Jennifer Holliday! Photo: Getty Images for Tony Awards Pro Broadway’s back, as was literally emblazoned above the stage during the CBS broadcast of the Tonys on Sunday, and it’s as messy as ever.
LOW: Lauren Patten’s win for Jagged Little Pill in the midst of the production’s apologies for its handling of that role. In the musical, Patten plays Jo, a character who was depicted as nonbinary during Boston previews but whose gender became ambiguous on Broadway, a decision that been the subject of controversy, and led the production to apologize, as its trans cast members have called it out.
EXTREME HIGH: Jennifer Holliday doing “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going.” Holy moly. Reprising her 1982 Tony performance, making every single one of our hairs stand up and pay attention, Holliday delivered an entire show’s worth of emotion, complete with a man prop who came out from the wings just to be sung at .
LOW: The clumsy 12-minute break between the Paramount+ telecast and the “Broadway’s Back!” CBS one. Maybe because the British people who won awards for A Christmas Carol didn’t give acceptance speeches, the awards-giving half of the show zipped by and ended well ahead of schedule, producing an accidental intermission. You’d think with a room full of supreme performers, the producers could’ve just had a few people come up and sing together for a few minutes to kill time.
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