Whether it\u2019s music or acting, Filipinos can\u2019t seem to stop winning. At the 78th Tony Awards held on June 8, 2025, Filipino-American artists Nicole Scherzinger and Darren Criss scored their first Tony wins and demonstrated Filipino pride. <\/p>\n
Nicole Scherzinger, the former lead singer of the American girl group The Pussycat Dolls, won Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance as bygone silent-screen actress Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s \u201cSunset Blvd.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you for making this little Hawaiian-Ukrainian-Filipino girl\u2019s dream come true,\u201d said Scherzinger in her acceptance speech onstage at the Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan.<\/p>\n
She accepted the award clad in a dazzling off-the-shoulder red dress. She may have channeled faded actress Nora Desmond for her red carpet look, but it is clear that her star continues to shine.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, actor Darren Criss, best known for appearing in the hit TV show \u201cGlee,\u201d also won Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical as the robot Oliver in \u201cMaybe Happy Ending.\u201d Both the awards for leading roles were cinched by Filipinos.<\/p>\n
Criss also served as a producer on \u201cMaybe Happy Ending,\u201d and it ended up taking home the award for Best Musical. Not only that, but it won Best Direction of a Musical for Michael Arden, Best Book of a Musical for Will Aronson and Hue Park, Best Original Score for Park and Aronson, and Best Scenic Design for Dane Laffrey and George Reeve.<\/p>\n
Similarly, \u201cSunset Blvd\u201d took home the award for Best Revival of a Musical and Best Lighting Design in a Musical for Jack Knowles.<\/p>\n
A Filipino named Marco Paguia also won Best Orchestrations for \u201cBuena Vista Social Club.\u201d<\/p>\n
If these awards are any indication, Filipinos are going to continue making their mark in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n
Former lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls Nicole Scherzinger and former Glee actor Darren Criss bag their first wins at the 2025 Tony Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-great-filipino-story"],"_pageone_source":"","zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":{"nxtgen_comments":[{"310":"goooo glee boyyyyy!!! \ud83d\udd25\ud83c\udfad\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\udded\r","311":"Filipino blood strong!!! \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udf0f\r","312":"bet ko outfit ni Nicole \ud83e\udd75\ud83e\udd75\r","313":"BROD PINOY\r","314":"sunset blvd my faveee\r"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dkookiejar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}