Welcome to the Tony Awards!
The live chat, anyway.
Congrats! We’ve finally arrived at (arguably) the most fun of the major awards shows. Sure, maybe everyone hasn’t seen all (or any) of the shows nominated but you know the performances in this one are going to be bangers.
This is where, as is tradition for these posts, I get to share my favorite Tonys live performance of all time. If you haven’t seen it, it’s MIND-BOGGLING:
Like the Tom Holland “Umbrella” performance, I have to watch Michael Jeter somehow lose all bones in his body every time this floats past my face. It makes me cry, it’s so good! (He correctly won this year.)
Anyway! To the nitty and the gritty, with the hope that we get something similarly amazing this evening. The Tony Awards, hosted by Pink, are airing tonight — Sunday, June 7 — on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. The telecast begins at 8 p.m ET/5 p.m PT. And, per the Tonys official website, in case you have a very free Sunday on your calendar:
Prior to the broadcast, Tony® Award-winner and five-time Tony® Award nominee Laura Benanti and six-time Emmy and SAG-nominated actor, musician, and writer Tituss Burgess will host THE TONY AWARDS: ACT ONE, a live pre-show with exclusive content that is available to viewers for free on Pluto TV – a global leader in free streaming television – beginning Sunday, June 7 at 6:35-8:00 PM, ET/3:35-5:00 PM, PT. The two stage-and-screen icons will kick off Broadway’s biggest night with the presentation of the first round of Tony Awards during the exciting pre-show telecast.
There is no official red carpet — LAME — but Playbill.com will be streaming arrivals live on their site and their YouTube, with a very vague start time of “subject to change depending on attendees' arrival time,” but like… probably 3:30 p.m. PT-ish? We are open for business right now, of course, but Heather and I will trickle in closer to the kick-off of the main telecast this evening and we welcome you at any time. How many stars of The Gilded Age will be present? To quote Mean Girls, the limit does not exist.
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