Darren Criss' favorite night of the year has arrived. It's the Tony Awards. 'I'll never shut up about the Tonys. I love the Tonys,' he says.
DeBose, the Tony-nominated theater veteran and freshly minted Oscar winner for"West Side Story," said Broadway is due for a party.
"A Strange Loop," a theater meta-journey about a playwright writing a musical, goes into the show with a leading 11 Tony nominations. Right behind with 10 nominations each is"MJ," a bio musical of the King of Pop stuffed with his biggest hits, and"Paradise Square," a musical about Irish immigrants and Black Americans jostling to survive in New York City around the time of the Civil War.
Producers are once again expanding the show thanks to streaming partner Paramount+, adding an extra hour before the three-hour main awards telecast to celebrate the creative Tony nominees in such categories as sound design and lighting. Often in the past, those acceptances were recorded earlier and shoe-horned into the telecast.
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