Non-binary actors Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee made history at the Tony Awards.
Alex Newell won the Tony for best featured actor in a musical for their performance in Shucked.
Newell, who plays Lulu - an independent, don't-need-no-man whiskey distiller in Shucked - has been blowing audiences away with their signature number, Independently Owned. They won for best featured actor in a musical. "And to anyone that thinks that they can't do it, I'm going to look you dead in your face that you can do anything you put your mind to."J. Harrison Ghee, who stars in Some Like It Hot, the adaptation of the classic cross-dressing comedy film, was awarded the Tony for leading actor in a musical. They played a musician - on the run from gangsters - who tries on a dress and is transformed.
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