The first show of the 2017-2018 Broadway season has also sparked the first Tony head-scratcher of the season, seven months before the CBS telecast of the awards. On Thursday, the Tony Awards Administration Committee announced its first rulings on eligibility for the prized awards and said that 1984, the adaptation of George Orwell’s novel that had some theatergoers fainting during its depiction of torture, woul…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:52AM on November 10, 2017