The 79th Tony Awards will take place Sunday at Radio City Music Hall in New York, airing live at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. Pop singer Pink will host the ceremony, which honors the best of Broadway theater. “The Lost Boys” and “Schmigadoon!” lead this year’s nominees with 12 nominations apiece, including for Best Musical, according to the Tony Awards organization.
Performers scheduled for the broadcast include cast members from “The Lost Boys,” “Schmigadoon!,” “Titanique,” “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York),” “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” “Ragtime,” and “Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show,” organizers said. The original cast of “The Book of Mormon,” including Josh Gad, Andrew Rannells, Rory O’Malley and Nikki M. James, will perform in honor of the musical’s 15th anniversary on Broadway. A 30th anniversary tribute to the musical “Chicago” will feature Queen Latifah, Pink, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julianne Hough and others, according to the Tony Awards.
Adrien Brody, Annette Bening, Ariana DeBose, Ben Platt, Bernadette Peters, Billy Crystal, Bowen Yang, Carrie Coon, Darren Criss, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kristin Chenoweth, Lena Waithe, Maya Rudolph, Megan Thee Stallion, Neil Patrick Harris, Nicole Scherzinger, Patrick Wilson, Paul Rudd, Sarah Paulson, Sting and other stars will present awards, organizers said.
The nominees for Best Play are “The Balusters” by David Lindsay-Abaire, “Giant” by Mark Rosenblatt, “Liberation” by Bess Wohl, and “Little Bear Ridge Road” by Samuel D. Hunter. In the acting categories for plays, nominees for Best Leading Actor include Will Harrison (“Punch”), Nathan Lane (“Death of a Salesman”), John Lithgow (“Giant”), Daniel Radcliffe (“Every Brilliant Thing”), and Mark Strong (“Oedipus”). Nominees for Best Leading Actress in a Play are Rose Byrne (“Fallen Angels”), Carrie Coon (“Bug”), Susannah Flood (“Liberation”), Lesley Manville (“Oedipus”), and Kelli O’Hara (“Fallen Angels”), according to the Tony Awards organization.