New location? No script? No rehearsal? No sweat. Welcome to the 2023 Tony Awards, a show with an extra jolt of electricity this time due to the Hollywood writers’ strike.
Unpredictability has been inserted into what is usually an upbeat, safe and chummy night. The strike has left Broadway’s biggest night without a script, in a new venue far from the theatre district.
A 1 1/2-hour pre-show on Pluto TV from 6:30-8 p.m. Eastern, hosted by Julianne Hough and Skylar Astin, will then throw to the three-hour main event led by Ariana DeBose on CBS and Paramount+ starting at 8 p.m.
Eastern. A total of 26 Tony Awards will be handed out Sunday for a season that had 40 new productions — 15 musicals, 24 plays and one special engagement during the first post-pandemic full season. READ MORE: Striking Hollywood Writers Vow Not To Picket Tony Awards, Opening The Door To Some Kind Of Show Broadway had some very serious works this season, like the new plays Cost of Living and The Kite Runner and revivals of Topdog/Underdog and Death of a Salesman, led by Wendell Pierce.
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