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

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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.