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My Favorite Tony Awards

Part of loving Broadway is loving bad taste, loving tacky things. There are many intelligent and well-crafted moments in the history of the Tony Awards: Patti LuPone as Rose, in "Gypsy," Sutton Foster bringing down the Act One curtain in "Anything Goes," the little Bechdel from "Fun Home," doing "Ring of Keys." My all-time favorite Tony moment is not intelligent or tasteful. It is tacky, and it's devastating. I don't know the plot of "Side Show"; I've never seen "Side Show." Apparently, at the end of Act Two, two conjoined twins "lose their men." They feel frightened. They comfort each other: "I will never leave you." Yes, the (adult) conjoined twins somberly remind each other: "I will never leave you." This is problematic for any number of reasons, but I can't, can't, can't stop watching Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley. I admire their commitment; both s...