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Sounds a lot like panto. Is that an apt comparison? 

If I’m understanding this correctly,  it looks like The Row was on its way to closing anyway and using it as migrant housing may be what’s keeping it operational at all. This is from Wikipedia:

“The hotel was forced to close temporarily in 2020 due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. Werner began falling behind on mortgage payments in May 2020. The Paramount Group, which had lent $80 million to Thor Equities for the Row NYC's commercial condominium, foreclosed on the condominium in April 2022. At the time, the condominium was valued as $45 million, about 30 percent less than the price Thor had paid in 2014. Wells Fargo moved to foreclose on Werner's loan in September 2022.

Following an influx of asylum seekers to New York City in mid-2022, city officials considered converting part of the Row NYC into temporary housing for 700 asylum seekers that year. The city government agreed that October to use the Row NYC Hotel to house migrants as part of an agreement valued at $40 million.”

Sources:

• Modi, Priyanka (September 20, 2022). "Wells Fargo Files to Foreclose on David Werner at Row Hote.” The Real Deal New York
• Rebong, Kevin (April 14, 2022). "Thor Equities Loses Row NYC Hotel Retail to Foreclosure". The Real Deal New York.
• Rebong, Kevin (August 16, 2022). "Row NYC Hotel Poised to House Migrants". The Real Deal New York.
• Zraick, Karen (March 23, 2023). "How Manhattan Hotels Became Refuges for Thousands of Migrants". The New York Times. 

Kad said: "EDSOSLO858 said: "Box office opened this morning at 10 AM; the first 100 people on line today and tomorrow will receive an exclusive gift.

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A newfound appreciationof the beauty of the mundane details of life?"

And whatever the gift is, in keeping with the show, it's entirely pantomimed. 

TotallyEffed said: "

I don’t have an answer to the question but this is why I’ve started going back to physical media. It’s becoming very hard to rely on digital platforms. 

Every time I see this title I think it’s an adaptation of 2002’s infamous Guy Ritchie/Madonna bomb Swept Away. 

Broadway Flash said: "What these states are doing do not reflect the will of the people…"

It may not reflect the will of the people, but it’s successfully being done anyway and showing up as law. 

I’d say a show about people being held hostage by those in charge withholding information and forcing their points of view is very relevant. 

inception said: "Was the footage shown on screen during big wins of production teams off stage all waving to the camera also pre-recorded?"

No, they lined up all the co-producers when it was time for the category and then shuffled the winners onto a platform. Jackson McHenry of Vulture took this video:

https://x.com/McHenryJD/status/1802688234217972074

WldKingdomHM said: "But then again we got Audra tap dancing while being pregant ….and still not missing shows over and over"

I’m not sure this is the standard to which we should be holding pregnant women. 

I feel like this isn’t uncommon for Tony week, right? Off the top of my head I remember Ben Platt, Josh Groban (Great Comet), Sara Ramirez in Spamalot. I’m sure it’s a tough time on the body and voice. 

I think the Tonys are always plagued with sound problems. It’s a real issue for a show whose main draw is musical performances. 

JSquared2 said: "How does one apply for the position of Billy Porter's phone holder?

What a***he is.

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It’s not unusual to hand an assistant your phone, especially when you may be wearing an outfit that doesn’t appear for its easy concealment. It’s a shame his speech wasn’t in the teleprompter like it should have been. 

Looks like it’s found an Off-Broadway home:

From Playbill: 

“The Broadway engagement of Gerard Alessandrini’s Forbidden Broadway may have been postponed, but the latest edition of the musical parody, Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole A Song, has found a home Off-Broadway.

Previews will begin August 23 at Theater 555 prior to an official opening September 12.”

For me, it was probably Roundabout's The Cherry Orchard from some years back (with Diane Lane, innocent). Just a full nothing of a production: no direction, no coherence, several very good actors completely adrift. I'd rather something be bad in an ambitious or interesting way than a complete and utter bore. Truly the most unexciting night of theatre I think I've had on Broadway.