Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, ‘Memphis,’ Win Top Tony Awards
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"Memphis," a crowd-pleasing show costing roughly $12 million about a white disc jockey in the 1950s and a black female R&B singer he champions, won the Tony Award for top Broadway musical last night in New York.
Movie stars Denzel Washington, Scarlett Johansson and Catherine Zeta-Jones won acting Tonys. Washington gained the award for best actor in a play, as an embittered former baseball player in the Negro Leagues in August Wilson’s "Fences," which was named best play revival. Co-star Viola Davis won the lead actress award, her second Tony. John Logan’s two-character drama about the painter Mark Rothko, "Red," was named best new play.