Tony Award nominations: Cynthia Nixon earns nod for cancer role while $70m Spider-Man gets snubbed

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Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon has been nominated for a Tony Award for her role as a cancer patient in Wit.

The star, who shaved her hair for the part, will battle it out in the female leading actress category.

The battle will be fierce, with competitors including Nina Arianda of Venus in Fur, Tracie Bennett of End of the Rainbow, Linda Lavin of The Lyons and Stockard Channing in Other Desert Cities.

Nod: Cynthia Nixon has received a Tony Award nomination for her role as a cancer patient in Wit
The best leading actor in a play Tony will pit James Corden from the British import One Man, Two Guvnors, Philip Seymour Hoffman from Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, James Earl Jones from Gore Vidal's The Best Man, Frank Langella from Man and Boy and John Lithgow of The Columnist.
Broadway's most expensive show, the $75 million Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, got only two nominations, for best scenic design and costume.
It is now a top-earning hit and a spokesman shrugged off the snub.

Star power: Big Bang Theory actor Jim Parsons and Tony and Emmy award winning actress Kristin Chenoweth announced the nominations in New York today
'Even without a nomination for best musical, we can assure you that the audiences this week will love the show just as much as they did last week,' Rick Miramontez said.
By contrast, the low-tech musical Once, based on the love story of a Czech flower seller and an Irish street musician in Dublin, received a leading 11 Tony Award nominations, proving sentiment can sway nominators just as much as special effects.
Two other musicals - The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess and Nice Work If You Can Get It - each got 10 nominations as the Tony committee spread the wealth. Unlike last year's The Book of Mormon, no monster single hit dominated the nominations.

Snubbed: Broadway's most expensive show, the $75 million Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, got only two nominations, for best scenic design and costume
Once, with songs by Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard, was originally a low-budget movie made for about $150,000.
The film earned $20 million, thanks in part to an original score that included the sublime, 2007 Oscar-winning song, Falling Slowly.
The musical captured the film's spirit and earned Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti best actor in a musical nominations. It also earned nods for best scenic design, best book of a musical and Elizabeth A. Davis got a nomination for an actress in a featured role.
'I think it's a universal message about love. Not just between two people, but a love of music, a love of your country, how we share things as people,' Kazee said. 'There are moments that are just snapshots in your life, but they stay with you forever. We all have those moments.'


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