Non-competitive awards

Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre

Tommy Tune

Regional Theatre Tony Award

Cleveland Play House, Cleveland, Ohio

Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award

Stephen Schwartz

Special Tony Award

John Cameron Mitchell accepts his special Tony Award. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

John Cameron Mitchell

Theatre Education Award

Corey Mitchell

Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre

Arnold Abramson
Adrian Bryan-Brown
Gene O'Donovan

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