“Our industry has been through so much,” Marianne Elliott, who won a Tony Award for directing a gender-reversed revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical comedy “ Company,” said in her acceptance speech. Patti LuPone won the Tony Award for best featured actress in a musical for “Company.” It was her third Tony. With tourism still down, it was also short on audience. The season that just ended was a tough one: It started late (most theaters remained closed until September), and was repeatedly disrupted (coronavirus cases obliterated its old show-must-go-on ethos, prompting cancellations and performer absences). The ceremony - the 75th Tony Awards presentation - provided an opportunity for Broadway to celebrate its return and its perseverance, hoping that a dash of razzle-dazzle, a dollop of contemporary creativity and a sprinkling of nostalgia will help lure theatergoers back to a pandemic-scarred industry now in full swing but still craving more customers. I felt misunderstood, and I just wanted to create a little bit of a life raft for myself as a Black gay man.”
“I didn’t know how I was going to move forward. “I wrote it at a time when I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life,” he said. Jackson, the writer who spent nearly two decades working on it, acknowledged how personal the project was as he collected his first Tony Award, for best book of a musical. “ A Strange Loop” garnered widespread praise from critics on Sunday night, Michael R.
