Tony awards 2022

Broadway's biggest night returned with starry tributes, teary speeches and one EGOT winner. Here are the 5 biggest moments you missed at the Tonys.

In her speech, a visibly emotional LuPone, 73, paid tribute to "all of the understudies across all of the stage in New York," as well as "all of the COVID safety people." ... I think that was an isolated event, and I love and trust all of my theatergoing fans just as much as I did before this." "Well, thank you and welcome to the Tony Awards," Fishburne replied, doing a pitch-perfect voice of the Looney Tunes character as his horrified daughter looked on. “Ma, I made it,” said the 22-year-old newcomer, who danced up to the stage and broke out singing Jackson 5’s “Blame It On the Boogie” midway through his speech. Michael has been one of the pioneers for that, if not the biggest pioneer.” He was also asked what he’d say to Jackson if he had the chance. Ferguson, who plays the gay business manager of a newly out baseball player in the show, recalled his early days working in a theater gift shop in Times Square while accepting the award. "The great thing about Patti is that you never know what's gonna happen. You taught and showed me what a strong Black woman is and what it means to raise a strong Black man. "I'll just say, you don't see that coming, do you?" A number of musicals delivered standout performances that are guaranteed to sell tickets: Joaquina Kalukango, a newly crowned Tony winner for best actress in a musical, blew the roof off Radio City with her ferociously emotional "Let It Burn" from "Paradise Square," which got an immediate standing ovation from the audience. "I need someone to do a post-show interview with (her)," @jessemermell added. Meanwhile, Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Strange Loop,” about a young Black gay playwright, picked up awards for best musical and best book.