Broadway Reaches For Normalcy With Tony Award Nominations

This image released by Boneau/Bryan-Brown shows Aaron Tveit, center right, and Karen Olivo, center left, during a performance of the musical “Moulin Rouge!” Nominations for Tony Awards will be announced Thursday with just 18 eligible plays and musicals making the cut, a fraction of the 34 shows the season before. (Matthew Murphy/Boneau/Bryan-Brown via AP)

Broadway’s coronavirusshortened season is getting an awards process that reflects this tumultuous year incomplete, seemingly unfair and filled with loss.

NEW YORK: The sobering musical Jagged Little Pill, which plumbs Alanis Morissettes 1995 breakthrough album to tell a story of an American family spiraling out of control, earned a leading 15 Tony Award nominations Thursday, as the Broadway community took the first steps to celebrate a pandemic-shortened season that upended the theater world.

The nominations were pulled from just 18 eligible plays and musicals, a fraction of the 34 shows the season before. During most years, there are 26 competitive categories; this year there are 25 with several depleted ones. The category for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical had just one actor Aaron Tveit.

Broadway theaters abruptly closed on March 12, knocking out all shows including 16 that were still scheduled to open in the spring. The cutoff for eligibility for all shows was set at Feb. 19.

The nominations came from 10 new plays, four new musicals and four play revivals. Two high profile shows Freestyle Love Supreme and David Byrnes American Utopia did not accommodate Tony voters and werent eligible.

The 2020 Tony Awards ceremony will be broadcast digitally and take place later this year, at a date still to be announced. Its one of few bright spots for theater fans Broadway will be shut down until at least May 30.

“Theater will survive,” James Monroe Iglehart, the nominations host, said during Thursday’s announcement.

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Mark Kennedy is at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits.


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