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A play that closed in February won the Pulitzer on Monday and four Tony nominations on Tuesday — the prize cycle now arrives after the box-office cycle has already ended.
Drake's first solo album in 928 days arrives in nine days, routed through Twitch streamers and a melting block of ice instead of any press desk.
The 79th Festival de Cannes opens May 12 with Pierre Salvadori's 1928-set burlesque and Park Chan-wook chairing the jury — a quietly editorial choice in a year of Hollywood retrenchment.
Han Kang closes Pulitzer week as fiction finalist without the prize — and We Do Not Part keeps the back-catalog bump that translated fiction usually never sees.
Vienna sits T-10 to the May 16 Grand Final — Austria closes in slot 25, the host position drawn at random and producer-locked.
T-10 to Amsterdam — and the under-reported piece is the Live Trust £1-per-ticket levy that lands on the eight-night Wembley run.
Drop Dead holds Hot 100 with a six-version single strategy — the album rollout for You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love locks for June 12.
Liberation drew five Tony nominations Tuesday — including Best Play — for a production that closed February 1, the prize cycle now decoupled from the run.