Tony Awards Will Go Virtual This Fall

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shuttered for the better part of the 2019-2020 season, the Tony Awards show must go on — virtually — and with far fewer productions qualifying for consideration.Only 18 shows and plays qualified for this year’s award show, a significant drop from last year’s 34 eligible productions, and so many of the categories have shrunken according to TimeOut.“Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the rules have been adjusted for one-time only to ensure broad recognition of excellent work that occurred during the

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticEighteen Broadway productions will be eligible for this year’s Tony Awards competition, an awards committee announced today.The number was confirmed, along with several routine nominee determinations, in the final meeting of the The Tony Awards Administration Committee to decide eligibility for the recently announced all-digital 74th Annual Tony Awards.A date and platform have not been announced.Among the decisions announced today, David Alan Grier will

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Gordon Cox Theater EditorConfused about the digital Tony Awards this fall? You’re not alone.The announcement of the upcoming ceremony put to rest the longstanding debate over what would happen with the 2020 Tonys after the COVID-19 pandemic brought Broadway to a screeching halt just before the season’s final push of eligible openings.

NEW YORK -- Despite being interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, the shortened Broadway season will nonetheless have a Tony Awards. Tony Award Productions said Friday that the celebration of live theater will be digital but offered no date or streaming platform.

The Tony awards, the annual honours celebrating the best in Broadway theatre, will be announced during a digital ceremony this fall, organizers said in a statement on Friday.The Tonys had been scheduled for June but were postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Eligible productions from the 2019-2020 season include A Christmas Carol, The Great Society, The Height of the Storm, The Inheritance, Linda Vista, Sea Wall/A Life, Slave Play, The Sound Inside, Jagged Little Pill, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Betrayal, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, The Rose Tattoo, and West Side Story.

 2019-2020 Broadway season short, it was a year full of extraordinary work that deserves to be recognized,” said Charlotte St. Martin, President of the Broadway League, and Heather Hitchens, President & CEO of the American Theatre Wing.

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Also Read: Princess 'Diana' Musical to Premiere on Netflix Ahead of Broadway Debut“Though unprecedented events cut the 2019-2020 Broadway season short, it was a year full of extraordinary work that deserves to be recognized,” Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, and Heather Hitchens, president & CEO of the American Theatre Wing, said in a statement.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorProducers of the Tony Awards said Friday that the 74th annual ceremony to honor the best on Broadway will be presented digitally this year sometime in the fall, with a date and a platform to be announced soon.The event had been scheduled for June 7 at New York’s Radio City Musical Hall with its usual live broadcast on CBS, but the coronavirus shutdown of Broadway as COVID-19 gripped New York City and the world made it impossible to go forward.

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