The 78th Tony Awards returned to the Radio City Hall this year, with the hosting of Cenatia Evo. In some years, music was crowned with the best of this season, where almost all prizes are sweeping (Think Hamilton). This time did not happen, for a good reason – Broadway general had a banner, with a huge diversity of offers. There were a lot of narrow races (and a lot of sudden moments in the media room across the street, where I was stationed).

the favorite , Perhaps a happy endAsian musician for two single robots finding each other, winning prizes: six, including Best Musical.

veryWhich won the Politzer this year, the best game (one of the surprises-many theater monitors expect that it will go to the loud Queer farce Oh Mary). But the show won only one other prize, the best distinguished actress (Kara Young).

The rest of the prizes, however, were already spread through offers. Boina Vista Social Club He won four competitive prizes, in addition to a special award for musicians, while Sunset Street He won three, including the best revival actress and a pioneering actress in music. Strange things: the first shade She also won three competitive awards, all of which are technical, in addition to a special prize for delusions and artistic effects.

But this year, it was appropriate that there was no sweep. It was a very diverse season, and it deserves the diverse winners.

Here are the best fast food from the happy Tony Awards.

1. Sinatha Evo is funny. Producers used the livelihood of this year’s host (and her voice miracle) for a good effect. In one thing, she asked her friend Oprah Winfrey to look under her seat … where she found a red car. “You get a car!” Evo Crowe, to laugh the audience. The show ended with a microphone and sings, “and I tell you that I will not go” from Dreamgirls.

2. Celebrities are not everything, but they definitely help marketing. At the beginning of the season, there was a lot of talk about how the New York stages were flooded with celebrities, from Kit Connor to Denzel Washington to George Cloone succession.

Celebrities brought high ticket prices, but they also brought a kind of excitement that you can feel in the streets before and after shows. They have helped make Broadway feel culturally related again, with late night shows and podcasts. Many of them were presentors, which made the exhibition feel a little like the Oscars (Keanu Reeves, Samuel L. Jackson, Bryan Cranston and Ben Stilller among them).

But what they did not do is control the prizes. There are eight prizes on behalf and only three won by celebrities: Nicole Sherzinger won the best leading actress in the revival of Saleh Serious sunset., Beating Out Audra MCDONALD, Darren Criss Won Best Leading Actor in A Musical for Perhaps a happy endAnd Sarah Snook for the best leading actress in a play for Dorian Gray photo.

3. Hamilton He can still get standing applause. It has been 10 years since then Hamilton He appeared for the first time in Broadway, and to celebrate, the original actors’ team performed a “mixed tape”. There were no corsets on the horizon. Instead, they wore all the lions, highlighted some of the greatest songs of music, and they ended with Christopher Jackson as he sings “history has his eyes on you.”

4. The diversity was rewarded. Not only in the sense of Dei (although there are many prizes that went to actors and production, such as Boina Vista Social ClubSet in an ethnically specific environment), but also in the types of products that were offered this season. There was something for everyone: Strange things It depends on the Hit Fi-Fi series of Netflix; The mincemeat process He is a cheating music for the Second World War that originated in England. Out of the law Use Country Rock to tell a story about a body.

Repeated and over, people on the red carpet told me that this is the season of holding all kinds of people, and that they hope that they will see that new producers and the risks of the risks are viable funds – and they belong to Broadway.

5. Gavin Krill lacks severely. The Tony Prize -winning actor died in September at the age of 48 years of rare cancer. Erivo and Sara Bareilles sang a slow and beautiful version of “Tomorrow” from that I During the Memoriam clip to honor those on the councils and behind the scenes who died this season. The last image of Krill and after, Evo and Pyrils shared a long embrace.

The American theater suite is participating with a group of Kreil friends to build a 3 million dollar kiss to support young theater makers in his honor.

Edited by Ciera Crawford