What a year for theater. Broadway boasted record profits, because a bunch of celebrities crashed the party and demanded multi-hundred-dollar ticket prices. At the same time, the season was full of underdog success stories (alt comedy darling Cole Escola’s Oh, Mary! becoming an unparalleled talk of the town ), comeback stories (both textual and metatextual in the case of Sunset Blvd . ), and innovative Broadway firsts (everyone’s favorite new show of the season, Maybe Happy Ending, is the first show ever to debut in Asia before opening on Broadway. Also: so much live camerawork!). And then, like a rousing 11 o’clock number in the awards race, wild interpersonal diva drama! All of this paved the way to the Tony Awards , where Cynthia Erivo steered the ship through an ente

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