The Tony Award nominations for a season shortened by the pandemic are cold comfort to all of the out-of-work artists who won't return to Broadway before May.
Tony nominations are out, and we’ve got the complete rundown of contenders for the unprecedented pandemic-shortened season.
Undeterred by the scale of the crisis, the American Theatre Wing announced Tony nominations for the abridged 2019-20 season on Thursday. Only 18 shows were deemed eligible. The slate of openings in the spring, when typically the most anticipated productions arrive, was canceled, leaving the pool of nominees conspicuously thin in key categories.
For the purposes of these awards, the season spans from fall 2019 through January 2020. Shows that opened later, such as Ivo van Hove’s bracing multimedia revival ofand the new musical built around Bob Dylan songs, “Girl From the North Country,” were deemed ineligible because not enough Tony voters would have had the opportunity to see these works.
The irony is that “Girl From the North Country” would have been favored to win for musical and “West Side Story” would likely have taken the musical revival prize. As it stands, there are no nominees for musical revival, and the musical category seems to be crammed with runners-up (
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