4 winners and 3 losers from the 2016 Tony Awards

The 70th annual Tony Awards, honoring the best and brightest of Broadway for the

2015-'16 season, handed out 24 golden statuettes on Sunday. Actor, Late Late Show host, and former Tony winner James Corden hosted.

The runaway hit Hamilton, a hip-hop musical retelling of the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton, won big, as expected. With 16 nominations in 13 categories, it took home 11 Tonys, including Best Musical, leaving it just shy of The Producers' record for 12 Tonys in 2002.

As expected, Hamilton also won Best Book and Score, giving composer and star Lin-Manuel Miranda a chance to deliver an emotional acceptance speech, in the form of a sonnet, that honored the Orlando shooting victims.

Hamilton also won Tonys for Best Featured Actress (Renée Elise Goldsberry, for her role as Angelica Schuyler), Best Featured Actor (Daveed Diggs, for his dual roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson), Leading Actor (Leslie Odom Jr. for his role as Aaron Burr; Odom beat out Miranda himself, who was nominated for his role as Hamilton), and Best Direction (Thomas Kail).

Meanwhile, in the technical categories, announced before the telecast, the show won awards for Best Choreography, Best Lighting Design, Best Costume Design, and Best Orchestrations.

With Hamilton tickets nearly impossible to come by these days, the Tonys offered a rare chance for non-Broadway audiences to see a live performance from the show. Pundits predicted the musical would give the perennially under-watched awards a giant ratings boost — and they were correct; Sunday’s Tonys telecast earned the awards’ highest overnight ratings in 15 years. The Tonys were so aware of Hamilton's long shadow over the proceedings that Tony host James Corden even lampshaded the Hamilton effect by joking about the show’s inevitable awards sweep in his opening number … which was also a parody of the opening number from Hamilton, performed by the entire Hamilton cast.

Not only did the Hamilton cast get to perform a grand total of four musical numbers over the course of the night — most musicals only get one Tony number each — but Miranda joined a composer-led singalong of "Tomorrow" from Annie and, prior to Sunday’s event, sang along to his own cast recording in Corden’s Broadway edition of carpool karaoke, which re-aired during the ceremony.

Meanwhile, the Tonys devoted an entire running segment, occurring outside the theater at regular intervals during the show, to letting every nominated musical cast perform their own version of Miranda’s #Ham4Ham, the weekly street performances in which the Hamilton cast and guests perform short songs and skits for the lottery crowds outside the Richard Rodgers Theater. The move was a tacit acknowledgement from the Tonys that Miranda’s street shows have made waves in the theater industry, and that they have become a case study on how to deliver content to hungry internet audiences who can’t get into the theater, all while having fun and keeping fan morale high.

As if all that wasn’t enough, the cast of Hamilton had their show’s performance introduced by none other than the president and first lady of the United States. Speaking from the White House in a pre-taped segment, Barack and Michelle Obama praised Hamilton, describing it as a civics lesson students can't get enough of and "a musical about the miracle that is America."