Tony Awards: 'The Band's Visit', 'Angles in America' win big

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"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" won the Tony for best play on Sunday. Meanwhile "The Band's Visit" swept the musical categories with 10 wins, including the top award best musical at Broadway's annual honors for the best in theater. Take a look.

The American, grown-up musical "The Band's Visit" outmuscled the acclaimed and sprawling British import "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" for the most Tony Awards. It captured 10 statuettes, including best musical, on a night where the theme of acceptance flowed through the telecast.

"The Band's Visit" is based on a 2007 Israeli film of the same name and centers on members of an Egyptian police orchestra booked to play a concert at an Israeli city who accidentally end up in the wrong town. Its embrace of foreign cultures working together found a sweet spot with Tony voters.

"Harry Potter", a record-setting $69 million two-part production set 19 years after the last of J.K. Rowling's best-selling novels about the boy wizard, won a total of six Tonys including best new play and best director.

Andrew Garfield won best actor in a play for his acclaimed performance in "Angels in America."

ANDREW GARFIELD ACTOR "We are all sacred and we all belong so let's just bake a cake for everyone who wants a cake to be baked. Thank you so much."

"Angels in America" also won Nathan Lane his third Tony, as closeted conservative lawyer Roy Cohn, who died of AIDS.

NATHAN LANE ACTOR "I'm standing here because Tony wrote one of the greatest plays of the 20th century and it's still speaking to us as powerfully as ever in the midst of political insanity."

82-year-old Glenda Jackson was named best actress for her tour-de-force performance in Edward Albee's "Three Tall Women."

GLENDA JACKSON ACTRESS "Thank you very much indeed. I'm one of the oldest people, I think, to ever stand on this platform in receiving this award, but what a thrill to be in the same house as those amazing children. Weren't they marvelous?"

Student survivors of the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, took to the stage at the Tony Awards to deliver an emotional performance.

Their drama teacher Melody Herzfeld was honored for her heroic actions during the shooting and continued work with her students. LQ, CGTN.