Tony Awards 2015: Helen Mirren Is Best Actress, 'Curious Incident of the Dog' Is Best Play
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Mirren takes home a gong for best lead actress in a play for her role in 'The Audience' and her co-star Richard McCabe wins a prize for featured actor in a play.

AceShowbiz - The 69th annual Tony Awards was kicked off on Sunday, June 7 at 8 P.M. at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. After an opening number by hosts Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming and a performance from the musical "Something Rotten!", Helen Mirren received the first prize during the live broadcast for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for her role as the Queen in "The Audience". Bradley Cooper, who was nominated for best lead actor in a play, presented the award to Mirren.

Mirren's co-star Richard McCabe soon followed her triumph with a win in best featured actor in a play category. Meanwhile, the best featured actress in a play title went to Annaleigh Ashford for her performance in "You Can't Take It with You". She jokingly said, "I'm standing on the Radio City Music Hall stage for the worst dancing that ever happened on Broadway."

Another acting prize, the best featured actor in a musical, was nabbed by Christian Borle for his role in "Something Rotten!" It's his second Tony Award after his win for best featured actor in a play for his role in "Peter and the Starcatcher". "The King and I" star Ruthie Ann Miles, meanwhile, won best featured actress in a musical.

"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" took the coveted title as it was named Best Play. It additionally nabbed Best Direction of a Play for Marianne Elliott's work. "Fun Home" already bagged three awards, one was Best Direction of a Musical which belonged to Sam Gold, another was through Lisa Kron's win for Best Book of a Musical, and the third was Best Original Score which was awarded to Jeanine Tesori and Kron.

"An American in Paris" has already bagged multiple prizes too. Christopher Wheeldon won Best Choreography, Bob Crowley and 59 Productions won Best Scenic Design of a Musical, and Christopher Austin, Don Sebesky and Bill Elliott were presented with Best Orchestrations prize.

Before the live broadcast, Tommy Tune accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award, and John Cameron Mitchell received a Special Tony Award for "Hedwig and the Angry Inch".

More winners will be announced at the ceremony which is broadcast live on CBS.

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