May 1, 2024

Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Annette’s News Roundup.

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Breakin’. NYPD officers in riot gear . . . [broke] into a building at Columbia University, where pro-Palestinian students . . . [were] barricaded inside a building and have set up an encampment, in New York City on April 30, 2024. Police started taking protesters into custody and loading them onto buses, according to multiple media outlets. [Axios]

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Joe is always busy.

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Remember! SCOTUS, Trump and DeSantis did this.

Florida prepares for near-total abortion ban to take effect today.

Clinics, patients and abortion rights activists in Florida are bracing for the impact of a new law that will transform the state overnight from one with the fewest restrictions for the procedure in the South to a place where it will be all but banned.

The six-week abortion law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis last year and confirmed by the Florida Supreme Court earlier this month takes effect Wednesday. In the days leading up to the ban, clinics have seen a surge in demand. Meanwhile, advocates have started getting the word out on how to access abortion pills by mail.

“People are scrambling to get in before the deadline,” said Kelly Flynn,the president and chief executive of A Woman’s Choice, a network of abortion clinics. “We’re telling them, ‘Hey, it’s going to be busy.’ We don’t want them to walk in blindsided.”

The law’s enactment and an abortion referendum that will be put before Florida voters in November have turned the Sunshine State into one of the most consequential battlegrounds for women’s reproductive rights since the fall of Roe v. Wade.

Last year, more than 84,000 people got abortions in Florida, more than in almost any other state. Many of those patients traveled from other states in the South where strict abortion laws were enacted following the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision upending access to the procedure.

Florida’s strict new ban will leave women in the South with ever fewer options: The closest abortion clinic for someone living at Florida’s southernmost tip will be a 14-hour drive away in Charlotte. A patient whose pregnancy has progressed beyond 12 weeks, the point at which North Carolina bans abortion, will have to drive 17 hours, to southern Virginia.

Meanwhile, a Florida Supreme Court ruling authorizing a referendum on whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state’s constitution has re-energized what was expected to be a chronicle of a presidential election foretold. Democrats in the state, which has increasingly veered right, see abortion as a winning issue in November.

President Biden’s reelection campaign has already begun directing its attention at Florida. The president visited Tampa last week, blaming former president Donald Trump for the overturning of Roe. Biden noted that abortion rights initiatives in other states have been successful, adding, “this November, you can add Florida to that list.”

Vice President Harris is scheduled to appear in Jacksonville on Wednesday for a speech about abortion bans.

“If you want to protect democracy and freedom across the entire country, then you have to come to the belly of the beast, which is here, in the state of Florida,” Nikki Fried, chair of the Florida Democratic Party, said Tuesday. “Democrats have been on that front line.”

The Trump campaign has reiterated the former president’s comments that the issue should be left up to the states.

DeSantis on Tuesday called the six-week ban “a noble effort,” and praised the state Supreme Court for approving the measure. He said the court “dropped the ball” by allowing the amendment to codify abortion access in the state constitution.

He also said he’s not worried about Democrats making abortion a focus of election efforts in Florida.

“I welcome Biden-Harris to spend a lot of money in Florida. Light up the airwaves. Do it. Light it on fire,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Tampa. “We are fine with you doing that here. But I can confidently predict that you’ll see Republican victories not just at the top of the ticket, but up and down the ballot.”

Democratic State Rep. Anna Eskamani has been warning her constituents for months about the consequences of the new law, and on Monday she posted advice from the group Progress Florida on how people can navigate the ban. They include tips on how to get abortion pills by mail, where to find legal help, and a link to a website chatbot named “Charley” that says “I can help you get or manage an abortion.”

Eskamani said the abortion landscape in Florida is “horrifying” for both people in the state and those who would have traveled there for the procedure.

“This is by far one of the cruelest abortion bans in the country,” said Eskamani, a former senior director at Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida. (Washington Post).

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Reality prevails at last about screening for breast cancer.

Breast cancer screening should begin at age 40, US panel says.

A doctor examines mammograms, a special type of X-ray of the breasts, which is used to detect tumors as part of a regular cancer prevention medical check-up at a clinic in Nice, south eastern France, on January 4, 2008.

NEW YORK, April 30 (Reuters) - Women at average risk for breast cancer should get screening mammograms every other year starting at age 40, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) said on Tuesday, cementing insurance coverage for the procedure for that age group under the law.

The USPSTF's influential recommendation, published in JAMA, reverses its controversial 2009 guidance that breast cancer screening should begin at age 50.

Its updated guidelines bring it in line with other major organizations that say women at average risk of breast cancer should start screening at age 40.

Those organizations include the American Cancer Society, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

A 2016 update from the USPSTF had said women could start screening at age 40 if they and their doctors so desired, but that update led "to widespread confusion for both physicians and patients," said Dr. Evita Singh, Director of Breast Imaging at Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit.

U.S. insurers are already required by law to fully cover mammograms for women over age 40 who want them, but the USPSTF's recommendation will now ensure the continuity of that coverage under the Affordable Care Act beyond next year.

By lowering the age to start biennial screening to 40, the USPSTF is acknowledging evidence that more women under the age of 50 are now getting diagnosed with breast cancer.

Black women, in particular, stand to benefit from earlier screening, experts say. Breast cancer mortality is 40% higher among Black women than among white women, and Black women are more likely to get breast cancer at younger ages, the USPSTF report noted.

"There should hopefully be less confusion on the 'right' age to consider screening for average risk people," said Deirdre Saulet, vice president of cancer care at Carrum Health, a digital marketplace for employers to purchase bundled healthcare services. (Reuters).

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Special Election yesterday in Buffalo, New York.

Democratic State Sen. Tim Kennedy won the Congressional special election yesterday in Buffalo and Niagara Falls.

Democrats win another special election.

Democratic Rep. Brian Higgins, who arrived in Congress in 2005, resigned in February to become president of Shea’s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo. With Republicans holding a narrow margin in the U.S. House, even a race for a seat widely expected to remain in Democratic hands has drawn its share of scrutiny.

The race in the 26th District featured state Sen. Timothy Kennedy, a Democrat who regards Higgins as a mentor, and Gary Dickson, a Republican elected as a town supervisor in the Buffalo suburb of West Seneca in 50 years.

The district spans Erie and Niagara counties, including the cities of Buffalo and Niagara Falls. With Registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans by more than 2-to-1.

Kennedy said he would focus in Congress on reproductive rights, immigration and stronger gun laws like those passed in New York after a 2022 mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket.

“New York has been a bulwark against Donald Trump’s extremist MAGA agenda that has infected our politics and our nation’s capital,” he said. “The MAGA extremists have made the House of Representatives a laughingstock.”

Dickson supports Trump, while describing his own politics as “more towards the center.”

Earlier this year, the GOP’s slim House majority was narrowed in a closely contested Long Island-area special election that followed New York Republican George Santos’ expulsion from Congress. That race, won by Democrat Tom Suozzi, was viewed as a test of the parties’ general election strategies on immigration and abortion.

The winner of Tuesday’s special election will serve the rest of the year.

Kennedy is on the ballot for the general election in November and faces a June primary against former town supervisor Nate McMurray, a two-time congressional candidate. Attorney Anthony Marecki is the only Republican candidate who has filed petitions to run. Dickson did not file to run in the general election.(source and some language,Associated Press)

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If these Time interviews with Trump don’t scare you, I don’t know what would.

How Far Trump Would Go: the Time Interviews.

Donald Trump thinks he’s identified a crucial mistake of his first term: He was too nice.

We’ve been talking for more than an hour on April 12 at his fever-dream palace in Palm Beach. Aides lurk around the perimeter of a gilded dining room overlooking the manicured lawn. When one nudges me to wrap up the interview, I bring up the many former Cabinet officials who refuse to endorse Trump this time. Some have publicly warned that he poses a danger to the Republic. Why should voters trust you, I ask, when some of the people who observed you most closely do not?

As always, Trump punches back, denigrating his former top advisers. But beneath the typical torrent of invective, there is a larger lesson he has taken away. “I let them quit because I have a heart. I don’t want to embarrass anybody,” Trump says. “I don’t think I’ll do that again. From now on, I’ll fire.” 

Six months from the 2024 presidential election, Trump is better positioned to win the White House than at any point in either of his previous campaigns. He leads Joe Biden by slim margins in most polls, including in several of the seven swing states likely to determine the outcome. But I had not come to ask about the election, the disgrace that followed the last one, or how he has become the first former—and perhaps future—American President to face a criminal trial. I wanted to know what Trump would do if he wins a second term, to hear his vision for the nation, in his own words.

What emerged in two interviews with Trump, and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world.

To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland.

He would let red states monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers.

He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America’s founding.

He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury.

He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying enough for its own defense.

He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.

Transcript of Donald Trump TIME Interview 2024.

The New York Times summary of the Time interviews added this-

Mr. Trump also brushed aside questions about political violence in November by suggesting his victory was inevitable. But when pressed about what might happen should he again lose the election, he did not dismiss the possibility outright.

“I think we’re going to win,” he said. “And if we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election.”

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Worry Less. Do More.

Here 👇 is a summary of Trump’s plans for Term 2 as outlined in the Times interviews.

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Yesterday at the First Trump Criminal Trial.

Before a new witness took the stand, 3 things happened.

#1 Judge Merchan fined Trump $9K for gag order violations, finding him in criminal contempt, and warning him he could be jailed next time.

“Because this Court is not cloaked with such discretion [to levy fines of more than $1k per offense], it must therefore consider whether in some instances, jail may be a necessary punishment,”

#2 Eric Trump showed up in court.

Clearly the embarrassment of all the media and other talk about Trump’s lack of family in the court had an effect.

#3 Judge Merchan gave permission for Trump to attend his son Barron’s high school graduation in Florida.

New York Times - “. . .Judge Merchan announced that Trump could have the day off from court.

‘I don’t think the May 17 date is a problem,’ Judge Merchan said. The judge later said court would not be in session that day, nor would it be on the following Friday, May 24, before the Memorial Day long weekend.”

One more thing.

The testimony describes trading money for silence. Here’s the latest.

The lawyer who represented a porn star to secure the hush-money payment that is at the heart of the criminal case against Donald J. Trump is laying out for jurors how the deal came about. The lawyer, Keith Davidson, described communications with Mr. Trump’s longtime fixer, Michael D. Cohen, that were sometimes frantic as the 2016 election loomed, and testified it was his understanding that Mr. Trump was the hidden hand behind the negotiations.

Keith Davidson provides one last telling quote about Michael Cohen’s finagling of the Stormy Daniels story: “I thought he was trying to kick the can down the road until after the election,” Davidson says. This drives home, again, prosecutors’ stated motivation for the hush-money payment: to silence Stormy and smooth Trump’s road to the White House.

After court recessed yesterday, this happened.

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Do you share Mary Trump’s fatigue?

Are you as tired of him as I am?

I am so tired of him.

I am tired of his face. I am tired of his style of speech. I am so tired of his lies. I am tired of his bluster, his narcissism. I am tired of his fraud and his crimes. I am tired of the relentless news coverage and the danger he poses to democracy. 

I am so tired. Read on for why.👇

His Face

Or, more specifically, his facial expressions. Let’s start with the pout. It’s his way of trying to look tough, but he can’t pull it off because he isn’t tough. If we’ve learned nothing else in the last eight years, it’s that he’s a perpetually aggrieved child who can never find satisfaction and who blames everything bad that happens to him on everyone else.

Then there’s the sneer, which is worse. He saves it for those occasions when he scores a point against a perceived enemy — like getting the Mike Johnsons and Ron DeSantises of the world to come to Mar-a-Lago to kiss his ring, or on those alarming occasions when he gets away with breaking a norm (or a law) or, maybe even worse, when he gets an assist from an increasingly corrupt institution like the Supreme Court.

Together, the pout and the sneer perfectly encapsulate the tension that exists between his arrogant belief that he is utterly untouchable and his desperately fragile ego and unconscious sense that he is a weak, terrified little boy.

His Style of Speech

He just won’t stop talking. And the longer he speaks, the more he lapses into a stream of consciousness that defies logic or meaning. There is no nuance, no attempt to be coherent, no aspiration to eloquence. 

1. Word Choice: Everything is always terrible or incredible. It is always like nothing you’ve ever seen. There are no shades of gray; only the black and white of hyperbole, because if it is in any way related to him or his enemies, it must be the best or the worst.

2. Asides and Non Sequiturs: He meanders without ever really getting to the point, and along the way he veers off onto a totally unrelated topic. He could be talking about nuclear weapons and then launch into a monologue about water pressure or lightbulbs while his supporters wait for a conclusion he never draws.

3. Repetition: When he wants to drive home a point, he doesn’t just repeat it once, he repeats it incessantly. He pounds it down. Repetition reinforces his message, even as it hides the lack of substance and factual information — and his brand of simple-minded patter makes it all the more effective. As Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda for Nazi Germany put it, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” In cognitive psychology, this is known as the “illusory truth effect.” 

4. Rhetoric: He speaks down to the lowest common denominator and doesn’t hesitate to call on his followers to commit violence on his behalf, riling them up with promises to pay their lawyers or otherwise offering them immunity. It is the coward’s way, but he excels at it.

And here lies his disturbing resemblance to cult leaders. They, too, traffic in simplistic tropes and make vague promises; they see themselves as unique, chosen, and, in some cases, divine; they create a clear division between their group (the “chosen” ones) and the out group (the “enemy” or “other”). Cult leaders dehumanize the other, portraying them as inferior or inhuman (“vermin”). 

Sound familiar?

When you hear that voice, rambling, repetitive, and threatening, remember: it’s not empty noise — he’s preying on the vulnerability of his followers, who at this point seem almost incapable of listening to any voice but his.

His Lies

Truth was not a particularly valued commodity but this man takes lying to a whole new level. He tells lies — about the weather, about crowd sizes — that are easily disproved. He lies to his followers and to himself about himself — his wealth, his business, his record.

The truly baffling part is that many people believe him. And for every person that believes him, there are 10 who know he’s lying, but don’t care.

Narrative Necessity and Solipsistic Reality:

Does he believe his own lies? Fellow psychologist Robert Jay Lifton suggests that his belief is not always definite and fixed but has become a part of his narrative necessity. He partially believes in this falsehood while consciously manipulating it to manipulate the American public. His self-centered reality allows him to keep the belief active despite external challenges.

I think it depends to a great degree on whether or not the lie he is telling relates to him personally. In other words, if he’s lying about his net worth or his criminality or poll numbers he must out of necessity believe them — they are a defense mechanism against his own extraordinary insecurity. The alternative would be to acknowledge that he is actually a loser, and that would be intolerable for him.

His Bluster

He interrupts, he talks over people, he fails to treat others with the same courtesy he demands. 

His rudeness and lack of manners exists because he believes basic human decency is for suckers and weaklings.

He’s truly the worst person in any room. 

The bluster is particularly hard to take knowing it is based on nothing. He may like to pretend that he’s a brilliant real estate tycoon, but this is a completely illusory image that was created decades ago by his father, propped up on a scaffolding of bank loans and lies. 

And that was not all. His father was willing to stake millions of dollars on his son because he believed he could leverage the skills his son did have – as a savant of self-promotion, shameless liar, marketer, and builder of brands – to achieve the one thing that had always eluded him: a level of fame that matched his ego and satisfied his ambition in a way money alone never could.

Unfortunately, too many people since have found this bluster (clownish as it may be to most of us) useful, including Mark Burnett, who made the tragic decision to center the “Celebrity Apprentice” on a failed businessman who otherwise would have faded into obscurity. 

The strut is part of the deception, the art of distraction, based on smoke and mirrors. It says look here, focus on the spectacle and not the man behind the curtain.

His Narcissism

His narcissism knows no bounds. He gazes into the mirror, sees a god, and expects us all to bow down. His ego is like a black hole, sucking in praise, adoration, and any semblance of humility. He surrounds himself with sycophants, those who nod and clap like trained seals. 

His self-love is a theatrical spectacle, a masquerade of grandeur. He revels in the spotlight, basking in the adoration of crowds.

Yet, this dance is a diversion — a sad waltz to distract from the void within. His mirror reflects an image he desperately wants to believe: the infallible titan, impervious to doubt.

But beneath the bravado lies a wounded child — the boy who yearned for approval, who hungered for his father’s love but never got it. His narcissism is a bandage, covering old scars.

His insecurity whispers: “You’re not enough. You’ll never be.”

And he’s right.

His Fraud and Crimes

I’ve lost count of how many times he’s gotten away with the lies and fraud and alleged criminality and simply being a horrible human being. He’s a charlatan with nothing but snake oil to sell. His promises are empty, because he has nothing of substance to offer.

And his antisocial behavior is directly tied to his psychopathology — because he believes himself to be above the law and cannot fathom that he would ever be held to the same standard as us mere mortals.

The fraudulent financial statements he used to secure loans and build his real estate empire concealed the dark truth that his wealth was a mirage.

The 34 felony charges relate to his falsifying business recordsas a result of payments to suppress an embarrassing fling with a porn actor from voters at a crucial point before the 2016 election.

His inability to concede loss after the 2020 election — indeed, his inability to believe that he could lose at all — was behind the buildup to the January 6th insurrection, the calls to the Georgia attorney general to “find” votes in order to change that state’s results, and the fake elector scheme in multiple states, including Michigan and Arizona.

His theft of government documents reflects his continuing attempt to assert his sense of impunity, which, in all but one of his criminal cases, remains unchallenged.

The Relentless News Coverage

The way that every social media post, every utterance, every nap becomes breaking news reminds us on the one hand that he is wholly unfit and that the corporate media — even after seven years of this nightmare — remains incapable of covering him.

Instead of framing stories about him in a way that educates American voters about his unfitness and the depths of his depravity, the media engage in bothsidesism. Thanks to the cravenness of the Republican Party, which has chosen, for the third time, to make him their presidential nominee, he remains frighteningly relevant in our politics — but the media’s unceasing attempts to normalize him as a candidate demonstrate that they’ve learned nothing or that they have come to the cynical conclusion that they need him as much as he needs them.

His Threat to Democracy

He doesn’t simply flirt with authoritarianism — and authoritarians — he aspires to be one. His Big Lie, that the 2020 election was somehow illegitimate, and his false claims of election fraud continue to have an impact, sowing distrust in the inviolability of the electoral process, which is the foundation of our democracy. 

We stand at a crossroads. His potential return to power in 2024 forces us to confront a fundamental question: Can democracy withstand another assault?

Our collective response will shape the course of history.

My Closing Thoughts 

I am so tired of him. And I know you are, too.

You know how I know?

You knew exactly who I was talking about, even though I never once used his name above. (From the Good in Us).

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Earning all the kudos.

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Tony Award nominations 2024: Full list and analysis.

“Stereophonic” broke a Tony Awards record with 13 nominations for a play.

“Stereophonic,” a three-hour barnburner about the combustible collaboration of a 1970s rock band, set a Tony Awards record for the most nominations by a play with 13 on Tuesday morning.

The David Adjmi-penned production, featuring songs from former Arcade Fire member Will Butler, tied the Alicia Keys jukebox musical “Hell’s Kitchen” for the most nominations on the day as Broadway recognized the best of the 2023-2024 season during an announcement hosted by actors Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry.

“The Outsiders,” a stylish adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s 1967 coming-of-age novel, would appear to be “Hell’s Kitchen’s” top competition for the coveted best musical prize after racking up 12 nominations, including three acting nods and recognitions in the bellwether categories of book, original score and director of a musical.

The best musical race — considered particularly volatile this season as several touted shows opened to mixed reviews and no new production emerged as a box-office behemoth — will also feature the women’s-rights parable “Suffs”; the Sufjan Stevens-inspired dance piece “Illinoise”; and “Water for Elephants,” a high-wire adaptation of the 2006 romance novel.

“Merrily We Roll Along,” the smash-hit revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1981 flop, landed seven nominations, including nods for stars Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe. That total was outpaced by “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club,” a slick but critically divisive reimagining of the canonical 1966 musical, which had recognitions for actors Eddie Redmayne, Gayle Rankin, Steven Skybell and Bebe Neuwirth among its nine nominations. But Rebecca Frecknall’s snub in the director category — where “Merrily’s” Maria Friedman is widely expected to win — is a telling sign of weakness for the immersive revival.

Jonathan Groff, left, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe, pictured earlier this month, each received Tony nominations for their roles in “Merrily We Roll Along.”

“Gutenberg! The Musical!,” a whimsical two-hander that starred Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, and “The Who’s Tommy” round out the musical revival category.

“Stereophonic,” which opened on Broadway earlier this month after a heralded off-Broadway run last fall, edged “Slave Play’s” record of 12 nominations from the pandemic-shortened 2019-2020 season. Although the play includes several songs, heard as a Fleetwood Mac-esque band clashes and collaborates on a new album, the production is not considered a musical. But that didn’t stop “Stereophonic” from breaking into the categories for original score and orchestrations, padding a nomination total that also included nods for five of its seven cast members: Juliana Canfield, Sarah Pidgeon, Will Brill, Eli Gelb and Tom Pecinka.

Its competition for best play will be “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” “Mary Jane,” “Mother Play” and “Prayer for the French Republic.”

“Appropriate,” D.C. native Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s searing depiction of a White Southern family confronting its racist roots, led all play revivals with eight nominations, including nods for stars Sarah Paulson and Corey Stoll. It was joined in the revival of a play category by stagings of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People” and Ossie Davis’s “Purlie Victorious,” which yielded best actor nominations for Jeremy Strong and Leslie Odom Jr., respectively.

Also among the screen stars who heard their names called on nominations morning: Rachel McAdams (“Mary Jane”), Jessica Lange and Jim Parsons (“Mother Play”), Michael Stuhlbarg (“Patriots”), and Amy Ryan and Liev Schreiber (“Doubt: A Parable”).

Notable snubs included “The Great Gatsby,” a decadent staging of the F. Scott Fitzgerald standby that earned a single nomination for costume design, and “The Wiz,” a splashy revival of the 1970s cult classic musical that was blanked.

“Uncle Vanya” star Steve Carell also wasn’t recognized for his Broadway debut, as co-star William Jackson Harper beat him to a nomination for best actor in a play. And though “The Notebook” (starring Maryann Plunkett and Dorian Harewood) and “Days of Wine and Roses” (starring Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James) landed nominations for lead actress and lead actor, both shows missed out on the best musical shortlist.

The ceremony will be hosted by Ariana DeBose on June 16 at the Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater and broadcast on CBS.

Here is the full list of nominees:

Best musical

“Hell’s Kitchen”

“Illinoise”

“The Outsiders”

“Suffs”

“Water for Elephants”

Best play

“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” by Jocelyn Bioh

“Mary Jane” by Amy Herzog

“Mother Play” by Paula Vogel

“Prayer for the French Republic” by Joshua Harmon

“Stereophonic” by David Adjmi

Best revival of a musical

“Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club”

“Gutenberg! The Musical!”

“Merrily We Roll Along”

“The Who’s Tommy”

Best revival of a play

“Appropriate” by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

“An Enemy of the People” by Henrik Ibsen (adapted by Amy Herzog)

“Purlie Victorious” by Ossie Davis

Lead actress in a musical

Eden Espinosa (“Lempicka”)

Maleah Joi Moon (“Hell’s Kitchen”)

Kelli O’Hara (“Days of Wine and Roses”)

Maryann Plunkett (“The Notebook”)

Gayle Rankin (“Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club”)

Lead actor in a musical

Brody Grant (“The Outsiders”)

Jonathan Groff (“Merrily We Roll Along”)

Dorian Harewood (“The Notebook”)

Brian d’Arcy James (“Days of Wine and Roses”)

Eddie Redmayne (“Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club”)

Lead actress in a play

Betsy Aidem (“Prayer for the French Republic”)

Jessica Lange (“Mother Play”)

Rachel McAdams (“Mary Jane”)

Sarah Paulson (“Appropriate”)

Amy Ryan (“Doubt: A Parable”)

Lead actor in a play

William Jackson Harper (“Uncle Vanya”)

Leslie Odom Jr. (“Purlie Victorious”)

Liev Schreiber (“Doubt: A Parable”)

Jeremy Strong (“An Enemy of the People”)

Michael Stuhlbarg (“Patriots”)

Featured actress in a musical

Shoshana Bean (“Hell’s Kitchen”)

Amber Iman (“Lempicka”)

Nikki M. James (“Suffs”)

Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer (“Monty Python’s Spamalot”)

Kecia Lewis (“Hell’s Kitchen”)

Lindsay Mendez (“Merrily We Roll Along”)

Bebe Neuwirth (“Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club”)

Featured actor in a musical

Roger Bart (“Back to the Future: The Musical”)

Joshua Boone (“The Outsiders”)

Brandon Victor Dixon (“Hell’s Kitchen”)

Sky Lakota-Lynch (“The Outsiders”)

Daniel Radcliffe (“Merrily We Roll Along”)

Steven Skybell (“Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club”)

Featured actress in a play

Quincy Tyler Bernstine (“Doubt: A Parable”)

Juliana Canfield (“Stereophonic”)

Celia Keenan-Bolger (“Mother Play”)

Sarah Pidgeon (“Stereophonic”)

Kara Young (“Purlie Victorious”)

Featured actor in a play

Will Brill (“Stereophonic”)

Eli Gelb (“Stereophonic”)

Jim Parsons (“Mother Play”)

Tom Pecinka (“Stereophonic”)

Corey Stoll (“Appropriate”)

Director of a musical

Maria Friedman (“Merrily We Roll Along”)

Michael Greif (“Hell’s Kitchen”)

Leigh Silverman (“Suffs”)

Jessica Stone (“Water for Elephants”)

Danya Taymor (“The Outsiders”)

Director of a play

Daniel Aukin (“Stereophonic”)

Anne Kauffman (“Mary Jane”)

Kenny Leon (“Purlie Victorious”)

Lila Neugebauer (“Appropriate”)

Whitney White (“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”)

Original score

Adam Guettel (“Days of Wine and Roses”)

David Byrne and Fatboy Slim (“Here Lies Love”)

Will Butler (“Stereophonic”)

Shaina Taub (“Suffs”)

Jamestown Revival and Justin Levine (“The Outsiders”)

Book of a musical

Kristoffer Diaz (“Hell’s Kitchen”)

Bekah Brunstetter (“The Notebook”)

Adam Rapp and Justin Levine (“The Outsiders”)

Shaina Taub (“Suffs”)

Rick Elice (“Water for Elephants”)

Scenic design of a play

Dots (“Appropriate”)

Dots (“An Enemy of the People”)

Derek McLane (“Purlie Victorious”)

David Zinn (“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”)

Costume design of a play

Dede Ayite (“Appropriate”)

Dede Ayite (“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”)

Enver Chakartash (“Stereophonic”)

Emilio Sosa (“Purlie Victorious”)

David Zinn (“An Enemy of the People”)

Costume design of a musical

Dede Ayite (“Hell’s Kitchen”)

Linda Cho (“The Great Gatsby”)

David Israel Reynoso (“Water for Elephants”)

Tom Scutt (“Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club”)

Paul Tazewell (“Suffs”)

Lighting design of a play

Isabella Byrd (“An Enemy of the People”)

Amith Chandrashaker (“Prayer for the French Republic”)

Jiyoun Chang (“Stereophonic”)

Jane Cox (“Appropriate”)

Natasha Katz (“Grey House”)

Lighting design of a musical

Brandon Stirling Baker (“Illinoise”)

Isabella Byrd (“Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club”)

Natasha Katz (“Hell’s Kitchen”)

Bradley King and David Bengali (“Water for Elephants”)

Brian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim (“The Outsiders”)

Sound design of a play

Justin Ellington and Stefania Bulbarella (“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”)

Leah Gelpe (“Mary Jane”)

Tom Gibbons (“Grey House”)

Bray Poor and Will Pickens (“Appropriate”)

Ryan Rumery (“Stereophonic”)

Sound design of a musical

M.L. Dogg and Cody Spencer (“Here Lies Love”)

Kai Harada (“Merrily We Roll Along”)

Nick Lidster for Autograph (“Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club”)

Gareth Owen (“Hell’s Kitchen”)

Cody Spencer (“The Outsiders”)

Choreography

Camille A. Brown (“Hell’s Kitchen”)

Jesse Robb and Shana Carroll (“Here Lies Love”)

Rick Kuperman and Jeff Kuperman (“The Outsiders”)

Annie-B Parson (“Illinoise”)

Justin Peck (“Water for Elephants”)

Orchestrations

Timo Andres (“Illinoise”)

Will Butler and Justin Craig (“Stereophonic”)

Justin Levine, Matt Hinkley and Jamestown Revival (“The Outsiders”)

Tom Kitt and Adam Blackstone (“Hell’s Kitchen”)

Jonathan Tunick (“Merrily We Roll Along”)

(The Washington Post.)

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