It wasn’t arduous to identify J. Harrison Ghee on the official Tony Awards after-party exterior the United Palace theater in Washington Heights on Sunday night time — they towered over a lot of the group in a vibrant blue robe, with a statuette in hand and a path of well-wishers shut behind. After their groundbreaking win for finest main actor in a musical — they grew to become the primary out nonbinary performer to win within the class — the robe shade, it appeared, was fortuitous.

“I felt like that is such a Cinderella second,” they stated.

A whole lot of the ceremony’s attendees spilled out, shortly after 11 p.m., virtually straight into the occasion: a tented extension of the fuchsia carpet and its lush floral backdrop, with catering that mirrored each the culinary traditions of the neighborhood’s surrounding communities (paella, ceviche, mango on sticks) and in addition the fast starvation of nominees who had sat snackless for hours. (About 800 hamburgers from Shake Shack have been gone inside 90 minutes.)

The Tonys, which rejoice Broadway’s finest performs and musicals, have been held uptown for the primary time this 12 months on the United Palace — an ornate film home at 176th Avenue in Washington Heights, almost eight miles north of Occasions Sq.. The theater is tucked inside the largely Dominican neighborhood the place Lin-Manuel Miranda shot the 2021 movie adaptation of his musical “Within the Heights.”

“To indicate off one of many cultural gems of town to a nationwide viewers is tremendous thrilling,” Heather Hitchens, the president and chief govt of the American Theater Wing, which places on the Tonys with the Broadway League, stated in an interview on Saturday.

“The after-party is at all times necessary, however to rejoice that we made it by a season and we gave some awards out and truly had a telecast?” she stated, persevering with, “We haven’t been in a position to do this for therefore lengthy.”

Sunday’s ceremony was definitely an uncommon one. With the Writers Guild of America nonetheless on strike, the present featured unscripted commentary from presenters, plentiful musical performances from the 12 months’s productions — plus Lea Michele’s rendition of “Don’t Rain on My Parade” from final season’s “Humorous Woman” — and a wordless opening dance quantity by Ariana DeBose, the present’s host.

“It went so easily,” stated Bonnie Milligan, a Tony Award winner for finest featured actress in a musical for her efficiency as a scheming aunt within the offbeat musical “Kimberly Akimbo,” which was the highest winner of the night time with 5 trophies total. “So many individuals have been in a position to communicate in solidarity with the strike.”

With a protracted listing of celebrations nonetheless forward, lots of the night time’s winners and nominees stayed on the official after-party solely briefly earlier than shifting on to smaller soirees hosted by particular person productions throughout town.

Julia Lester, a nominee for her flip as Little Purple Using Hood within the revival of “Into the Woods,” was leaving together with her father as many attendees have been nonetheless arriving. Ms. Lester stated she was “simply seeing the place the night time takes me.” She wore a voluminous inexperienced ball robe, sheer elbow-length gloves, a black choker and a bow in her crimson curly hair. “I’m carrying a hoop skirt, so I can’t try this a lot. Sitting down was a nightmare.”

Jordan Roth, the president of Jujamcyn Theaters, donned a glowing scarlet outfit meant to elicit, he stated, “Huge Purple Using Hood.” His after-party plans, he added, would lengthen “till the hood falls off, which is actually unimaginable. It’s pinned, glued, sewn — I in all probability gained’t have the ability to take it off to fall asleep.”

By 12:30 a.m., many had left the official after-party, and many of the nominees started heading to the Carlyle Resort on the Higher East Aspect, the place the theater publicist Rick Miramontez — wearing a white blazer with red-and-white striped shorts — was internet hosting his famed late-night shindig for a number of hundred company with the producer John Gore.

“That is the occasion,” Mr. Brady proclaimed from a sofa nestled alongside an open bar close to the lodge’s entrance.

Kolton Krouse, who starred in a current revival of “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’” and makes use of the pronouns they and them, additionally opted for business-on-top-party-on-the-bottom, sporting a black blazer that hardly lined their torso atop gold heels.

“Congratulations!” they stated, lunging to cease Jessica Chastain, who was carrying a caped, sunshine-yellow Gucci robe, her lengthy crimson hair in a excessive ponytail, as she swept in round 12:30 a.m. — accompanied by her grandmother, Marilyn Herst.

“I carry her with me to all of the events,” stated Ms. Chastain, who was nominated for finest main actress in a play for her efficiency because the housewife Nora Helmer in Jamie Lloyd’s bare-bones revival of “A Doll’s Home.”

The English actress Jodie Comer had gained the class for her efficiency as a lawyer who defends males accused of sexual assault within the one-woman present “Prima Facie,” however you wouldn’t understand it by Ms. Chastain’s cadre of photographers, who quickly clogged the passageway between the higher lounge and a bar space, and a receiving line of these congratulating the actress after the play’s remaining efficiency this previous weekend.

“I hope it’s not over eternally,” Ms. Chastain stated as shutters clicked away.

Buckets of Moet & Chandon champagne have been positioned across the room, whereas waiters in white blazers ferried silver trays of sliders and cartons of French fries round 4 rooms. On aspect tables sat slender trays of nuts and chips, which nominees appreciatively munched.

In a again room alongside a bar, a cabaret singer crooned Frank Sinatra’s “Good ‘n’ Simple” accompanied by a pianist and a cellist. (The Tony-winning soprano Kelli O’Hara, in a feathery white robe, bopped to the music.)

The occasion started to select up round 1 a.m. Ben Platt, accompanied by his fiancé, Noah Galvin, in an identical black swimsuit, acquired a hug from Micaela Diamond, his co-star in “Parade,” which gained finest revival of a musical. Ms. Lester — whose night time had apparently taken her to the Carlyle — was deep in dialog in a nook with Julie Benko, the “Humorous Woman” alternate for Michele’s Fanny Brice.

Attendees mentioned the great thing about the United Palace, a blinding remnant of the golden age of cinema, which many had been inside for the primary time that night time.

“I’m so in love with that home,” Mr. Brady stated.

Shortly earlier than 3 a.m., lots of the performers started heading out, although the occasion would final till after 4 a.m.

“I’m excited to have a shot on the Tonys subsequent 12 months,” Mr. Brady, “The Wiz” star-to-be, stated round 2:30 a.m., earlier than heading for the door.

“Within the greater sense, I’m enthusiastic about making historical past with such a melanated forged, a principally Black artistic group.”