The 77th Annual Tony Awards, which will air live on both coasts on CBS on Sunday, June 16, will include performances from eight of the nine productions nominated for Best Musical or Best Revival of a Musical, skipping only Gutenberg! The Musical!, which played its last show on January 28. The musical starred Josh Gad and Andrew Runnels, who previously starred together in The Book of Mormon.
The Tony Awards telecast will include performances by:
- Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club with Gayle Rankin and Eddie Redmayne nominated. Nine nominations, including best revival of a musical. The original production won Best Musical in 1967.
- Hell's Kitchen with music by producer Alicia Keys, with nominees Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kecia Lewis and Maleah Joi Moon. 13 nods, including Best Musical.
- Illinois, with music by Sufjan Stevens, directed and choreographed by Justin Peck. Four nods, including Best Musical.
- Merrily We Roll Along, a Stephen Sondheim classic starring Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe. Seven nods, including best revival of a musical. The original production, surprisingly, was passed over for a nod for Best Musical in 1982 (though Sondheim was nominated for Original Score).
- It's fine, a new musical produced by Hillary Clinton, with nominees Nikki M. James and Shaina Taub. Six nods, including Best Musical.
- The foreigners, based on the book and movie, produced by Angelina Jolie, with Joshua Boone, Brody Grant and Sky Lakota-Lynch nominated. 12 nods, including Best Musical.
- The Who's Tommy with music by Pete Townsend and The Who. One nomination – best revival of a musical. The original production was nominated for Best Musical in 1993, but lost The kiss of the spider woman.
- Water for elephants, based on the bestselling book and movie, starring Grant Gustin and the stunt cast. Seven nods, including Best Musical.
The 77th Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Ariana DeBose for the third year in a row, will be broadcast live on both coasts from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City on Sunday, June 16 (8-11 p.m. .pm ET/5-8pm PT) on CBS. The show will also air on Paramount+ in the US
The Tony Awards are produced in association with Tony Award Productions and White Cherry Entertainment. Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss are executive producers for White Cherry Entertainment, and Weiss will direct. Jack Sussman is also an executive producer.
The Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theater Wing and broadcast on CBS since 1978.
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