Not since John Wilkes Booth interrupted “Our American Cousin” has the theater world suffered such bad timing.

We speak of June 10, when the annual Tony Awards telecast goes head-to-head with that other Tony, the heart of HBO’s eight-year epic, “The Sopranos.”

Granted, CBS probably didn’t foresee that the “Sopranos” finale would be pushed back as star James Gandolfini recuperated from knee surgery.

“I think the Tony [Awards] family can take the Tony Soprano family any day,” said a brave Charlotte St. Martin, executive director of Broadway’s trade arm, the League of American Theaters and Producers. “I can promise you, it’s going to be a great show!”