Broadway on Sunday finally honored its best and brightest at the Tony Awards, more than a year late due to the coronavirus pandemic, with jukebox musical Moulin Rouge! sweeping the competition with 10 trophies.
The event took on a new look this year: most of the awards were handed out in a two-hour ceremony livestreamed before the main event — a concert celebrating the return of live theater in New York after an 18-month hiatus.
“Everyone here is vaxxed and tested, and everyone is wearing a mask — every Broadway theater is going to look like this for a while and that’s ok,” host Leslie Odom, Jr. said at the start of the concert gala at the Winter Garden Theatre.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical — a stage adaptation of the popular 2001 Baz Luhrmann film of the same name about the famed Paris nightclub — won for best musical, best actor and best actor in a featured role, as well as a host of technical honors.
