The 2025-2026 Broadway season — the highest-grossing in history at $1.9 billion, even though it included only six new musicals, which are usually what drive ticket sales — came to an end on Sunday night with the 79th Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The verdict of the 831 voters? 10 shows were worthy of recognition in at least one category: Becky Shaw, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Death of a Salesman, Giant, Fallen Angels, Liberation, The Lost Boys, Oedipus, Ragtime and Schmigadoon!.
Best musical, the one Tony that tends to result in a meaningful box-office boost for its winner, went to Schmigadoon!, a sendup of golden age Broadway musicals, over The Lost Boys, a show that appealed to a younger demo. It was a battle of screen adaptations — Schmigadoon! was inspired by the Apple TV series of the same name, while The Lost Boys is a musical spin on the 1987 film of the same name — which shared the distinction of most Tony noms of any show this season, 12.
In what was seen as a similarly close contest, Lincoln Center’s production of Ragtime, the first on Broadway since the show first ran from 1998 through 2000, won best revival of a musical over Cats: The Jellicle Ball, an edgy reimagining of the polarizing show that ran on the Great White Way from 1982 through 2000.
