The Tony Awards ceremony went off without a hitch on Sunday night. The event was scriptless, to honour a compromise with striking writers, but chock full of high-spirited Broadway performances drawing raucous cheers from an audience clearly thrilled to be there at all.
No script? No problem!
It was a night of triumph for the small-scale but huge-hearted musical"Kimberly Akimbo," about a teenager with a rare aging disease, but also a night notable for inclusion: Two non-binary performers made history by winning their acting categories. In the end, the lack of scripted banter didn't much dampen the proceedings, and little wonder: Broadway folks are trained in improv. And of course there was more room for singing and dancing -- including from current shows not in competition -- and nobody was complaining about that.BROADWAY HEADS UPTOWN
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