How can I watch the 2024 Tony Awards? Why ought to I? Tony Night time Cheat Sheet. – New York Theater

The 77th Annual Tony Awards, with host Ariana DeBose, shall be broadcast and streamed reside from Lincoln Middle tonight, celebrating the Broadway 2023 – 2024 theater season with performances from the reveals, and acceptance speeches from these amongst this yr’s Tony Award nominees who win over the most important variety of the 836 Tony voters. 

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Easy methods to watch

Easy reply: From 8 to 11 pm EST, Sunday, June 16,  the Tony Awards will air reside on CBS and stream reside on Paramount + for subscribers. (You possibly can attempt Paramount + free for per week.)
Stream the Tony Awards totally free on the CBS app or on CBS.com

Theater lovers reply: There are THREE totally different Tony reveals you possibly can watch, over a complete of six hours:

1. First, if you happen to reside in New York, you possibly can watch the pink carpet as the celebrities enter Lincoln Middle’s David H. Koch Theater displaying off their glamorous garb  and saying some upbeat issues, beginning at 5 p.m. EST on NY1.
2. From 6:30 to eight p.m. EST, a 90-minute so-called “pre-show” is streaming on Pluto, a free streaming service ( Click on Pluto TV and clicking on the “ET” channel) with hosts Julianne Hough and Utkarsh Ambudkar each acquainted from TV, but in addition with Broadway credit (she, POTUS, he, Freestyle Love Supreme) Formally entitled “The Tony Awards: Act One,”  the present on Pluto will embody a presentation of a few of the awards.
3. The principle ceremony. That is when the “main” awards shall be introduced, together with all eight classes for performers, and when the casts will carry out. As I mentioned, it’s obtainable in your screens at residence. There was no public sale of tickets to the Koch Theater this yr, one can go to Lincoln Middle to  watch the occasion on an enormous display screen outdoor from 6:30 to 11 p.m. at Lincoln Middle’s Damrosch Park for FREE, first-come, first-serve “pending capability,” with host Skylar Astin.

Why Watch

Ariana DeBose, an Academy Award winner for West Facet Story and a six-time Broadway veteran, has been the host three years in a row now, and is fast on her ft, actually. She shall be choreographing the opening quantity, which is all the time enjoyable. 

For these not obsessive about Broadway, the primary cause to look at the present is definitely the performances. There are performances deliberate from the casts of Stereophonic (nominated for Finest Play however with a rock rating), all 5 reveals nominated for Finest Musical (Hell’s Kitchen, Illinoise, The Outsiders, Suffs, Water for Elephants) and three of the 4 nominated for Finest Revival of a Musical (Cabaret on the Package Kat Membership, Merrily We Roll Alongside, and The Who’s Tommy) 

Jay-Z and Alicia Keys will carry out “Empire State of Thoughts” as a part of a “Hell’s Kitchen” medley.  

Nicole Scherzinger, who will make her Broadway debut subsequent season in Sundown Boulevard, will carry out the ‘In Memoriam’ phase. She shall be launched by the newly elected president of Actors’ Fairness Affiliation, Brooke Shields.

The producers of the printed have additionally promised to focus extra consideration on the non-musical performs, which is a welcome departure from previous observe and I’ll imagine it after I see it.

Of the twenty-eight reveals of the Broadway 2023-2024 season which have acquired nominations, fifteen of them are nonetheless enjoying, (though 5 of those are scheduled to shut as early as as we speak, and no later than the top of the month.) For those who like what you see on the Tonys, you may get tickets (That’s type of the purpose of the TV present.) For those who’re fortunate, you may get them at a reduction. (Broadway Rush and Lottery for Spring 2024 Reveals)

 Due to the Writers Strike, final yr’s Tonys have been unscripted. This yr’s shall be scripted, which has its pluses and minuses. 

Presenters, who will presumably ship many of the scripted materials (that DeBose doesn’t deal with), will embody: Utkarsh Ambudkar, Nate Burleson, Cynthia Erivo, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Josh Gad, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sean Hayes, Taraji P. Henson, Julianne Hough, Jennifer Hudson, Angelina Jolie, Nick Jonas, Idina Menzel, Ashley Park, Jim Parsons, Wendell Pierce, Ben Platt, Anthony Ramos, Andrew Rannells, Solomon Thomas, Taylor Tomlinson, Pete Townshend, Tamara Tunie, Adrienne Warren, Patrick Wilson and Jeffrey Wright.

As all the time, the unscripted moments on the Tony Awards shall be among the many most memorable — which is to say, the acceptance speeches.

Among the many nominees this yr you’d seemingly acknowledge even if you happen to’ve by no means seen a Broadway present: William Jackson Harper, Jessica Lange, Rachel McAdams, Leslie Odom Jr., Jim Parsons, Sarah Paulson, Daniel Radcliffe, Eddie Redmayne, Amy Ryan, Liev Schreiber Corey Stoll, Jeremy Robust. 

However it could be extra thrilling to look at the newcomers who grow to be stars tonight.

Insidery Stuff:

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The Tonys are a end result of a month-long theater award season. Take a look at my New York Theater Awards 2024: Calendar and Information, which explains the historical past of every award (together with the Tonys) and hyperlinks to the lists of winners (lots of which/whom have been nominated for Tonys as effectively.)