Here are highlights from 78th Tony Awards
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Twenty-nine shows on Broadway got Tony Award nominations this season, but not all will walk away with a trophy — and the box office attention they usually bring. Here are some key things to know as Broadway’s biggest night approaches,
“Purpose,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, won the Tony Award for best play; Jonathan Spector’s “Eureka Day” won best play revival; and Jamie Lloyd’s “Sunset Boulevard” won best musical revival.
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The Tony Awards featured show stopping performances, legendary cast reunions and its fair share of star power. NY1’s entertainment reporter Frank DiLella was at the show and joined Lisa McRee to talk all about it.
Purpose,” a drama that was commissioned and first produced by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, has won the Tony Award for best play.
Cynthia Erivo, who starred alongside Ariana Grande in the record-breaking film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Wicked,” will be hosting this year’s main show. Erivo got her own Tony Award in 2016 for her performance as Celie in “The Color Purple.” She’s also a Grammy and an Emmy winner.
The audience of the 2025 Tony Awards was in the room where it happened Sunday — and by “it,” we mean a reunion of Hamilton‘s original Broadway cast. The ensemble came together to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the blockbuster show, which won 11 Tonys — including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical and Best Original …
Stars walk the red carpet at The 78th Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 8, 2025 in New York City.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Tony Awards on Sunday lured 4.85 million viewers to CBS, its largest broadcast audience in six years, according to Nielsen’s data. CBS said Monday the telecast — hosted by “Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo — scored a 38% increase over last year’s 3.53 million viewers.
Robot love story Maybe Happy Ending and Black family drama Purpose had great nights at the 78th annual Tony Awards, which took place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday, respectively winning Best Musical and Best Play.
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