Did Beetlejuice win any Tony Awards?

Another Best Musical contender—Beetlejuice—also reaped the rewards of Tonys exposure despite not taking home the top prize.
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How many Tonys has Beetlejuice won?

Tony Awards: Beetlejuice did not win any Tony Awards, but it did receive eight nominations in 2019, including Best Musical and Best Leading Actor in a Musical for Alex Brightman.
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Was Beetlejuice the musical nominated for any awards?

BEETLEJUICE RECEIVES 8 TONY AWARD NOMINATIONS.
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Did Alex Brightman win a Tony for Beetlejuice?

NEW YORK, NY - After losing the Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical for his titular role in Beetlejuice, Alex Brightman has been sentenced by the Broadway Gods to three more season of screen-to-stage adaptations, sources have confirmed.
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Which actress has won 6 Tony Awards for acting?

Audra McDonald has won six Tony Awards for performance, more than any other individual. She is the only person to have won Tony Awards in four different acting categories.
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Who is the youngest actress to win a Tony?

In 1965, Liza Minnelli, age 19, became the youngest actress to win the award, a record she still holds as of 2023. She is followed by Lea Salonga, age 20, in 1991. In 2017, Bette Midler, age 71, became the oldest actress to win the award, a record she still holds as of 2023.
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Who is the youngest female winner of a Tony Award for acting ever?

Twenty-five years later, at 11 and a half years old, Daisy Eagan took home a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in The Secret Garden, cementing her place in Tony history as the youngest woman to win the award.
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Why did Alex Brightman take a break from Beetlejuice?

Broadway's Beetlejuice star Alex Brightman, who suffered a concussion in an onstage Christmas Eve mishap, made an unexpected return to the musical tonight for its final performances over the weekend.
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Why didn't Michael Keaton do Beetlejuice 2?

Michael Keaton didn't originally want to reprise his role as the mischievous ghost in a follow-up to the 1988 supernatural comedy. Tim Burton has revealed Michael Keaton had “no burning desire” to return as the titular character for a Beetlejuice sequel.
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What happened to Alex Brightman in Beetlejuice?

At a Christmas Eve performance, Brightman slammed into the show's giant sandworm backstage at a full sprint — when a door hadn't opened, Brightman tried an ill-fated alternate route — leaving him with a concussion.
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Why did Sophia Anne leave Beetlejuice?

"Sophia has decided to exercise her contractual out to pursue television work." Presley Ryan is playing the role of Lydia through this weekend, and the production plans to announce a new Lydia next week. It's unusual for a star to exit a Broadway production with no advance warning.
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Why does Lydia marry Beetlejuice?

Beetlejuice tricks Lydia by telling her that reading a passage from the book will resurrect her mother, but instead, she unknowingly begins to exorcise Barbara and is forced to agree to marry Beetlejuice to stop it ("The Whole 'Being Dead' Thing, Pt. 4").
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Is Beetlejuice Broadway worth seeing?

Beetlejuice the Musical is a triumph in almost every way and I encourage every single individual who loves musicals or is a fan of the film, to see this. You will have so much fun and memories to last a lifetime.
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How old is Lydia in Beetlejuice?

While Lydia Deetz's age was never explicitly stated in Beetlejuice, she's confirmed to be a high school student who is likely about 16 years old, which was Winona Ryder's age when the original 1988 movie was released.
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Who has the most Tonys of all time?

Director and Producer Harold Prince has earned 21 Tony Awards, the most for any person in multiple categories. Prince has won eight awards for directing, eight for producing, two for producer of the best musical of the year and three special awards.
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Who has won both Grammy and Tony?

Stephen Sondheim has won both awards for his work on five different shows — "Company," "A Little Night Music," "Sweeney Todd," "Into The Woods," and "Passion." Richard Rodgers, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, and Stephen Oremus have each won both awards for their work on two different shows.
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Who was Tim Burton's first choice for Beetlejuice?

Burton's original choice for Beetlejuice was Sammy Davis, Jr. The producers also considered Dudley Moore and Sam Kinison for the role, but Geffen suggested Keaton. Burton was unfamiliar with Keaton's work, but was quickly convinced.
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Was Johnny Depp in Beetlejuice 1?

Johnny Depp wasn't in the original Beetlejuice, and had Beetlejuice 2 arrived during the height of his partnership with Tim Burton — who is returning to direct — it's a safe bet he would have been cast. This isn't the case in 2023, so here's how much truth there is to the Johnny Depp Beetlejuice 2 rumors.
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Who turned down the role of Beetlejuice?

Other Betelgeuses.

He offered the role to Arnold Schwarzenegger (who turned it down because he was committed to The Running Man. Other considerations were Sammy Davis, Jr., Dudley Moore, and Sam Kinison (whose agent never relayed the interest to the comic).
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Did Beetlejuice actually go to Juilliard?

Pre-Beetlejuice

Parts of his qualifications including attending Julliard, graduating from Harvard, and extensive travel are all real life accomplishments.
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How much of Beetlejuice was improv?

He said that when he first showed up to the set as Beetlejuice, the crew was chanting: "Juice, Juice, Juice!" This got Keaton excited for his role. Michael Keaton ad-libbed 90% of his lines.
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Who is the only person to win an Oscar Emmy and Tony?

Helen Hayes

She was the first woman and the first performer to win all four. Hayes was also the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting, with singular (non-group/ensemble/company) acting wins in each of the Emmy, Oscar, and Tony awards, winning her third in 1953.
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Who has won an Oscar and Emmy and a Tony in the same year?

In 1973, Bob Fosse Won at the Tonys, Oscars and Emmys In the Space of Two Months. It had never been done before—and it hasn't been done since.
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Has a child ever won a Tony Award?

The youngest performer to win a Tony Award was Frankie Michaels, who in 1966 at the age of 11 won for his performance in "Mame." However, the youngest nominee is Evanna Lien, who was 8 at the time she received a recognition for her role in "The Sound of Music."
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