Tony Awards Absences

[Andre4]

Posted: 5/12/18 at 12:27am

I have tickets to Angels in America on June 10, which is Tony night. The cast is heavily nominated and the show is long (roughly 2-6 pm that day) so should I expect several of them to be out? Could not find anything official on this anywhere but recall that last year Josh Groban and Ben Platt were out the weekend of for example. Should we exchange our tickets?

[LxGstv]

Posted: 5/12/18 at 12:30am

It will start at 1pm on June 10th according to Ticketmaster. So everyone should be in it?

[Wick3]

Posted: 5/12/18 at 1:31am

Wasn't Ben Platt out to save his voice for the telecast? It's rare for plays to perform during Tony night so my bet is the cast will be performing that day.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 5/12/18 at 2:06am

An early curtain that afternoon should be a pretty good indication that they expect the cast to perform that day.

In general (and to be fair, this is completely anecdotal based on my experiences), I have found that most nominees do in fact perform their matinees that day, as they often talk about the rush to get ready for the awards in the (relatively) brief amount of time between the end of their matinee and the beginning of the telecast (compared to say, the Oscars, which seems to be an all day affair in terms of preparation and such).

Updated On: 5/12/18 at 02:06 AM

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/12/18 at 6:29am

It would be highly unusual for them to not perform.