Cast and Creative of ANGELS IN AMERICA React To Their Tony Award Nominations

BroadwayWorld has been checking in with Tony Award nominees all morning! We caught up with the nominated cast and creative of Angels in America on Broadway to get their first reactions at being up for Tony Awards this season.

Angels in America has 11 nominations including Best Revival of a Play, Best Leading Actor in a Play - Andrew Garfield, Best Featured Actor in a Play - Nathan Lane, Best Featured Actress in a Play - Susan Brown, Best Featured Actress in a Play - Denise Gough, Best Original Score - Music: Adrian Sutton, Best Scenic Design of a Play - Ian MacNeil and Edward Pierce, Best Costume Design of a Play - Nicky Gillibrand, Best Lighting Design of a Play - Paule Constable, Best Sound Design of a Play - Ian Dickinson for Autograph, and Best Direction of a Play - Marianne Elliott.

See reactions below, and stay tuned for more! See reactions from all the shows here!

Nathan Lane, Angels in America, Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
I am thrilled to be a part of the most nominated revival in Tony history. Just to be in this company of extraordinary actors under the direction of the brilliant Marianne Elliott in Tony Kushner's masterwork has been an incredible gift. So today is more than just the proverbial icing on the cake, it's the entire dessert tray at the Four Seasons. I feel very happy and grateful and a little bloated.

Andrew Garfield, Angels in America, Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
I feel beyond honored to be nominated in this category with stage acting heroes of mine. The sun is finally shining in New York and to be telling the story of Angels in America on Broadway at this particular moment in time feels like the greatest gift and opportunity already. And to have the Tonys and the theatre community here in this city recognize our work in this way feels like icing on top of icing on top of icing. I'm so proud of this production and all of our crew, actors, designers and crafts people and perhaps most especially for our warrior director Marianne Elliot, who's vision is bringing Tony Kushner's masterpiece of a play to the Neil Simon Theater every night in its full glory; offering healing and medicine and hope to an audience of hungry souls that truly need it. Congratulations to all the nominees in all categories. How beautiful to be a part of such a rich and heartfelt community. I'll be beaming til 2019!

Susan Brown, Angels in America, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

Well, I knew that the nominations were today and literally I'd just gotten up and was making a cup of tea when my husband called from London. It was rather wonderful to hear from him first and to celebrate together and I've spent the day making a lot of phone calls like these and listening to lovely voice mails from friends. It's a jolly hard show and one can't go too made on a Tuesday and still do two shows on Wednesday so I'll be celebrating ... but not too much!

Denise Gough, Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play, Angels in America:
I'm so thrilled for everybody. I'm so thrilled to be nominated, but more than anything, I'm especially excited to be nominated in the same category as Susan Brown.

Marianne Elliott, Angels in America, Best Direction of a Play
I would never have expected this honour and I am thrilled to have been nominated alongside such remarkable fellow nominees. Thank you to The Broadway League and The American Theatre Wing. A huge thank you also to Tony Kushner for taking the chance on an English woman to direct this seminal American classic. I love this play and our extraordinary creative team and cast of actors.

Twenty-five years after it rocked the world the first time, Angels in America is back on Broadway. The National Theatre's production of Tony Kushner's masterpiece is now running at the Neil Simon Theater.

As politically incendiary as any play in the American canon, Angels in America also manages to be, at turns, hilariously irreverent and heartbreakingly humane. It is also astonishingly relevant, speaking every bit as urgently to our anxious times as it did when it first premiered. Tackling Reaganism, McCarthyism, immigration, religion, climate change, and AIDS against the backdrop of New York City in the mid-1980's, no contemporary drama has succeeded so indisputably with so ambitious a scope.

When it first premiered, Angels in America won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, seven Tony Awards, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and the Evening Standard Award for Best New Play. HBO's 2003 screen adaptation won both the Emmy® and the Golden Globe® Awards for Best Miniseries.