 NEW YORK AP - Broadways coronavirus-shortened season is getting an awards process that reflects this tumultuous year - incomplete, seemingly unfair and filled with loss. Nominations for Tony Awards will be announced Thursday with just 18 eligible plays and musicals making the cut, a fraction of the 34 shows the season before. One category - best musical revival - has no eligible shows at all. Nominations will have to come from 10 new plays, four new musicals and four play revivals. Two high profile shows - Freestyle Love Supreme and David Byrnes American Utopia - did not accommodate Tony voters and arent eligible, but may get special awards on Tony night. Broadway theaters abruptly closed on March 12, knocking out all shows - including 16 that were still scheduled to open in the spring. One musical, Six, had scheduled its official opening on the night theaters went dark and heartbreakingly is not eligible for any trophies this year. The cutoff for eligibility for all shows was set at Feb. 19, 2020, meaning West Side Story, which opened a day later, and Girl from the North Country, which opened March 5, are not eligible. This seasons pandemic is expected to scramble some of the usual 26 competitive categories, especially the one for best original score. Most of the new musicals used pre-existing and previously recorded material, meaning Rob Rokicki, who wrote the score to The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, will easily get a Tony nod. To fill the category, he may be joined by scores from plays, like The Height of the Storm, The Inheritance, The Rose Tattoo, SeawallA Life, Slave Play, and The Sound Inside. That could pave the way for a best score Tony won by a... 