Spring Awakening leads Tonys race

Spring Awakening is based on a controversial play from 1891

Stage musical Spring Awakening has secured 11 nominations for Broadway's top honours, the Tony Awards.

The show, about a group of teenagers discovering their sexuality in 19th Century Germany, is up for best musical and best original score.

The Coast of Utopia by playwright Sir Tom Stoppard was shortlisted for 10 awards including best play and appeared in several best acting categories.

The Tony Award winners will be announced in New York on 10 June.

Spring Awakening is based on an 1891 play that was frequently banned because of its racy subject.

Sir Tom Stoppard is one of the UK's most successful playwrights

Coast of Utopia covers three decades of Russian history in a trilogy of plays.

It has already won the influential Outer Critics' Circle Award for best new Broadway play.

The production requires 44 actors to take on 70 roles in a show that lasts almost nine hours.

Among its nominated actors are Hollywood star Ethan Hawke and UK actress Jennifer Ehle.

Grey Gardens, a musical look at two of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' more eccentric relatives, also received 10 nominations.

Frost/Nixon, a play about David Frost's interviews with former US president Richard Nixon, was nominated for best play and best leading actor for Frank Langella.