Theater
McGrath is a six-time Tony and Drama Desk award winner. First-class theatrical productions set up by McGrath include:
Arsenic and Old Lace, Vacanza Romana (Roman Holiday), Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Footloose,Saturday Night Fever, Urban Cowboy, Flashdance, First Wive Club, Johnny Guitar, Ghost, Sunset Boulevard and the stage adaptation of Happy Days with Gary Marshall. McGrath received the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play in 2008 for Boeing-Boeing and the 2008 Drama Desk Award for best New Musical for Passing Strange.. He received a Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Revival of a Musical for Hair at the 2009 awards ceremony. McGrath received the Olivier Award for Best New Musical for the London production of Spring Awakening at the 2010 BAFTA Awards. In 2010 McGrath received Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Musical Revival for La Cage aux Folles and for Best Musical for Memphis. He was also nominated for Best Revival of a Play for A View From The Bridge. In 2011, as a member of Warhorse LP, he was a Tony winner for Warhorse. In 2012 he won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical for The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.
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