"Hamilton," the hip-hop stage biography of Alexander Hamilton, captured nine Tony Awards by the mid-point of the telecast on Sunday but will not break the record for the most Tonys. Women also broke records: "Eclipsed" is the first ever Broadway play to feature a director, writer and cast who are all women and also all black. "Hamilton" went into the night with 16 nominations and had won best score, best book, direction, orchestration, choreography and best featured actor and actress statuettes for Renee Elise Goldsberry and Daveed Diggs. Lin-Manuel Miranda, the star and creator of "Hamilton," won for best score and book, and read from onstage a sonnet, referencing tragedy and urging "love and love and love...."Thomas Kail won the Tony for directing "Hamilton." "Eclipsed" won for best costume for a play and "The Humans" won for best set design of a play.

Source: Fox News June 13, 2016 01:52 UTC