Here's some (hopefully) fun trivia about the Tony nominations. Please add your own!

All of the nominees for Best Featured Actor in a Play are in shows that have closed.

All of the Tony-eligible musicals this year were nominated in at least one category, and all 11 are still open. I don't think this has ever happened before.

Only one acting nominee in the musical categories is the sole acting nominee from his/her show -- Kerry Butler from "Xanadu." 13 of the 20 musical acting nominees are in only 4 shows -- South Pacific, Gypsy, In the Heights, and Passing Strange.

Only 1 show was nominated solely in tech categories -- Cyrano de Bergerac for costumes. That show closed before nominations were announced. The same thing happened last year -- the sole show nominated solely in tech categories (High Fidelity for set design) was closed before nominations were announced.

Only 2 of the 21 shows this year that were open on the nomination announcement day did not get any nominations -- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Country Girl. Conversely, 6 of the 13 shows that had closed got no nominations.

Phylicia Rashad appeared in 2 Broadway shows this season (Cymbeline and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), and neither got any nominations. Boyd Gaines and Harriet Harris also appeared in 2 shows this season, with one show getting nominated and the other show getting blanked.

Conor McPherson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Heidi Rodewald, and Peter McKintosh all received 2 nominations this year. Stew received 4 for a single show, a feat only achieved previously by Elizabeth Swados (Runaways) and Anthony Newley (Stop the World - I Want to Get Off). Hopefully, he will do better than his predecessors -- both of them lost in every category.

Assuming South Pacific was not eligible in orchestrations because it used the original orchestrations, it received a nomination in every category for which it was eligible.

All 9 actors nominated for musical revivals are playing roles for which the original performer was also nominated.

Rob Ashford (choreographer - Cry-Baby, Curtains, The Wedding Singer), and Natasha Katz (The Little Mermaid, The Coast of Utopia, and Tarzan) are nominated for the 3rd year in a row, while Catherine Zuber (costume designer - South Pacific, Coast of Utopia, Awake and Sing! Seascape, and The Light in the Piazza) has now made it 4 years in a row. Zuber has won the last three years, and Katz won last year.

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I've not been able to confirm this, but I have a strong suspicion that Arthur Laurents, at 89, is the oldest Tony nominee ever in Direction, maybe in any category.

Two nominees in the Directing categories were also the author of their respective shows: Conor McPherson (Seafarer) and Arthur Laurents (Gypsy).This is the most impressive statistic to me, as generally the rule in theater is you don't ever direct your own work, nonetheless recieve a Tony nomination for it.

Having said that, this is the third Broadway production of Gypsy directed by Arthur Laurents, and his second Tony nomination for doing so. The other nod was for the 1975 production starring Angela Lansbury.

Though this "Macbeth" is the 8th Broadway production of the play since the Tonys were first awarded, only one other production recieved any Tony nods (in 1988, just 1: Glenda Jackson for Lead Actress). Patrick Stewart is the first actor ever to play the title role and recieve a Tony nod.