“Put simply, the aesthetic glow of the Tonys doesn’t shine very far out and barely reaches markets where both audiences and producers are less likely to use awards as a tool in their theater-making and theatergoing decisions. You think the producers of the musical “Billy Elliot,” which has been selling $1 million worth of tickets a week at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre and playing to 90-plus percent of capacity, have been waiting for the blessings of the Antoinette Perry Awards before planning to take the show on the road?”