A Strange Loop led the list with 11 nominations in all. One nod was for Best Musical which also has in the category Girl From the North Country, MJ, Mr. Saturday Night, Paradise Square and Six.
The visceral intensity of all the performances in this new musical set in the titular bar in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan during the New York draft riots of 1863 surely is indicative not just of the long, hard slog to beat back COVID-19 and wrestle an original musical to Broadway.
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