Tony awards 2013: Broadway's star-studded night out – in pictures

Host Neil Patrick Harris hangs from a large Tony replica at the culmination of the evening's spectacular opening number, which referenced everything from the musical Once to Mike Tyson Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

Mike Tyson joins Neil Patrick Harris on stage Photograph: Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

The cast of Kinky Boots, winner of the Tony award for best musical, perform a song from the show. The musical won six awards in the end, dominating the night Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

The musical's co-creator, Cyndi Lauper, performs onstage during the awards ceremony. Accepting her Tony award for best score of a musical, she said: 'I want to thank Harvey Fierstein for calling me up. I'm so glad I was done with the dishes. I answered the phone' Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Tony Awards Pro

Although it was a disappointing night overall for British export Matilda, the musical didn't walk away empty-handed. Here writer Dennis Kelly accepts the Tony award for best book of a musical Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

The young cast of Matilda in action during the ceremony Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Gabriel Ebert accepts his award for best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical, for Matilda. Presenters Scarlett Johansson and Alan Cumming look on Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Sally Field and Matthew Broderick present actor and writer Tracy Letts with the award for best lead actor in a play for his performance as George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Letts becomes one of the few people in Tony awards' history to win both as an actor and a writer (he won best play in 2002 for August: Osage County) Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

Lett's colleagues, the cast and producers from the 50th anniversary production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, accept the award for best revival of a play Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Sigourney Weaver during a performance of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, which won the Tony award for best play Photograph: T. Charles Erickson/AP

Jane Lynch, as Miss Hannigan, performing with the rest of the cast from Annie Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Sunny the dog from Annie gets personal with host Neil Patrick Harris Photograph: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images for Tony Awards Pro