The Tony Awards

because I don't see any other option because how are they going to explain why Rachel, who at this point is a 40-year-old woman, returning to her old high school? But they

shot themselves in the moot a bit because the last episode of Glee, they left off with her winning a fucking Tony Award.

Yeah.

So they're going to have

So Dear Evan Hansen is happening at the PAC, the Garrett PAC, November 13th through the 15th.

And the show centers around, it's a Tony Award winning musical that won the Tony, I believe, in 2017 and 18.

A really powerful moving story that really kind of focuses on the question of belonging and how do we belong and the mental health epidemic that teens and adults are facing.

And that was made in 2017.

It started in 1964 as a Broadway musical.

It won nine Tony Awards and was at one time one of the longest running musicals in Broadway history.

But this version brings it to life with Australian accents.

They're all, I mean, it's set, I mean, most people know the story of Fiddleroof.

It's also the home of Broadway, that great American institution that bores us one night a year with that bi-curious minstrel show of self-congratulations,

the Tony Awards.

And I'll tell you what, I've been missing Sue's monologues and I'm glad we're bringing them back because it's one of the highlights of these episodes.

So Will is like, fine, you can come, but you need to attend opening night with me and you need to pay me back for my ticket.

He wrote the play An Act of God, many, many things.

He co-wrote several Tony Awards openings and the musical Cry Baby.

And so we were all a little intimidated, but he was so willing to kind of give us great feedback.

And if we had thoughts, he was so willing to incorporate those thoughts.

are going directly with the streaming platform.

But the Tony Awards has signed a new deal to stay on CBS through 2032.

The 80th ceremony, by the way, is going to be airing live on CBS.

It'll stream on Paramount Plus as well on Sunday, June 13th.

is back in the New York groove, at least according to Batoni's host Ariana DeBose, and an exuberant ceremony seeking to illustrate just that sentiment.

Came the same night as a strange loop in irreverent, sexually frank work about blackness and queerness took home the Best New Musical award at the Tony Awards.

Roddy Rich was supposed to perform at the Governor's Ball Music Festival at Citi Field over the weekend when police say that a private security firm operating a checkpoint noticed a firearm in the vehicle he was riding in, and then he was

arrested on

We'll have the latest details tomorrow, of course, in this ongoing Russian war in Ukraine.

Our top local story today is that, at least according to the host, Ariana DeBose, Broadway, and at least New York City, it's gotten its groove back.

Because the Tony Awards were last night, and the Tonys this year were an exuberant ceremony.

They were seeking to illustrate just that sentiment.

yep

straight away it's going to be completely different to any any other type of musical and um robert lopez the man who wrote the music he's a pretty genius writer he's the only person in history to have won two EGOTs, which means, you know, he's won Emmys, Grammys, Oscars and Tonys for his music.

And so he's, you know, paired up with these guys and written a pretty special musical and the role I get to play in this is pretty great.

So, yeah, very, very lucky with what I've been able to do.