Angelina Jolie would possibly get the award for a lot of enthusiastic viewers member. The A-list star was seated inside the entrance row on the Tony Awards and jumped to her toes at every win for “The Outsiders,” a gritty adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s coming-of-age novel that she produced and acquired to see topped as a result of the season’s biggest musical. And she or he saved up that energy when cameras weren’t rolling, exchanging pleasantries with Billy Porter and posing for footage with Idina Menzel all through enterprise breaks.

Totally different attendees at New York Metropolis’s David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Coronary heart, the place this 12 months’s ceremony occurred, had been wanting to revenue from the transient, untelevised moments in between awards. Ben Platt chatted with Nick Jonas, Brooke Shields (clad in yellow crocs) caught up with Cynthia Erivo, and Jennifer Huson shmoozed with Danai Gurira.

Viewers at home witnessed the heartfelt speeches, standing ovation for shock presenter Hillary Clinton, and rollicking musical performances (certain, it really rained in the middle of the rumble in “The Outsiders,” prompting the stage crew to quickly mop the bottom in the middle of the next enterprise break). Nevertheless there’s heaps that didn’t make the printed.

Proper right here’s what you didn’t see on TV on the 2024 Tony Awards, the place the play “Stereophonic” was most likely essentially the most embellished current, “Merrily We Roll Alongside” cemented its triumphant comeback, and Daniel Radcliffe, the boy who lived, lastly turned a Tony winner for his fifth time on Broadway.

“Empire State of Ideas” launched down the house, although Jay-Z wasn’t inside the room

In most likely essentially the most electrical second of the night time time, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys carried out “Empire State of Ideas” as part of a “Hell’s Kitchen” medley. Moreover that viewers members didn’t actually see Jay-Z rap specifically particular person. Whereas Keys was wheeled out by the use of piano to kick off the rousing amount, instantly bringing the whole room to its toes, the stage apparently couldn’t embrace the whole agency of “Hell’s Kitchen” and two megawatt musicians. So Jay-Z and Keys dueted the last word verses from the lobby of the David H. Koch Theater, which was projected on the show display screen behind the musical’s dancers. Concrete jungle the place needs are (sorta) manufactured from?

Considerably profanity under no circumstances killed no particular person

Don’t actually really feel harmful whenever you missed the first and solely bleep of the night time time. In the end, it occurred all through “Act One” of the ceremony, which aired on the streaming platform Pluto TV. (The precept event was broadcast on CBS.) The perpetrator was Cody Spencer of “The Outsiders,” who tearfully accepted the award for musical sound design… and forgot he was on keep TV. “I can’t take into account I’m crying in entrance of so many fucking people I do know,” he acknowledged whereas accepting the trophy. He realized immediately that he’d be censored, so he charmingly added an “– Oop.” Nevertheless by then, Pluto TV had already scale back the rest of his speech.

Resolve a theater, already!

There are inevitable rising pains that embrace 4 location modifications in 4 years. Positive, the Tony Awards have traversed the city since 2019, along with stops at United Palace in Washington Heights, Broadway’s Winter Yard Theatre and Radio Metropolis Music Hall. This venue, nonetheless, was nowhere near giant sufficient to accommodate Broadway’s largest night time time. It had 2,500 seats (not all of which had been occupied) — a fraction of the 6,000-person functionality prohibit at Radio Metropolis Music Hall. In consequence, plenty of Hollywood stars who weren’t on Broadway this season, nonetheless nonetheless wanted to attend the ceremony had been turned away. And people who had been granted tickets didn’t have the best view. It was so cramped that Anna Wintour had crummy seats behind the orchestra whereas “An Enemy of the People” star Jeremy Sturdy’s dad and mother watched from the nosebleeds. Even Erivo, Jolie and Sarah Paulson, all of whom had been seated inside the entrance row, couldn’t see the stage at cases on account of the digicam operators had been blocking their sightline. Ushers appeared careworn, too, yelling at people to “put away your phone!” all through speeches and performances. Nevertheless we guess that’s showbiz, little one?

Ariana DeBose entertains the room all through enterprise breaks

Third-time host Ariana DeBose was M.I.A. all through a variety of the enterprise breaks (most definitely busy with plenty of outfit modifications and last-minute dance rehearsals). Nevertheless she popped out spherical hour two to greet the gang. “I merely received right here out to see the best way you’re doing. You appeared quiet,” she acknowledged sooner than lamenting that she had an extreme period of time to kill. “These enterprise breaks are so prolonged! Are we even shut?” All people laughed and cheered as a result of the announcer promised there have been solely 30 seconds until the current would return. Nonetheless, that appeared eternal for DeBose, who bent down and put her palms on her knees to run out the clock. Nevertheless ever the expert, she immediately sprung into movement to welcome once more the viewers at home to the telecast.