Speaking to the audience before the telecast began, she explained nothing would be scripted and told winners the only words they’d see on Teleprompters would be “wrap up please.” When the main telecast began, she appeared on camera reading a Tony script, but the pages were blank. Oscar winner and Broadway luminary Ariana DeBose, hosting for the second year running, immediately addressed the elephant in the room. “Thank you for coming uptown - never in my wildest dreams,” quipped Lin-Manuel Miranda, who has helped bring events to the venue in the neighborhood where he set his “In the Heights.” The afterparty was held in tents outside the building instead of the usual festivities in the fancy food halls of the Plaza Hotel near Central Park.
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The ceremony took place, for the first time, uptown in Washington Heights, in the ornate, gilded United Palace, an extravagantly decorated former movie theater filled with chandeliers and carpets and majestic columns. It was on Broadway, yes, but miles from the theater district. It wasn’t just the writers strike that made for a different evening. And of course there was more room for singing and dancing - including from current shows not in competition - and nobody was complaining about that. In the end, the lack of scripted banter didn’t much dampen the proceedings, and little wonder: Broadway folks are trained in improv. The ceremony also touched on the specter of anti-Semitism in very different places: World War II Europe, with best play winner “Leopoldstadt,” and early 20th-century America, with “Parade,” winner for best musical revival. It was a night of triumph for the small-scale but huge-hearted musical “Kimberly Akimbo,” about a teenager with a rare aging disease, but also a night notable for inclusion: Two nonbinary performers made history by winning their acting categories.
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The event was scriptless, to honor a compromise with striking writers, but chock full of high-spirited Broadway performances drawing raucous cheers from an audience clearly thrilled to be there at all. There was plenty of uncertainty in the run-up to this year’s Tony Awards, which at one point seemed unlikely to happen at all due to the ongoing Hollywood writer’s strike.īut the ceremony went off without a hitch on Sunday night.
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