Tony Moments: A Night For Broadway To Reclaim Its Groove

Ariana DeBose hosted the 75th annual Tony Awards, which celebrated the work of a diverse group of artists.

Surely many in the audience were thinking it, but "Company" director Marianne Elliott said it most directly at Sunday's Tony awards: In the devastating two years since the pandemic hit, it "felt at times that live theater was endangered."

As in, the industry might never recover.

The exuberant ceremony Sunday night was designed to answer that unthinkable possibility with an emphatic "No" — to make clear that whatever the ongoing difficulties, Broadway is back, with verve and creativity, and it is here to stay. It just needs even more people filling the seats.