Broadway’s biggest night is approaching with the Tony Awards broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on June 7. Pink will host, marking her debut as MC. Viewers can watch on CBS or stream on Paramount . The top nominees are “The Lost Boys” and “Schmigadoon!” each with 12 nominations.
Julie James chats with Lauren Scala about the hottest races and history-making stars in this year’s Tony nominations. Twenty-four shows on Broadway received Tony Award nominations this season, but not all will walk away with a trophy and the box office attention they usually bring.
Here are some key things to know as Broadway's biggest night approaches, including how to watch, the top nominees, who is poised to make history and what shows secured performance slots. The Tonys will be broadcast to both coasts on Sunday from 8-11 p.m. EDT/5-8 p.m. PDT, live from Radio City Music Hall. Want to see ‘Heated Rivalry' on stage?
These Broadway vets star in a new musical parody Pink, a three-time Grammy Award winner, will make her debut as MC.
“I just want it to be, first and foremost, just celebratory and fun and entertaining and over-the-top and ridiculous,” she says. She promises a big, honking opening number — written by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Mark Sonnenblick that ends with some 170 people on stage — lots of costume changes and some wire work, which she has done in her concerts.
She has tapped Amber Ruffin, a writer and performer for “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” for help with jokes. A pre-show will be broadcast on Pluto TV from 6:35-8 p.m. EDT/3:45-5 p.m. PDT. Laura Benanti and Tituss Burgess will host that telecast, in which some technical Tonys will be handed out.
Viewers can access it on their smart TV, streaming device, mobile app or online by going to Pluto TV and clicking on the “Live Music” channel, found within the Entertainment category on the service. The seven best new musical and best musical revivals —"The Lost Boys," “Schmigadoon! ,” “Titanique,” “Two Strangers ,” “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” “Ragtime” and “The Rocky Horror Show.
”The presenters include: Adrien Brody, Annette Bening, Ariana DeBose, Ben Platt, Bernadette Peters, Billy Crystal, Bowen Yang, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Carrie Coon, Cole Escola, Darren Criss, Jack O’Brien, Jeremy Pope, John Leguizamo, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kara Young, Kelli O’Hara, Kristin Chenoweth, Law Roach, Lena Waithe, Lily Rabe, Maya Rudolph, Megan Thee Stallion, Neil Patrick Harris, Nicole Scherzinger, Patrick Wilson, Paul Rudd, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Sarah Paulson and Sting. A total of 26 competitive categories, from lead and featured actors to scenic, costume and lighting design.
Some technical award handouts may be pre-taped, and winners won't appear on the live show, only cut down into edited bits sandwiched into the telecast. There are two top nominees: “The Lost Boys” and “Schmigadoon! ” each earned a leading 12 Tony Award nominations.
“The Lost Boys” is an adaptation of a 1987 teen movie vampire thriller, and “Schmigadoon! ” is an adaptation of an Apple TV series that gently mocks Broadway musicals. They're followed by a revival of “Ragtime,” a big, soaring musical celebrating early 20th-century America, with 11 nominations, and “Death of a Salesman,” Arthur Miller’s masterpiece that looks at the unraveling of the American Dream, starring Nathan Lane, which nabbed nine nods. For new musicals, it's “The Lost Boys," “Schmigadoon!
,” “Titaníque” and “Two Strangers . ”History has already been made, in a way. June Squibb became the oldest Tony-nominated actor in history at 96 and could become the oldest Tony winner, surpassing Lois Smith, who was 90 when she won in 2021. Nathan Lane is hoping for his fourth Tony, which would make him tied as the most-awarded male performer in Tony history, alongside Boyd Gaines and Frank Langella.
If he does win for best lead actor in a play for the revival of “Death of a Salesman,” he'd have Tonys in three separate acting categories, previously winning featured actor in a play for “Angels in America” and lead actor in a musical twice for “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” and “The Producers. ” And for the first time since 2002, the contenders for best leading actress in a musical are all first-time nominees: Sara Chase , Stephanie Hsu , Caissie Levy , Marla Mindelle and Christiani Pitts . Other performances include the original lead cast members of “The Book of Mormon” — Josh Gad, Andrew Rannells, Rory O’Malley and Nikki M. James — this year celebrating its 15th anniversary.
Another show celebrating a milestone, “Chicago” now at 30, will have a performance slot featuring Queen Latifah, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Alex Newell, Adrienne Warren, Julianne Hough, Whitney Leavitt, Dylan Mulvaney and Pink. Plus, “A Chorus Line,” which last year celebrated its 50th anniversary, will get a special tribute by Rachel Zegler. Leslie Odom, Jr. will sing “Without You” from “Rent” during the In Memoriam section, in honor of that show’s 30th anniversary.
The 2025-2026 Broadway season set a new box office record for the second year in a row. Over the 52 weeks of the season, Broadway brought in a combined total of $1,910,903,835, a smidge higher than last season’s then-historic total of $1,892,650,959. Last season also had 53 weeks instead of the usual 52, a Broadway accountant trick. In more gloomy news, attendance was actually down — 14,577,322 versus 14,658,531 from last season.
And the average paid admission was $131.09, continuing an ever upward trend.
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