{"id":249479,"date":"2022-06-13T08:15:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=249479"},"modified":"2022-06-16T12:05:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T17:05:39","slug":"a-strange-loop-makes-history-at-tonys-company-wins-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=249479","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Strange Loop\u2019 Makes History at Tonys; \u2018Company\u2019 Wins 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 \u201cA Strange Loop,\u201d an irreverent, sexually frank work about Blackness and queerness took home the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on Sunday, as voters celebrated Broadway\u2019s most racially diverse season by choosing an envelope-pushing Black voice. Michael R. Jackson\u2019s 2020 Pulitzer Prize drama winner is a theater meta-journey and also won for best book. Many of the night\u2019s Tonys were spread over several productions. \u201cA Strange Loop\u201d beat \u201cMJ,\u201d a bio musical of the King of Pop\u2019s biggest hits for the top prize, although that Jackson musical nabbed four Tony Awards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 \u201cA Strange Loop,\u201d an irreverent, sexually frank work about Blackness and queerness took home the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on Sunday, as voters celebrated Broadway\u2019s most racially diverse season by choosing an envelope-pushing Black voice. Michael R. Jackson\u2019s 2020 Pulitzer Prize drama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":249480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-csicelebrations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249652,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249479\/revisions\/249652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/249480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}