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Glee makes it three straight on the Tonys.

When Darren Criss picked up a Tony Award on Sunday evening for finest efficiency by an actor in a number one position in a musical for his flip in Perhaps Joyful Ending, the veteran star turned the third straight Glee alum to win a trophy on Broadway’s largest evening. He adopted scorching on the heels of Jonathan Groff, who received his first Tony final 12 months for Merrily We Roll Alongside (and he was nominated this 12 months in the identical class as Criss for Simply in Time), and Alex Newell, who received finest featured actor in a musical for Shucked in 2023.

Whereas the springboard from screens huge and small to the stage is busier than ever, the wins deepen the validation for Ryan Murphy and his beloved Fox musical TV sequence, which ran from 2009-2015. A lot in order that Out revealed an in depth roundup of the 12 Glee stars which have received Tonys through the years (a few of whom earlier than starring on the hit sequence). Murphy, who was not out there for remark this week, has lengthy been praised for razor-sharp abilities in recognizing, growing and nurturing expertise. Usually instances, that work results in rewards for his secure of actors.

That listing contains Sarah Paulson, a longtime veteran of the Ryan Murphy universe, who received an Emmy, SAG Award, Golden Globe and numerous critics prizes for one among his exhibits. She graduated to the stage, the place she received a Tony final 12 months for her work in Acceptable in a class that additionally included one other Murphy collaborator, Jessica Lange. Murphy and Lange beforehand collaborated on the Nice White Means manufacturing Lengthy Day’s Journey into Night time, for which she received a Tony in 2016. The present itself, produced by Murphy, obtained a complete of seven nominations, together with finest revival of a play.

Two years later, Murphy made fairly an impression on Broadway when he mounted a brand new manufacturing of The Boys within the Band at New York’s Sales space Theatre to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the play’s unique debut. The manufacturing starred Matt Bomer, Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Andrew Rannells, Charlie Carver, Brian Hutchinson, Michael Benjamin Washington, Robin de Jesús and Tuc Watkins. It received a Tony for finest revival of a play.

Across the similar time because the revival’s run on Broadway, The Promenade danced its manner onto the scene. The musical — with music by Matthew Sklar, a e book by Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin and lyrics by Beguelin — centered on a highschool pupil in conservative Indiana who needs to deliver her girlfriend to promenade. After the transfer is denied, a troupe of Broadway stars descend on the scene to rally behind the scholar and battle for her proper to attend promenade together with her girlfriend. Murphy tailored the present for the display screen by bringing Meryl Streep, James Corden, Nicole Kidman, Andrew Rannells, Kerry Washington, Ariana DeBose, Jo Ellen Pellman and Keegan-Michael Key alongside for the trip. Murphy additionally tailored Larry Kramer’s play The Regular Coronary heart for the display screen starring Bomer, Groff, Mark Ruffalo, Taylor Kitsch, Jim Parsons, Alfred Molina, Joe Mantello and Julia Roberts.

Again to the Glee of all of it. As Criss took house his award, fellow Glee vet Lea Michele was sitting within the viewers. She attended the Tonys with performers Aaron Tveit (who auditioned for the position of Finn on Glee) and Nicholas Christopher. The trio might be starring this fall within the musical revival of Chess on the Shubert Theatre. That includes music by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and Tim Rice, Chess encompasses a new e book by Dopesick creator Danny Robust with Michael Mayer on board to direct.

With Michele poised to hit the stage through the subsequent Tony season, there’s an opportunity Glee may make it 4 in a row if the Humorous Lady star had been to triumph on the 2026 Tony Awards. It could be the final word fiction-meets-reality second as Michele’s Rachel Berry received a Tony within the Glee sequence finale for starring in a fictitious Broadway musical Jane Austen Sings.