With the Tony nominations announced this morning, Broadway is back to normal, right? Not exactly.
that visitors to New York will be down about 15% from 2019. The recovery is happening, though probably not soon enough to help the myriad shows rumored to be struggling.
Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical about a plus-size Black, queer musical theater writer struggling to find a place for himself artistically and personally is not the kind of show that likely would have made it to Broadway in years past. That’s what makes its trove of Tony nominations so satisfying. Broadway is wise enough to recognize where its future lies.
My one great regret is not having seen the revival of “Caroline, or Change.” I had tickets in December, but rising Omicron numbers scuttled my holiday travel plans and so I missed Sharon D Clarke’s Tony-nominated performance, which was as heralded in New York as it was in London in a revitalized staging of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s musical.Lynn Nottage’s Tony-nominated play, which received nods for three of its cast members: Ron Cephas Jones, Uzo Aduba and Kara Young.
Los Angeles audiences didn’t have to leave town to see “The Lehman Trilogy,” which is likely to claim the 2022 Tony for best play. This award is as much an acknowledgement of the production as it is of the script .
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