Executive Director's Note: Vanishing Point
By Brad Erickson Back in June, a hullaballoo broke out in much of the nation's theatre community when the organizers of the Tony Awards announced they would be dropping two citations from their award roster. Nods for sound design, in plays and musicals, were to be eliminated. As an explanation, the Tony Awards Administrative Committee asserted that few of the 800 Tony voters felt competent to evaluate the work, an…