The award present's producers revealed the brand new process — which clarifies how they'd deal with a person "within the occasion of an incident" — in a letter to ticket patrons Wednesday.
The Tony Awards have launched a brand new coverage on the way it will deal with potential violence throughout the stay present weeks after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on the Oscars.
Within the FAQ portion of a letter obtained by The Hollywood Reporter and despatched by Tony Awards Productions to doable ticket patrons for the seventy fifth annual present, producers revealed how they plan to deal with a person within the occasion they're the “perpetrator” in a violent incident throughout the ceremony.
“The Tony Awards has a strict no violence coverage,” the letter reads. “Within the occasion of an incident, the perpetrator shall be faraway from the occasion instantly.”
The present’s new protocol was included amongst a number of different normal insurance policies addressing a variety of ceremony and gala-related subjects, together with costume code, seating and vaccination necessities for the New York occasion. No further remark past the coverage was given within the letter.
The brand new present process comes weeks after Smith slapped Rock on the 2022 Oscars, leading to the very best actor winner — who resigned from the Academy following the incident — being banned from the present and different Academy-related occasions for a decade.
The Tonys are the primary recognized main award present to publicly institute a brand new no-violence coverage following the Oscars, which happened March 27.
The 2022 Tony Awards will happen Sunday, June 12, at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor and can air stay on CBS and Paramount+. The entire checklist of nominees for the seventy fifth annual ceremony shall be introduced Might 3. A restricted variety of tickets to the present shall be made obtainable on the identical date.