Darren Criss and Renée Elise Goldsberry are co-hosting this 12 months’s Tony Awards preshow.
The Tony Awards: Act One is a reside present with unique content material that may stream on Pluto TV on Sunday, June 8 at 6:40-8 p.m. ET/3:40-5 p.m. PT.
Tony award winner Goldsberry earned her win in 2016 for featured actress in a musical for her work in Hamilton. Most not too long ago, she’s appeared in All In: Comedy About Love and can be dropping her debut album, Who I Actually Am, subsequent month.
Criss obtained his first Tony Award nomination this 12 months within the main function in a musical class for his efficiency within the unique musical Perhaps Joyful Ending. He’s up in opposition to Andrew Durand (Lifeless Outlaw), Tom Francis (Sundown Blvd.), Jonathan Groff (Simply in Time), James Monroe Iglehart (A Fantastic World: The Louis Armstrong Musical) and Jeremy Jordan (Floyd Collins.) Criss’ extra Broadway credit embrace The best way to Reach Enterprise With out Actually Attempting, Hedwig and the Indignant Inch, American Buffalo and off-Broadway’s Little Store of Horrors.
Instantly after the pre-show, the 78th annual Tony Awards will start airing on CBS with Tony winner Cynthia Erivo as its host. This 12 months, the ceremony returns to Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in New York Metropolis after it was held at Lincoln Middle’s David H. Koch Theater.
The Tony Awards, which have aired on CBS since 1978, are produced collectively with Tony Award Productions, a collaboration of the American Theatre Wing, The Broadway League and White Cherry Leisure. The exec producers and showrunners embrace Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss.