A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder tops 2014's Tony Award nominees

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A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder tops 2014's Tony Award nominees
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The nominees for the 68th annual Tony Awards, which honors the year's best Broadway productions, have been announced.

The musical comedy A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder tops the list with a whopping 10 nominations, including Best Musical, Best Book, Best Original Score, and two separate nominations for Leading Actor in a Musical (for Jefferson Mays and Bryce Pinkham).

Other top plays include the Neil Patrick Harris-starring Hedwig and the Angry Inch (8 nominations), After Midnight (7 nominations), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (7 nominations), and the revivals of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (7 nominations) and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie (7 nominations). You can read a full list of the nominees at the official website for the Tony Awards.

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The Tony Awards ceremony will be hosted by Hugh Jackman on June 8.

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Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.