Alicia Keys and Jay-Z will carry out collectively through the 77th Tony Awards on Sunday evening, CBS introduced Sunday afternoon.
The 2 artists will sing “Empire State of Thoughts” through the dwell telecast of the awards present, which this 12 months will happen at New York’s David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Middle for the primary time ever.
Jay-Z and Keys first launched “Empire State of Thoughts” in 2009, as a part of the previous’s album, The Blueprint 3.
Keys can even be in attendance at Sunday’s ceremony representing her musical Hell’s Kitchen, which this 12 months tied the straight play Stereophonic for many nominations with 13 every.
This 12 months’s nominations marked a brand new milestone for ladies administrators, with seven nominated throughout finest play path and finest musical path classes. Stereophonic additionally set a report for probably the most Tony nominations for a play, surpassing earlier report holder Slave Play’s 12 noms in 2020.
Along with Jay-Z and Keys, casts of nominated musicals Cabaret on the Equipment Kat Membership, Hell’s Kitchen, Illinoise, Merrily We Roll Alongside, Suffs, The Outsiders, The Who’s Tommy and Water for Elephants will all carry out. Stereophonic can even take the stage, following backlash from followers and the playwright that the group was initially excluded from the lineup (many argued that they had been excluded as a result of the present shouldn’t be a musical, however it’s nominated for finest rating).
The awards present will air dwell on CBS Sunday at 8 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT. Now in her third 12 months internet hosting, Ariana DeBose choreographed the opening quantity and served as producer. Discover extra data on methods to watch right here.