The 74th Annual Tony Awards (2021) - News & Discussion Thread — Page 10

Wayman_Wong said: "Meantime, it's been a month (Oct. 15) since the Tony nominations were first announced. Does it seem odd that no date still has been announced for the awards itself? Are there any Tony voters here? Has the voting begun?"

Unless it has just happened, no. Is any of this odd? This is 2020; odd would be something not odd. They are figuring out what to do, in uncharted territory and with new constituencies to be addressed. Suffice it to say that everyone is not of a singular mind on any of this. Also, in case you haven't noticed, the country appears right smack in the middle of a second wave and New York has no interest in inviting anyone to bring their diseases into this comparatively under control environment. So let me ask you this: if the decision were up to you and you were told that the best we can do is some sort of zoom ceremony, what would you be doing right now that isn't "odd"?

@Sutton, I think any article we may have seen back in the day was conjecturing, not stating, a date. I suspect that no one thinks that date now (and to me it would be kinda wacky to do it the week before Christmas but what do I know...)

ACL2006 said: "I'm thinking this happens in January. The TV schedule is too crowded in December. JAGGED may film their performance next week as they will also be filming their performance for the Thanksgiving parade."

I don’t think this is being televised, is it? Unless I missed something.

It depends how you define televised. If you mean broadcast, then no, there is no indication of that. If you mean streamed in a way that you can cast to your television set, then yes.

Just a theory but could this delay be related to making some kind of deal with the union as well as a small sampling of actors both from nominated shows as well as already running productions to get into their spaces to record performances for the broadcast?

Not talking huge musical production numbers here but could surely see something like a slightly reblocked socially distanced "Come What May" to represent Moulin Rouge or something like "Wait for It" from Hamilton is already a social distanced number really. Numbers that need not utilize a lot of the cast and not put them in covid risky situations.

But with union safety as well as cast members spread to the four winds by this point with those that opted to leave the city to quarantine elsewhere, they might be waiting to set a date until they get all the safety measure ironed for who will perform and when they will meet to record the performance itself.

Not to mention with it looking like the nation is heading back into lockdowns, plans they lay out to do these things could end up altered as well.

I think they don't want to set a date until they know, for CERTAIN, that they will have something to show on that date that is more then just a zoom call of people in their houses reading names. The Tonys are a marketing tool and they will want to present something grand enough that will tempt people to return to Broadway as soon as they possibly can.

aliceripleyofficial said: "Well,it's 2021 and there is still no date for the Tonys..."

Nor would we expect there to be. The awards are going to happen once there is a reopening date. The League has failed the PR test on this subject, but the intention is clear if you go look for it.

Man, they really f*cked this entire thing up which is so unfortunate for the nominees.

"Misguided" is a subset of mismanaged. The problem is that the person in charge is clueless, and the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. The initial wrong path was the product of a mistakenly rosy PR-style optimism, what in other contexts we call aspirational. I agree about the likelihood of having it in the normal time slot. The problem with just having them already is that someone has to pay to make that happen and St Martin did not bother to ask the people who matter before having her "committee" (she adores committees, which is a red flag in itself) make an announcement.