At The Tonys, 'Dear Evan Hansen' Has A Big Night In A Dark Season
The 2016 Tony Awards were fun, but undeniably a little anticlimactic. By then, it was in large part a coronation of Hamilton, a delivery mechanism for the many, many awards we all knew it would win. (And did.)
Not so in 2017. On the musicals side, the highest nomination count rested with Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, a musical based on a section of War And Peace. There is much affection for the Celtic-inflected Come From Away, about the aftermath of September 11. The bruising Dear Evan Hansen has seized a lot of the "cool ticket" buzz.
The nominated plays included , which won the, a three-hour examination of the Oslo Accords; , which dares to extend the story of an unforgettable 19th-century play about gender; and , a play about the consequences of political and socially provocative theater that was up for awards on a day when two corporate sponsors reportedly from New York's Public Theater over its staging of
