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1947 — the present
The test: The Tony Awards, Broadway's honors since 1947, give this city no name. No performer born in South Bend, raised here, or formed here stands on the Tony record as a nominee or a winner; the line is printed empty at its true size. The nearest famous stage name of the present generation belongs, by the boundary this history keeps everywhere, to the separate city next door: Adam Driver, a Tony nominee, is Mishawaka's — born in California, raised there, a Mishawaka schoolboy — and his honors stand in Mishawaka's record when it is built, not in this one. South Bend's stage history is real and long, and it is told in the Theaters and Artists sections; its Tony ledger is blank, and a ledger that prints its blanks is worth more than one that borrows the city next door's name to fill them.
Sources:
- The Tony Awards record (Tony Award Productions), read for any nominee or winner with a South Bend birth, upbringing, or formation — none appears.
- The Famous People section of this history — Adam Driver's Mishawaka boundary, printed there as a negative for this city.