As the Tony Awards return for the first time in more than two years, CBS and White Cherry Entertainment’s Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss faced a challenging task: How to hand out awards, celebrate …
faced a challenging task: How to hand out awards, celebrate the best in recent theater and — perhaps most crucially — hammer home the fact that Broadway is back and open for business.
Among the performances throughout the evening: David Byrne and the cast of “American Utopia;” John Legend and the cast of “Ain’t Too Proud;” McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell performing a duet from “Ragtime”; Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth with music from “Wicked”; and a reunion of the cast members of “Hairspray,” including Marissa Jaret Winokur and Matthew Morrison. The telecast will close with the cast of “Freestyle Love Supreme,” including Lin-Manuel Miranda.
As for the CBS broadcast, Weiss noted that it’s meant to celebrate Broadway and the Broadway songbook, not just the most recent 2019-2020 season . Besides those mentioned above, guests also include Annaleigh Ashford, Titus Burgess, Darren Criss, Beanie Feldstein, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Andrew Garfield, Josh Groban, Jake Gyllenhaal, Christopher Jackson, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Ron Cephas Jones, Cyndi Lauper, John Lithgow, Ruthie Ann Miles, Bebe Neuwirth, Kelli O’Hara, Ben Platt, Jeremy Pope, Andrew Rannells, Anthony Rapp, Chita Rivera, Anika Noni Rose, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Lea Salonga, Courtney B.
Strict COVID-19 protocols, including masks and vaccinations, will be required for anyone entering the venue. “Television has one set of guidelines and protocols, part of our return to work agreement; Broadway has different protocols,” Weiss said. “They’re parallel but they’re not exactly the same. So, we compiled all the protocols and made sure that we were covering things to the stronger of the two if they were ever different.
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