WGA Agrees Not To Picket Tony Awards, Allowing Altered Ceremony To Proceed

The Writers Guild of America declined to grant the Tony Awards an exemption from the ongoing writers strike, threatening the broadcast of the ceremony.
The Tony Awards committee appealed to the WGA again to request they not picket the awards show so that it could still air with changes.
The Tony Awards committee announced the awards would proceed in an altered form after agreeing to unspecified WGA requests.
The changes to the format of the Tonys were a result of CBS and Paramount's refusal to negotiate with the WGA during the strike.
The Tony Awards will air June 11 with musical numbers and awards presentations but no scripted content.