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The Tony Awards Administration Committee met on November 13 for the first time this season to decide the eligibility of Broadway productions for the American Theatre Wing's 2015 Tony Awards®, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing. The Committee will continue to meet regularly throughout the 2014-2015 Broadway season to make eligibility determinations.

The Committee considered 7 shows at this meeting from among the Broadway productions that opened this summer and fall. Other shows will be discussed at future meetings. The shows considered are, in opening-night order: 

Holler If Ya Hear Me
This Is Our Youth
Love Letters
You Can’t Take It with You
The Country House
It’s Only a Play
On the Town

The Committee announced the following:

  • Saul Williams will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical category for Holler If Ya Hear Me.

  • This Is Our Youth will be considered eligible in the Best Revival of a Play category.

  • Tavi Gevinson will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play category for This Is Our Youth.

  • James Earl Jones, Byron Jennings, Patrick Kerr, Fran Kranz, Mark Linn-Baker and Reg Rogers will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play category for You Can’t Take It With You.

  • Rose Byrne, Annaleigh Ashford, Johanna Day, Julie Halston, Kristine Nielsen and Elizabeth Ashley will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play category for You Can’t Take It With You.

  • Blythe Danner will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play category for The Country House.

  • It’s Only a Play will be considered eligible in the Best Revival of a Play category.

  • F. Murray Abraham, Matthew Broderick, Rupert Grint and Micah Stock will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play category for It’s Only a Play.

  • Stockard Channing and Megan Mullally will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play category for It’s Only a Play.

  • Tony Yazbeck will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical category for On the Town.

All other decisions were consistent with the opening night credits.

What that means: In general, unless the committee has determined otherwise, performers listed ABOVE the title on the show’s opening-night playbill may be eligible in the Leading Actor/Actress categories; if a performer is listed BELOW the title, he or she is considered a "Featured" performer.

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The 2015 Tony Awards will be broadcast on CBS, live from Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 7 at 8/7c (delayed PT).

For a look at the plays and musicals eligible for the 2015 Tony Awards, check out our Spotlight Series.