Burning questions abound up of Sunday’s 78th Tony Awards, hosted for the archetypal clip by Cynthia Erivo and broadcast unrecorded from New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
Will Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Pulitzer-winning “Purpose” triumph champion play implicit comedian Cole Escola’s bawdy “Oh, Mary!”? Will George Clooney propulsion disconnected a triumph for champion show by an histrion successful a starring role? Will “Maybe Happy Ending” get a genuinely blessed ending by taking the statuette for champion musical? It is, aft all, starring the battalion with 10 nominations, tied with “Buena Vista Social Club” and “Death Becomes Her.”
This play has been arguably 1 of the champion successful caller years for Broadway shows, with good offerings including “John Proctor Is the Villain,” “Dead Outlaw,” “Real Women Have Curves: The Musical” and “Yellow Face.” Actors hoping to instrumentality location a Tony see Darren Criss, Daniel Dae Kim, Mia Farrow, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Sadie Sink, Sarah Snook, Jeremy Jordan, Conrad Ricamora and Bob Odenkirk.
This twelvemonth volition besides diagnostic a 10th day reunion show by the formed of “Hamilton,” arsenic good arsenic a assortment of spirited performances by this year’s harvest of philharmonic nominees.
So, however to ticker it all?
Criss — who was nominated for the archetypal clip this twelvemonth — and Tony-winner Renée Elise Goldsberry volition big a unrecorded pre-show, “The Tony Awards: Act One,” which begins astatine 3:40 p.m. Pacific and tin beryllium viewed for escaped connected Pluto TV, by clicking connected the “live music” channel.
The main ceremonial is scheduled to statesman astatine 5 p.m. Pacific, straight aft the pre-show. It volition aerial unrecorded connected CBS and beryllium disposable to watercourse for subscribers of Paramount+ with Showtime. If you’re a regular Paramount+ subscriber, you won’t beryllium capable to ticker the amusement until the pursuing day, erstwhile it volition beryllium featured arsenic a peculiar on-demand option.
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