The list of 2022 Tony Awards nominees — announced early Monday morning — is a picture of pandemic theater.

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Following a truly unique season on the Great White Way, Tonys voters largely shirked spring celebrity this year

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including acting nods for Plaza Suite‘s Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick,

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Macbeth’s Daniel Craig and Funny Girl‘s Beanie Feldstein

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in favor of honoring many of the season’s fall and early winter shows,

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which took the plunge and reopened New York’s theater district after COVID-19 shut it down for nearly two years.

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The 2022 nominees landscape includes early openers like Ruben Santiago

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Hudson’s one-man show Lackawanna Blues and the rock concert-esque retelling of the lives of Henry VIII’s wives SIX:

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The Musical — runs that not only beat back big-named competition and pandemic

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weary audiences on their way to earning nominations but navigated the season’s strictest version

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