Highlights from the 2023 Tony Awards

The 76th Tony Awards kicked off “live and unscripted” June 11 amid the ongoing writers strike. Read more: wapo.st/3J7PJ0Z. Subscribe to The Washington Post on KZbin: wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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[@kgal1298]

It was so weird having an opening without singing, but they pulled it off.

[@allanmiller4972]

Arden...uh, TALK 2 the 'HAND!! 😂

[@vjones4769]

Okay Jodie Comer. I remember when she was in My Mad Fat Dairy. So crazy to see how far she is come. 👏

[@zoecunningham3019]

Bravo 👏 wonderful celebration of the Broadway arts. Magnificent 👏

[@barrywakeford1385]

Wasn't able to watch the Awards. But i heard some GAY GUY won.

[@Alfredhyman19]

Boop the musical 🎉

[@stewart97ful]

Love Jodie Comer ❤ CONGRATS

[@bmaxx1499]

Congrats to all the winners' BRAVO

[@michelebecker7848]

Beautiful much luv and light to everybody xoxo

[@Smellybridge99]

Set them alight more like.

[@Alfredhyman19]

Kindergarten the musical 🎼 🎶 😍 😂

[@01wacharapornrattanawuitti75]

ANNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Oh god I’m proud

[@waynet3982]

So sick!!!!!

[@alphawolfgurl4738]

What a shame

[@raymondjohnson6496]

Tony is rolling in his graves because of these people

[@kkpenney444]

Her name was Antoinette and she's no doubt toasting them from the beyond.

[@raymondjohnson6496]

Sorry about I thought it was tony Randall the actor tony who created

[@funguy170]

​@@raymondjohnson6496do you mean big gay Tony Randall, the star of "Love, Sydney", the sitcom about a gay single parent?

[@christabrown88]

🫢🫣🙄

[@DisfanTami]

Best comment was calling DeSantis the Grand Wizard 👏

[@Quarthon]

Right, because calling people names is going to help solve the divide currently in the US. It was childish.

[@mosesoftheblock2311]

DeSantis would consider that a compliment.

[@mosesoftheblock2311]

@@Quarthon We don't want to solve the divide. I do not want to be in the same room as someone like DeSantis or Mad Marge. I just dont want their need to scapegoat to cut off my basic freedoms.

[@Quarthon]

@@mosesoftheblock2311 In other words, you want to tell people how to think, how to act and how to feel. There's a word for that : Fascism.

[@DisfanTami]

@@Quarthon you have described DeSantis perfectly. By the way, who is calling people names now? If what this person thinks is fascism according to you that means they're a fascist. Well done

[@RobinKirkland-xk3vu]

They were that desperate for views huh?

[@richardkennedy8481]

Oscars dead, Grammys dead, Tonys dead, Emmys, who cares.

[@steveweinstein3222]

The possessive apostrophe is apparently dead we all. alas.

[@richardkennedy8481]

@@steveweinstein3222 brevity

[@bobhogg4174]

Looks like they couldn't find any blacks to appear in this year's Tony Awards.

[@waiskuxx]

Ever since that BAFTA performance I can’t stand Ariana Debose especially for that Karen haircut

[@BradTea]

Wow... after directing a musical about Jewish people, Michael Arden's speech is even more relevant today. 'Parade tells the story of a life that was cut short at the hands of the belief that one group of people is more or less valuable than another, and that they might be more deserving of justice. We must come together. We must battle this. It is so so important or else we are doomed to repeat the horrors of our history.' FREE PALESTINE! CEASEFIRE!

[@Tomorrowandtomorrowandtomorrow]

Rich Men North of Richmond is better than any of this garbage

[@spirits003]

Michael Arden. Yes. Yes. YES!

[@leatricejones3865]

So sorry i missed it. I saw Shucked and i knew that show stopper number would win.

[@barrywakeford1385]

I heard some GAY GUY won.

[@liberatedwoman]

A multi talented, multi racial musical rainbow brightening our day. Thank you for your exuberance, your talent, and your sacrifices. 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🥳🥳

[@2funny4u95]

yikes

[@ralphtom3431]

Wow have you read the racist Jewish talmud?

[@claracupcake2604]

@@2funny4u95 its giving racist, calm down

[@francesb2295]

Benning should never have been changed.

[@linland4309]

Kimberly Akimbo was great!

[@ernestined.lawrence9514]

Britain don’t Yelp!

[@joeboivin3897]

Where do we go from here after all nobody’s perfect

[@ChelCM03]

Fabulous show, non stop hype!!

[@LauraCavalcanti-v2l]

SO MUCH TALENT

[@barrywakeford1385]

So much ALPHABET Talent.

[@Alfredhyman19]

Jacky musical 🎼 🎶 👌 😍 ❤️ ♥️ ❤

[@4TwentyFour20]

lets try to check all the victim boxes

[@Andrina-fl9ef]

Seriously. 😂

[@deldridg]

Indeed. Victimhood is trumping merit these days.

[@4TwentyFour20]

@@deldridg its sad really

[@laerwen]

Who called themselves a victim here? Could you elaborate specifically?

[@4TwentyFour20]

@@laerwen victimhood boxes... the conditioning of thought to have to be gay, black, trans, pro this and that... mlk jr said judge by not victimhood but by content of ones self

[@liamd.7737]

Shouldn't the actors be supporting the writers and picketing along with the writers? This seems very strange that the actors go right on without showing any support or solidarity of writers.

[@aynber]

The strike is for tv and movies only. Broadway has its own guild that isn’t striking, but is supporting the WGA. However, because of the WGA strike, the Tonys needed special permission to air on TV, but that’s also why it wasn’t scripted like it normally is.

[@jitaru3707]

Also, if you watched the show, there was tons of support expressed for the writers in basically every speech

[@steveweinstein3222]

If you'd bothered to do your homework, you'd know the show worked out an agreement with the striking writers.

[@LubeeLu1]

Also the WGA decided not to picket the tonys. Plus the Tonys are a very big thing for acknowledging the hard work, creativity and time put into theatre

[@laerwen]

They did, which is why the hosts specifically promised the WGA they would not use new scripted material.

[@ModeSOLOgaming]

Just the out of touch rich awarding the rich.

[@mosesoftheblock2311]

If you think all stage artists are rich, you are living in a fantasy land. Many are in economically vulnerable positions between gigs. I am guessing you do not have much experience with theater. Perhaps a Michael Bay transformers movie is more your type of thing.

[@abigailrosen4293]

I think it was in bad taste for the previous commentor to try to shame OP for lack of knowledge. The truth is most stage performers on Broadway make about $2,000 a week. Off-Broadway can be much less. And of course shows can close at any time. Performers are constantly auditioning for their next job. It’s an incredibly physically and emotionally taxing lifestyle, the vast majority are not fairly compensated for the work they are doing or the level of their value. I recommend looking into the information put out by the WGA and SAG striking organizations. Artists give their minds and bodies to organizations who take most of the profits. The Tonys are a wonderful celebration of the power and beauty of the artists’s work.

[@franfrankie7]

99.9% of people who work in the theatre industry are nowhere near rich.

[@funguy170]

Like donald, elon, and Kanye.

[@kebabkebob7808]

@@mosesoftheblock2311 Stage preformers are some of the highest paid actors 🤣stop it. They/thems gender non conforming child groomers are not missing a meal.

[@sandiburgess5902]

too political - usually love the Tony's

[@gerrittlighthart]

Well, the Tony's certainly don't love you, do they. Must be tough being a bigoted waste of space who's finally noticing that the world doesn't revolve around her myopic view of the world.

[@danielle7663]

it’s the gayest industry in the us and you say it’s too political stfu

[@laerwen]

Art is politics, that's a fact.

[@paulrussell1207]

@@laerwen All art is political, not all political grandstanding is art.

[@claracupcake2604]

How is a non-white person winning an award and talking about it inherently political? If all the winners were white, would it be political anymore? Like cmon.

[@TheLastDonaldYouMcRonald]

Highlights from The Grooming Pedophile Awards 2023

[@RobinKirkland-xk3vu]

Pretty much

[@steveweinstein3222]

Are you talking about your outing to the local grade school football game?

[@BexiAF]

Cant even go to youtube to escape your hate.

[@laerwen]

Do you normally repeat memes from your local hate group rally in random places on the internet or do you think for yourself occasionally? Just wondering.

[@jochenstossberg5427]

Wouldn't it be great if we had a sensational musical with classic songs, wonderful dancing, a thirty piece orchestra, real sets instead of projections - and no agenda. And I don't mean New York, New York.

[@armaantoor6773]

Jewish sweatshop operator Leo Max Frank was executed by hanging for the crime of murdering a 13-year-old girl employee of his, Mary Phagan Some have called the hanging a lynching, but was it? It was not carried out by an undisciplined mob, but by a citizens’ militia, who, with military precision and commanded by eminent men, leaders of their community removed Frank from his cell and carried out the sentence of the court. These men were outraged that Frank’s sentence had been overturned by an outgoing governor not only in the pay of wealthy Jews but actually a partner in the law firm that defended Frank. The militia men did not believe in mob rule - far from it. But they felt they had no alternative but to take the decision to carry out the jury’s sentence out of the hands of a corrupt governor and into their own. Why? What made these men so certain of Frank’s guilt, when today all we hear from the Jew controlled media is that he was innocent,

[@lionmuesli4321]

please be antisemetic elsewhere

[@claracupcake2604]

Use these typing skills and apply for a job you NEET

[@walkerpaulp6526]

🙄🙄🙄🙄 black

[@gerrittlighthart]

🙄🙄🙄🙄 racist

[@taroman7100]

The Tony's do Out of Africa.

[@zeer09]

@@taroman7100 and you clearly do out of stupidville. just stop

[@scj3188]

You're RACIST BTW 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@BexiAF]

Imagine having your profile picture be the statue of the liberty and then making that comment.

[@allanmiller4972]

Victoria Clark, an icon of Broadway musical theater... MARGINIZED as a 16 yr. old in this diverse, inclusive WOKE piece of GARBAGE! She was UNforgettable & inspired as the mother in her richly deserved Best Actress in a Musical Tony win in the phenomenal, 'A Light in the Piazza'!!❤

[@teach4him841]

huh??.??

[@harryfranklin1263]

Marginized isn't a word, but whatever you think it means, I don't think it describes winning a second Tony for the one of the most critically acclaimed performances of the season

[@Katie21892]

That is a lot of rage, are you okay…?

[@laerwen]

Who hurt you, goodness gracious?