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Tony Awards committee gives media voters the hook

Linda Winer

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Winer is chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday,

Should you care that theater journalists have been disinvited as voters for the Tony Awards? Does it matter - to anything except media egos - that 100 critics and related theater press were sent an e-mail July 14 that said thanks, but no thanks to 40 years of collaboration in commercial theater's most influential awards?

In truth, I've never been altogether comfortable about having a vote...

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