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The Tonys are giving out awards for Broadway shows we’ve already seen

Nypost · · 533 words · By Cindy Adams
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12 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Up for three awards since we barked at its original movie in 1975, “Dog Day Afternoon.””
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The American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards site and BroadwayStars both confirm 'Dog Day Afternoon' is a Broadway production and mentioned in the context of Tony Award eligibility and nominations.
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web search NEUTRAL — Dog Day Afternoon is a 1975 American biographical crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand. The film stars Al Pacino, John Cazale, James Broderick and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Day_Afternoon
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web search NEUTRAL — 2026 tony award® nominations announced. The tony awards and audience rewards announce the return of the official ‘Tony awards challenge’ beginning tuesday, may 5.Dog Day Afternoon.
https://www.tonyawards.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Tony Awards Administration Committee Determines Eligibility for Giant, Every Brilliant Thing & Dog Day Afternoon by Sophia Rubino. The Tony Awards Administration Committee has determined the eligibil…
https://broadwaystars.com/search/?q="Dog+Day+Afternoon"
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“Up for five awards... a 1920s Noël Coward thing”
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Two independent web sources confirm that 'Fallen Angels,' a 1925 farce by Noël Coward, is nominated for five Tony Awards.
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web search NEUTRAL — Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time called "a sense of personal st…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noël_Coward
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web search NEUTRAL — The actresses both scored Tony nominations for their hilarious turns in Noël Coward’s 1925 farce.Here comes a golden opportunity to experience Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara live — in performances for wh…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/theater/suffs-othello-the…
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web search NEUTRAL — Directed by Scott Ellis, the play (nominated for five Tonys, including Best Revival), stars Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara, both of Tony-nominated.
https://deadline.com/2026/05/broadway-fallen-angels-livestre…
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““Titanique”? St. James Theatre. Four nominations. Stars the great Marla Mindelle”
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Wikipedia and Broadway.com confirm 'Titanique' is a musical starring Marla Mindelle and is playing at the St. James Theatre.
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web search NEUTRAL — Titanique is a jukebox musical featuring music of Celine Dion, with a book by Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle, Constantine Rousouli, and music supervision, arrangements, and orchestration by Nicholas James C…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanique
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web search NEUTRAL — ‘Titanique’ Star Marla Mindelle on the Show’s Improbable Voyage to Broadway. 13 hours ago.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — St. James Theatre. Entrance.Marla Mindelle most recently co-wrote and starred in the Lortel winning Off-Broadway musical The Big Gay Jamboree. She won the 2023 Lucille Lortel and Obie award for Best P…
https://www.broadway.com/shows/titanique/
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“1913 vaudeville crashed into our lives with Sophie Tucker, Sarah Bernhardt, Lillian Russell, Eva Tanguay, Harry Houdini.”
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The search results provided for Sophie Tucker were irrelevant (referring to a modern music producer and other individuals), and no evidence was found regarding the specific group of performers in vaudeville in 1913.
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web search NEUTRAL — 9M Followers, 490 Following, 231 Posts - Sophie Rain (@sophieraiin) on Instagram: ""
https://www.instagram.com/sophieraiin/
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web search NEUTRAL — Sophie Xeon (/ ˈziːɒn / ZEE-on; 17 September 1986 – 30 January 2021), known mononymously as Sophie (stylized in all caps), was a British music producer, songwriter, and DJ. Her distinctive musical sty…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_(musician)
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web search NEUTRAL — Watch all 123 leaked porn videos and OnlyFans clips from Sophie Rain. See Sophie Rain's latest HD content, including videos in the categories.
https://viralxxxporn.com/models/sophie-rain/
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“Twenty minutes later came John Barrymore whose relative Drew still pirouettes on what once was TV.”
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Wikipedia and Medium explicitly state that Drew Barrymore is the granddaughter of John Barrymore.
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web search NEUTRAL — Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975)[1] is an American actress, producer, talk show host, and businesswoman. A member of the Barrymore family of actors, she has received multiple awards and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Barrymore
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web search NEUTRAL — The Barrymore family, and the related Drew family, form a British–American acting dynasty that traces its acting roots to the mid-19th-century London stage.John Drew Miglietta (born 1946). John Barrym…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrymore_family
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web search NEUTRAL — So, How Are Drew Barrymore and Lionel Barrymore Related? To answer that question, we need to zoom in on the Barrymore family tree. Drew Barrymore is the granddaughter of John Barrymore, making her the…
https://medium.com/@malokaadvocate/how-drew-barrymore-is-rel…
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“Also we got Katharine Cornell.”
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Wikipedia confirms Katharine Cornell was a leading American stage actress and producer in the early to mid-20th century.
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web search NEUTRAL — Katharine Cornell was a German-born American stage actress, writer, theater owner and producer. She was born in Berlin to American parents and raised in Buffalo, New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Cornell
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web search NEUTRAL — Katharine Cornell was a leading lady in American theater; eventually she led the charge for New York’s American Theatre Wing to perform Broadway shows for troops stationed in Italy during World War II…
https://www.marinersmuseum.org/2023/03/katharine-cornell-a-l…
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web search NEUTRAL — In 1931, Cornell and her husband founded the Cornell-McClintic Corporation and began producing plays. Their first venture, Rudolph Besier’s The Barretts of Wimpole Street, was a phenomenal success.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100615123724/http://beinecke.l…
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“Comes modern days. “Guys and Dolls,” “The King And I,” “The Seven Year Itch,” Helen Hayes, Katharine Hepburn”
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While Wikipedia confirms 'The Seven Year Itch' is a play/film, the provided evidence does not explicitly link Helen Hayes and Katharine Hepburn to these specific productions in a way that corroborates the claim's grouping.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, who co-wrote the screenplay with George Axelrod. Based on Axelrod's 1952 play, the film stars Marilyn Monroe and T…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Year_Itch
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web search NEUTRAL — The most comprehensive source for Broadway Shows, Broadway Tickets, Off-Broadway, London theater information, Tickets, Gift Certificates, Videos, News & Features, Reviews, Photos.
https://www.broadway.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — The seven-year itch tends to worsen in silence. One or both partners notices the distance, the dissatisfaction, or the restlessness, and says nothing — either to avoid conflict, to protect the other p…
https://soulmatcher.app/cs/blog/the-seven-year-itch-why-it-h…
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“Also Rex Harrison, another rererevival of “Pal Joey.””
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Wikipedia confirms 'Pal Joey' is a musical and Rex Harrison is a known actor, but the provided search results do not explicitly confirm Rex Harrison's appearance in a 'rererevival' of the show.
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web search NEUTRAL — Pal Joey is a 1940 musical with a book by John O'Hara and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The musical is based on a character and situations O'Hara created in a series of short st…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pal_Joey_(musical)
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web search NEUTRAL — Rex Harrison was born Reginald Carey Harrison in Huyton, Lancashire, England, to Edith Mary (Carey) and William Reginald Harrison, a cotton broker. He changed his name to Rex as a young boy, knowing i…
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001322/
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web search NEUTRAL — When the musical "Pal Joey" opened on Broadway in 1940, it both thrilled and confused audiences. It's a Rodgers and Hart musical with a script by John O'Hara.And a revival of "Pal Joey" opens on Broad…
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/98403006
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“A rereresurrection of “Candida” flopped.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a revival of 'Candida'.
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“But we got “South Pacific.””
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No evidence was provided in the search results for 'South Pacific'.
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“Conan O’Brien who honed his theatrics at the Harvard Lampoon — class of ’85”
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“His literary thesis was on early senility.”
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