In one of the ceremony’s most mesmerizing moments, Melody Herzfeld, the heroic drama teacher who nurtured many of the young people demanding change following the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida, was honored from the Tony Award stage. Its embrace of foreign cultures working together found a sweet spot with Tony voters. Two of the shows going into the night with the leading number of nominations — Tina Fey’s Mean Girls and SpongeBob SquarePants, with 12 nods each — found the night tough. The Tonys didn’t specifically address that, but did touch on gun violence, depression, politics and inclusion.