noted working-class rally point, the Tony Awards (aka Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre), held Sunday at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater in Manhattan.

this year, the Tony for Best New Play was awarded to "Stereophonic", a "staggeringly, ingeniously entertaining" (New York Times) achievement that the Chicago Tribune insists "tickets will be hard to get" that Variety calls "brave, breathtaking" and New York Magazine describes as "one of the most exhilarating moments I've had in a theater."

nothing says, "i am of the people" quite like wearing a golden robe that somehow probably cost more than 5 years of my grocery and utility bills and getting up on stage at the goddamn tony awards.