Tony Awards Show Will Feature 10 Performances | Playbill

Tony Awards Tony Awards Show Will Feature 10 Performances The cast of the recent revival of Spring Awakening will perform.
Daniel N. Durant and the company of Spring Awakening Kevin Parry
Ten performances have been announced for The 70th Annual Tony Awards, which will be broadcast live from the Beacon Theatre June 12 beginning at 8 PM ET on CBS.

The evening will feature performances from the 2016 Tony-nominated Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical shows. Performers will include Tony nominees Brandon Victor Dixon and Adrienne Warren and the cast of Shuffle Along…; Tony nominees Laura Benanti, Zachary Levi and Jane Krakowski and the cast of She Loves Me; Tony nominee Alex Brightman and the cast of School of Rock; Tony nominee Danny Burstein and the cast of Fiddler on the Roof; Tony nominees Danielle Brooks and Cynthia Erivo and the cast of The Color Purple; Tony nominees Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom Jr., Renee Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson and Daveed Diggs and the cast of Hamilton; Tony nominees Sara Bareilles, Christopher Fitzgerald and Jessie Mueller and the cast of Waitress; Tony nominee Carmen Cusack and the cast of Bright Star; and the cast of Spring Awakening. The latter had raised funds to perform on the Tony broadcast via a Kickstarter campaign.

The telecast will also feature a performance by Gloria Estefan and the cast of On Your Feet, which did not receive a Best Musical Tony nomination.

Specific songs titles were not announced.

Tony Award winner James Corden will host the awards show. Previously announced presenters include Uzo Aduba, Cate Blanchett, Claire Danes, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Neil Patrick Harris, Sean Hayes, James Earl Jones, Daniel Dae Kim, Carole King, Diane Lane, Nathan Lane, Angela Lansbury, Lucy Liu, Marlee Matlin, Audra McDonald, Patina Miller, Andrew Rannells, Saoirse Ronan, Blair Underwood, Oprah Winfrey and 2016 Tony Award nominees Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. Show-business icon Barbra Streisand will also present.

The ceremony is presented by Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, which founded the Tonys.

For more information visit Tonyawards.com.
 
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