It’s not so much the one that we want, but the one that we got saddled with. CBS announced Friday that a musical will, indeed, fill the June 7 time slot vacated by the 2020 Tony Awards this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
It just won’t be live — or new. Instead, the network will air a singalong version of the 1978 film “Grease,” starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John at 8:30 p.m.
ET. The Tonys, which honor the best of Broadway at Radio City Music Hall, remain indefinitely postponed. Since Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a ban on gatherings over 500 people on March 12, all Broadways shows have remained dark — the longest hiatus in the history of the Great White Way.