What's going on on Broadway these days with Tony nominations out.

A lot of the shows that were nominated,

Glenn, they aren't doing so well at the box office.

So it's a complicated picture on Broadway these days to sort it out for us.

We bring in our pal, Jed Bernstein.

He served as the president of the Broadway League from 1995 to 2006.

He's a Broadway producer himself, and he's the producing director at Theater

Aspen in Colorado. Good morning, Chad. How are you? Good morning, Michael. How are you doing?

Well, my question for you is, we've got this writer's strike going on. Does that mean that the

Tony Awards are in jeopardy? I mean, you've got to have someone to write it. If you can't write it,

what are you going to do? Well, I have to say, you've got to have someone to write it. If you can't write it, what are you going to do?

Well, I have to say, I was trying to remember back to the last writer's strike, which was about 15 years ago and occurred around this time. And one of the things that happened was that the

late night shows and some of the variety shows kind of made separate agreements with the union

which allowed them to go forward so i think it's it's too early to know what the real impact on

the tony's is going to be it's only you know day two of this uh work stop but so um you know we'll see what

happens i uh it would be a shame because it is, you know, Broadway's one night a year on national television,

and it's very important to the shows involved.

So could you get some of the Broadway people to kind of jump in and write?

Because I don't think the Broadway people aren't strike. Could they kind of jump in there and write because I don't think the Broadway people aren't

right. Could they kind of jump in there?

No, I think that it isn't about who can write it because, you know, there are producers

of the show who could probably write it and Broadway people. But the question is, would,

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