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Tony awards 2019: nominations reveal snubbed stars and dark themes

With a refreshing embrace of both experimental plays and difficult themes, this year’s nominations offer up an interesting, hard-to-predict race

What does it say about Broadway that a play about a troubled belief in the American experiment was not nominated for a Tony award and a play about a pile of corpses with waggling genitalia was? Welcome to the nominations for the 73rd Tony awards, announced on Tuesday morning by Bebe Neuwirth, in a frilly blouse, and Brandon Victor Dixon, in a powder blue suit. Although many of the nominations went as expected, there were a few surprises – some of them very welcome.

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