The Writers Guild of America announced Monday that it would not picket Broadway’s annual prizes, scheduled for June 11, thereby allowing the event to proceed — albeit in altered form.
, which members of the creative community would be unlikely to cross. CBS is part of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the group against which the WGA is striking.
“Responsibility for having to make changes to the format of the 2023 Tony Awards rests squarely on the shoulders of Paramount/CBS and their allies,” the union said in its statement Monday. “They continue to refuse to negotiate a fair contract for the writers represented by the WGA. As they have stood by us, we stand with our fellow workers on Broadway who are impacted by our strike.”
The 76th Tony Awards is the first major awards show to be affected by the writers’ strike. Although the Broadway fete is less a ratings boon than a prestigious event for CBS — last year’s event, the ceremony’s second-lowest viewership recorded — the show is important to Broadway producers, who rely on the exposure on the national network to market their productions.
Past irregular versions of the Tonys have not gone over well with viewers. The very delayed 2021 ceremony, which was split up into an awards show and concert across CBS and Paramount,
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