NEW YORK - “Hamilton,” the hip-hop stage biography of Alexander Hamilton, won the 2016 Tony Award for best new musical, capping an emotional night in which many in the Broadway community rallied to embrace the LGBT community after a shooting at a gay Florida nightclub.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop-flavored biography about the first U.S. treasury secretary won 11 Tonys, just short of breaking the 12-Tony record held by “The Producers.”

Jeffrey Seller, producer of “Hamilton,” quoted the show’s lyrics when accepting the award. “Look around, look around. How lucky we are to be alive right now,” he said.

“Hamilton” went into the night with 16 nominations and, in addition to taking the musical award, won best score, best book, direction, orchestration, choreography and best featured actor and actress statuettes for Renee Elise Goldsberry and Daveed Diggs.

Leslie Odom Jr., who plays Aaron Burr, won best actor and thanks Miranda for “a new vision of what’s possible.” He thanked his wife, actress Nicolette Robinson and his parents.

“Hamilton” earlier won awards for costume and lighting but lost scenic design to “She Loves Me.” Still, few shows get introduced by a sitting president, as Barack and Michelle Obama did for the performance by the show’s cast.

The awards show unspooled with a heavy heart a night after a gunman killed 50 people at a gay Florida nightclub, prompting a Broadway tribute to the victims at the top of the show and a smattering of references to tolerance throughout it.

Host James Corden, his back to the audience, spoke to viewers when he dedicated the night to celebrating the diversity of Broadway. “Hate will never win. Together we have to make sure of that. Tonight’s show stands as a symbol and a celebration of that principle,” he said.

But for much of the telecast, the mood was light and typical of an awards show.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, the star and creator of “Hamilton,” won for best score and book, and read from onstage a sonnet, referencing tragedy and urging “love and love and love....”

Thomas Kail won the Tony for directing “Hamilton.” He thanked Miranda, a frequent collaborator, and celebrated the diversity of Broadway this season. “Let’s continue to tell stories,” he said.

Jayne Houdyshell, a mainstay of the New York stage, won her first Tony Award at 62 for playing a gossipy, gently needling mom in “The Humans.” Her stage husband, Reed Birney, won best featured actor in a play. An actor for almost 42 years, he acknowledged that 35 of them were “pretty bad.” He thanked the theater community for keeping him going.

The play, about a fractious family’s get-together, won the best play statuette and playwright Stephen Karam dedicated his award to all the struggling writers. “Keep the faith,” he said.

At least 50 people died early Sunday when a gunman opened fire inside a crowded nightclub in Orlando, Florida. It was the deadliest mass shooting in American history.

In response to the shooting, “Hamilton” dropped its use of muskets in its performance. The Tony show also created a silver ribbon for stars to wear in solidarity and they were seen on the suits of actor Sean Hayes and director George C. Wolfe.

“My heart is saddened by it,” Jeffrey Seller, producer of “Hamilton,” said on the red carpet before the show. “The celebration tonight is tempered by it.”

The shooting was close to home for Christopher Fitzgerald, a nominee for the musical “Waitress” who went to school in Orlando. “I’m heartbroken. I think everybody is feeling it, so we are at least all coming together to celebrate and not live in fear,” he said on the carpet.

“Eclipsed” won for best costume for a play and “The Humans” won for best set design of a play. Best set design for a musical went to “She Loves Me” and best lighting for a play went to “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.”

Jessica Lange won her first Tony for playing a drug-addled mother in the revival of the monumental “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” The two-time Academy Award winner said: “This is a dream come true and it fills me with such happiness, even on such a sad day as this.”

Frank Langella won his fourth Tony for playing a man who has begun his slide down the slippery slope of dementia in “The Father.” He almost teared up when he mentioned his brother’s struggle with dementia. He also had a message for the people of Orlando: “We will be with you every step of the way.”

Dutch visionary Ivo Van Hove won his first Tony for directing an imaginative revival of Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge.” Under his helm, the barefoot cast warily circled one another under bright lights in a set that resembled a boxing ring. The show was also named best play revival.

Corden brought his endearing, fan-boy vibe to the opening number in which he performed a head-spinning medley of tunes from famous Broadway musicals, including donning a mask for “The Phantom of the Opera,” a leather jacket for “Grease,” and a curly red wig for “Annie.” He later encouraged others in the audience to pick songs and join him in a bit of karaoke during commercial breaks, including one with Hayes and Jake Gyllenhaal.

The show opened with the cast of “Hamilton” performing their opening number with the lyrics altered to have them all wondering why Corden “chatting with Hollywood phonies” had earned this honor.

The host of the “The Late Late Show” had some quips for the theater-loving audience: “This is like the Super Bowl for people who don’t know what the Super Bowl is,” he said at one point. At another: “Think of tonight as the Oscars, but with diversity,” and made a dig at Donald Trump for wanting to build a wall around the theater. He later flirted with Oprah Winfrey.

Donald Trump was a frequent target. Nathan Lane made a crack about Trump University and Emilio Estefan insisted that his all-Latin cast for “On Your Feet!” were all in America legally. Corden at one point suggested there were so many diverse performers on the show that the Republican candidate would want to put a wall around the theater.

This season brought unusual musical stories for Broadway: an unhappy wife and pie-maker in “Waitress;” the inside story of a forgotten 1920s African-American musical in “Shuffle Along;” and a bluegrass show about an unwed mother in the South in “Bright Star.” One of the darkest and most twisted shows was “American Psycho,” with a knife-wielding hero smeared in blood.

The plays and play revivals included a look at Liberian sex slaves in “Eclipsed,” a fractious family’s Thanksgiving get-together in “The Humans,” a tale about what might happen when the current English queen dies in “King Charles III” and two Arthur Miller unconventional revivals of “The Crucible” and “A View from the Bridge.” In one, the actors were barefoot. In the other, a wolf-like dog made a chilling appearance.

Thomas Kail, nominated for best directing for “Hamilton,” said he’s noticed a shift away from traditional Broadway fare and an embrace of unconventional tales.

“Inherently what I think Lin’s show is saying and what so many of the shows this season are saying is, ‘Your story matters.’ It can be about a waitress in a little town. It can be about a woman in the South. It can be about a group of dockworkers. It can be about a musical in the 1920s,” he said. “We’re listening and we heard you and we’re responding to that.”

The season also was rich in diversity among actors: Fourteen of the 40 Tony nominees for acting in plays and musicals – or 35 percent – are actors of color. And there are more non-whites nominated on the other side of the stage, including choreographer Savion Glover, directors George C. Wolfe and Liesl Tommy and playwright Danai Gurira.

Women also broke records: “Eclipsed” is the first ever Broadway play to feature a director, writer and cast who are all women and also all black. On the musical side, “Waitress” marked the first time that the four top creative spots in a show – composer, choreographer, book writer and director – were four women.

Deaf performers also shined on Broadway in the revival of the musical “Spring Awakening,” which also featured the first-ever performer in a wheelchair to be featured in a Broadway show. The show used American Sign Language, attracting new theater-goers.