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Still, the ceremony every year thrives on that exuberant theater-kid live-performance energy, and there it could deliver.

A big, expensive mess with scattered brilliance: Broadway really is back.
It wasnt exactly seamless at the beginning of the process, and … it would get worse.
She even makes thanking the accounting firm seem genuine.
(He also told his competition, tough bananas.)
Danny Burstein, winning Supporting Actor in a Musical, paid tribute to his late wife, Rebecca Luker.
Lois Smith, winning Supporting Actress in a Play, implored everyone to only connect.
Youre making everyone misty under their masks.
LOW:Where do you save time?
(Ask your doctor aboutJagged Little Pill.)
Since then, theyve usually been held in the immensity of Radio City Music Hall.
EXTREME HIGH: Jennifer Holliday doing And I Am Telling You Im Not Going.Holy moly.
LOW: The clumsy 12-minute break between the Paramount+ telecast and the Broadways Back!
Leading thousands of theatergoers to ask … why am I watchingBig Brother?
Good thing New Yorkers arent the demographic of people who would most care about theater awards!
We should be having another Tony ceremony in, what, a few months?
He should host that too.
(High within this high: Adrienne Warren doing thatTinamegamix!
If only we couldve gotten similar clips from the plays in competition.
Its an easy way to get tears, and man does it work.