Music Composed by Alicia Keys, The Who, Sufjan Stevens & More to Be Featured on 2024 Tony Awards
Written by djfrosty on June 6, 2024
The 77th Annual Tony Awards, set to air live on both coasts on CBS on Sunday, June 16, will feature performances from the eight of the nine productions nominated for best musical or best revival of a musical, omitting only Gutenberg! The Musical!, which played its final performance on Jan. 28. The musical starred Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells, who previously starred together in The Book of Mormon.
The Tony Awards telecast will include performances from:
- Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club with nominees Gayle Rankin and Eddie Redmayne. Nine nominations, including best revival of a musical. The original production won best musical in 1967.
- Hell’s Kitchen featuring the music of producer Alicia Keys, with nominees Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon, Kecia Lewis and Maleah Joi Moon. 13 nods, including best musical.
- Illinoise, featuring the music of Sufjan Stevens, directed and choreographed by Justin Peck. Four nods, including best musical.
- Merrily We Roll Along, a Stephen Sondheim classic with nominees Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe. Seven nods, including best revival of a musical. The original production was, surprisingly, passed over for a nod for best musical in 1982 (though Sondheim was nominated for original musical score).
- Suffs, a new musical whose producers include Hillary Clinton, with nominees Nikki M. James and Shaina Taub. Six nods, including best musical.
- The Outsiders, based on the book and the film, whose producers include Angelina Jolie, with nominees Joshua Boone, Brody Grant and Sky Lakota-Lynch. 12 nods, including best musical.
- The Who’s Tommy featuring music of Pete Townsend and The Who. One nomination – best revival of a musical. The original production was nominated for best musical in 1993, but lost to Kiss of the Spider Woman.
- Water for Elephants, based on the bestselling book and film, featuring Grant Gustin and the acrobatic cast. Seven nods, including best musical.
The 77th Annual Tony Awards, with Ariana DeBose hosting for the third year in a row, will air live on both coasts from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City on Sunday, June 16 (8-11 p.m. ET/5-8 p.m. PT) on CBS. The show will also stream on Paramount+ in the U.S.
The Tony Awards are produced in collaboration with Tony Award Productions and White Cherry Entertainment. Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss are showrunners and executive producers for White Cherry Entertainment, and Weiss will serve as director. Jack Sussman is also an executive producer.
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The Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing and have been broadcast on CBS since 1978.