The Tony Awards had a choice regarding two pandemic-truncated Broadway seasons. The Broadway League could have waited and combined the 2019-20 season with the current one, and turned the ceremony into an extravaganza of talent in June 2022.

But the Tonys opted for the alternative, announcing the nominees on October 15, 2020 and now presenting a rather anemic lineup of potential winners nearly a year later in a truncated ceremony from the Winter Garden Theatre to air on CBS on Sunday, September 26.