It is Broadway’s greatest match of the 12 months, celebrating the most efficient theater at the Nice White Manner.
“West Aspect Tale” superstar and Oscar winner Ariana DeBose is host of the display and spoke to CNN previous this week about what to anticipate.
“I feel I’ll be doing what everybody thinks I’ll do, which is sing dance and check out to behave and make it an extravaganza,” she mentioned giggling. “And possibly I will marvel some other people too, who is aware of it is reside from coast to coast … and that is the reason what makes it thrilling. There is not anything like reside theater.”
A self-described fan of all issues theater, DeBose mentioned she grew to become to the previous Tony Awards presentations to prep for her function on Sunday.
“I’ve re-watched numerous, numerous Tony Award presentations and I’m no James Corden, I’m definitely no Neil Patrick Harris or Hugh Jackman for that topic. And I’m no Whoopi Goldberg, however I’ve been impressed via they all,” DeBose mentioned. “I am fascinated by it as a result of it is a playground for me. I’ve by no means accomplished this so I am getting to simply type of experiment and the great factor is that I like those other folks and I do not thoughts falling on my face and having a look like a bit little bit of an fool for other folks I like. So right here we move!”
Who is nominated:
“A Odd Loop” leads amongst nominated musicals with 11 nods, adopted via “Paradise Sq.” and “MJ: The Musical” with ten nominations each and every. “The Lehman Trilogy” leads amongst nominated performs with 8 nominations. It follows the historical past of Lehman Brothers from its introduction to its death greater than 160 years later. One of the superstar presenters come with Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Hudson and Jessica Chastain. The lifetime fulfillment Tony might be introduced to Angela Lansbury.
The place to observe:
The seventy fifth annual Tony Awards pre-show will start at 7 p.m ET on Paramount + and can hosted via Julianne Hough and Darren Criss. The awards display starts at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+.
