The 65th Annual Tony Awards have booked the Beacon Theater — a beautiful, acoustically flawless venue on Manhattan's Upper West Side — for next year's June 12 ceremony, CBS announced Wednesday.
The hall has hosted the Rolling Stones, Dalai Lama, and a famed annual residency by the Allman Brothers. All that's missing are seats: Its capacity of about 2,800 is half that of Radio City Music Hall, the Tonys' longtime home.
One solution: This year, just honor a lot of two-person plays.
The reason for the move is a booking at Radio City Music Hall by Cirque du Soleil. The all-human circus is becoming a live-event spoiler in New York: Another Cirque du Soleil production bumped the Allmans from their annual residency at the Beacon last year.
The three-hour ceremony will air on CBS at 8 p.m.