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Tony Awards Where Are They Now? Here's What the 2014 Tony Winners Have Been Up To From Audra McDonald to Neil Patrick Harris on stage and screen, here's what the winners of the 2014 Tony Awards have been up to since making theatrical history last year on Broadway's biggest night.
Jefferson Mays and Bryce Pinkham A Gentleman鈥檚 Guide to Love and Murder Photo by Joan Marcus

(Best Musical). After picking up four Tony Awards last year, Gent's Guide recouped its $7.5 million investment after 17 months this past April. The musical continues its Broadway run and will launch a U.S. national tour this September.

(Best Play, ). With a Tony Award win under his belt, Schenkkan set to work on the HBO screen adaptation of his Lyndon B. Johnson Broadway bioplay that will feature returning to the Tony-winning presidential role. An air-date has not been announced. In addition, The Great Society, the next play in Schenkkan's works exploring the Johnson presidency premiered last summer at , where All The Way originated. Schenkken also collaborated with composer-lyricist Neil Berg on the new musical The 12, which centers on Jesus' apostles. It premiered at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in March.

(Best Revival of a Musical). After launching with Tony winner Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig is still going strong. Among the stars to take on the central role of the transgender East German rocker are , , co-creator and originator , and most recently, "Glee" star . Up next is original Rent star , who starts in mid-July.

Raisin in the Sun (Best Revival of a Play). The critical hit, which boasted , and Tony winner , ended its hit Broadway run a week after taking Tonys top revival honor. In interviews, cast members said they hoped to take the production to London for a limited run if Hollywood and Broadway star Washington could be convinced to continue. U.K. audiences are still awaiting word on Raisin, and the cast has moved onto other projects.

(Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical, ). After winning the Tony for playing Carole King onstage, Mueller continued her acclaimed run through March of this past year. "The accolades and all that are wonderful and great, but it's not the stuff that really matters 鈥� and I don't say that in an ungrateful way, I just try to say that in a realistic way," Mueller told 半岛体育.com in a candid interview just days before departing Beautiful. "I never want to walk around like I'm somebody. I think that's the easiest way to just fall down."

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Her next project is the Broadway-bound musical Waitress, which premieres at the later this summer. Mueller told 半岛体育.com, "I think people are going to be surprised. They're going to get introduced to these characters and be surprised by how much there's a little bit of themselves in everyone that appears in the play. It's just a really hearty, meaty story about life and choices and all the stuff we have to navigate as we go through life. And then, on top of it, there's just this gorgeous music that she's written that sounds like her, but it's so of the world that they've created for the piece."

Neil Patrick Harris (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch). NPH has had a whirlwind year. After his Tony win, he went on to conclude his Hedwig run last August, find time to publish his choose-your-own-adventure autobiography, host the Academy Awards (with a full Broadway-style opening number) and begin prep for his new live variety show "Best Time Ever," which premieres this fall on NBC.

(Best Lighting Design of a Musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch). Since winning for Hedwig (which marked Adams' fourth Tony), Adams has gone on to design the original musical Brooklynite for the Vineyard Theatre (reuniting him with collaborator ), as well as 's While I Yet Live and recreating his lighting designs for the Off-Broadway remounting of The 39 Steps, currently at the Union Square Theatre.

(Best Lighting Design of a Play, ). After taking home her third Tony Award for Menagerie last year, Katz continues to dazzle with her work on Broadway and beyond. This season along she's represented with , and (nabbing nominations for Paris and Skylight), and will lend her work to 's upcoming Broadway musical School of Rock, which begins in November at the Winter Garden Theatre.

Bryan Cranston (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play, All The Way). In addition to his commitment to playing Lyndon B. Johnson in the HBO adaptation of All The Way, Cranston's upcoming screen projects include the starring role in the film of "Trumbo," and the new CBS drama "Sneaky Pete." (Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play, ). After her record-breaking sixth Tony Award win, McDonald extended in Lady Day several times until finally hanging up the mic last October. She reprised her work as Billie Holiday an additional time, for the HBO live taping of the musical in New Orleans. An air-date has not been announced. McDonald has also been busy on the concert tour circuit and has lined up plans to return to Broadway in the new musical Shuffle Along based on one of the first all-black Broadway musical hits. She's currently filming Disney's live-action , playing Garderobe, the singing wardrobe closet.

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Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Emerson鈥檚 Bar & Grill Photo by Evgenia Eliseeva

Jenny Tiramani (Best Costume Design of a Play, ). The English costume designer won for her first Tony Award nomination last season. Since her win, she created costumes for Andrea Ch茅nier, directed by David McVicar, at the Royal Opera House.

(Best Costume Design of a Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder). Since her win for the elaborate and sophisticated costumes of Gent's Guide, Cho has kept a busy schedule, designing the New York-aimed musical Somewhere in Time, in addition to 's The Second Mrs. Wilson at Long Wharf and Ghosts of Versailles for Gent's director at L.A. Opera.

(Best Choreography, ). Carlyle kept tapping his way across New York stages this past year, choreographing the revamped New York City Spring Spectacular, featuring the Rockettes at Radio City and the Broadway revival of starring . He's also choreographing the Tony Awards specialty numbers for co-hosts Chenoweth and .

Sophie Okonedo (Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play, ). Following her powerful performance as Ruth Younger, Okonedo is slated to play Queen Margaret in the ongoing miniseries adaptation of Shakespeare's history plays "The Hollow Crown." The actress also hinted at a Broadway return this coming season in a classic play that may shock theatregoers with its casting.

(Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical, ). The unstoppable Iglehart is still going strong as the Genie in Disney's Aladdin. (He extended his run into 2016.) He also debuted his solo show How the Heck Did I Get Here? at 54 Below in May.

(Best Direction of a Play, A Raisin in the Sun). During his Tony win, Leon was at the helm of the short-lived Broadway musical . He is also slated to direct the first-ever Broadway revival of 's Tony Award-winning play (could this be the project Okonedo declined to talk about?) as part of the 2015-16 season, as well as NBC's live broadcast and subsequent Broadway revival of The Wiz.

Darko Tresnjak (Best Direction of a Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder). Tresnjak, who is also the artistic director of , went on to helm the L.A. Opera production of Ghosts of Versailles as well as workshop the new Ahrens and Flaherty stage adaptation of their animated musical Anastasia. The production, which will likely have a future New York life, will debut at Hartford Stage next spring. (Best Book of a Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder). Freedman and his Gent's Guide collaborator, composer/lyricist , are working on a new musical based on the award-winning Greg Mitchell book, "The Campaign of the Century." The project is in development with Gent's Guide director Tresnjak.

(Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch). After an acclaimed year-long run (which included co-starring with Hedwig co-creator John Cameron Mitchell), Hall departed the Broadway revival this past spring. She's appearing with her band The Deafening and her solo engagements at the Caf茅 Carlyle.

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Lena Hall in Hedwig and the Angry Inch

(Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play, Twelfth Night). It's been a busy year for Rylance since his third Tony win. In addition to the BBC miniseries of "," he co-starred with in the spy thriller "Bridge of Spies" for and is also tapped to star as the title character in Spielberg's screen adaptation of the children's novel "The BFG." After his upcoming London run in Farinelli and the King (written by his wife, Claire van Kampen), Rylance will return to the New York stage in Nice Fish at in early 2015.

Christopher Barreca (Best Scenic Design of a Musical, ). The award-winning designer's work can currently be seen in the Off-Broadway production of Athol Fugard's The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek at the .

(Best Scenic Design of a Play, ). After mesmerizing audiences with his revolving set for Act One, Borritt is back on Broadway this season with the Tony-nominated revival of and the Tony-nominated new play . His Off-Broadway productions this past season have included Wiesenthal, ' Lives of the Saints and Clinton The Musical!

(Best Original Score/Best Orchestrations, ). While Tony-viewers never saw or heard a note of Brown's score on the telecast, the talented composer-lyricist walked away with two Tony Awards last year for the short-lived, romantic musical The Bridges of Madison County. He followed up with the musical comedy , which received strong critical reviews, but also ended its Broadway run early. This past year, Brown returned to conduct his Tony-winning musical Parade in concert at Avery Fisher Hall and also saw the release of the film adaptation of "The Last Five Years."

Steve Canyon Kennedy (Best Sound Design of a Play, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill). While the Tony category for sound design has been eliminated, Kennedy remains in demand, designing the recent Broadway musical and the upcoming tuner On Your Feet!

(Best Sound Design of a Musical, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical). After his second Tony win last season, Ronan's work was also heard in the Roundabout revival of Cabaret as well as the short-lived Sting musical . He'll be back on Broadway in the spring, working on the new musical .

 
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