Tony Awards Shocker: Did An Off-Stage Dispute Make Scorching ‘1984’ Ineligible For Prizes?

Tony Awards Shocker: Did An Off-Stage Dispute Make Scorching ‘1984’ Ineligible For Prizes?
The first show of the 2017-2018 Broadway season has also sparked the first Tony head-scratcher of the season, seven months before the CBS telecast of the awards. On Thursday, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced its first rulings on eligibility for the prized awards and said that 1984 , the adaptation of George Orwell’s novel that had some theatergoers fainting during its depiction of torture, would not be eligible for nominations in any category. That means…

November 10, 2017 at 08:56AM