By Tim Dams
15.05.2020 - 21:21 / etonline.com
Wop baba lubop a wop bam boom! For those theater fans sad to bemissing the 2020 Tony Awards next month, there's still going to be some electrifying fun for your «Summer Nights.»
That's right, CBS is planning to air on Sunday, June 7, the night originally slated to broadcast the Tony Awards.
The sing-along will feature follow-along lyrics to all of the songs from the classic 1978 musical film starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. The film is based off of the 1971 stage show.
Originally
By Tim Dams
By Tim Dams
After initially choosing to hold the event in a virtual form due to the coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic, it turns out that the Tony Awards have been postponed amid the ‘ongoing racism and injustices’ that have been in the forefront of everyone’s minds since the senseless murder of George Floyd.
The 2020 Tony Awards are being postponed once again. On Monday, Broadway On Demand announced that they were postponing the Tonys celebration that was scheduled to air on the newly launched streaming service this Sunday, in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the ongoing protests across the country.
Fans will have to wait a little longer for the upcoming virtual Tony Awards.
A streaming Broadway-themed fundraising special scheduled to air on Sunday, June 7 – the night that originally had been set for the annual Tony Awards – has been postponed in the wake of national unrest over the police killing of George Floyd. “We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter,” said an executive producer of the special.
The 2020 Tony Awards has been put on hold. On Monday morning, Broadway on Demand CEO/President Sean Cercone announced the newly launched streaming platform for theater devotes will postpone its Tony Awards celebration that was scheduled for this coming Sunday.
Broadway On Demand A 2020 Tony Awards celebration was set to take place this Sunday (June 7) after the actual Tony Awards had to be cancelled due to the Coronavirus.
Broadway On Demand, the newly-launched streaming platform for theater fans, has postponed its Tony Awards celebration event that was scheduled for this Sunday (June 7).The postponement is linked to the ongoing protests and unrest in the wake of the death last week of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.The postponement was made Monday morning (June 1) by Seam Cercone, the organization's CEO/president.
Broadway fans who are distressed that the 74th Annual Tony Awards won't air on CBS on June 7 as originally planned can take at least some consolation in a one-hour show that will stream that night on TonyAwards.com and BroadwayOnDemand.com. It won't replace the Tonys -- the COVID-19 pandemic brought the Broadway season to an abrupt halt in mid-March; Tony nominat
The show will go on!
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By Joe Otterson
By Nellie Andreeva
By Joe Otterson
The 2020 Tony Awards was scheduled to take place on June 7, but the show has been indefinitely postponed due to the pandemic, so CBS has decided to fill that slot with a Grease singalong special.
“Grease” is the word for what would have been the 2020 Tony Awards originally scheduled to air Sunday, June 7.
It’s not so much the one that we want, but the one that we got saddled with.