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The world premiere will take place at Second Stage Theater's Tony Kiser Theater.

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Two high profile shows from the pandemic-shortened season — "Freestyle Love Supreme" and "David Byrne's American Utopia" will also get special Tonys. They did not provide free tickets for Tony voters and weren't eligible for competitive awards. "Freestyle Love Supreme" was created by Miranda, Thomas Kail and Anthony Veneziale. It features a comedic improvisational musical structure and a rotating cast of Broadway performers. Byrne's acclaimed stage show incorporates Talking Heads classics and other songs; Spike Lee made a film of it for HBO. The American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League...

Frozen (Tour), and The Lion King (Broadway & Tour). These custom workshops are designed to address the ways that racial inequalities pervade the rehearsal rooms and performance spaces of the American Theatre. Many of these issues were identified during the Broadway for Black Lives Matter Again forum, which took place amid a summer of mass street protests for racial justice. BAC has created a process inspired by its Theater of Change course at Columbia Law School. The program leads companies through a process of understanding internal patterns of inequity, developing new ways of collaboratin...

Kinky Boots, and more, Richard has been making waves on Broadway for nearly a decade but 2020 saw Richard’s profile skyrocket, a feat given the COVID-19 theatre shutdown. But much of the newfound national attention was spurred by a viral twitter post on the heels of the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, a post in which Richard detailed his own experiences facing racism on Broadway. He was one of the first to speak out, a trailblazer that helped to ignite a reckoning in the theatre that was long overdue and surface unrest that was simmering below the surface.