“AN American in Paris,” a lavish new dance-driven adaptation of the 1951 Oscar-winning movie, shared honors as the biggest harvester of Tony Awards nods, 12, including one for best original musical, in the nominations announced Tuesday morning.

    Its competitors in the coveted best-musical category are “Fun Home,” a chamber musical by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori based on Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical graphic novel; “Something Rotten!,” a satire by brothers Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell set in Elizabethan England about the world’s first musical; and “The Visit,” a musical version by John Kander, Terrence McNally and the late Fred Ebb of the 1956 tragicomedy by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

    “Fun Home” garnered 12 nominations, “Something Rotten!” received 11 nods and “The Visit” drew five.

    The works competing for best new play include “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” Simon Stephens’s drama based on Mark Haddon’s novel about the tumultuous events in the life of a boy on the autism spectrum; “Disgraced,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by Ayad Akhtar portraying the moral dilemma facing a Pakistani-American lawyer torn between his secular life and his religious heritage; “Hand to God,” an irreverent comedy by Robert Askins featuring a foul-mouthed puppet; and “Wolf Hall Parts One and Two,” a two-pronged stage adaptation by the Royal Shakespeare Company of Hilary Mantel’s novels about Thomas Cromwell, a commoner who rose to powerful positions in the court of King Henry VIII.

    The awards will be bestowed June 7 in New York and are to be broadcast on CBS and hosted by Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth.

    For her performance in a revival of the musical “On the Twentieth Century,” Chenoweth secured a nomination in a category that looks to be the most hotly contested: best actress in a musical. She will vie for the trophy with Leanne Cope of “An American in Paris;” Beth Malone (“Fun Home”); Kelli O’Hara (“The King and I”); and Chita Rivera (“The Visit”).

    Some notable nominations in the male acting categories include Bradley Cooper for “The Elephant Man” and Bill Nighy for “Skylight,” both for best actor in a play. The others in that category are Steven Boyer (“Hand to God”), Ben Miles (“Wolf Hall”) and Alex Sharp (“The Curious Incident”).

    (SD-Agencies)