Welcome to the 2025 Tony Awards Live Chat!
Tony, Tony... who will wiiiiiiin?!!?!?!
Welcome to the most joyful awards ceremony of the year! The Tony Awards — er, sorry, the American Theatre Wing’s 78th Annual Tony Awards — will celebrate Broadway tonight with a MAJOR lineup of performers and nominees. There is a full reunion of the O.G. Hamilton cast, and the list of musicals we’ll hear from is: Buena Vista Social Club, Dead Outlaw, Death Becomes Her, Floyd Collins, Gypsy, Maybe Happy Ending, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical, Pirates! The Penzance Musical, Sunset Blvd., Just in Time, and Real Women Have Curves. I want to hear from the ensembles, but I am also certain that whatever they do will make room for Audra and Nicole to BELT IT OUT if they so choose. (PLEASE CHOOSE.)
Several of these categories have room for big drama. Nicole Scherzinger was a hot favorite until a) a few social media missteps, b) Audra, and c) Patti Lupone dissing her in a New Yorker profile (and after publicly rallying for the Scherz), although I don’t know where that whole brouhaha happened…