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13.6.07
Tony
The 61st Tony Awards (which are going head-to-head with the juggernaut discussed above) has inspired all kinds of handicapping by the nation's theater critics. (For the list of nominees, click here.) The New York Times' Campbell Robertson guesses that "[t]he night will probably end with the stage swarmed like a Cecil B. DeMille set with the legions of 'Spring Awakening' producers; 'Grey Gardens' is likely to pick up two performance awards, for leading and featured actress in a musical; Frank Langella of 'Frost/Nixon' needs to have a speech ready." Meanwhile, a blogger on the Huffington Post bemoans the awards broadcast's tedium of late: "The people producing the Tony Awards show have forgotten that it's the Tony Awards SHOW. And show business is not only a business, it's also a show. And the Tony Awards have ceased to be this."—
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