It’s Tony time, all you Broadway babies! The season that just wrapped was notably thin — just 30 new productions, compared to 43 last year — but there was still plenty of drama. And harmony. Two screen-to-stage musicals lead the list of Tony nominations, The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon!, while Lear DeBessonet’s searing revival of the musical Ragtime follows with 11. On the play side, Joe Mantello’s revival of Death of Salesman dominates with nine nominations, including for Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf, and Christopher Abbott. It was a stronger year for revivals, with 10 in all, and that’s reflected in the nominations.

Here’s our take on the biggest snubs and surprises of the day. (Winners will be announced at a June 7 ceremony at Radio City Music Hall.)

Surprise: The Lost Boys

The last show to open this Broadway season — a new rock musical based on the ’80s teen-vampire flick — divided critics. But it generated a whopping 12 nominations in all, tying with Schmigadoon! for the most. The recognition in the technical categories is not surprising for a $25 million production that features a high-tech set and impressive stage effects. But what’s notable here is the depth of support, including for supporting players Ali Bourzgui (in the Kiefer Sutherland role) and Shoshana Bean (in the Dianne Wiest role).

Snub: Beaches and The Queen of Versailles

It was a notably thin year for new musicals — two of the Best Score nominees went to compositions for nonmusical plays — but the stage adaptations of the 1988 Bette Midler melodrama Beaches and the documentary The Queen of Versailles came in with high expectations but landed mostly with a thud. And zero Tony nominations between them. That includes for the talented Jessica Vosk, who earned much praise for her turn in the role that Midler made famous, as well as for Tony darling Kristin Chenoweth, whose charms failed to invigorate a bloated musical about a woman aspiring to build the largest private home in America. Versailles closed quickly last fall; expect a similar fate for Beaches.

Surprise: Every Brilliant Thing

In a crowded field of 10 play revivals, the interactive one-man monologue Every Brilliant Thing scored a precious nomination over such critically acclaimed productions as Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Bug, and Marjorie Prime. In addition, Daniel Radcliffe picked up a Lead Actor in a Play nomination, deserving recognition for a show that in other years might have been considered more of a special performance than a full-fledged play.

Snub: Lea Michele in Chess

Vosk wasn’t the only surprising omission from the Lead Actress in a Musical category. Lea Michele, the Spring Awakening alum who made a triumphant post-Glee return to Broadway in 2022 as a replacement Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, picked up strong notices for the starring role in the Chess revival. But while her Chess co-star Hannah Chase earned a nomination for a featured role that doesn’t begin until Act 2, Michele was overlooked. Instead, the nods went to a quintet of first-time nominees: Sara Chase (Schmigadoon!), Stephanie Hsu (The Rocky Horror Show), Caissie Levy (Ragtime), Marla Mindelle (Titanique), and Christiani Pitts (Two Strangers).

Surprise: Will Harrison

This season had two new plays from the point of view of real young men who wind up in prison. But in the Best Actor in a Play category, the young American actor Will Harrison, who adopted working-class British accent for Punch, edged out Oscar winner Adrien Brody as a Pennsylvania petty criminal wrongly placed on death row in The Fear of 13.

Snub: Newbie Hollywood stars

In addition to Adrien Brody, there were other Hollywood names who made their Broadway debut to a respectful critical reception that didn’t create a groundswell of support from Tony nominators: Keanu Reeves (Waiting for Godot), Jon Bernthal (Dog Day Afternoon), and on the women’s side, Jean Smart (Call Me Izzy) and Ayo Edibiri (Proof). The shut-out for Proof — which included robbing featured actress Kara Young of her fifth consecutive Tony nomination — makes it unlikely that Barack and Michelle Obama, who helped produce the show through their Higher Ground shingle, will attend the Tonys this year.

Surprise: 80-plus actors

Is AARP underwriting the Tony Awards? This year, there are a whopping four acting nominees aged 80 and up who not only hit their marks and nailed their lines, but performed eight shows a week. John Lithgow, 80, has to be considered a front-runner in the Lead Actor in a Play category for his literally towering performance as Roald Dahl in Giant, while 80-year-old André De Shields is twerking up a storm as Old Deuteronomy in Cats: The Jellicle Ball. (The nominators apparently had no memory of his kittenish co-stars, including “Tempress” Chasity Moore as Grizabella.) And the Featured Actress in a Play category includes both Marylouise Burke, 85, a scene-stealer in The Balusters, and Marjorie Prime‘s June Squibb, 96, a star of Broadway’s original 1959 production of Gypsy. (The Featured Actor category ballooned to six nominees to leave room for Burke’s co-star Richard Thomas, a spring chicken at 74.)

Snub: Laurie Metcalf in Little Bear Ridge Road

Yes, Laurie Metcalf did receive a nomination for playing Linda Loman in Joe Mantello’s high-wattage revival of Death of a Salesman. She has to be considered a favorite in the Featured Actress category. But many had been expecting the two-time Tony winner to pick up a second nod for her commanding lead turn in last fall’s intimate drama Little Bear Ridge Road. But it was an unusually competitive year for lead actresses this year. Since both Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara earned nods for Fallen Angels, that left room for only three others: Carrie Coon (Bug), Susannah Flood (Liberation), and Lesley Manville (Oedipus).

No surprise: Tony favorites return!

The Broadway community (and Tony nominating committee) has its favorites, which might explain how Danny Burstein earned his ninth Tony nomination for the play Marjorie Prime. Kelli O’Hara also earned her ninth for Fallen Angels, tumbling down a staircase as a boozy wife in Fallen Angels opposite co-star and fellow nominee Rose Byrne. Death of a Salesman director Joe Mantello collected his ninth nomination as well — though two of his previous nods were for acting.