This is the start of a 68 day countdown to the 68th Tony Awards (held on 6/8) by exploring Little Rock connections with these Broadway awards.

Will Trice and one of his Tony Awards – photo by John Sykes Jr.

Up first – Will Trice

Little Rock connection – Little Rock native; graduate of Central High School

Tony Awards connection – Tony winning producer of revivals of Porgy and Bess and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Tony nominee for revival of The Best Man.

On Broadway this season as one of producers of the plays All the Way and The Realistic Joneses, the musical The Bridges of Madison County, and the revivals The Glass Menagerie and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.