George Clooney, Sarah Snook and Sadie Sink Get Tony Nominations

George Clooney, Mia Farrow, Sarah Snook and Sadie Sink all picked up Tony nominations on Thursday as Broadway began its celebration of an unusually starry season.But a bevy of big stars did not get nods from the nominators, including Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, Nick Jonas, Jim Parsons, Idina Menzel and Kit Connor.Audra McDonald, a much-honored stage veteran now starring in a revival of “Gypsy,” and Nicole Scherzinger, a former Pussycat Doll making her Broadway debut in “Sunset Boulevard,” were among five women nominated for best leading actress in a musical, and they are considered the front-runners in that talent-rich category.In a robust season with 14 new musicals, the Tony nominators set up a five-way race for the coveted best new musical prize.The contenders are “Buena Vista Social Club,” about a group of beloved Cuban musicians; “Dead Outlaw,” which tells the strange story of a train robber whose corpse became an attraction; “Death Becomes Her,” a stage adaptation of the film about two frenemies who take an immortality potion; “Maybe Happy Ending,” about a relationship between two robots; and “Operation Mincemeat,” about a bizarre World War II British intelligence operation.Oddly enough, three of the best musical contenders center on dead people — “Dead Outlaw” and “Operation Mincemeat” are both about corpses, and “Death Becomes Her” is about two undead women.The race for best play also features five contenders: “English,” a Pulitzer-winning drama about a group of Iranians struggling to learn a new language; “The Hills of California,” about singing British sisters reuniting as their mother dies; “John Proctor Is the Villain,” about Georgia high school students reading “The Crucible” and seeing parallels in their own lives; “Oh, Mary!” a hit comedy ahistorically spoofing Mary Todd Lincoln, and “Purpose,” a family drama about a politically active Black family in Chicago.We are having trou...