War Horse scoops five Tony Awards

UK export War Horse has won five prizes including best play at the Tony Awards in New York, while Briton Mark Rylance won the top acting award for Jerusalem.

War Horse, which opened at the National Theatre and then moved to the West End and Broadway, also earned Tom Morris and Marianne Elliott a directing award.
Quoting poetry when getting his award, Rylance said "walking through walls" was "a totally earth-related craft".
Satirical musical The Book of Mormon was the big winner with nine honours.
War Horse, based on a 1982 novel by Michael Morpungo, tells the moving tale of a horse caught up in the carnage of World War I.
When collecting the award for best play, co-director Morris told the Beacon Theatre audience: "We quite like it when people cry."

 

After picking up his award from Catherine Zeta Jones, Mark Rylance recited poetry

The play, which has been made into a film by Steven Spielberg, also won design awards for sound lighting and scenery.
Rylance, 51, who won for his role as Johnny "Rooster" Byron in fellow British export Jerusalem, by Jez Butterworth, was a best actor winner for the second time.
When he won in 2008 for a revival of Boeing-Boeing, which also transferred from the West End, he also quoted little-known Minnesota poet Jenkins.
On Sunday, he told a bemused audience: "Unlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is a totally earth-related craft, but a lot more interesting than pot-making or driftwood lamps."
The night's biggest winner, The Book of Mormon, from the creators of TV show South Park, follows the adventures of two Mormon missionaries sent to Uganda.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone thanked South Park fans, saying they "wouldn't be here" without them.
Parker jokingly thanked their "co-writer" Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon religion.
"You did it Joseph, you got the Tony," he said.