Tony Showdown Throws Spotlight On An Old Argument

“The coming showdown between [Broadway revivals of] Gypsy and South Pacific is going to rip open a long-simmering dispute between commercial producers and nonprofit theater companies. The commercial producers, who take big risks with their investors’ money, bitterly resent competing for Tonys against subsidized theaters. Some producers privately say they’d like to ban the nonprofits from the Tony Awards.”