Tony Awards 2022: The 9 Biggest Surprises and Snubs (Photos)

If you were hoping for a redux of a certain chaotic, feel-bad awards ceremony that took place in March on broadcast television, the Tony Awards proved very much the opposite. Instead of flying fists, you got whirling jazz hands, grateful tears and a show-stopping (and newly minted Oscar winner) Ariana DeBose, kicking off the CBS telecast — quite literally — with a snazzy opening number which blended the lyrics and scores of two random musicals at a time all while wearing a white-hot Michael Jackson-inspired sequined suit.

It was otherwise a fairly by-the-numbers ceremony with some notable firsts (first-ever non-binary winner Toby Marlow, who co-won the Best Score Tony for “Six”, Jennifer Hudson became an EGOT winner at long last, as producer of Best Musical winner “A Strange Loop”) but not too many jaw-dropping shockers. Here are some of the surprises and snubs of the 2022 Tony Awards ceremony.