On September 30, 2021 the Tony Awards will finally arrive, right before Broadway reopens, and slightly after HadesTown leads the way with reopening earlier in the month the Tony Awards will finally be here.... exclusively on Paramount Plus and not on TV. This besides leaving a sour taste in my mouth leaves me with many questions. Will it be live? Who is hosting? How many performances are we going to get? And also, what are they going to do?
I really don't like that it is being locked behind a streaming service, but that only leads me to believe it will be a shorter show, with less performances and will not run over like it usually does. I feel like they should have other shows that are returning to Broadway perform to make this less of an awards show and more of a celebration. A celebration of Broadway's return and not just a standard award show, with a hearty amount of performances and celebration of theater itself. Theater has been gone for a while now, so we need to throw a party to beckon its triumphant return.
If they are locking this behind a paywall I hope this means they are not just going to phone this in and make it worth it. Hopefully the host announcement will come soon. With so many questions in the air, we can only wait to see how this turns out. And hopefully the opening number is good. Speaking of which..
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