TONY Awards Looking For A New Home For Next Year

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:01pm

As written in the following article, Radio City Music Hall is booked next year during the time when the TONY's are usually handed out. Ideas on possible locations are Madison Square Garden, Beacon Theatre, Apollo Theatre, or maybe a Broadway house itself.

I'm thinking what about Avery Fisher Hall, or Carnegie Hall? Any thoughts?

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/140434-Tony-Awards-Searching-for-New-Home

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:03pm

Thank god. Hopefully this is the first of many needed changes for next year.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:04pm

I don't buy that this a mere scheduling conflict...

I would like to see them held at the Gershwin theatre.

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:05pm

Madison Square Garden will not be an option. The arena is going to be closed as soon as the Rangers/Knicks seasons end for the next 3 summers because of the renovations taking place there.

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:07pm

I just had "a stroke...of genius". What if they were to broadcast the show next year from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, just like the early years?

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:08pm

The Theater at Madison Square Garden would be an option though.

[Shubert Alley Cat]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:09pm

What is booked at RCMH during Tony time?

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:11pm

"The Theater at Madison Square Garden would be an option though."

I agree it would be, the article didn't clarify if they were talking about the arena or the theater though even though I guess its safe to assume they were talking about the theatre.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:12pm

The TONYS have been there for over a decade. This was no scheduling conflict. Radio City Music Hall management obviously knows that the Tony Awards take place there for a week in June every year. One of three things happened:

a) the League didn't want the TONYS at RCMH next year so they didn't book it.
b) RCMH didn't want the TONYS there so they allowed someone else to book in June.
c) a mistake occurred from either end, therefore the TONYS were forced out of RCMH if they still want the event to take place in June.

More than likely they will bring the event back to a Broadway theatre.

What this DOES mean next year is that there will definitely be a new set!

[Dolly_Levi]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:15pm

I did like the set they've used over the past few seasons. Perhaps moving to a different venue will help alleviate those terrible sound issues.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:16pm

Definitely not Madison Square Garden. The theater there is not the best venue, plus I thought they were closing to remodel.

I wonder what's playing at Radio City and who is going to get fired for not securing it for the Tonys.

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:20pm

The Arena is being remodeled, not the Theater, but I agree though that the Theater at MSG is not a good option for this type of production.

Avery Fisher Hall seems like a nice fit.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:31pm

Somewhere the sound works.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:32pm

Put them back in a damn Broadway theatre where they belong.

[newintown]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:38pm

Upstairs at Therapy.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:44pm

The Javits Center has beautiful Hudson River views from the roof. And judging from the parade of producers that flooded the stage, it's big enough that everyone can invite their extended family and friends.

[Pocketsquared Fanadu]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:48pm

It is a scheduling conflict. There is a new springtime production that is going into RCMH. Neither the theater at MSG or the Arena is an option, either, because the renovations are also going to be undertaken in the corridors and public spaces that access the venues. I do graduations for a large university and every one (over 20) that was to be held at either Radio City or MSG has had to find a new venue.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:53pm

"There is a new springtime production that is going into RCMH."

Oh Jayzus, not the Easter Rockettes. I thought they dumped that idea.

[CyCoSpAz2]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 4:54pm

Yankee Stadium. xD

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 5:06pm

A semi-permanent Cirque du Soleil show is schedule to take over Radio City starting next year (they're doing the same thing at the Kodak Theatre in LA). Supposedly it's going to take up the theatre half of the year or something of the sort.

Updated On: 6/15/10 at 05:06 PM

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 5:10pm

Yes. Banana Shpeel is moving into Radio City.

By popular demand.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 5:13pm

"A semi-permanent Cirque du Soleil show is schedule to take over Radio City starting next year"

I'm not really seeing the conflict here. Can't they give awards with acrobats flying over their heads? It would probably boost viewership.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 6:09pm

What about City Center? Won't the refurbishments be about done by then?

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 6:29pm

Hasn't it been done at the Majestic in the past?

And I know that Disney definitely wouldn't allow it, but seeing that the New Amsterdam is the most gorgeous house on Broadway, I'd LOVE to see them there...

[Wishing Only Wounds]

Posted: 6/15/10 at 6:56pm

^^^
Disney allows Easter Bonnet to take place there, so I wouldn't be too surprised.

Oh, it would be gorgeous in the New Amsterdam, ah and right on 42nd Street.

K, I'm getting too excited.