The long-awaited, pandemic-postponed 74th Annual Tony Awards will likely be a two-hour, streaming-only ceremony on Sunday, Sept. 26, out there on CBS’ Paramount+ platform and adopted instantly by a particular two-hour CBS broadcast celebration of Broadway’s return.
The printed portion of the four-hour Broadway themed night will embody the stay presentation of solely three Tony Awards: Greatest Play, Greatest Revival of a Play and Greatest Musical. Although different winners will likely be celebrated all through the published, together with performances from the three Tony-nominated Greatest Musical contenders, the awards ceremony itself will likely be livestreamed from an as-yet-unannounced Broadway venue at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT completely on Paramount+.
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The 2-hour CBS broadcast particular, The Tony Awards Current: Broadway’s Again!, starting at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT, is being described as a stay live performance occasion that includes Broadway entertainers and Tony Award winners performing “beloved classics” to “have a good time the enjoyment and magic of stay theatre.” The printed particular may even be out there to stream stay and on demand on Paramount+ and the CBS app.
Charlotte St. Martin, President of The Broadway League, and Heather Hitchens, President and CEO of the American Theatre Wing – the 2 organizations that current the Tonys – stated in a joint assertion, “After this devastating previous 12 months and a half for our business, our metropolis and for your complete world, we’re excited to lastly be capable to have a good time the return of Broadway, our Tony Award nominees and winners on this new and thrilling format. There may be nothing that compares to the magic of stay theater—and we’re thrilled to have the ability to share its celebratory return and the unimaginable expertise and artistry of the abbreviated 2019-2020 season with theatre followers in all places.”
Mentioned Jack Sussman, Govt Vice President, Specials, Music, Stay Occasions and Various Programming, CBS Leisure, “We’re thrilled to carry the very best of Broadway to tv viewers who’ve been by a lot with out the thrill, consolation and pleasure that stay theatre supplies. With the mixed energy of CBS and Paramount+, the present will honor this 12 months’s Tony Award nominees and winners in a brand new format in contrast to some other, and have a good time the long-lasting music, memorable performances and distinctive personalities that make Broadway so particular.”
Further details about the particular will likely be out there within the coming months.
In recent times, a number of the Tony Award classes have been offered off air, although the extra outstanding awards, such because the appearing classes, have been introduced throughout the broadcast. This 12 months’s broadcast occasion will align extra intently with latest Grammy Award broadcasts that emphasised performances moderately than the award hand-outs.
Postponed for greater than a 12 months as a result of Covid-19 pandemic and Broadway’s subsequent shutdown, the awards – overlaying productions offered throughout the shortened 2019-20 season – will happen 24 days after Hadestown turns into the primary Broadway manufacturing to return to the stage on Sept. 2.
To this point, 26 productions have introduced Fall 2021 returns. For an entire record of Fall productions, return dates and venues, go here.
Tony nominations have been unveiled final October, with Tony voters submitting their choices for winners in March. The interval between the bulletins of nominations and winners sometimes spans not more than six weeks, giving the present roster of hopefuls the longest stretch of anticipation – 11 months by the point of the published – in Tony historical past.
In all, 18 productions from the pandemic-shortened season have been deemed Tony eligible, about half the quantity often within the working. The 74th Tony ceremony and CBS broadcast had initially been set for June 7, 2020, at New York’s Radio Metropolis Musical Corridor.
See the whole record of Tony nominations under.
Nominated for Greatest Play are Slave Play, Sea Wall/A Life, Grand Horizons, The Inheritance and The Sound Inside, with Moulin Rouge!, Jagged Little Capsule and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical up for Greatest Musical. Within the Greatest Revival of a Play class, Betrayal will compete with Frankie and Johnny within the Clair de Lune and A Soldier’s Play.
The abbreviated season additionally resulted in one of many odder nominations in Tony historical past: Aaron Tveit of Moulin Rouge! The Musical is the only real entry within the Main Actor in a Musical class.
When theaters went darkish, three productions – the musicals Six, West Facet Story and Woman from the North Nation – had already begun performances however weren’t round lengthy sufficient to accommodate the required variety of Tony voters. (Six resumes performances Sept. 17, Woman from the North Nation on Oct. 13.)
The Tony Awards Current: Broadway’s Again! will likely be produced in collaboration with Tony Award Productions, a three way partnership of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, and White Cherry Leisure, the staff behind the annual Tony Awards telecast. Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss are government producers for White Cherry Leisure. Weiss will function director.
Nominations for the 2020 American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards:
Greatest Play
Grand Horizons
The Inheritance
Sea Wall/A Life
Slave Play
The Sound Inside
Greatest Musical
Jagged Little Capsule
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Greatest Revival of a Play
Betrayal
Frankie and Johnny within the Clair de Lune
A Soldier’s Play
Greatest E-book of a Musical
Jagged Little Capsule/Diablo Cody
Moulin Rouge! The Musical/John Logan
Tina – The Tina Turner Musical/Katori Corridor, Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins
Greatest Authentic Rating
A Christmas Carol/Christopher Nightingale
The Inheritance/Paul Englishby
The Rose Tattoo/Fitz Patton and Jason Michael Webb
Slave Play/Lindsay Jones
The Sound Inside/Daniel Kluger
Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Main Function in a Play
Ian Barford, Linda Vista
Andrew Burnap, The Inheritance
Jake Gyllenhaal, Sea Wall/A Life
Tom Hiddleston, Betrayal
Tom Sturridge, Sea Wall/A Life
Blair Underwood, A Soldier’s Play
Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Main Function in a Play
Joaquina Kalukango, Slave Play
Laura Linney, My Title is Lucy Barton
Audra McDonald, Frankie and Johnny within the Clair de Lune
Mary-Louise Parker, The Sound Inside
Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Main Function in a Musical
Aaron Tveit, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Main Function in a Musical
Karen Olivo, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Elizabeth Stanley, Jagged Little Capsule
Adrienne Warren, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Featured Function in a Play
Ato Blankson-Wooden, Slave Play
James Cusati-Moyer, Slave Play
David Alan Grier, A Soldier’s Play
John Benjamin Hickey, The Inheritance
Paul Hilton, The Inheritance
Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Featured Function in a Play
Jane Alexander, Grand Horizons
Chalia La Tour, Slave Play
Annie McNamara, Slave Play
Lois Smith, The Inheritance
Cora Vander Broek, Linda Vista
Greatest Efficiency by an Actor in a Featured Function in a Musical
Danny Burstein, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Derek Klena, Jagged Little Capsule
Sean Allan Krill, Jagged Little Capsule
Sahr Ngaujah, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Daniel J. Watts, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Greatest Efficiency by an Actress in a Featured Function in a Musical
Kathryn Gallagher, Jagged Little Capsule
Celia Rose Gooding, Jagged Little Capsule
Robyn Hurder, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Lauren Patten, Jagged Little Capsule
Myra Lucretia Taylor, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Greatest Scenic Design of a Play
Bob Crowley, The Inheritance
Soutra Gilmour, Betrayal
Rob Howell, A Christmas Carol
Derek McLane, A Soldier’s Play
Clint Ramos, Slave Play
Greatest Scenic Design of a Musical
Riccardo Hernández and Lucy Mackinnon, Jagged Little Capsule
Derek McLane, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Mark Thompson and Jeff Sugg, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Greatest Costume Design of a Play
Dede Ayite, Slave Play
Dede Ayite, A Soldier’s Play
Bob Crowley, The Inheritance
Rob Howell, A Christmas Carol
Clint Ramos, The Rose Tattoo
Greatest Costume Design of a Musical
Emily Rebholz, Jagged Little Capsule
Mark Thompson, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Catherine Zuber, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Greatest Lighting Design of a Play
Jiyoun Chang, Slave Play
Jon Clark, The Inheritance
Heather Gilbert, The Sound Inside
Allen Lee Hughes, A Soldier’s Play
Hugh Vanstone, A Christmas Carol
Greatest Lighting Design of a Musical
Bruno Poet, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Justin Townsend, Jagged Little Capsule
Justin Townsend, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Greatest Sound Design of a Play
Paul Arditti & Christopher Reid, The Inheritance
Simon Baker, A Christmas Carol
Lindsay Jones, Slave Play
Daniel Kluger, Sea Wall/A Life
Daniel Kluger, The Sound Inside
Greatest Sound Design of a Musical
Jonathan Deans, Jagged Little Capsule
Peter Hylenski, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Nevin Steinberg, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Greatest Route of a Play
David Cromer, The Sound Inside
Stephen Daldry, The Inheritance
Kenny Leon, A Soldier’s Play
Jamie Lloyd, Betrayal
Robert O’Hara, Slave Play
Greatest Route of a Musical
Phyllida Lloyd, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Diane Paulus, Jagged Little Capsule
Alex Timbers, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Greatest Choreography
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jagged Little Capsule
Sonya Tayeh, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Anthony Van Laast, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
Greatest Orchestrations
Tom Kitt, Jagged Little Capsule
Katie Kresek, Charlie Rosen, Matt Stine and Justin Levine, Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Ethan Popp, Tina – The Tina Turner Musical
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