“The Outsiders,” the stirring, coming-of-age musical based on the 1967 young adult novel by S.E. Hinton, won the Tony award for best musical Sunday night, even as Shaina Taub won best book and best score for “Suffs,” a musical about the struggle of the U.S. women’s suffrage movement, and perhaps enough for its multi-hyphenate creator to establish herself as one of Broadway’s leading auteurs.
The beautiful revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Merrily We Roll Along” coasted to a best revival Tony...