It is nearly time for Broadway’s largest night time, which implies it is time to unveil the star-studded listing of presenters for this 12 months’s Tony Awards!
The roaster of well-known faces presenting on the 77th annual Tony Awards is one filled with heavy hitters, together with Utkarsh Ambudkar, Nate Burleson, Cynthia Erivo, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Josh Gad, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sean Hayes, Taraji P. Henson, Julianne Hough, Jennifer Hudson, Angelina Jolie, Nick Jonas and Idina Menzel.
Rounding out the listing of gifted presenters are Ashley Park, Jim Parsons, Wendell Pierce, Ben Platt, Anthony Ramos, Andrew Rannells, Solomon Thomas, Taylor Tomlinson, Pete Townshend, Tamara Tunie, Adrienne Warren, Patrick Wilson and Jeffrey Wright.
It was additionally introduced that the solid of Stereophonic has been added to the listing of star-studded performances, becoming a member of beforehand introduced performances from Cabaret on the Package Kat Membership, Hell’s Kitchen, Illinoise, Merrily We Roll Alongside, Suffs, The Outsiders, The Who’s Tommy and Water for Elephants.
Airing dwell from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Heart for the Performing Arts in New York Metropolis, the Tony Awards cap off a robust 12 months for Broadway, which noticed a number of profitable revivals and the debut of a number of well-liked new reveals.
Incomes essentially the most nominations of any manufacturing, Hell’s Kitchen and Stereophonic got here out on prime, with a complete of 13 nominations every, adopted by The Outsiders with 12. Moreover, Cabaret on the Package Kat Membership and Merrily We Roll Alongside have been essentially the most acknowledged revivals of the 12 months, accumulating 9 and seven nominations, respectively.
Relating to the performing prizes, Merrily We Roll Alongside‘s Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Menendez every earned nominations for his or her respective performances.
Jolie lately attended the debut of The Outsiders together with her daughter, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt. Angelina, 48, and Vivienne, 15, function producer and a producer’s assistant, respectively, of the stage adaptation of the movie and the 1967 novel by S. E. Hinton, which takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1967.
“Ponyboy Curtis, his finest pal Johnny Cade and their Greaser household of outsiders battle with their prosperous rivals, the Socs. This thrilling new Broadway musical navigates the complexities of self-discovery because the Greasers dream about who they need to develop into in a world which will by no means settle for them,” reads the play’s description on the present’s official website.
Jolie’s function within the manufacturing was introduced final 12 months. On the time, the actress-director mentioned she was impressed to hitch the staff after seeing the play with Vivienne at the La Jolla Playhouse.
Vivienne made headlines when it was revealed that she is credited as Vivienne Jolie within the present’s playbill. A supply beforehand advised ET that Vivienne requested to not have Pitt added to her identify, a transfer that echoed her older sister, Zahara’s, stance. The teenager launched herself as “Zahara Marley Jolie” throughout a sorority ceremony occasion at Spelman Faculty in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jolie and Brad Pitt, who ended their more-than decade-long romance in 2016, share six youngsters: Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and 15-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.
Shiloh, in the meantime, seems to be the primary Jolie-Pitt little one to take authorized motion relating to their identify. A supply beforehand advised ET that Shiloh filed the papers asking to be referred to as Shiloh Jolie on her 18th birthday, which fell on Could 27.
“Shiloh employed her personal lawyer and paid for it herself, so Angie does not know and might’t converse for it,” a supply advised ET after the information broke.
Try the video under for extra on how Vivienne was introduced on to supply The Outsiders alongside her mother.
Hosted as soon as once more by Ariana DeBose, the 77th Tony Awards will air dwell on Sunday, June 16, at 5 p.m. PT/8p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+.
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