Broadway history was made Sunday night when Tony Award voters gave the best new musical accolade to "Fun Home," making it the first time an all-female composing team has been awarded.

"It absolutely was a landmark event," says Jesse Green, theater critic for New York Magazine.

The musical, adapted from Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir, is about a young female cartoonist coming to understand her own sexuality as a lesbian in college — while her father comes out as a gay man. Some considered it a surprise win. 

"The content is so unusual for Broadway, and not only the content but the style," Green says. "It's really dark — of course it's also very funny — and it's very musical, but not the kind of razzmatazz you normally expect a Tony Award to go to." 

Another interesting grab was Alex Sharp for best actor in a leading role in "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," a year after he graduated from Juilliard. But the 25-year-old's win isn't a big surprise.

"He gave a really nuanced and athletic performance in the show where the main character whom he played isn't necessarily so verbally expressive, so a lot comes down to the body and the movements, which were staged by the director and choreographer almost as if it were a musical," Green says.

Other than Helen Mirren, actors who had a foot in Hollywood didn't win any races. Big names like Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan were nominated but didn't come out as champs.

"It wasn't a great night for them, but not because there's a prejudice against Hollywood actors who do a good job — that they didn't win is just a circumstance of the year. There were a lot of really good performances and when it comes to that, sometimes voters will choose, just on the basis of their hearts — not the basis of being bedazzled." 

The best acceptance speech?

"It was Lisa Kron's speech for winning book of a musical for 'Fun Home,' and ironically was a prayer, almost, that we come to see that Broadway is like a house that has many more rooms in it than we thought it did and not ignore those rooms. Ironically, that speech was left in some room that wasn't visited by the American audience last night."

It didn't air on the television broadcast, but you can watch it here.

Here's the full list of award winners:

Tony Awards 2015: Winners List

• Best Play: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
• Best Musical: "Fun Home"
• Best Revival of a Play: "Skylight"
• Best Revival of a Muscial: "The King and I"
• Best Book of a Musical: Lisa Kron, "Fun Home"
• Best Original Score (music and/or lyrics) Written for the Theater: Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron, "Fun Home"
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Alex Sharp,"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Helen Mirren, "The Audience"
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical: Michael Cerveris, "Fun Home"
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical: Kelli O'Hara, "The King and I"
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Richard McCabe, "The Audience"
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Annaleigh Ashford, "You Can't Take It with You"
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical: Christian Borle, "Something Rotten!"
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Ruthie Ann Miles, "The King and I"
• Best Scenic Design of a Play: Bunny Christie and Finn Ross, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
• Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Bob Crowley and 59 Productions, "An American in Paris"
• Best Costume Design of a Play: Christopher Oram, "Wolf Hall Parts One & Two"
• Best Costume Design of a Musical: Catherine Zuber, "The King and I"
• Best Lighting Design of a Play: Paule Constable, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
• Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Natasha Katz, "An American in Paris"
• Best Direction of a Play: Marianne Elliott, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
• Best Direction of a Musical: Sam Gold, "Fun Home"
• Best Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon, "An American in Paris"
• Best Orchestrations: Christopher Austin, Don Sebesky, Bill Elliott, "An American in Paris"
• Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theater: Tommy Tune
• Special Tony Award: John Cameron Mitchell
• Regional Theater Tony Award: Cleveland Play House, Cleveland, Ohio
• Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award: Stephen Schwartz
• Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theater: Arnold Abramson, Adrian Bryan-Brown, Gene O'Donovan