This time, it had a bachelorette and the sexes of several couples swapped around.įor her third directing Tony, she beat Stephen Brackett of “A Strange Loop,” Conor McPherson from “Girl From the North Country,” Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage of “Six: The Musical” and Christopher Wheeldon from “MJ.” The show is an exploration of a single person’s conflicted feelings about commitment, traditionally focusing on a 35-year-old bachelor. The English-language version is a marathon: Three actors doing 185 roles.įor the Tony, it beat “Clyde’s,” “Hangmen,” “The Minutes” and “Skeleton Crew.”Ī revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” that gender-switches the lead character has won the Tony Award for best musical revival. The play first arrived at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton Theatre in 2018 and went on to have an off-Broadway run and then a West End bow. Spanning 150 years and running three and a half hours, “The Lehman Trilogy” illustrates the trajectory of western capitalism by following the fortunes of a single family into the financial crash of 2008, when their Wall Street institution filed for bankruptcy. Stefano Massini’s play about what led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers - adapted by Ben Power and directed by Sam Mendes - stars Adrian Lester, Simon Russell Beale and Adam Godley.