Bono was at the Tony Awards
Creators of South Park Trey Parker and Matt Stone's hit musical The Book of Mormon stole the show at the 2011 Tony Awards on Sunday.
It scooped nine top gongs including Best Musical.
The highly regarded show about two Mormon missionaries sent to Uganda, was nominated for 14 prizes at the New York ceremony, to celebrate the best of the best of Broadway.
It also won Best Originial Score, Best Direction of a Musical and Best Book of a Musical as well as Best Sound Design, Best Lighting and Best Scenic Design of a Musical.
British play War Horse earned a total of five awards and the revival of Larry Kramer's play, The Normal Heart won three awards, including Hollywood star Ellen Barkin's very first Tony Award for her Broadway debut as a doctor fighting against AIDS.
She said that it was the prodest moment of her career.
U2's Bono and The Edge found themselves at the foot of several jokes for their hit and miss Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark musical, which will finally open its doors on Tuesday after months of delays and set backs.
The Irish rockers took to the stage as they introduced a performance from Spider-Man saying: "We used to be famous for being in U2... When I first saw the Tony Awards on our schedule, I just kind of assumed that we'd been nominated", to which The Edge quipped, "It appears we missed the deadline..."
Other performances came from Daniel Radcliffe and Tony winner John Larroquette, who sang Brotherhood of Man from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
The main list of winners at the 65th Annual Tony Awards is as follows:
Best Play - War Horse
Best Musical - The Book of Mormon
Best Revival of a Play - The Normal Heart
Best Revival of a Musical - Anything Goes
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play - John Benjamin Hickey, The Normal Heart
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play - Ellen Barkin, The Normal Heart
Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical - John Larroquette, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical - Nikki M. James, The Book of Mormon
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play - Mark Rylance, Jerusalem
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play - Frances McDormand, Good People
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical - Norbert Leo Butz, Catch Me If You Can
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical - Sutton Foster, Anything Goes
Best Direction of a Play - Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, War Horse
Best Direction of a Musical - Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker, The Book of Mormon
Best Original Score - Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone, The Book of Mormon
Best Orchestrations - Larry Hochman and Stephen Oremus, The Book of Mormon
Best Choreography - Kathleen Marshall, Anything Goes
Best Book of a Musical - Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone, The Book of Mormon
Lifetime Achievement - Athol Fugard and Philip J. Smith.