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https://www.npr.org/2022/06/13/ [login to see] /6-takeaways-from-the-2022-tony-awards
"The 75th Annual Tony Awards celebrated Broadway's first full season after the pandemic shutdown. Many of the shows up for awards were supposed to open in 2020— until theaters unexpectedly closed for a year and a half.
One of the producers for The Lehman Trilogy, in his speech accepting the award for Best Play, said, with resignation, that "between the fourth and fifth preview were 577 days."
Yet this Tony Awards didn't harp on how hard COVID was for the industry. It didn't beg tourists to return. Instead, the show was surprisingly warm and welcoming — thanks in large part to its host, Ariana DeBose.
Here are the six things that struck me as I watched the Tony Awards Sunday night":
"The 75th Annual Tony Awards celebrated Broadway's first full season after the pandemic shutdown. Many of the shows up for awards were supposed to open in 2020— until theaters unexpectedly closed for a year and a half.
One of the producers for The Lehman Trilogy, in his speech accepting the award for Best Play, said, with resignation, that "between the fourth and fifth preview were 577 days."
Yet this Tony Awards didn't harp on how hard COVID was for the industry. It didn't beg tourists to return. Instead, the show was surprisingly warm and welcoming — thanks in large part to its host, Ariana DeBose.
Here are the six things that struck me as I watched the Tony Awards Sunday night":
6 takeaways from the 2022 Tony Awards
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Sad they neglected to honor Bob Saget and his roles in Broadway musicals.
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One of the things I miss about not living in the northeast is the ability to easily go to Broadway shows. I grew up going to them and went as often as we could when stationed in New Hampshire. Broadway shows, even some of the not so great ones, are always better than movies IMO.
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