The Academy Award winner and Tony Award nominee, who hosted each the 2023 and 2022 ceremonies, will likely be again this 12 months for the present on June 16, and can produce and choreograph the opening quantity.
“I could not move up the possibility to host the Tonys yet another time, at Lincoln Heart. I am excited to collaborate with the group to create an unimaginable celebration of this season’s achievements on Broadway for our group and for everybody at residence,” mentioned DeBose in a press release.
DeBose was broadly cheered for the way in which she hosted final 12 months amid the Hollywood writers’ strike, main a present that had no script and opening the telecast by dancing and leaping her approach via the foyer of the United Palace Theatre. She earned an Emmy nomination for her work.
DeBose is a theater veteran, with roles in “Summer season: The Donna Summer season Musical,” “Hamilton,” “A Bronx Story,” “Pippin,” “Motown the Musical,” “Convey It On: The Musical” and “Firm.” She gained an Oscar for her position in Steven Spielberg’s remake of “West Aspect Story” and was in “Schmigadoon!” on Apple TV+.
This 12 months’s location – the David H. Koch Theater – is the house of New York Metropolis Ballet and in the identical sprawling constructing complicated as Lincoln Sq. Theater, which homes the Broadway venue Beaumont Theater. Like final 12 months, the three-hour fundamental telecast will air on CBS and stream on Paramount+ from 8 p.m.-11 p.m. EDT/5 p.m.-8 p.m. PDT with a pre-show on Pluto TV, with some Tony Awards handed on the market. The Tony eligibility deadline for the 2023-2024 season is April 25, and nominations for the 2024 Tony Awards will likely be introduced April 30. The awards are introduced by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.
Final 12 months, the intimate, funny-sad musical “Kimberly Akimbo” took one of the best new musical crown, and Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt,” which explores Jewish identification with an intergenerational story, gained finest play. Sean Hayes gained lead actor in a play for “Good Evening, Oscar,” and Victoria Clark gained for “Kimberly Akimbo.”
