Drama Desk Awards Reshape Tony Awards Race
The Drama Desk Awards have a significant impact on the Tony Awards predictions, particularly for musicals. Following its win for Outstanding Musical, 'Schmigadoon!' saw its odds for the Tony Award increase dramatically. Historically, the Drama Desk Awards have accurately predicted Tony winners, especially in the categories of musicals and play revivals.
- ▪'Schmigadoon!' won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, boosting its Tony Award odds from 67.6 percent to 81 percent.
- ▪The Drama Desk Awards have predicted 60 percent of Tony Award winners for Outstanding Musical over the past 25 years.
- ▪Approximately 73.9 percent of shows winning the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play also won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.
Forbes — Business files mainly under business. We currently carry 837 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Forbes — Business |
| Canonical URL | https://www.forbes.com/sites/marchershberg/2026/05/22/drama-desk-awards-reshape-tony-awards-race/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 22 May 2026 22:40:26 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-23T03:27:24.397Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-23T03:27:24.397Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | KMCDV3NlF-bH |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
BusinessHollywood & EntertainmentDrama Desk Awards Reshape Tony Awards RaceByMarc Hershberg,Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Hershberg is a journalist covering the business of Broadway.Follow AuthorMay 22, 2026, 10:40pm EDTMay 22, 2026, 10:41pm EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.The cast of "Schmigadoon!" holding hands at the Nederlander Theatre on April 20, 2026.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Forbes — Business.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Forbes — Business
