NEW YORK — The Tony Awards are rolling out the red carpet for Broadway’s biggest shows.
Sunday night’s award show has booked performances from its nominated musicals, including “A Strange Loop,” “Company,” “Girl from the North Country,” “MJ,” “Mr. Saturday Night,” “Music Man,” “Paradise Square” and “Six,” CBS announced Thursday.
Among the nominated musicals not listed is “Caroline, or Change,” which is up for best revival but closed in January.
Former winners Bernadette Peters (”Annie Get Your Gun,” “Song and Dance” and “On The Town”) and Billy Porter (”Kinky Boots”) will also perform, as will the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus and the original cast members of the 2007 Tony Award-winning musical “Spring Awakening.”
The who’s who list of presenters include Skylar Astin, Zach Braff, Danny Burstein, Jessica Chastain, Bryan Cranston, Colman Domingo, Cynthia Erivo, Raúl Esparza, Laurence Fishburne, Andrew Garfield, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Tony Goldwyn, David Alan Grier, Marcia Gay Harden, Vanessa Hudgens, Jennifer Hudson, Samuel L. Jackson, Nathan Lane, Judith Light, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bebe Neuwirth, Kelli O’Hara, Sarah Paulson, Chita Rivera, Tony Shalhoub, Phillipa Soo, George Takei and Aaron Tveit.
“West Side Story” star Ariana DeBose will host the prime-time event, with Darren Criss and Julianne Hough co-hosting “Act One,” an hourlong special live on Paramount+.
“A Strange Loop,” about a Black queer writer who works as a Broadway usher, leads the pack with 11 Tony nominations, including best musical. In that category, it will face off against “MJ,” a biographical jukebox musical about Michael Jackson, “Paradise Square,” about race relations in 19th-century New York; “Six,” the story of Henry VIII’s wives, “Girl From the North Country,” about a boardinghouse in Depression-era Minnesota and “Mr. Saturday Night,” a remake of the classic Billy Crystal film with Crystal reprising his role as an outspoken comedian looking for one more shot at fame.
Other nominated shows including “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf,” “Take Me Out,” “How I Learned to Drive,” “American Buffalo,” “The Lehman Trilogy” and “The Minutes.”
Among the nominated performers are Sutton Foster (”The Music Man”), Sam Rockwell (”American Buffalo”), Ruth Negga (”Macbeth”), Patti LuPone (”Company”).
The Tony Awards will air live coast to coast at 8 p.m. ET Sunday on CBS and Paramount+.
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