RuPaul wins first Tony Award and is now halfway to getting EGOT status-Dominique Hines-Entertainment – Metro

RuPaul is closer to getting the coveted EGOT status after bagging the top gong at Sunday night’s Tony Awards.

RuPaul’s Drag Race star’s hit Broadway show A Strange Loop won best musical at yesterday’s star-studded ceremony, which took place at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

The prestigious win means that the star, who already has an Emmy under his belt now needs a Grammy and Oscar to get the exclusive title of EGOT (someone who has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) which represents outstanding achievements in television, recording, film, and theatre.

If he manages this, RuPaul – who has collected a string of top awards over the years – will join the small and exclusive group of just 17 recipients of the honour, including, the late Audrey Hepburn, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and, as of last night, Jennifer Hudson.

RuPaul is one of the famous names, including Hudson, credited as a producer on the new Tony Award-winning hit musical.

The play is about a black queer musical theater composer who is writing a musical about a black queer musical composer while working as an usher at The Lion King.

RuPaul and fellow producer and EGOT star Jennifer Hudson at last night’s 75th Annual Tony Awards (Picture: REX/Shutterstock)

Though the main character, Jaquel Spivey, didn’t get best actor gong, A Strange Loop was the star of the night winning big overall.

In addition to the big award of the night, it received an honour for its writer Michael R. Jackson with a statue for best book of a musical.

The play was Michael’s debut on Broadway.

Before the show became one of theatre’s most-nominated of the season, it also received a string of top awards: Five Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, six Outer Critics Circle honors, two Obie awards, one Off-Broadway Alliance Award, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical after debuting at Playwrights Horizons Theater in 2019.

Jennifer with the A Strange Loop’s writer Michael R. Jackson, who won the Tony’ for best book of a musical (Picture: Getty Images)

New EGOT Hudson, who won her first-ever Tony at this year’s ceremony, is now the second black woman in history to achieve the status, following on from Whoopi Goldberg.

The star has two Grammys, first winning for her self-titled album in 2009, and she won an Oscar in 2007 for her role in Dreamgirls.

Last year, Jennifer won an Emmy for lending her voice to animated short Baba Yaga.

The team, including the writer Michael, accepted the award for best musical for A Strange Loop (Picture: REUTERS)

She previously addressed her plans to achieve EGOT status, joking: ‘I should get two more dogs.

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‘I got a dog and named it Oscar, and then I won my Oscar. And then I got a dog and named it Grammy, and then I won my Grammy.

‘So I think I should get some dogs and name them Emmy and Tony — and it’ll give me good luck, and I’ll win. [They’re] like my good luck charms.’

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