The Tony Awards broadcast continued a long-standing protocol this year. Namely that numerous awards were given prior to the CBS broadcast, with clips shown after breaks - you know, when everyone in your viewing party is rushing back from the bathroom or filling their libations. Many people on Twitter, for instance, were surprised and unhappy that James Earl Jones' acceptance speech for a Lifetime Achievement Award was not aired.
Among these honorees are the designers, people without whom the worlds of each production, we can all agree, would not exist.
