A Tony Field That Actually Means Something

Where are this year’s outrages among the Tony nominations? Usually there’s at least something the nominators did that offends. “For the most part, however, the nominating committee has sorted heroically through the season’s extremely peculiar mixture of shows. The awards, to be dispensed June 8 on CBS, are not likely to be placed in unworthy hands. What hurts my head this year more than ever is the necessity of having to choose at all.”