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Tony Awards 2024 Best & Worst Moments, Snubs And Surprises – Review
No awards show makes it to the end without a few surprises, and tonight’s Tony Awards on CBS had a whopper: It went off without a hitch. The Pluto TV pre-show, not so much. But more on that in a bit. With Ariana DeBose returning to host for the third time, the 77th Annual Tonys […]
Still, to TV viewers it likely mattered little: Hell’s Kitchen couldn’t ask for a better showcase to get it noticed coast-to-coast; Jeremy Strong, winning for his leading performance in An Enemy of the People, thanked, among others, the ushers and staff at Circle in the Square. She thanked the late greats Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, who, respectively, wrote and originally starred in the play decades ago, and gave a sweet Fathers Day shout-out to her dad Klay Young, a longtime server at New York’s Rainbow Room where Kara’s 2022 nomination for Clyde’s was announced. In fact, tonight was pretty much a tribute to the city’s non-profs, with Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage and Manhattan Theatre Club responsible for birthing an inordinate number of nominees, including Stereophonic, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Mary Jane, Prayer for the French Republic and Mother Play; The musical numbers: The performances from the casts of The Outsiders, The Who’s Tommy, Suffs, Merrily We Roll Along, Illinoise and, to a slightly lesser extent, Stereophonic gave everyone watching a good idea of what theatergoers have been talking about for months.
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