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June 6 - 12, 2016 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Actor on "Blood & Oil" (2) 9. __ Paulo 10. Bee's great-nephew 11. Old Olds 13. Last season for "JAG" 15. Actress Veronica 17. Lead role on "How to Get Away with Murder" 18. Setting for "The Waltons": abbr. 20. "Star Trek __: The Voyage Home"; 1986 sequel 21. Know-it-all's problem 23. First name for a tyrant 24. __ Berry 25. "A View __ __ Kill"; 1985 James Bond film 26. Initials for a Beatle 29. Record album, for short 30. Crime drama series for Priyanka Chopra 34. "The __ in Our Stars"; 2014 Shailene Wood- ley movie 36. "Studio 60 on the Sunset __" 38. Skater Babilonia 39. Family restaurant chain 42. Actress Arden 43. "You, Me and the __" DOWN 1. Daniel __ Kim 2. Mrs. Charlie Chaplin 3. __ Reese; role on "Person of Interest" 4. Preminger's initials 5. "The __-Lo Country"; 1998 Woody Harrelson film 6. Favorite drink of Radar on "M*A*S*H" 7. "Coffee, Tea __ __?"; 1973 TV movie 8. Letters before a maid- en name 9. "60 Minutes" host (2) 12. Role on "Scandal" (2) 14. Explosive letters 16. "__ This Old House" 19. "Rock of __"; 2012 film for Tom Cruise 20. "American __" 22. "The Last Man __ Earth" 23. Word in the title of Jerry Mathers' series 27. Star of "The King and I" 28. "__ of Valor"; 2012 Alex Veadov movie 30. Witty remark 31. Suffix for symptom or problem 32. 1965-68 Robert Culp series (2) 33. Unrefined minerals 35. Battery size 37. "__ Got a Secret" 40. Laughing syllable 41. "__' Man River" Solution on page 2. CoverStory By John Crook © Zap2it The Broadway musical blockbuster "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda's audacious and iconoclas- tic chronicle of the life of Alexander Hamilton, is the odds-on favorite to prevail during The 70th Annual Tony Awards, airing live in most markets Sunday, June 12, on CBS. From New York's Bea- con Theater, CBS late- night host James Corden hosts the ceremonies, which will include perfor- mance highlights from nominated musicals and plays. Since it opened on Broadway last August, "Hamilton," which stars Renée Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo and Jas- mine Cephas Jones, has become a pop-culture reference point, shorthand for the kind of theatrical megahit everyone wants to see but few can get tickets for. The show racked up a record-break- ing 16 Tony nominations, including best musical, with three nods for Miran- da as the title star as well as the creator of the book, music and lyrics. Counting Miranda, seven members of the "Hamilton" cast are up for Tonys. Among them, the most familiar face to many Tony viewers probably will be Goldsberry, who played devious assistant State's Attorney Geneva Pine on "The Good Wife" for much of its run. In the Tony race, she's up for best featured actress in a musical for her per- formance as Alexander Hamilton's sister-in-law, Angelica Schuyler. An- gelica and her sister Eliza Hamilton often don't merit even a footnote in some history books, but the mu- sical celebrates their quick wit and keen intellectual curiosity. "I think sometimes, es- pecially with young girls, there is an assumption of a shallowness or superfi- ciality to their motivations," Goldsberry says. "These women are out looking to be challenged by a power- ful mind that would match them. I don't know that we have heard that story told about our founding mothers." "Hamilton" has man- aged to reach across demographic lines to connect with both older, more traditional Broadway audiences and younger theatergoers who are fans of hip-hop and rap, chiefly because Miranda's score embraces multiple styles, as musically varied as its cast is ethnically diverse. Goldsberry says she likes to think of "Hamilton" as a blend of opera and mix- tape. "This score is a compi- lation of all the music that Lin grew up listening to," she explains. "There's a lot of rap and hip-hop, but there's also a lot of mu- sical theater and a lot of R&B. There's a British pop tune that harkens back to the Beatles. There are very traditional moments, and others that sound much more 'forward.' It runs the gamut in the way that our stories can and should at this point in the world." The propulsive rhythms of the score keep the historical saga moving at a brisk clip, but when the situation requires it, Miran- da also can craft a song like "It's Quiet Uptown," a haunting ballad that follows a devastating per- sonal loss for Alexander and Eliza. "It's just so beautiful," says Goldsberry, whose character sings most of this number. "I was so blown away by Lin's ability to perfectly capture mo- ments that I didn't know how he understood so well. He's a father now, but he wasn't when he wrote that song. He so perfectly describes those kinds of moments in our lives, with that lyric that goes 'There are moments that the words don't reach.' When I read that, I just kept thinking, 'How are you able to do this?' " Goldsberry already has won a Drama Desk Award and a Lucille Lortel Award for playing Angelica, as well as a Grammy Award as a member of the princi- pal cast on the "Hamilton" recording. Many Tony pun- dits consider her the favor- ite in her category, but she faces formidable competi- tion from two other familiar TV faces: Jane Krakowski ("30 Rock") in a revival of "She Loves Me" and Dan- ielle Brooks ("Orange Is the New Black") for a revival of "The Color Purple." The 70th Annual Tony Awards airing Sunday on CBS features a number from the best-musical nominee "Hamilton." 'Hamilton' expected to dominate at CBS' 70th Annual Tony Awards presentation

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