Pink hosts a lackluster Tony Awards to end a truly rough Broadway season

“Schmigadoon” was all schmiles Sunday night.The Lorne Michaels-produced show, based on the canceled AppleTV+ series, won the all-important Tony Award for Best Musical at Radio City Music Hall.It badly needed it.Like most new musicals during this rough season, the comedy about a married couple who gets trapped inside an old-fashioned musical has had soft ticket sales in recent weeks.

The top prize at the Tonys — the only one that really drives box office — should give it a helpful boost as summer begins.I can’t say the same of the cast’s groaner of a performance of its sluggish and cutesy title song.The victor came off dusty and boring — and it is! — and not funny or particularly new.

And it’s not!  The big-budget rock spectacle “The Lost Boys” had more gusto, but the production was unable to showcase its greatest asset: The jaw-dropping aerial stunts.A producer told me they didn’t want to risk the audience at home seeing wires attached to actors. The pricey loser will now have its work cut out for it to wind up a financial success.

It’ll need to run for years. The best song-and-dance of the night came from the fabulous Best Musical Revival nominee “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” which takes Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1980s felines and turns them into modern-day New Yorkers having a hugely fun ballroom competition in Harlem.Yet it’s hard to say how many lives the kitties have left in ’em after Sunday’s crushing loss.The winner of that category — a crime, by the way — “Ragtime,” did an uninspired and snoozy rendition of their loud-and-long opener.

That revival also rightly took home Best Actor and Actress in a Musical for the wonderful Joshua Henry and Caissie Levy.Luke Evans from “The Rocky Horror Show” rocked the house with “Sweet Transvestite” and then the full cast did a high-spirited “Time Warp” that should put some laced-tights butts in seats.The little guys, “Titanique” and “Two Stran...