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Theatrical Snobbery Lives On for the 2025 Tony Nominees
Take that, Hollywood interlopers!
Also notable is the recognition for Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer winner English, which filled the Featured Actress category with two performances (Tala Ashe and Marjan Neshat, student and teacher, and both great) and got nods for Knud Adams’s direction and Masha Ginsberg’s scenic design, the kind of thing that’s rare for nominators to remember after a show’s limited run. Eureka Day, Jonathan Specter’s satire of a lefty California school debating its vaccination requirement (itself barely a revival, given that the play had its first production in 2018), seems like it has the edge by dint of pure newsworthiness and the fact that theatrical mainstay Jessica Hecht looks to be a Featured Actress frontrunner (well, her or Kara Young). Finally, there’s the tough fate of Real Women Have Curves, which notched two nominations for its score and featured actress Justina Machado (excellent, according to my colleague Sara Holdren; I haven’t had a chance to see the show yet), but couldn’t break through the noise of the end-of-season crunch to make more of an impact.
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