Hello, I love theater and do not always get to see everything nominated for a Tony for reasons that include, COVID, lack of infinite monies to travel to New York. So I have seen only one of these. And I'm still going to intentionally describe it badly. This tradition started as me attempting to describe these things in one sentence, and devolved from there.
To all the people who make theater, whether award nominated or not, I love you.
Plays -
English: English is hard.
The Hills of California: Fame doesn't make up for your mother dying.
John Proctor is the Villain: Teens push back against reading a play where the supposed good guy sucks.
Oh Mary: Being the spouse of the president is awful, it would be so much better to be a cabaret singer.
Purpose: Adult kid brings home friend to family house, hijinks ensue.
Musicals -
Buena Vista Social Club: Some music albums take forty years to make.
Dead Outlaw: What if you could make money by lying and showing off a dead guy?
Death Becomes Her: Sometimes you have to live forever to truly attempt to outdo your best frenemy.
Maybe Happy Ending: Two outdated robots discover they might have more to learn about the world. About love.
Operation Mincemeat: What if a dead person was the key to winning the war?
One could argue just about everything is about love and death, but there's a definite corpse theme going on in many of the musicals this year. Not a complaint, just an observation.