Because the Tony Awards manner, the 2023-2024 Broadway season turns out to deficit a canonical vintage amongst its abridge of brandnew musicals. However skim day the marquee match this is absolute best musical and glance to the undercard bouts for the productions that appear destined for theatrical immortality.
Whip “Stereophonic,” David Adjmi’s naturalistic account of the ups, downs and staggering stagnation of a Fleetwood Mac-esque band clashing within the recording studio. With 13 nods, it has already made historical past as essentially the most Tony-nominated play games of all presen, with the aid of songs by way of Arcade Hearth alum Will Butler.
Next there’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” an expertly calibrated course-correction of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1981 misfire, which tells its tale backward to show how a starry-eyed composer morphed right into a Hollywood hack. Boasting sparkling critiques and box-office bona fides, this “Merrily” has emerged because the front-runner for absolute best revival of a musical.
So what alternative displays are anticipated to whip house some Tonys? Who will whip the degree to accomplish? And can or not it’s awkward if this time’s scripted display is choppier than latter time’s unscripted one? (Almost certainly!) Right here’s a rundown of what we all know concerning the 77th Tony Awards.
