Donald Byrd will have a say in the Tony Awards
From the Dept. of Broadway News: Choreographer Donald Byrd, who helms Seattle's Spectrum Dance Theatre, has been named to the Tony Awards Nominating Committee for the 2012-13 Broadway season. Byrd knows his away around Broadway -- he was artistic director of Donald Byrd/The Group, based in New York from 1983-2002, and choreographer for theTony-nominated show "The Color Purple." As a committee member, he'll have to a…