.MJSchulman recaps a night at the scriptless TonyAwards.
Photograph by Michele Crowe / CBS / Getty“We don’t have a script, you guys,” Ariana DeBose announced on Sunday night, still sweaty and panting from her wordless opening number at the seventy-sixth annual Tony Awards. DeBose was hosting for the second time in a row, but the task that lay before her was novel: there were no pre-written zingers, no teleprompters.
The telecast’s existence was the result of an eleventh-hour show-must-go-on miracle. Broadway is struggling to regain its pre-pandemic attendance, and the Tonys are its most important marketing pitch to audiences around the world. But the ceremony is typically written by members of the Writers Guild of America, which is. Last month, the Tonys asked the guild for a waiver to broadcast on CBS, one of the companies being picketed.
And so DeBose opened the show in her dressing room, closing a binder of blank script pages. What would happen next? Were we ready for the unbridled buoyancy of her viral rap at the,” but without the eloquence of those words—or any others? As it turns out, the dance number that followed beautifully conveyed the evening’s limitations and its promise, as DeBose, without singing, glided through the theatre hallways, leaping into a dancer’s arms and boogying through the aisles.
The writing ban played out in less poetic ways during the evening. As you’d expect, there were winners who voiced solidarity in their speeches. Miriam Silverman, who won a featured-actress award, for “
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