'In the Heights' leads Tony Award noms

May 13, 2008 Lin-Manuel Miranda's tale of the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights earned the most nominations overall (13), while Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize winner earned the most for a play (seven). Among musicals, the original "Passing Strange" -- about a young black man on a Walt Whitman-style journey, singing the song of himself -- captured seven nominations, while revivals of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" (11) and two that bear the stamp of Stephen Sondheim ("Sunday in the Park With George," nine; "Gypsy," seven) also fared well. Among performers, Broadway newcomers Ben Daniels ("Les Liaisons Dangereuses") and Mark Rylance ("Boeing-Boeing") will compete with veterans Laurence Fishburne ("Thurgood"), Rufus Sewell ("Rock 'n' Roll") and Patrick Stewart ("Macbeth") for lead actor in a play.

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