The Tony Awards And The Writers Strike: What Happens If Broadway’s Big Night Has No Words?
deadline.comFor Tony Award nominees, the next 37 days will be the usual long slog of interviews, parties, nerves and anticipation. But for producers of the ceremony’s June 11 broadcast on CBS, the date carries a new cause for insomnia: Who will write the thing?
With the Writers Guild of America strike showing no signs of an immediate resolution, the organizations behind the Tonys – The American Theatre Wing, The Broadway League and exec producers White Cherry Entertainment – will have some decisions to make.
This year’s Tony nominations were announced Tuesday, the very same day the WGA went on strikeagainst the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).
The latter organization includes, among its members, Paramount Global, owner of CBS and Paramount+, broadcast and streaming homes of the Tonys.
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