Shoshana Bean Wins First Tony Award for The Lost Boys
shoshana bean won her first Tony Award on June 7, taking Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical at the 79th Annual Tony Awards for The Lost Boys. The win adds a new Tony recipient to a Broadway production that entered the season with 12 nominations, including Best Musical.
June 7 at the Tonys
Bean won for playing Lucy Emerson, the single mother of Michael and Sam, in the Broadway adaptation of Joel Schumacher’s 1987 film. It was her third Tony nomination and her first-ever win, a line that matters in a category where recognition often comes only after multiple tries.
The other nominees were Hannah Cruz, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, and Nichelle Lewis. That field put Bean in direct competition with performers bringing very different careers and audience reach to the same category, which made the result more than a routine tally of ballots.
12 nominations for The Lost Boys
The Lost Boys officially opened on Broadway at the Palace Theatre on April 26, giving the musical a short runway before the Tony ceremony. The show’s 12 nominations made it one of the season’s most visible contenders, and Bean’s win gives that campaign an individual prize to pair with the larger nomination haul.
Bean’s acceptance speech kept the focus on the people around her and on women who have been told they are too much or not enough. “This is for the incredible army of women that surround and uplift me,” she said, adding, “This is for every woman who ever felt like she was too much or not enough.”
Bean’s Broadway return
Bean’s role in The Lost Boys marked a return to Broadway after Tony-nominated performances in Hell’s Kitchen and Mr. Saturday Night. She also has a track record with Wicked, where she played Elphaba both as a standby early in the show’s run and later full-time.
For now, the practical takeaway is simple: The Lost Boys leaves the Tony ceremony with a first-time winner attached to one of its featured roles, and Bean leaves with the category’s top prize after three nominations. That is the kind of result Broadway producers can use when the season’s attention shifts from nomination totals to who actually converted them into wins.
