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A Tonys Diary: Seeing Outsiders Coming, the Co-Pro Conundrum, and Party-Hopping
Our critic reports on making the rounds inside and after Broadway’s biggest night.
This year, the official gala event (tickets available for purchase for a couple hundred dollars, or if you just ask the PR people nicely) was right across the Lincoln Center Plaza at the David Geffen Hall, where there was risotto on tap, free portable phone chargers, and enough Fiji water to fill the Nile (meanwhile, I paid $5 for a bottle in the theater itself). It’s where you see winners and nominees in their first shell-shocked moments after their stops at the press room, and I spotted Kelli O’Hara catching up with Alex Edelman, Andrew Rannells in line for a Shake Shack burger (minutes after I discovered he’s not in Tammy Faye after all), and Shaina Taub figuring out how to manage toting around two awards. By the time I got to the Carlyle around 2 a.m., the party had just started a late-night breakfast offering omelets and French fries upstairs next to a dance floor, where I saw a few other Broadway reporters and we all traded stories about the other after-parties; the Hell’s Kitchen bash was apparently the most lavish, though the vibe was off given no Best Musical win.
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