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On Sunday, Cynthia Erivo will host the Tony Awards for the 2024–25 season. This year, the musicals Buena Vista Social Club , Death Becomes Her , and Maybe Happy Ending are among the most nominated — each received ten nods. But the Tonys can tell you only so much about what happened onstage this year, and luckily for us, our critics and writers have a sharp eye for other things worth celebrating. Critic Jackson McHenry and writers Rebecca Alter and Jason P. Frank came together to appraise the season in a way that only they could:

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