Danny Burstein won the best actor in a featured role in a Musical in the 74th Tony Awards for his role in the play “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” on Sunday. 

“Danny Burstein! Congratulations to Danny Burstein of @MoulinRougeBway, #TonyAwards-winner for Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical,” the Tony Awards official page tweeted.

Burstein won his first Tony Award after seven nominations. In the play, the actor played the role of an ingratiating nightclub host Harold Zidler.

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After the win, the 57-year-old said he wanted to share the award with his fellow nominees and thanked his son. He also thanked the Broadway community for supporting him when his wife died. “I love being an actor on Broadway.”

Broadway audiences have cheered Burstein for his soulful showmanship in such musicals as “South Pacific,” “Golden Boy,” “Follies,” “The Drowsy Chaperone,” “Cabaret” and “Fiddler on the Roof.”

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The veteran actor made his Broadway debut in 1992 in “A Little Hotel on the Side” and went on to star in dramas like “The Seagull” to musical comedies like “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.”

Burstein had a tough 2020, as the Broadway shut down in March, and soon after he was hospitalized with a near-fatal case of COVID-19. And in that December, his wife of 20 years, Broadway leading lady Rebecca Luker, died from ALS.

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The other nominations were:

Derek Klena, Jagged Little Pill

Sean Allan Krill, Jagged Little Pill

Sahr Ngaujah, Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Daniel J. Watts, Tina — The Tina Turner Musical

With inputs from the Associated Press