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Original subtitles

>> CYNTHIA!

THEY NEED YOU ON STAGE, LIKE, NOW.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING FOR THE OPENING NUMBER?

>> Cynthia: I'M FIGURING IT OUT.

>> IT'S THE TONYS!

WE NEED COMEDY, WE NEED DANCE, WE NEED SPECTACLE.

CAN YOU SHOOT GEORGE CLOONEY OUT OF HUMAN CANNON?

>> Cynthia: NO.

NICE TO SEE YOU.

>> YOU NEED STUNTS.

PUSH ME DOWN THE STAIRS LIKE IN "DEATH BECOMES HER."

>> Cynthia: NO!

>> IT'S FINE!

I'LL GET WORKER'S COMP.

>> WE TALKING OPENING?

WE NEED AMAZING COSTUMES AND QUICK CHANGES.

>> Cynthia: I THINK I HAVE COSTUMES COVERED.

>> CYNTHIA, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO DO?

[ELPHABA-STYLE VOCALIZING] >> Cynthia: I THINK THAT BELONGS TO

DANIEL RADCLIFFE.

>> CYNTHIA, HUGH JACKMAN CALLED.

HE SAYS WE NEED A HUGE AMOUNT OF TROMBONES.

MORE THAN 75, BUT LESS THAN 77.

>> Cynthia: NO!

>> WELL, THEN WE NEED TO PATTER.

KICK LINE.

>> Cynthia: NO!

>> HWABOON?

>> Cynthia: THANK YOU.

♪ ♪ OPRAH, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?

>> IT'S THE TONYS.

IT'S YOU.

I HAD TO BE HERE.

>> Cynthia: WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN EVERYONE IS TELLING YOU WHAT YOU

NEED TO DO?

>> FORGET ABOUT THEM, BABE.

THE ONLY THING YOU NEED TO DO IS BE YOURSELF.

♪ ♪ [APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Cynthia: ♪ SOME FOLKS LAND ALL

THE PUNCHLINES ♪ ♪ AND BARELY BREAK A SWEAT ♪ ♪ WHILE OTHERS

CAN DO PATTER AS THEY DOUBLE-PIROUETTE ♪ ♪ WHETHER

COMEDY OR KICKLINE ♪ ♪ IF YOU'RE DOIN' YOU, YOU CAN'T GO WRONG ♪

♪ AND SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED ♪ ♪ SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IS A SONG

♪ ♪ OOH ♪ ♪ SOME MOMENTS CALL FOR GRANDEUR AS MIGHTY TRUMPETS

BLARE ♪ ♪ SOME MOMENTS CALL FOR SLEIGHT OF HAND ♪ ♪ WELL, I

CAN'T HELP YOU THERE ♪ ♪ AND SOMETIMES IT'S CONFETTI ♪ ♪ FROM

CANNONS FIRIN' STEADY ALL NIGHT LONG ♪ ♪ BUT SOMETIMES ALL YOU

NEED ♪ ♪ SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IS A SONG ♪ ♪ NOW, WE LOVE A BIG

PRODUCTION WITH SETS THAT TOUCH THE SKY ♪ ♪ WHILE OTHER TIMES

IT'S TRUE THAT LESS IS MORE ♪ ♪ WELL, ABOVE THAT BIG PRODUCTION

♪ ♪ IF YOU REALLY WANNA FLY ♪ ♪ IT'S OUR STORIES AND OUR SONGS

THAT LET US SOAR ♪ ♪ SO I TOOK IN ALL THE VOICES THAT TOLD ME

WHAT TO DO ♪ ♪ AND I LOOKED THROUGH ALL THE CHOICES ♪ ♪ AND

I FOUND ONE THING IS TRUE ♪ ♪ IT'S REALLY VERY SIMPLE ♪ ♪ IT'S

THE THING THAT MAKES YOU SING ♪ ♪ THAT MAKES YOU STRONG ♪ ♪ AND

SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED ♪ ♪ SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IS A SONG

♪ WELCOME, BROADWAY INSPIRATIONAL VOICES!

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> ♪ SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IS A SONG ♪ ♪ IT'S

ALL YOU NEED ♪ ♪ SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IS A SONG ♪ ♪ IT'S ALL

YOU NEED ♪ ♪ AND SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IS SOME FIRST-TIME

NOMINEES ♪ >> ♪ OR WHEN AUDRA GLOWS AS MAMA ROSE ♪ >> ♪ AND WE

ALL SING OUT LOUISE ♪ >> ♪ SING OUT LOUISE ♪ >> ♪ SOMETIMES ALL

YOU NEED IS A PURPOSE TO ATTEND ♪ ♪ OR A STORY OF ROBOTIC LOVE ♪

>> ♪ AND ITS MAYBE HAPPY END ♪ >> ♪ OH-OH ♪ ♪ SOMETIMES ALL YOU

NEED IS TO BELT AS BLOOD DRIPS DOWN ♪ ♪ AND AS SMASH POPS OFF ♪

♪ WELL, HERE COMES GROFF ♪ >> ♪ 'CAUSE JOHNNY'S BACK IN TOWN ♪

>> ♪ OH, SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED ♪ >> ♪ IS ALL THIS TALENT ON

DISPLAY ♪ >> ♪ GIMME ODENKIRK ♪ >> ♪ OR WATCH COLE WERK ♪ >> ♪

AT "OH, MARY!'S

S" CABARET ♪ ♪ OR DEAD DIVAS WHO LITERALLY SLAY ♪ ♪ OR DEAD

OUTLAWS WHO SLOWLY DECAY ♪ >> ♪ CLOONEY, KIERAN, DOWNEY, DENZEL

♪ >> ♪ HALF OF HOLLYWOOD DID A PLAY ♪ ♪ WHILE THE CUBAN RHYTHMS

SWAY ♪ >> ♪ BOOP ♪ >> ♪ THERE'S A MINCEMEAT MATINEE ♪ >> ♪ SEE

BOOP ♪ >> ♪ SHIV ROY IS DORIAN GRAY ♪ >> ♪ YOU GET IT ALL ON

BROADWAY ♪ >> ♪ IT'S ALL ON BROADWAY ♪ ♪ SO WHEN THE WORLD

IS LOOKIN' GLOOMY ♪ ♪ WELL, LET THAT CURTAIN RISE ♪ >> ♪ LET

THAT CURTAIN RISE ♪ >> ♪ 'CAUSE THE ANTIDOTE IS TO FIND YOUR

NOTE ♪ ♪ AS WE ALL HARMONIZE ♪ >> ♪ WHOA ♪ >> ♪ WE'RE HERE AND

HOLDIN' SPACE ♪ >> ♪ HOLDIN' SPACE ♪ >> ♪ 'CAUSE BROADWAY IS

A PLACE WE ALL BELONG ♪ ♪ WHERE SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED ♪ >> ♪

SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED ♪ ♪ YEAH, SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IS A SONG

♪ ♪ IT'S ALL YOU NEED ♪ >> Cynthia: OKAY, NOW.

THIS IS WHERE YOU ALL JOIN IN.

I CAN'T HAVE YOU BE AFRAID, BECAUSE I'LL PUT THIS MICROPHONE

IN YOUR FACE.

YOU BETTER SING, UNDERSTAND?

>> ♪ SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IS A SONG ♪ >> Cynthia: I KNOW YOU

CAN SING THAT, COME ON.

>> ♪ SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IS A SONG ♪ >> ♪ IT'S ALL YOU NEED ♪

♪ SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IS A SONG ♪ >> [VOCALIZING] >> ♪

SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IS A SONG ♪ ♪ SOMETIMES ALL YOU NEED IS A

SONG ♪

>> ♪ WELCOME TO THE 78TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS!

♪ [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> Cynthia: EVERYONE, WELCOME TO THE 78TH TONY AWARDS.

[APPLAUSE] I'M CYNTHIA ERIVO, AND IT IS SO GOOD TO BE BACK.

AS THEY APPARENTLY SAY IN A VERY FERTILE PIECE OF INTELLECTUAL

PROPERTY, THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME.

[LAUGHTER] AND BROADWAY HAS ALWAYS BEEN MINE.

WHAT A SEASON!

WHAT A LINEUP OF SHOWS BEING HONORED TONIGHT.

DRAMAS, COMEDIES, STUNNING MUSICALS, ORIGINALS AND

REIMAGINATIONS OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.

FEATURING FIRST-TIME NOMINEES LIKE COLE ESCOLA, SADIE SINK,

YES.

SADIE SINK.

[APPLAUSE] LOUIS McCARTNEY, AND AN UP-AND-COMER WHO I THINK WE

ARE GOING TO BE HEARING A LOT ABOUT -- GEORGE CLOONEY.

GOOD FOR YOU, GEORGE!

THINGS ARE GOING YOUR WAY.

I LIKE IT A LOT FOR YOU.

[LAUGHTER] THERE WERE SHOWS THAT TALK ABOUT OUR PRESENT, SHOWS

ABOUT THE FUTURES WE MIGHT LIVE IN, AND SHOWS THAT PAID HOMAGE

TO AMERICA'S SEXIEST HISTORICAL FIGURES -- MARILYN MONROE, BETTY

BOOP, AND FLOYD COLLINS.

[LAUGHTER] ALSO, THIS WAS BROADWAY'S MOST FINANCIALLY

LUCRATIVE YEAR, EVER.

[APPLAUSE] BROADWAY IS OFFICIALLY BACK!

PROVIDED WE DON'T RUN OUT OF CAST MEMBERS FROM "SUCCESSION."

[LAUGHTER] OKAY, THIS IS AMERICAN THEATER'S BIGGEST

NIGHT.

I REALLY AM IN AWE OF THE ARTISTS IN THIS ROOM.

I SAW NEARLY EVERYTHING THAT WAS NOMINATED, AND I AM MOVED TO

HAVE BEEN PART OF THE AUDIENCES DURING THIS INCREDIBLE SEASON.

WHATEVER HAPPENS TONIGHT, CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL.

[APPLAUSE] LET'S GET UNDERWAY.

OUR FIRST PRESENTERS ARE TWO BEST FRIEND FROM THE '80s WHO

ARE GOING TO BE TOGETHER ON STAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS

FALL.

PLEASE WELCOME TWO MEN WHO CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS MOST

EXCELLENT, KEANU REEVES AND ALEX WINTER.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Alex: WE ARE THRILLED TO BE REUNITING FOR

A NEW ADVENTURE THIS SEPTEMBER ON BROADWAY IN SAMUEL BECKETT'S

"WAITING FOR GODOT."

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Keanu: AND TONIGHT WE ARE HONORED TO

PRESENT THE FIRST TONY AWARD OF THE EVENING, CELEBRATING

EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCES THAT ILLUMINATED THIS RECORD-BREAKING

SEASON.

A TOTAL OF 31 DISTINCT AND ENGAGING CHARACTERS WERE CREATED

BY THESE FIVE INCREDIBLE TALENTS.

>> Alex: HERE ARE THE NOMINEES FOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY.

♪ ♪ >> Announcer: LAURA DONNELLY, "THE HILLS OF

CALIFORNIA."

MIA FARROW, "THE ROOMMATE."

LATANYA RICHARDSON JACKSON, "PURPOSE."

SADIE SINK, "JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN."

SARAH SNOOK, "THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY."

[APPLAUSE] >> Keanu: AND THE TONY AWARD GOES TO...

SARAH SNOOK, "THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY."

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Announcer: EMMY-WINNING ACTRESS

SARAH SNOOK HAS A TONY AWARD FOR HER TO AWARD FOR HER T BROADWA

DEBUT.

♪ ♪ >> HI!

IT DOES SPIN.

I SAW IT IN THE VIDEO AND IT DOES SPIN, IT'S AMAZING.

[LAUGHS] THIS IS AN INTIMIDATING ROOM FULL OF INCREDIBLE TALENTED

PEOPLE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS.

THIS MEANS SO MUCH FOR A LITTLE AUSTRALIAN GIRL TO BE HERE ON

BROADWAY.

THANK YOU TO MY INCREDIBLE TEAM, UTA, BILLY, SCOTT, JENNY, AND

BEN, AND JUST EVERYBODY ON STAGE.

IT IS BILLED AS A ONE PERSON SHOW AND I DON'T FEEL ALONE ANY

NIGHT THAT I DO THIS SHOW.

THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE ON THE STAGE MAKING IT WORK AND SO MANY

PEOPLE BEHIND THE STAGE MAKING IT WORK.

IN PARTICULAR, A HUGE THANK YOU TO KIP WILLIAMS, WHO IS

INCREDIBLE, TO CREATE THIS.

[APPLAUSE] AND AN EXCEPTIONAL THANK YOU, THE BIGGEST THANK YOU

I CAN EVER GIVE TO MY HUSBAND, MY SOULSMATE, YOU ARE SO

BRILLIANT HOLDING FAMILY TOGETHER AND LOOKING AFTER THE

PHONES.

THANK YOU.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Cynthia: FROM "DEATH BECOMES HER," PLEASE

WELCOME MICHELLE WILLIAMS.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Michelle: DULL, GLOWLESS SKIN, WATTLING

TURKEY NECKS, SAGGING, SHAPELESS BREASTS, AND THAT'S JUST THE

FRONT ROW.

[LAUGHTER] NOT YOU GUYS, NOT YOU GUYS.

THE FIRST NOMINATED MUSICAL IS AN OUTRAGEOUSLY FUNNY NEW COMEDY

THAT'S SERVING ETERNAL YOUTH, WITH KILLER SIDE EFFECTS.

MEET MADELINE ASHTON, GLAMOROUS, VAIN ACTRESS, AND HELEN SHARP

HER FRENEMY WITH A VENDETTA.

I PLAY VIOLA VAN HORN, MYSTERIOUS, MAGICAL, AND SELLING

YOUTH BY THE VIAL, HONEY.

IN THIS NUMBER, MADELINE TAKES CENTER STAGE IN HER BROADWAY

SHOW, "ME!

ME!

ME!"

GIVE IT UP FOR MEGAN HILTY AND MY HILARIOUS CAST MATES FROM

"DEATH BECOMES HER!"

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> ♪ WHY IS A GIRL LIKE ME SITTING

HERE IN THIS CHAIR ♪ ♪ COMBING HER HAIR AND PAINTING HER FACE ♪

♪ IN THE CHASE TO STAY YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL?

♪ ♪ WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT TO BE TRUE ♪ ♪ THAT I DO IT ALL FOR

YOU?

♪ ♪ FOR THAT GLIMMER IN YOUR EYE, FOR YOUR GAZE ♪ ♪ YES,

EVERYTHING I DO IS FOR THE GAZE ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I'LL DO AN OUTFIT

CHANGE, I'LL DO A TWIRL ♪ ♪ I'LL DO JUST ABOUT ANYTHING TO BE

YOUR GIRL ♪ ♪ I'LL BE YOUR TINY DANCING QUEEN ♪ ♪ YOUR JUDY,

GAGA, CHER, CELINE ♪ ♪ I'LL OPTION UP ON CERTAIN MATINEES ♪

♪ BUT ONLY FOR THE GAZE ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ♪ SHE WON'T GO QUIETLY ♪ ♪

OR BE IGNORED ♪ ♪ IT'S TRUE ♪ ♪ BE CAREFUL IF YOU PUSH HER ♪ ♪

SHE'LL GO OVERBOARD, SPLISH-SPLASH ♪ ♪ WITH EVERY

MOVE WE LOVE HER MORE ♪ ♪ WE LOVE HER 'CAUSE SHE DOES IT FOR

THE GAZE ♪ >> ♪ I'M JUST A 20-SOMETHING INGENUE ♪ ♪

BEVELING BEFORE YOU, BEGGING FOR YOUR PRAISE ♪ ♪ PLEASE LOVE ME ♪

♪ GIVE ME THE GAZE ♪ ♪ THE GAZE LOVE ME ♪ ♪ I NEED THE GAZE, THE

GAZE LOVE ME ♪ ♪ THE GAZE LOVE ME ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> HUH!

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> WHOO!

♪ ♪ ♪ OOH, AAH ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ OOH, AAH ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ♪ OH, IT'S THE

GREATEST GIFT ♪ ♪ THE GREATEST LOVE ♪ ♪ THE GREATEST CLUB TO

GET TO BE A MEMBER OF ♪ ♪ 'CAUSE IF YOU ASK ME, WHEN PUSH COMES

TO SHOVE ♪ ♪ IT'S FOR THE GAZE ♪ ♪ FORGIVE ME IF I'M COMING ON

TOO STRONG ♪ ♪ I JUST WANT TO BE LOVED AND FEEL LIKE I BELONG ♪ ♪

THAT'S WHY I WEAR THIS LITTLE GOWN AND SING THIS LITTLE SONG ♪

♪ IT'S FOR THE GAZE ♪ ♪ I'D DO ANYTHING FOR ♪ >> ♪ SHE'D DO

ANYTHING FOR ♪ >> ♪ WE ALL KNOW THAT THIS WHOLE DAMN SHOW ♪ ♪ IS

FOR THE GAZE ♪ >> ♪7 ALL FOR THE GAZE, THE GAZE ♪ >> ♪ ANYTHING

FOR THE GAZE ♪ [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Brian: UP NEXT,

THE HEART-PUMPING RHYTHMS OF "BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB."

AND LATER, THE ORIGINAL COMPANY OF "HAMILTON" REUNITES FOR A

SPECTACULAR TENTH ANNIVERSARY PERFORMANCE.

I'M BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL, AND I'LL BE HERE ALL NIGHT.

THE TONY AWARDS.

THIS IS CBS.

♪ ♪ [APPLAUSE] >> Cynthia: WE'RE BACK AT THE BEAUTIFUL RADIO CITY

MUSIC HALL.

REAL QUICK, EVERYONE, HOUSE RULES AND SUGGESTED ETIQUETTE.

NO EATING, NO TEXTING.

IF YOU ARE NOMINATED AND LOSE, SMILE AND PRETEND, LIKE WE'VE

ALL HAD TO DO.

[LAUGHTER] MORE IMPORTANTLY: FROM YOUR SEAT TO THE

MICROPHONE, 90 SECONDS TO SPEAK.

90 SECONDS.

IF YOU GO OVER, YOU WILL BE PLAYED OFF, OR I WILL SING YOU

OFF.

♪ AND NOW THE END IS NEAR, AND SO I FACE MY FINAL CURTAIN ♪

DON'T MESS WITH ME.

I'VE BEEN KNOWN TO CAST A FEW SPELLS IN MY TIME.

AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, SPEAK FROM THE HEART.

OKAY, OUR NEXT PRESENTERS INCLUDE ONE OF MY SISTERS, AN

OSCAR AND TONY NOMINEE WHO HAS STARRED IN TWO "COLOR PURPLES,"

AND A STAR OF THIS SEASON'S TONY-NOMINATED REVIVAL OF "OUR

TOWN."

PLEASE WELCOME DANIELLE BROOKS AND KATIE HOLMES.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Danielle: EACH TIME THE CURTAIN RISES, A

NEW ENCOUNTER AND A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE FOR ACTORS AND THEIR

AUDIENCE BEGINS.

THE INTIMACY AND IMMEDIACY OF THAT RELATIONSHIP EXISTS ONLY

ONCE AS THE NEXT GROUP OF THEATERGOERS CREATES AN EXCITING

NEW DYNAMIC.

>> Katie: IT WAS A PLEASURE TO COME BACK TO BROADWAY THIS YEAR

FOR THE UNRIVALED THRILL OF BECOMING ONE WITH THE AUDIENCES

HERE.

THESE NEXT ARTISTS INSPIRED THE THEATERGOERS OF TODAY AND THE

PERFORMERS OF TOMORROW.

THE NOMINEES FOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A

FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY.

>> Announcer: GLENN DAVIS, "PURPOSE."

GABRIEL EBERT, "JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN."

FRANCIS JUE, "YELLOW FACE."

BOB ODENKIRK, "GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS."

CONRAD RICAMORA, "OH, MARY!"

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Danielle: AND THE AMERICAN THEATRE WING'S TONY

AWARD GOES TO...

FRANCIS JUE.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Announcer: THIS IS THE FIRST

NOMINATION ANTONIO WARD WIN FOR YALE GRADUATE FRANCIS JUE.

>> 20 YEARS AGO, WONDERFUL ACTOR, SINGER ALVIN NG GAVE ME

THIS TUX.

HE HAD IT MADE FOR HIMSELF FOR THE OPENING OF "PACIFIC

OVERTURES" ON BROADWAY IN 1976.

WHEN HE GAVE IT TO ME HE TOLD ME HE WANTED ME TO WEAR IT WHEN I

ACCEPTED MY TONY AWARD.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] I AM ONLY HERE BECAUSE OF THE

ENCOURAGEMENT AND INSPIRATION OF GENERATIONS OF WONDERFUL,

DENERATIONS OF WONDERFUL, DESERATIONS OF WONDERFUL,

DESERVTIONS OF WONDERFUL, DESERVINONS OF WONDERFUL,

DESERVING S OF WONDERFUL, DESERVING ASOF WONDERFUL,

DESERVING ASIA WONDERFUL, DESERVING ASIAN ONDERFUL,

DESERVING ASIAN ARDERFUL, DESERVING ASIAN ARTIRFUL,

DESERVING ASIAN ARTISTUL, DESERVING ASIAN ARTISTS ,

DESERVING ASIAN ARTISTS WHO CAME BEFORE ME.

[APPLAUSE] AND NEVER GOT THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT I HAVE HAD.

IT CAN BE DIFFICULT IN CHALLENGING TIMES TO BE BRAVE,

SO I WOULD LIKE TO THANK SCOTT ELLIS AND ROUNDABOUT THEATER FOR

DARING TO DO A PLAY CALLED "YELLOW FACE" IN AN ELECTION

SEASON.

THANK YOU TO DAVID HENRY LONG FOR ME AND SO MANY OTHERS OF

VOICE.

THANK YOU TO THE BILLY DIRECTOR, LEIGH SILVERMAN , WHOSE

INTEGRITY MADE THIS ENTIRE GORGEOUS PRODUCTION SEWE ENTIRE

GORGEOUS PRODUCTION SEW SEWER.

FOR THOSE WHO DON'T FEEL SEEN, FOR THOSE BEING TARGETED IN

THESE AUTHORITARIAN TIMES, I SEE YOU.

AT ITS BEST, THIS COMMUNITY SEES YOU.

[APPLAUSE] AND I HOPE THAT ENCOURAGES YOU TO BE BRAVE AND

TO DREAM AND TO DREAM BIG.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

[APPLAUSE] MUSIC OF THE HOME >> Cynthia: PLEASE WELCOME

EMMY-WINNING CHOREOGRAPHER JULIANNE HOUGH.

[APPLAUSE] >> Julianne: EARLIER TONIGHT, PATRICIA DELGADO AND

JUSTIN PECK RECEIVED THE TONY FOR THEIR AMAZING CHOREOGRAPHY

OF THE NEXT NOMINATED MUSICAL.

INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS, IT TRANSPORTS US TO HAVANA, WHERE

BLAZING TRUMPETS AND SIZZLING GUITARS SET THE DANCE FLOOR ON

FIRE.

SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF THE LEGENDS WHO LIVED IT, FORGOTTEN

MUSICIANS ARE REUNITED TO IMMORTALIZE THEIR HISTORIC CUBAN

SOUND AS ONE WOMAN DISCOVERS THE MUSIC THAT WILL FOREVER CHANGE

HER LIFE.

PLEASE WELCOME THE COMPANY OF "BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB."

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> THERE'S THIS PLACE IN MARIANAO -- WE ARE

PLAYING THERE TONIGHT.

>> ISN'T THAT NEIGHBORHOOD DANGEROUS?

>> IT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN, SO PEOPLE MAKE CERTAIN

ASSUMPTIONS.

BUT I PROMISE, IT'S SAFE.

>> WHAT'S THIS PLACE CALLED?

♪ ♪ >> THE BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB ♪ ♪ ♪ AY, CANDELA, CANDELA

♪ ♪ CANDELA ME QUEMO AÉ ♪ ♪ AY, CANDELA, CANDELA ♪ ♪ CANDELA ME

QUEMO AÉ ♪ ♪ PUSO UN BAILE UNA JUTÍA, PARA UNA GRAN DIVERSIÓN ♪

♪ DE TIMBALERO UN RATÓN, QUE ALEGRABA EL CAMPO UN DÍA ♪ ♪ UN

GATO TAMBIÉN VENÍA, ELEGANTE Y PLACENTERO ♪ ♪ BUENAS NOCHES,

COMPAÑERO, SIEMPRE FIJO HACIA EL TIMBAL ♪ ♪ PARA EL CHIVO DE

TOCAR, PARA DESCANSAR UN POCO ♪ ♪ SALIÓ EL RATÓN MEDIO LOCO,

TAMBIÉN VOY A DESCANSAR ♪ ♪ Y EL GATO EN SU BUEN BAILAR, BAILABA

UN DANZÓN LIVIANO ♪ ♪ EL RATÓN SE SUBE AL GUANO, Y DICE BIEN

PLACENTERO ♪ ♪ Y AHORA SI QUIEREN BAILAR, BUSQUENSE OTRO

TIMBALERO ♪ ♪ AY, CANDELA, CANDELA ♪ ♪ CANDELA ME QUEMO AÉ

♪ ♪ AY, CANDELA, CANDELA ♪ ♪ CANDELA ME QUEMO AÉ ♪ ♪ AY,

CANDELA, CANDELA ♪ ♪ CANDELA ME QUEMO AÉ ♪ ♪ AY, CANDELA,

CANDELA ♪ ♪ CANDELA ME QUEMO AÉ ♪ ♪ AY, CANDELA, CANDELA ♪ ♪

CANDELA ME QUEMO AÉ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ AY!

♪ ♪ ME QUEMÓ AÉ ♪ ♪ DILÁN, DILÁN ♪ ♪ ME QUEMÓ AÉ ♪ ♪ DIDILÁN,

DIDILÁN ♪ ♪ ME QUEMÓ AÉ ♪ ♪ DILÁN, DILÁN, DILÁN ♪ ♪ ME QUEÓO

AÉ ♪ ♪ DI-DI-DI-DI-DI-DI-DI DILÁN ♪ ♪ ♪ ME QUEMÓ AÉ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ME QUEMÓ AÉ ♪ ♪ AY, OMARA QUE ME QUEMO ♪ ♪ ME QUEMÓ AÉ ♪ ♪

MIRA QUE ME ESTOY QUEMANDO ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ME QUEMÓ AÉ ♪ ♪ MÍRALO QUÉ

RICO ESTÁ ♪ ♪ ME QUEMÓ AÉ ♪ ♪ OYE MIRA MI PASILLO ♪ ♪ ME QUEÓO

AÉ ♪ ♪ QUE TE QUEMA ♪ ♪ LA CANDELA MULATONA ♪ ♪ ME QUEMÓ ÉE

♪ ♪ ME QUEMÓ AÉ ♪ >> i >>

¡ESO!

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

♪ ♪ >> Announcer: NEXT, JONATHAN GROFF SINGS THE MUSIC OF BOBBY

DARIN.

AND, COMING UP, THE ORIGINAL COMPANY OF "HAMILTON" WITH A

LIVE MIX TAPE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER HEARD BEFORE.

THE TONY AWARDS.

THIS IS CBS.

♪ ♪ >> Cynthia: WE'RE BACK.

HE MADE HIS BRADWAY DEBUT IN "CABARET," AND SHE'S CURRENTLY

ON STAGE IN "& JULIET."

ADAM LAMBERT AND CHARLI D'AMELIO.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Charli: MEETING YOUNG FANS AND HEARING

HOW EXCITED THEY ARE ABOUT LIVE THEATER HAS BEEN AN AMAZING

GIFT.

THANKS TO THE BROADWAY LEAGUE'S PROGRAM, BROADWAY BRIDGES, MORE

THAN 120,000 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN NEW YORK CITY HAVE

SEEN A SHOW FOR JUST $10.

>> Adam: IT'S AN EXPERIENCE THAT THESE YOUNG PEOPLE WILL NEVER

FORGET.

MANY OF THEM WERE NO DOUBT INSPIRED BY OUR NEXT NOMINEES

FOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL.

♪ ♪ >> Announcer: BROOKS ASHMANSKAS, "SMASH."

JEB BROWN, "DEAD OUTLAW."

DANNY BURSTEIN, "GYPSY."

JAK MALONE, "OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL."

TAYLOR TRENSCH, "FLOYD COLLINS."

♪ ♪ >> Charli: AND THE TONY AWARD GOES TO...

JAK MALONE.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Announcer: FOR HIS BROADWAY

DEBUT, JAK MALONE EARNS HIS FIRST TONY NOMINATION AND WIN.

♪ ♪

>> [LAUGHS] THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE AMERICAN THEATRE WING, THE

BROADWAY LEAGUE, AND TO THIS INCREDIBLE BROADWAY COMMUNITY

FOR YOUR WARMTH, GENEROSITY OF SPIRIT, AND THE FULFILLMENT OF A

LIFELONG DREAM.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYONE ON THE TEAM, OUR PRODUCERS,

CREATIVES, CAST, AND THE EXCEPTIONAL TEAM.

IT IS SUCH A PLEASURE TO COME TO WORK WITH YOU EACH DAY.

ALL WE DO IS LAUGH.

THANK YOU, MUCH LOVE, AND I'VE THE BEST DRESSER IN ALL OF

BROADWAY AND HIS NAME IS JIM.

THANK YOU TO MY WONDERFUL AGENTS, GERI ALLAN FOR THE

NOTES, CLAIRE HAULED FOR BEING IN SPACE AND FROM DAY ONE FOR

THANK YOU FOR WRITING WHAT I BELIEVED TO THE BEST BELIEVED TO

THE BE BEST MUSICAL THEATER SONG IN RECENT HISTORY AND NOT HAVING

THE GOOD SENSE TO SING YOURSELVES.

THANK YOU TO MY FAMILY WATCHING IN ENGLAND AND THANK YOU TO MY

FAMILY WHO CAME OUT TO HAVE THIS ADVENTURE TO ME.

YOU ARE MY WHOLE HEART AND I WOULD BE LOST WITHOUT YOU AND

I'M GRATEFUL EVERY DAY.

THE LAST THING I WANTED TO SAY IS THIS: EIGHT TIMES A WEEK I

WALK OUT ON THAT STAGE UNTIL THE AUDIENCE ON A WOMAN.

AND I'M NOT ONE.

I ONLY CONVEY IT THROUGH SIMPLE ADJUSTMENT TO POSTURE, VOICE,

AND ENERGY, BUT NIGHT AFTER NIGHT THE AUDIENCE IS BELIEVE IN

HESTER.

IF YOU WATCHED OUR SHOW AND FOUNDERS OF BELIEVING IN HESTER,

I'M SO GLAD TO TELL YOU THAT INTENTIONALLY OR OTHERWISE YOU

MIGHT HAVE JUST BID FAREWELL TO CYNICISM, OUTDATED IDEAS OF THAT

ROTTEN OLD BINARY AND OPEN YOURSELF UP TO A WORLD THAT'S

ALREADY OUT THERE IN GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR AND ISN'T GOING AWAY

ANYTIME SOON.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Cynthia: SO SORRY.

YOU CAUGHT ME ENJOYING THE SHOW.

COULD YOU TAKE THAT?

AND HER NAME IS CYNTHIA, TOO.

CONGRATULATIONS TO JAK MALONE.

CONGRATULATIONS, CONGRATULATIONS.

[APPLAUSE] YES, YES.

I'M UP IN THE BALCONY, BECAUSE I ADORE A BIT OF BALCONY.

I'M 5'1", AND IT'S THE BEST CHANCE FOR ME TO GET A CLEAR

VIEW OF THE STAGE.

I SAW PRODUCTION WHICH SHALL NOT BE NAMED, BUT I WILL SAY IT WAS

A "SMASH."

A WELL-INTENTIONED YOUNG MAN RAN UP TO ME AND SAID, "DO YOU NEED

THIS?"

BEFORE TRYING TO HAND ME AN ACTUAL BOOSTER SEAT.

[LAUGHTER] BALCONY SEATS SOLVE THAT PROBLEM.

EVERYONE LOVES A BALCONY SEAT, EXCEPT, AS WE LEARNED THIS

SEASON, ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

[AUDIENCE REACTS] THE BALCONY'S ALSO THE BEST AND SAFEST PLACE

TO SEE JONATHAN GROFF SAYING -- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WITHOUT

GETTING SPIT ON, IF THAT'S NOT YOUR THING.

SO PLEASE WELCOME A MAN WHO MAKES EVERYONE WET.

[LAUGHTER] [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] FROM "JUST IN TIME," AS BOBBY

DARIN, MY FRIEND, THE INCREDIBLE JONATHAN GROFF.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ♪ OH, THE SHARK, BABE, HAS SUCH TEETH,

DEAR ♪ ♪ AND HE SHOWS THEM, PEARLY WHITE ♪ ♪ JUST A

JACKKNIFE HAS OLD MacHEATH, BABE ♪ ♪ AND HE KEEPS IT OUTTA SIGHT

♪ NOW ON THE SIDEWALK, AH-HUH ♪ ♪ OOH, SUNDAY MORNIN', AH-HUH ♪

♪ LIES A BODY JUST OOZIN' LIFE ♪ ♪ EEK!

♪ ♪ AND SOMEONE'S SNEAKIN' 'ROUND THE CORNER ♪ ♪ COULD THAT

SOMEONE BE MACK THE KNIFE?

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I CAN ONLY GIVE YOU LOVE THAT LASTS FOREVER ♪ ♪ AND THE

PROMISE TO BE NEAR EACH TIME YOU CALL ♪ ♪ AND THE ONLY HEART I

OWN, FOR YOU AND YOU ALONE ♪ ♪ THAT'S ALL, THAT'S ALL ♪ ♪ I CAN

ONLY GIVE YOU COUNTRY WALKS IN SPRINGTIME ♪ ♪ AND A HAND TO

HOLD WHEN LEAVES BEGIN TO FALL ♪ ♪ AND A LOVE WHOSE BURNING LIGHT

♪ ♪ WILL WARM THE WINTER NIGHT ♪ ♪ THAT'S ALL, THAT'S ALL ♪ I'VE

DONE A LOT OF THINGS AND I'VE BEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE, BUT OF THE

DAY, I AM A NIGHTCLUB ANIMAL!

♪ ♪ ♪ ONCE IN A LIFETIME ♪ ♪ A MAN KNOWS A MOMENT ♪ ♪ ONE

WONDERFUL MOMENT ♪ ♪ WHEN FATE GRABS HIS HAND ♪ ♪ AND THIS IS

MY MOMENT ♪ ♪ MY ONCE IN A LIFETIME ♪ ♪ WHEN I CAN EXPLORE

♪ ♪ A NEW AND EXCITING LAND ♪ ♪ FOR ONCE IN MY LIFETIE ♪ ♪ YA

KNOW I FEEL LIKE A GIANT ♪ ♪ I'M GONNA SOAR LIKE AN EAGLE ♪ ♪ AS

THOUGH I HAD WINGS ♪ ♪ FOR THIS IS MY MOMENT ♪ ♪ MY DESTINY

CALLS ME ♪ ♪ AND THOUGH IT MAY BE ♪ ♪ JUST ONCE IN MY LIFETIME

♪ ♪ I'M GOING TO DO GREAT THINGS ♪ ♪ LOOK OUT, OL' MACKIE IS

BACK!

♪ ♪ ♪ [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> Announcer: NEXT, NICOLE SCHERZINGER WITH A PERFORMANCE

FROM "SUNSET BLVD."

AND THEN, LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA AND THE ORIGINAL COMPANY OF

"HAMILTON" REUNITE FOR A LANDMARK LIVE MIX TAPE.

THE TONY AWARDS.

THIS IS CBS.

>> Cynthia: WE ARE BACK WITH A BROADWAY VETERAN AND AN ACTOR

WHO IS MAKING HIS BROADWAY DEBUT THIS FALL IN "HARRY POTTER AND

THE CURSED CHILD," CARRIE PRESTON AND TOM FELTON.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Carrie: THE FULLY REALIZED CHARACTERS

CREATED BY THIS NEXT GROUP OF ARTISTS ARE SHINING EXAMPLES OF

THE SHEER VARIETY OF OFFERINGS ON BROADWAY.

THEY GAVE US SOME OF THE BOLDEST AND BRAVEST HUMAN MOMENTS OF THE

SEASON.

>> Tom: THE INTENSITY THEY BRING TO THEIR ROLES ENRICHES NOT ONLY

THE WRITING, BUT THE PERFORMANCES OF THEIR FELLOW

ARTISTS.

THEIR COMMITMENT TO REALITY IS WHAT MAKES LIVE THEATER SO

THRILLING AND VIBRANT.

HERE ARE THE NOMINEES FOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED

ACTRESS IN A PLAY.

>> Announcer: TALA ASHE, "ENGLISH."

JESSICA HECHT, "EUREKA DAY."

MARJAN NESHAT, "ENGLISH."

FINA STRAZZA, "JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN."

KARA YOUNG, "PURPOSE."

>> Carrie: AND THE AMERICAN THEATRE WING'S TONY AWARD GOES

TO...

KARA YOUNG, "PURPOSE."

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Announcer: THIS IS THE FOURTH

YEAR IN A ROW KARA YOUNG HAS EARNED A NOMINATION IN THIS

CATEGORY, AND TONIGHT SHE SCORES HER SECOND CONSECUTIVE TONY WIN.

♪ ♪

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> THANK YOU SO -- WOW, HI!

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE AMERICAN THEATRE WING.

THANK YOU TO THE BROADWAY LEAGUE, THANK YOU TO MY MOTHER

AND MY FATHER.

MY MOTHER, WHO IS MY DATE, VANESSA JENKINS YOUNG.

MY BELIZEAN QUEEN OF THE BAY WHO COOKED AND STEWED AND BREWED ME

FOR NINE MONTHS.

THANK YOU.

MY FATHER, KLAY YOUNG, AND MY BROTHER, KLAY JR.

I LOVE YOU GUYS.

TO MY PARTNER, WHO IS EVERYTHING, AND TO BRANDEN

JACOBS-JENKINS, PULITZER PRIZE WINNING BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS,

SERIOUS LIKE A NATURAL STORM, AND ALL AND AL ALL YOU HAVE TO

DO IS BUE UP.

TO THE INCREDIBLE LEGENDARY PHYLICIA RASHAD, WHO IS OUR

DIRECTOR, WHO OPENED WINDOWS AND DOORS AND MOVED MOUNTAINS TO

GUIDE ME THROUGH AZIZA, THIS INCREDIBLE COMPANY PEOPLE I GET

TO BE WITH EIGHT SHOWS A WEEK.

LATANYA RICHARDSON JACKSON, OUR MATRIARCH, THE QUEEN OF NUANCE.

HARRY LENNIX, JON MICHAEL HILL, GLENN DAVIS, MAKING HER A COUPLE

BROADWAY DEBUT.

WRAP IT UP.

THANK YOU TO THE PRODUCERS OF "PURPOSE."

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I AM SO GRATEFUL.

ONE MORE SECOND.

IN THIS WORLD THAT WE ARE SO DIVIDED, THEATER IS A SACRED

SPACE!

IT'S A SACRED SPACE THAT WE HAVE TO HONOR AND TREASURE.

AND IT MAKES US UNITED.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

SORRY, CYNTHIA!

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Cynthia: PLEASE WELCOME A THREE-TIME TONY

WINNER, TWO-TIME NORMA DESMOND, AND THE ONE AND ONLY GLENN

CLOSE.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Glenn: THE FIRST NOMINATED MUSICAL REVIVAL

IS ABOUT A CHARACTER WHO STILL PROWLS THE CORRIDORS OF MY HEART

AND SOUL.

MOVIE STAR NORMA DESMOND IS STILL HAUNTED BY HER MEMORIES

AND STILL PLOTTING HER RETURN TO THE SILVER SCREEN.

JAMIE LLOYD'S THRILLING REIMAGINATION CREATES AN

IMMERSIVE FEVER DREAM TO SHOWCASE THE PERFORMANCE OF RAW

ARTISTRY AND ASTOUNDING BRAVERY.

FROM ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER'S "SUNSET BLVD.," PLEASE WELCOME

TONY NOMINEE NICOLE SCHERZINGER.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ♪ I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M FRIGHTENED ♪ ♪ I

KNOW MY WAY AROUND HERE ♪ ♪ THE CARDBOARD TREES, THE PAINTED

SCENES, THE SOUND HERE ♪ ♪ YES, A WORLD TO REDISCOVER ♪ ♪ BUT

I'M NOT IN ANY HURRY ♪ ♪ AND I NEED A MOMENT ♪ ♪ THE WHISPERED

CONVERSATIONS IN OVERCROWDED HALLWAYS ♪ ♪ THE ATMOSPHERE AS

THRILLING HERE AS ALWAYS ♪ ♪ FEEL THE EARLY MORNING MADNESS ♪

♪ FEEL THE MAGIC IN THE MAKING ♪ ♪ WHY, EVERYTHING'S AS IF WE

NEVER SAID GOODBYE ♪ ♪ I DON'T WANT TO BE ALONE, THAT'S ALL IN

THE PAST ♪ ♪ THIS WORLD'S WAITED LONG ENOUGH ♪ ♪ I'VE COME HOME

AT LAST ♪

[APPLAUSE] ♪ AND THIS TIME WILL BE BIGGER ♪ ♪ AND BRIGHTER THAN

WE KNEW IT ♪ ♪ SO WATCH ME FLY, WE ALL KNOW I CAN DO IT ♪ ♪

WE'LL HAVE EARLY MORNING MADNESS ♪ ♪ WE'LL HAVE MAGIC IN THE

MAKING ♪ ♪ YES, EVERYTHING'S AS IF WE NEVER SAID GOODBYE ♪ ♪

YES, EVERYTHING'S AS IF WE NEVER SAID GOODBYE ♪ ♪ WE TAUGHT THE

WORLD NEW WAYS TO DREAM ♪

♪ ♪ [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

♪ ♪ >> Announcer: NEXT, A ROLLICKING PERFORMANCE FROM

"PIRATES!

THE PENZANCE MUSICAL," AND LATER, A SPECIAL "HAMILTON"

TENTH ANNIVERSARY REUNION.

THE TONY AWARDS.

THIS IS CBS.

♪ ♪ >> HEY, I'M MULTITASKER DARREN CRISS, AND AT THIS VERY

MOMENT I'VE GOT A LOT ON MY PLATE.

I'M ONE MORE COSTUME CHANGE FROM OVERHEATING.

IN "MAYBE HAPPY ENDING," I PLAY A ROBOT AND, JUST LIKE MY

CHARACTER, I'VE ONLY GOT SO MUCH BATTERY LIFE.

THAT'S WHY, WHEN IT STARTS TO RUN LOW, I NEED A LITTLE BIT OF

CAFFEINE AND SOMETHING REVITALIZING THAT SAYS, "YOU GOT

THIS."

THAT'S WHY PURE LEAF IS THE PERFECT SCENE PARTNER TO GET ME

THROUGH THE SHOW, SO GRAB A PURE LEAF, TAKE A TEA BREAK, AND COME

BACK FOR MORE OF THE TONY AWARDS.

AAH, LET'S GO.

♪ ♪ >> Announcer: SPONSORED BY PURE LEAF ICED TEA.

TAKE A TEA BREAK.

>> AND WE'RE LIVE IN THREE, TWO, ONE -- >> Cynthia: HERE NOW, THE

NEWS.

THIS SEASON BROADWAY AUDIENCES WERE THRILLED BY ENDLESS AMOUNTS

OF ON-STAGE CAMERAS, AN ABUNDANCE OF SERIOUS MEN

SMOKING, AND EXTREMELY BLACK AND WHITE CLOSE-UPS OF EXTREMELY

ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE.

[LAUGHTER] [APPLAUSE] SOURCES SAY THE APPROACH ADDS A SENSE OF

DRAMA AND MYSTERY TO OTHERWISE STRAIGHTFORWARD INFORMATION.

MORE SOON.

AND NOW, PLEASE WELCOME A TONY-WINNING PAIR THAT INCLUDES

ONE OF MY TOP TWO GLINDAS -- KRISTIN CHENOWETH AND RACHEL BAY

JONES.

THAT'S THE NEWS.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Kristin: THE 16TH ANNUAL JIMMY AWARDS,

PRODUCED BY THE BROADWAY LEAGUE FOUNDATION, RECOGNIZES TALENTED

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

MORE THAN 100 HOPEFULS WILL COMPETE FOR THIS YEARS AWARDS ON

ON JUNE 23RD.

OH, RACHEL...

I STILL REMEMBER WHEN I WON MY FIRST JIMMY AWARD.

>> Rachel: KRISTIN, THEY JUST STARTED IN 2009.

[LAUGHTER] >> Kristin: YEAH...

THE YEAR I GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL.

[LAUGHTER] >> Rachel: PAST WINNERS HAVE STARRED ON BROADWAY

IN SHOWS LIKE "DEAR EVAN HANSEN," OR BEEN RECOGNIZED,

LIKE THESE NOMINEES FOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A

FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL.

>> Announcer: NATALIE VENETIA BELCON, "BUENA VISTA SOCIAL

CLUB."

JULIA KNITEL, "DEAD OUTLAW."

GRACIE LAWRENCE, "JUST IN TIME."

JUSTINA MACHADO, "REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES: THE MUSICAL."

JOY WOODS, "GYPSY."

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Kristin: AND THE TONY AWARD FOR THE BEST

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL, ONE

OF OUR PARTICULAR FAVORITE WORDS OF THE NIGHT...

NATALIE VENETIA BELCON, "WHEN IT WAS.

""BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB."

>> Announcer: OTHER BROADWAY CREDITS INCLUDE " AVENUE Q" AND

"RENT."

SHE EARNS HER FIRST TONY NOMINATION AND WIN.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.

OH, MY GOODNESS.

HELLO, EVERYONE.

[APPLAUSE] AMAZING!

OKAY.

THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE WAS THE 58TH TONY AWARDS.

YEAH.

I MISS THIS PLACE.

ANYWAY, CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE, ACTUALLY.

THANK YOU TO THE BROADWAY LEAGUE AND THE AMERICAN THEATRE WING.

TARO, XAVIER, THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE INCOME EVEN IF IT IS

A 12-YEAR-OLD ASIAN BOY.

SHE SAYS, I'VE GOT YOU, GIRL, AND THERE I AM.

TO MY PRODUCERS, ORIN WOLF, JOHN STILES, PATRICK DALY, BARBARA

BROCCOLI, DAVID YES THAT, BROCCOLI, DAVID YES TH YAZBEK,

THANK YOU FOR TRUSTING YOU THIS.

SAHEEM ALI, I'D LIKE TO CALL HIM "BOOKED AND BUSY," AND OUR

WONDERFUL BOOK WRITER, MARCO RAMIREZ.

THE BAND, MY OBSESSION.

WELL, MY SECOND SESSION.

THE FIRST ONE IS JASON MOMOA.

HEY, JASON.

HOW YOU DOING?

[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] AND THE REAL BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB,

WHO OF COURSE WE COULD NOT DO THIS WITHOUT.

I HOPE YOU WILL SEE THIS.

I HOPE YOU ARE PROUD OF US.

IT IS SUCH AN HONOR TO PORTRAY YOU.

MY FELLOW NOMINEES, YOUR PERFORMANCES ARE ALL INCREDIBLY

INSPIRING.

MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY, THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO ME CRY AND

CACKLE AND COMPLAIN AT 3:00 IN THE MORNING.

AND MY TEAM, JOHN MASON, PERRY, LAUREN, AND ALEX, THIS IS SUCH

AN INCREDIBLE HONOR TO COME BACK THIS WAY AND TO PORTRAY THIS

WOMAN, AND THIS BAND.

I THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

GOOD NIGHT.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Cynthia: PLEASE WELCOME TONY AWARD WINNER

KELLI O'HARA.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Kelli: GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.

EIGHT TIMES A WEEK, A THEATRICAL LANDMARK SETS SAIL FROM

BROADWAY, AS MY BELOVED ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY

CHARTS A NEW COURSE FOR THE SHOW THAT LAUNCHED MUSICAL COMEDY.

THIS IS "PIRATES!," THE JAZZED-UP REIMAGINING OF GILBERT

AND SULLIVAN'S "PIRATES OF PENZANCE," JOYFULLY RELOCATED TO

THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.

NOW TONY AWARD WINNER DAVID HYDE PIERCE AND THE ENTIRE PIRATES!

CREW PERFORM THE CLASSIC, "WE SAIL THE OCEAN BLUE."

AYE, AYE, CAPTAIN.

>> OH, I'M NOT A CAPTAIN.

I AM THE VERY MODEL OF A MODERN MAJOR GENERAL.

HE'S A CAPTAIN!

♪ ♪ >> ♪ I GOT THE SAIL THE OCEAN BLUES ♪ ♪ AND AS PIRATE

KING, I'M MINDLESS ♪ ♪ YET I MIX MY BOOTLEG BOOZE ♪ ♪ WITH THE

MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS ♪ ♪ WITH PLUCK AND PANACHE ♪ ♪ I CAN

BUCKLE AND SWASH ♪ ♪ ALTHOUGH MY HEART IS NOT IRONCLAD, GUYS ♪ ♪

IF I MAY BE SUCCINCT, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE EXTINCT ♪ ♪ WE WISH

TO LIVE OR DIE AS BAD GUYS ♪ >> ♪ I WAS ONCE A PIRATE, TOO ♪ ♪

AND A CRAVEN SLAVE TO DUTY ♪ >> ♪ IN A PLEASANT SWITCHEROO ♪ ♪ I

HAVE FOUND MYSELF A CUTIE ♪ >> ♪ WHEN THE TRADEWINDS PLAY OVER

HURRICANE BAY ♪ ♪ I COULDN'T WISH MY LIFE TO BE FINER ♪ ♪ BUT

IF PIRATES APPEAR, THEN I FEAR YOU'LL HEAR ♪ ♪ THIS MAJOR

GENERAL SING >> ♪ BUT YOU'RE LOVED IN A MAJOR WAY ♪ >> ♪ LOVE

HAS THROWN ME OVERBOARD ♪ ♪ IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA, I'M FLAILING

♪ ♪ I'M SINKING FAST AND REVIEWING MY PAST ♪ ♪ WHATEVER

MADE ME TAKE UP SAILING ♪ >> ♪ AHOY, AHOY ♪ >> ♪ THE SITUATION

STINKS ♪ >> ♪ AHOY, AHOY ♪ >> ♪ I GUESS THAT I'M A JINKX ♪ >> ♪

SO WE'LL STAND BY OUR HEARTS ALL DAY ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [SHOES TAPPING]

[WASHBOARD] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> TAKE IT HOME!

♪ ♪ >> ♪ WE'VE A STORY JUST FOR YOU ♪ ♪ OF ROMANCE AND DANCE AND

CROSSED SWORDS ♪ ♪ ONE OF SISTERS BRAVE AND TRUE ♪ ♪ AND

ABOUT TWO DOZEN WASHBOARDS ♪ ♪ AND HERE'S OUR GRAND CONFESSION

♪ ♪ THAT BORDERS ON OBSESSION ♪ ♪ WE LIVE TO GIVE THIS HARDY

HIP-HOO-RAH ♪ ♪ LIFE IS A MARDI GRAS ♪ ♪ ♪ [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

♪ ♪ >> Announcer: NEXT, A PERFORMANCE FROM "MAYBE HAPPY

ENDING."

THEN, IT'S A LIVE "HAMILTON" MIX TAPE.

THE TONY AWARDS.

THIS IS CBS.

♪ ♪ [APPLAUSE] >> Announcer: PLEASE WELCOME ACTOR, DIRECTOR,

NEW YORKER, BEN STILLER.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Ben: I'M SO HONORED TO BE HERE, BECAUSE

THEATER IS MY PASSION, THE PLACE WHERE I FEEL MOST AT HOME.

THE STAGE HAS BEEN A CONSTANT SANCTUARY FOR ME, DATING ALL THE

WAY BACK TO LAST WEEK, WHEN THE KNICKS LOST THE EASTERN

CONFERENCE FINALS.

[LAUGHTER] THANK YOU.

I WAS TOLD THERE WAS A HUGE CROSSOVER BETWEEN THEATER LOVERS

AND SPORTS FANS.

[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] YEAH.

THE FIVE DISTINCT VOICES NOMINATED FOR OUR NEXT AWARD

REPRESENT THE DIVERSITY AND EXTRAORDINARY WEALTH OF NEW

MATERIAL THAT CAPTIVATED THEATERGOERS THIS SEASON.

AMONG THEM ARE TONY AND PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS, ALONG WITH THREE

PLAYWRIGHTS WHO ARE MAKING THEIR BROADWAY DEBUTS.

[APPLAUSE] TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE INSPIRATIONS BEHIND THEIR WORKS

ARE SOME OF THE BRILLIANT NOMINATED ARTISTS FROM EACH

PLAY.

♪ ♪ >> GUYS, PLEASE, PLEASE.

I HAVE TO GET THROUGH THIS.

"OH, MARY!"

BEGAN AS A STUPID QUESTION I EMAILED TO MYSELF: "WHAT IF ABE

LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION WASN'T SUCH A BAD THING FOR OL' MARY

TODD?"

AFTER MORE THAN A DECADE OF PAINSTAKINGLY AVOIDING ANY

RESEARCH, I WROTE MY HISTORICALLY INACCURATE PORTRAIT

OF THE BRATTY CURLED FIRST LADY.

IN MY VERSION, MARY IS A FRUSTRATED ALCOHOLIC CABARET

PERFORMER.

IT'S THAT CLASSIC TALE OF ART IMITATING LIFE -- MY LIFE, NOT

HERS.

[APPLAUSE] >> LAST YEAR'S TONY-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT BRANDEN

JACOBS-JENKINS RETURNS TO BROADWAY WITH THIS YEAR'S

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER, "PURPOSE."

WILDLY FUNNY AND EXPLOSIVELY DRAMATIC, "PURPOSE" CENTERS

AROUND THE COMPLEX DYNAMICS OF A POLITICAL DYNASTY LED BY SOLOMON

JASPER, PASTOR AND HERO OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.

GATHERED TOGETHER FOR AN EMOTIONAL HOMECOMING, THE FAMILY

MEMBERS EACH WRESTLE WITH WHAT PURPOSE MEANS TO THEM, AS

LONG-BURIED TRUTHS ARE REVEALED, FORCING THEM INTO A RECKONING

WITH THEMSELVES, THEIR FAITH, AND THEIR FAMILY'S LEGACY.

[APPLAUSE] >> IN A SEASIDE TOWN IN 1950s ENGLAND, A MOTHER

DREAMS OF FREEING HER FOUR DAUGHTERS FROM LIVES OF STIFLING

DRUDGERY.

THEIR IMPECCABLY DRILLED SISTER ACT WILL CARRY THEM TO DISTANT

SHORES TO LIVE OUT SPARKLING, EMPOWERED FUTURES.

WHEN THOSE SAME DAUGHTERS GATHER TWO DECADES LATER AT THEIR

MOTHER'S DEATHBED, A LONG-BURIED SECRET WILL CHANGE THEIR STORY

FOREVER.

IN "THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA," JEZ BUTTERWORTH EXPLORES HOW THE

ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS.

[APPLAUSE] >> PLAYWRIGHT KIMBERLY BELFLOWER RE-EXAMINES

"THE CRUCIBLE" THROUGH A CONTEMPORARY LENS IN "JOHN

PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN," A PLAY RUNNING ON POP MUSIC, OPTIMISM,

AND FURY.

HER INFECTIOUS COMING-OF-AGE STORY SPEAKS TO MY GENERATION,

AND ALL AUDIENCES, IN OUR OWN LANGUAGE, AND IT'S REALLY FUNNY.

WHEN A GROUP OF SMALL-TOWN TEENAGE GIRLS IN GEORGIA START

TO QUESTION EVERYTHING THEY'VE BEEN TAUGHT TO BELIEVE, THEY

JOIN FORCES TO CHALLENGE OLD NARRATIVES AND CREATE NEW ONES,

DANCING TOGETHER AMIDST A WORLD ON FIRE.

[APPLAUSE] >> PRODUCED BY ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY, THE

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING "ENGLISH" WAS WRITTEN BY SANAZ TOOSSI IN

RESPONSE TO THE 2017 MUSLIM TRAVEL BAN.

THIS COMEDY ABOUT LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY FOLLOWS FOUR IRANIAN

ADULTS AND THEIR TEACHER AS SHE PREPARES THEM FOR AN ENGLISH

LANGUAGE EXAM THAT WILL DETERMINE THEIR FUTURES.

THROUGH LINGUISTIC GAMES, ACCENT EXERCISES, AND EVEN THE LYRICS

OF A RICKY MARTIN SONG, THEY ARE ALL CONFRONTED BY THEIR WILDLY

DIFFERENT DREAMS AND WHETHER THEY CAN STILL BE THEMSELVES IN

ANOTHER LANGUAGE.

[APPLAUSE] >> Ben: THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR NOMINEES FOR YOUR

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEATER.

AND THE TONY AWARD GOES TO...

"PURPOSE."

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Announcer: ACCEPTING THE AWARD

FOR "PURPOSE," AUTHOR BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS AND PRODUCER

GLENN DAVIS.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

>> ALL RIGHT.

DAMN.

ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE STEPPENWOLF COMMUNITY AND TEAM

PURPOSE, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE BROADWAY LEAGUE IN THE

AMERICAN THEATRE WING FOR THIS HONOR.

MY FELLOW ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AUDREY FRANCIS, EXECUTIVE

DIRECTOR BROOKE FLANAGAN, AND I DEDICATE THIS AWARD TO

STEPPENWOLF'S LEADERSHIP STAFF, OUR BOARD, AND OUR ENSEMBLE.

THEY ARE WITHOUT QUESTION SOME OF THE GREATEST ARTISTS IN OUR

COUNTRIES, RISK TAKERS AND INNOVATORS WHO HAVE LARGE SUM OF

THE MOST BOLD PLAYS IN THE AMERICAN THEATRICAL CANON.

THANK YOU TO OUR SINGULAR PRODUCER, THE INCOMPARABLE DAVID

STONE.

AND TO THE ENTIRE PRODUCING TEAM FOR GIVING US THIS ONCE A

LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY, AND OUR BRILLIANT DIRECTOR, MS.

PHYLICIA RASHAD, THE QUEEN, FOR HER LEADERSHIP AND VISION.

AND THANK YOU TO ASK ORDINARY PLAYWRIGHT, THE GENIUS THAT IS

BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS.

YOU'VE CREATED THIS PLAY WITH US, FOR US.

YOU ARE A CREATIVE GENIUS AND A FRIEND.

I LOVE YOU.

THANK YOU.

ONE OF THE GREAT VOICES OF OUR GENERATION.

>> THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, TONY NOMINATORS AND VOTERS AND THANK YOU TO THESE

AUDIENCES THAT HAD BEEN SHOWING UP AND SHOWING OUT, BRINGING

THEIR AUNTIES AND MOM'S ANCESTORS AND MAKING IT A FAMILY

AFFAIR.

I WANT TO THANK MY HUSBAND WHO HAD NO BUSINESS LETTING ME GO TO

CHICAGO TO PLAY MAKE BELIEVE ON THE THTO WITH THE BEST ARTIST IN

AMERICA.

I WANT TO THANK MY TEACHERS, FOR MAKING ME A PLAYWRIGHT, FOR

GIVING A PURPOSE.

I WANT TO THANK MARSHA NORMAN AND CHRISTOPHER FOR TELLING ME

TO STOP BEING A STUDENT AND TO START WRITING.

I WANT TO THANK JEFFREY SCOTT AND LIZ FOR PLUCKING ME OUT OF

THE SLUSH PILE, AND THE CITY OF CHICAGO WHO MADE THIS SHOW WHAT

IT WAS WITH THEIR ENTHUSIASM, WHO SENT PEOPLE HERE.

I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO PLEASE SUPPORT THEIR LOCAL THEATERS.

A LOT OF GREAT STUFF HAPPENS IN NEW YORK, BUT A LOT HAPPENS OUT

IN OTHER REGIONS, SO USE YOUR NEXT COMMERCIAL BREAK TO GOOGLE

A LOCAL THEATER NEAR ME, OR HAVE A VERY DIFFICULT CONVERSATION

WITH YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS.

OKAY, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> HERE WE ARE AGAIN, THEATER'S BIGGEST

NIGHT.

>> TONIGHT ISN'T JUST ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS HERE ON BROADWAY, IT'S

ABOUT OUR ENTIRE THEATER WORLD, FROM SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY

CENTERS TO OFF-BROADWAY HOUSES AND REGIONAL STAGES.

THAT'S WHAT MAKES BROADWAY THE LONGEST STREET IN AMERICA.

>> THE AMERICAN THEATRE WING SUPPORTS THEATER MAKERS BY

OFFERING MENTORSHIPS, AWARDING GRANTS, AND OPENING DOORS INTO

THE INDUSTRY, DEVELOPING THE TALENT PIPELINE TO SUSTAIN THE

ART FORM NATIONWIDE.

>> THE POWER OF THEATER REACHES FAR BEYOND THE FOOTLIGHTS.

IT STRENGTHENS OUR SCHOOLS, FUELS OUR ECONOMY, AND DEFINES

OUR NATIONAL LEGACY.

>> WE ARE LIVING THROUGH UNSETTLING AND UNCERTAIN TIMES,

BUT IN MOMENTS OF DARKNESS IT IS ARTISTS WHO ILLUMINATE OUR PATH

FORWARD, AND FOR MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS, THE WING HAS

STOOD WITH OUR ARTISTS.

>> BUT WE CAN'T DO IT ALONE, SO GO SEE A PLAY.

>> JOIN A DRAMA CLUB.

>> SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL THEATER.

>> OR DONATE TO HELP THE NEXT GENERATION TAKE THE STAGE.

VISIT AmericanTheatreWing.org TO ADD YOUR VOICE TO OUR MISSION.

♪ ♪ >> Cynthia: PLEASE WELCOME TONY AWARD WINNER LEA SALONGA.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Lea: THE NEXT NOMINATED MUSICAL TAKES US TO

FUTURE SOUTH KOREA, WHERE ROBOTS OLIVER AND CLAIRE MEET AT A

RETIREMENT HOME FOR OBSOLETE "HELPERBOTS."

WITH LIMITED TIME BEFORE THE BATTERIES FAIL FOR GOOD, THEY

SET OFF ON AN ADVENTURE TO FIND THE LAST OF THE NEARLY EXTINCT

FIREFLIES THAT LIVE DEEP IN THE FORESTS OF JEJU ISLAND.

ALONG THE WAY, THEY DISCOVER LOVE, LOSS, AND THE COMPLEXITIES

OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

PLEASE WELCOME THE COMPANY OF "MAYBE HAPPY ENDING."

[APPLAUSE] >> HOW'S YOUR BATTERY?

>> YOU REALLY DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT ME, OLIVER.

>> I'M NOT WORRYING.

WAS I WORRYING, HWABOON?

>> I CAN'T PROMISE WE ARE GOING TO SEE ANY FIREFLIES.

I SHOULDN'T HAVE DRAGGED YOU HERE.

WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

>> WAITING FOR THE LITTLE FOREST ROBOTS.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> JUST STAND STILL.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ♪ HI, TINY FRIEND ♪ ♪ CAN YOU SAY HELLO?

♪ ♪ TELL ME, WHY, TINY FRIEND, DOES YOUR TUMMY GLOW?

♪ ♪ DO YOU FLY JUST FOR FUN ♪ ♪ OR TO GET SOMEWHERE BY THE DAWN?

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ NEVER FLY AWAY, LITTLE ROBOT ♪ ♪ DON'T YOU WANT TO

STAY, LITTLE ROBOT?

♪ ♪ BLINKING ALONE IN THE NIGHT, YOUR LITTLE LIGHT CALLED ME ♪ ♪

PLEASE NEVER FLY AWAY, LITTLE FRIEND ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ♪ WHERE, TINY

FRIEND, DO YOU HAVE TO BE?

♪ >> ♪ DO YOU CARE, TINY FRIEND, WHAT YOU MEAN TO ME?

♪ >> ♪ IF I SWEAR, TINY FRIEND, TO LOOK AFTER YOU ♪ >> ♪ WILL

YOU SLEEP?

♪ >> ♪ NEVER FLY AWAY, LITTLE ROBOT ♪ ♪ STAY ANOTHER DAY,

LITTLE ROBOT ♪ ♪ BLINKING ALONE IN THE NIGHT ♪ ♪ YOUR LITTLE

LIGHT ♪ ♪ CHANGED ME ♪ ♪ NOW NEVER FLY AWAY, LITTLE FRIEND ♪

♪ ♪

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Announcer: NEXT, JEREMY JORDAN PERFORMS

WITH THE COMPANY OF "FLOYD COLLINS."

PLUS, A LANDMARK LIVE REUNION AS OF "HAMILTON."

THE TONY AWARDS.

TEXT "GAVIN" TO 44321 TO SUPPORT THE WING'S GAVIN CREEL

FELLOWSHIP, AND VISIT AmericanTheatreWing.org TO LEARN

MORE.

THIS IS CBS.

♪ ♪ [APPLAUSE] >> Brian: WELCOME BACK TO THE TONY AWARDS.

AND NOW, PLEASE WELCOME PLAYWRIGHT AND TWO-TIME ACADEMY

AWARD NOMINEE JESSE EISENBERG.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Jesse: OUR NEXT NOMINATED MUSICAL REVIVAL

RECOUNTS THE TALE OF A TRUE AMERICAN DREAMER AND CAVE

EXPLORER WHO MADE NATIONAL HEADLINES AND BECAME A TOURIST

ATTRACTION.

IN 1925, WHILE CHASING FAME AND FORTUNE, HE BECAME TRAPPED 200

FEET UNDERGROUND.

ALONE, EXCEPT FOR OCCASIONAL CONTACT WITH HIS FAMILY AND AN

INTREPID REPORTER, HE FIGHTS FOR HIS SANITY -- AND, ULTIMATELY,

HIS LIFE.

PLEASE WELCOME THE COMPANY OF "FLOYD COLLINS."

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> ♪ DEEP IN THE LAND OF THE HOLLOWS AND CREEKS ♪ ♪ IF'N YOU

GET LOST, YOU GET LOST FOR WEEKS ♪ ♪ LISTEN TO THE TALE OF A MAN

WHO GOT LOST ♪ ♪ A HUNDRED FEET UNDER THE WINTER FROST ♪ >> ♪

EVEN FLOYD KNEW SOMETHIN' WASN'T RIGHT ♪ ♪ HE WAS SUFFERIN'

NIGHTMARES AT NIGHT ♪ >> ♪ BUT HE DIDN'T WORRY 'BOUT WHAT HE

DREAMED ♪ ♪ THINGS WAS GOIN' GOOD, OR SO IT SEEMED ♪ ♪ WENT

LOOKIN' FOR HIS FORTUNE UNDER THE GROUND ♪ ♪ SURE ENOUGH HIS

FORTUNE IS WHAT HE FOUND ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ALL RIGHT!

LET'S FIND OUT IF THERE IS CAVERN DOWN THERE.

OO-EE!

[NO ECHO] AAGH!

>> Echo: OO-EE!

>> YES!

♪ IF I FOLLOW THAT SOUND ♪ ♪ I COULD FIND WHAT I'M LOOKIN' FOR

♪ ♪ IT COULD BE GLORY CALLIN' ♪ ♪ CALLIN' ME ♪ ♪ CALLIN' ♪ ♪

COME ON, BOY ♪ ♪ YOU CAN DO IT NOW ♪ ♪ YOU CAN HAVE WHAT YOU

DREAM ON ♪ ♪ CALLIN' ♪ ♪ AND COMIN' BACK AND COMIN' CLEAR ♪ ♪

CALLIN' IS WHAT I HEAR ♪ ♪ NO MORE PLOWIN' A HARD-SCRABBLE

FIELD ♪ ♪ I JUST KNOW ♪ ♪ I JUST KNOW IT'S MY LUCKY DAY ♪ WELCOME

TO FLOYD COLLINS' SAND CAVE!

♪ YOU GOT YOUR MAGICAL PASSAGEWAYS ♪ ♪ YOU GOT YOUR

SQUEEZES AND BENDS ♪ ♪ MY KINGDOM IS OPEN ♪ ♪ COME ONE AND

ALL, MY TRAVELING FRIENDS ♪ ♪ I ALWAYS KNEW YOU'D HEAR MY CALL ♪

♪ DOH-OH-EE-OH ♪ >> Echo: ♪ DOH-OH-EE-OH ♪ >> ♪ EE-OH-OH ♪

>> Echo: ♪ EE-OH-OH ♪ >> ♪ GONNA FOLLOW THAT SOUND ♪ ♪ GONNA FIND

WHAT I'M LOOKIN' FOR ♪ ♪ THAT'S MY GLORY CALLIN' ♪ ♪ IT'S

CALLIN' ME ♪ ♪ CALLIN' ♪ ♪ COME ON, BOY ♪ ♪ YOU CAN DO IT NOW ♪

♪ YOU CAN HAVE WHAT YOU DREAM ON ♪ ♪ GLORY, OO-EE-HOO ♪ ♪ AND

COMIN' CLEAR ♪ ♪ GLORY IS WHAT I HEAR ♪ ♪ I ALWAYS KNEW I'D HEAR

THE SOUND ♪ ♪ OF VOICES ALL AROUND ME ♪ ♪ THAT'S THE SOUND

OF GLORY, AFTER ALL ♪ ♪ THAT'S MY CALL ♪ ♪ DOH-OH-EE-OH ♪ >>

Echo: ♪ DOH-OH-EE-OH ♪ >> ♪ EE-OH-OH ♪ >> Echo: ♪ EE-OH-OH ♪

>> ♪ OO-EE ♪ >> Echo: ♪ OO-EE ♪ ♪ OO-EE ♪ ♪ ♪ [CHEERS AND

APPLAUSE]

♪ ♪ >> Cynthia: PLEASE WELCOME THE GREATEST THEATER COUPLE

SINCE KANDER & EBB, SAMUEL L.

JACKSON AND LATANYA RICHARDSON JACKSON.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Samuel: THE PERFORMANCES AND PRODUCTIONS

NOMINATED TONIGHT ARE GLOWING REMINDERS OF BOTH THE IMPORTANCE

OF THE ARTS AND, AS PERFORMERS, WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A PART OF

THIS INCREDIBLE COMMUNITY.

>> LaTanya: THIS SEASON, BROADWAY THEATERGOERS WERE

STIMULATED BY REVIVALS OF SHAKESPEARE, AN AMERICAN

CLASSIC, AND TWO MODERN WORKS THAT ARE AS TIMELY AND

THOUGHT-PROVOKING AS EVER.

HERE ARE THE NOMINEES FOR BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY.

♪ ♪ >> "EUREKA DAY" TAKES PLACE IN AN INDEPENDENT PRIVATE

PROGRESSIVE SCHOOL, AND THEY ARE WRESTLING WITH WHAT YOU DO TO

PROTECT CHILDREN AND EDUCATE THEM IN THE FACE OF

DISAGREEMENT.

>> IF YOU TEASED TO LEAVE THE SCHOOL, I'M SORRY WE COULDN'T

MAKE A WAY TO FEEL LIKE THERE WAS A PLACE YOU HERE.

>> THE PLAY REALLY DEALS WITH A LOT OF THINGS THAT SOMEHOW

RELATE TO A MODERN AUDIENCE, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS WRITTEN 500

YEARS AGO.

>> IT FELT LIKE BROADWAY WAS YOUNG IN OUR EYES, BRINGING IN

SUCH A YOUNG CROWD, HAVING THAT KIND OF ENERGY IN THE ROUND, IT

IS PRETTY UNREAL.

>> YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE LIFE TO LOVE LIFE.

THAT'S WHAT THEY CALL A VICIOUS CIRCLE.

>> IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SHOW ABOUT LOVE AND COMMUNITY AND

APPRECIATING YOUR LIFE WHILE YOU HAVE IT.

>> WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN ETERNAL SPIRIT, BOTH BEFORE AND

AFTER THAT LIFE ON EARTH.

YOU COULD STUDY THIS FOREVER.

>> IT'S A SHAPE-SHIFTING PLAY.

IT'S A COMEDY ABOUT MISTAKEN RACIAL IDENTITY.

>> ASIAN PARTS MUST ONLY BE PLAYED BY ASIAN ACTORS.

>> THEN BECOMES SOMETHING VERY HEARTFELT.

>> SO MUCH OF THIS PLAY IS ACTUALLY BASED ON TRUE EVENTS.

IT IS AS RELEVANT, IF NOT MORE SO.

THERE IS MORE OF AN AWARENESS OF WHAT WE SHOULD BE TRYING TO

ASPIRE TO.

[APPLAUSE] >> Samuel: AND THE AMERICAN THEATRE WING'S TONY

AWARD GOES TO...

"EUREKA DAY."

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Announcer: ACCEPTING THE AWARD

FOR "EUREKA DAY," PRODUCER LYNNE MEADOW AND AUTHOR JONATHAN

SPECTOR.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> THANK YOU TO THE BROADWAY LEAGUE.

SUCH AN HONOR TO BE INCLUDED IN SUCH AN AMAZING SEASON OF PLAYS

ON BROADWAY.

THANKS TO MY THEATER COMMUNITY WHO GAVE ME SPACE TO FIND MY

VOICE AS A WRITER, MY WIFE, MOLLY, WHO MAKES EVERYTHING

POSSIBLE, MY CHILDREN WATCHING AT HOME, MY PARENTS, THE WORLD'S

BEST AGENT, THE REST OF THE TEAM, AND ESPECIALLY OUR

AWE-INSPIRING COLLABORATORS, ANNA SHAPIRO, THIS INCREDIBLE

CAST, THE TEAM BEHIND THE THEATER CLUB, PASSIONATE

SUPPORTERS OF NEW PLAYS, PRODUCING PARTNERS LIKE THE

SINGULAR SONIA FRIEDMAN AND ALL THE ARTISTS WHO ARE PART OF THE

JOURNEY OF THIS PLAY.

I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM ALL OF YOU, SO THANK YOU.

[APPLAUSE] >> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS INCREDIBLY WONDERFUL

HONOR.

ON BEHALF OF MY MANHATTAN THEATER CLUB COLLEAGUES, OUR

STAFF, OUR BOARD, OR OTHER PRODUCING PARTNERS, SONIA

FRIEDMAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GETTING THIS PLAY TO HAPPEN.

IT WAS A JOY TO WORK WITH JONATHAN SPECTOR ON THIS PLAY.

THIS SERIOUSLY FUNNY PLAY, THIS INSIGHTFUL PLAY.

NOW I AM IN MY 50-PLUS YEARS OF MANHATTAN THEATER CLUB AS ITS

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, AND MORE THAN EVER I FEEL SUCH GRATITUDE TO

HAVE THIS PLATFORM TO WELCOME OUR PLAYWRIGHTS, OUR ARTISTS, TO

TELL STORIES LIKE JONATHAN'S THAT IMPACT, ENTERTAIN, AND OPEN

OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS.

I AM S NERVOUS, I'M SHAKING, BUT I FEEL SO PASSIONATELY ABOUT ALL

OF THIS.

CAN YOU HOLD THIS?

[LAUGHTER] OKAY, HERE'S WHAT I WANT TO SAY.

WE CELEBRATE OUR ANCIENT AND TIMELESS ART FORM IN THIS

INCREDIBLY CHALLENGING TIME.

-- >> Cynthia: ♪ AND HOW THE END IS NEAR ♪ >> SO LET'S DOUBLE

DOWN AND GO OUT AND DO MORE GREAT THEATER, LIKE "EUREKA

DAY."

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Cynthia: IN 2015, A LOT WAS DIFFERENT.

BARACK OBAMA WAS PRESIDENT.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] TIKTOK WASN'T EVEN CALLED TIKTOK YET.

AND I HAD HAIR, AND I WAS BUSY REHEARSING FOR MY BROADWAY DEBUT

IN "THE COLOR PURPLE."

[APPLAUSE] IN A THEATER A BLOCK SOUTH, A NEW PHENOMENON WAS

PLAYING TO SOLD-OUT CROWDS AT THE RICHARD RODGERS.

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA HAD CREATED AND STARRED IN SOMETHING SPECIAL

AT THE PUBLIC, AND EVEN BEFORE ITS TRANSFER TO BROADWAY, PEOPLE

WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS PIECE'S BRILLIANCE.

STILL, NO ONE COULD HAVE PREDICTED WHAT IT WOULD BECOME.

"HAMILTON" REINVIGORATED AMERICAN THEATER, NEARLY SWEPT

THE TONYS, AND CHANGED NOT JUST BROADWAY BUT HOW AMERICANS VIEW

THEIR OWN HISTORY -- OR SO I'M TOLD.

[LAUGHTER] THOSE OF US WHO SAW THE SHOW AMIDST ITS

TRANSFORMATION INTO A CULTURAL FORCE WILL NEVER FORGET THAT

EXPERIENCE, JUST AS THOSE OF US WHO WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO SHARE

IN THAT SPECIAL SEASON WILL NEVER FORGET THE EXPLOSION OF

JOY THAT SPILLED ONTO BROADWAY'S SIDEWALKS, AND IS HERE FOR YOU

NOW.

PLEASE WELCOME, TEN YEARS LATER, MY FRIENDS, AND THE ORIGINAL

COMPANY OF "HAMILTON."

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> ♪ AFTER THE WAR I WENT BACK TO NEW

YORK ♪ >> ♪ AFTER THE WAR I WENT BACK TO NEW YORK ♪ >> ♪ I

FINISHED UP MY STUDIES AND I PRACTICED LAW ♪ >> ♪ I PRACTICED

LAW, BURR WORKED NEXT DOOR ♪ >> ♪ EVEN THOUGH WE STARTED AT THE

VERY SAME TIME ♪ ♪ ALEXANDER HAMILTON BEGAN TO CLIMB ♪ ♪ HOW

TO ACCOUNT FOR HIS RISE TO THE TOP ♪ ♪ MAN, THE MAN IS NONSTOP

♪ ♪ ♪ >> ♪ I'MA GET A SCHOLARSHIP TO KING'S COLLEGE ♪

♪ I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BRAG, BUT DAG ♪ ♪ I AMAZE AND ASTONISH ♪ ♪

THE PROBLEM IS I GOT A LOT OF BRAINS BUT NO POLISH ♪ ♪ I GOTTA

HOLLER JUST TO BE HEARD ♪ ♪ WITH EVERY WORD I DROP KNOWLEDGE ♪ ♪

I'M PAST PATIENTLY WAITIN' ♪ ♪ I'M PASSIONATELY SMASHIN' EVERY

EXPECTATION ♪ ♪ EVERY ACTION'S AN ACT OF CREATION ♪ ♪ I'M

LAUGHIN' IN THE FACE OF CASUALTIES AND SORROW ♪ ♪ FOR

THE FIRST TIME I'M THINKIN' PAST TOMORROW ♪ >> ♪ AND I AM NOT

THROWING AWAY MY SHOT ♪ ♪ I AM NOT THROWING AWAY MY SHOT ♪ ♪

HEY YO, I'M JUST LIKE MY COUNTRY ♪ ♪ I'M YOUNG, SCRAPPY, AND

HUNGRY ♪ ♪ AND I'M NOT THROWING AWAY MY ♪ ♪ NOT THROWING AWAY MY

SHOT ♪ >> ♪ LOOK AROUND, LOOK AROUND AT HOW LUCKY WE ARE ♪ ♪

TO BE ALIVE RIGHT NOW ♪ >> ♪ LOOK AROUND, LOOK AROUND AT HOW

LUCKY WE ARE ♪ ♪ TO BE ALIVE RIGHT NOW ♪ >> ♪ HISTORY IS

HAPPENING IN MANHATTAN ♪ ♪ AND WE JUST HAPPEN TO BE ♪ ♪ IN THE

GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD ♪ >> ♪ IN THE GREATEST CITY IN THE

WORLD ♪ ♪ WORK, WORK ♪ >> ANGELICA.

>> ♪ WORK, WORK ♪ >> ELIZA.

>> AND PEGGY.

>> ♪ WORK, WORK ♪ >> ♪ THE SCHUYLER SISTERS ♪ >> ♪ WORK,

WORK ♪ >> ♪ WE'RE LOOKING FOR A MIND AT WORK ♪ >> ♪ HEY ♪ >> ♪

WORK, WORK ♪ >> ♪ HEY ♪ >> ♪ WORK, WORK ♪ >> ♪ HEY ♪ >> ♪ IN

THE GREATEST CITY ♪ ♪ IN THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD ♪ >>

♪ IN THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ♪ LAFAYETTE ♪ >>

♪ I'M TAKIN' THIS HORSE BY THE REINS ♪ ♪ MAKING REDCOATS REDDER

WITH BLOODSTAINS ♪ >> ♪ LAFAYETTE ♪ >> ♪ AND I'M NEVER

GONNA STOP 'TIL I MAKE 'EM DROP ♪ ♪ BURN 'EM UP AND SCATTER THE

REMAINS, I'M ♪ >> ♪ LAFAYETTE ♪ >> WATCH ME ENGAGIN' 'EM ♪ ♪

ESCAPIN' 'EM, ENRAGIN' 'EM ♪ ♪ I'M ♪ >> ♪ LAFAYETTE ♪ >> ♪ NO

ONE HAS MORE RESILIENCE ♪ ♪ OR MATCHES MY PRACTICAL, TACTICAL

BRILLIANCE ♪ >> REALLY?

♪ DA-DA-DA DAT DA ♪ ♪ DAT DA-DA-DA DAYA-DA ♪ ♪ DA-DA DAT

DAT DAYA DA ♪ ♪ DA-DA-DA DAT DA ♪ ♪ DAT DA-DA-DA DAYA DA ♪ ♪ DA

DA DAT DAT -- ♪ EVERYBODY!

>> ♪ DA-DA-DA DAT DA ♪ ♪ DAT DA-DA-DA DAYA-DA ♪ ♪ DA-DA DAT

DAT DAYA DA ♪ >> WE HAD A SPY ON THE INSIDE.

THAT'S RIGHT.

♪ HERCULES MULLIGAN ♪ >> ♪ A TAILOR SPYIN' ON THE BRITISH

GOVERNMENT ♪ ♪ I TAKE THEIR MEASUREMENTS, INFORMATION ♪ ♪

AND THEN I SMUGGLE IT ♪ >> ♪ UP ♪ >> ♪ TO MY BROTHER'S

REVOLUTIONARY COVENANT ♪ ♪ I'M RUNNIN WITH THE SONS OF LIBERTY

AND I AM LOVIN' IT ♪ ♪ SEE, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU UP

AGAINST THE RUFFIANS ♪ ♪ WE IN THE NOW, SOMEBODY GOTTA

SHOVEL IT ♪ ♪ HERCULES MULLIGAN ♪ ♪ I NEED NO INTRODUCTION ♪ ♪

WHEN YOU KNOCK ME DOWN, I GET THE -- BACK UP AGAIN ♪ >> ♪ THE

WORLD TURNED UPSI-- ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ♪ I WANNA BE IN THE ROOM WHERE IT

HAPPENS ♪ >> ♪ THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS ♪ ♪ I WANNA BE IN THE

ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS ♪ >> ♪ THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS ♪ ♪ THE

ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS ♪ >> ♪ WHOA-OH ♪ >> ♪ THE ROOM WHERE IT

HAPPENS ♪ >> ♪ I WANNA BE IN ♪ >> ♪ I'VE GOT TO BE ♪ >> ♪ I

WANNA BE IN ♪ >> ♪ I'VE GOT TO BE ♪ >> ♪ IN THE ROOM ♪ >> ♪ THE

ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS ♪ ♪ WE DREAM OF A BRAND-NEW START ♪ >>

♪ BUT WE DREAM IN THE DARK ♪ ♪ FOR THE MOST PART ♪ >> ♪ DARK AS

A TOMB WHERE IT HAPPENS ♪ >> ♪ I'VE GOT TO BE ♪ ♪ I'VE GOT TO

BE ♪ >> ♪ I WANNA BE IN THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS ♪ >> CLICK,

BOOM.

♪ ♪ >> ♪ LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I WISH I'D KNOWN ♪ ♪ WHEN I WAS

YOUNG AND DREAMED OF GLORY ♪ ♪ YOU HAVE NO CONTROL ♪ ♪ WHO

LIVES, WHO DIES, WHO TELLS YOUR STORY ♪ ♪ I KNOW THAT WE CAN WIN

♪ ♪ I KNOW THAT GREATNESS LIES IN YOU ♪ ♪ BUT REMEMBER, FROM

HERE ON IN ♪ ♪ HISTORY HAS ITS EYES ON YOU ♪ >> WHY DO YOU

ASSUME YOU'RE THE SMARTEST IN THE ROOM ♪ >> ♪ LOOK AROUND,

LOOK AROUND ♪ >> ♪ WHY DO YOU ASSUME YOU'RE THE SMARTEST IN

THE ROOM ♪ ♪ WHY DO YOU ASSUME YOU'RE THE SMARTEST IN THE ROOM

♪ >> ♪ SATISFIED, SATISFIED ♪ >> ♪ HISTORY HAS ITS EYES ON YOU ♪

♪ HISTORY HAS ITS EYES ON YOU ♪ >> ♪ I AM NOT THROWIN' AWAY MY ♪

HISTORY HAS ITS EYES ON YOU ♪ >> ♪ I AM NOT THROWIN' AWAY MY SHOT

♪ >> ♪ JUST YOU WAIT ♪ >> ♪ I AM NOT THROWIN' AWAY MY SHOT ♪ >> ♪

ALEXANDER HAMILTON ♪ ♪ HAMILTON ♪ ♪ JUST YOU WAIT ♪ >> ♪ I AM

NOT THROWIN' AWAY MY SHOT ♪ ♪ ♪ [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

[OVATION CONTINUES]

♪ ♪ >> Announcer: NEXT, SARA BAREILLES JOINS CYNTHIA ERIVO

FOR AN EMOTIONAL TRIBUTE TO THE SPECIAL FRIENDS WE LOST THIS

YEAR.

AND LATER, MORE NOMINATED PERFORMANCES FROM BROADWAY'S

BRIGHTEST STARS.

THE TONY AWARDS.

THIS IS CBS.

>> Cynthia: WE'RE BACK.

PLEASE WELCOME A TONY AWARD WINNER AND A TWO-TIME TONY

NOMINEE, BRYAN CRANSTON AND ALLISON JANNEY.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Bryan: ACTORS ARE -- >> Allison: CLOSER

TO THE MIC, AND ENUNCIATE.

>> Bryan: ENUNCIATE?

OH, YOU'RE DIRECTING ME.

>> Bryan: ACTORS ARE AT OUR MOST INVENTIVE AND REVEALING WHEN

GIVEN THE FREEDOM TO BECOME VULNERABLE.

[LAUGHTER] THERE IS NO GREATER COMFORT THAN TO BE SUPPORTED BY

DIRECTORS WHO ENCOURAGE US TO TAKE RISKS AND CREATE FLIGHTS OF

FANCY, AS WE FIND OUR OWN WAY TO THE TRUTH OF THE MATERIAL.

>> Allison: OKAY.

[LAUGHTER] IT'S OUR PLEASURE TO PRESENT TWO AWARDS TO SUCH

VISIONARIES WHO BROUGHT THEIR OWN GENIUS AND INSIGHT TO THE

WRITTEN WORD, AND WHO HAVE TO PUT UP WITH INDULGENT ACTORS.

THE PRODUCTIONS THEY GUIDED ARE LAYERED, COMPLEX, AND IN SOME

CASES DROP-DEAD HILARIOUS.

HERE ARE THE NOMINEES FOR BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY.

THANK YOU FOR GETTING THAT.

>> Announcer: KNUD ADAMS, "ENGLISH."

SAM MENDES, "THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA."

SAM PINKLETON, "OH, MARY!"

DANYA TAYMOR, "JOHN PROCTOR IS THE VILLAIN."

KIP WILLIAMS, "THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY."

>> Bryan: AND THE AMERICAN THEATRE WING'S TONY AWARD GOES

TO...

SAM PINKLETON.

"OH, MARY!"

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Announcer: THIS IS THE FIRST

TONY WIN FOR SAM PINKLETON, WHO WAS LAST NOMINATED FOR

CHOREOGRAPHING NATASHA PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812.

>> OH, MY GOODNESS!

TO EVERY DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER IN THIS ROOM, I

SALUTE YOU.

I SHARE THIS AWARD WITH DIRECTORS WHO TOOK A CHANCE ON

ME AS A YOUNG ARTIST.

I WANT TO THANK MY DAD AND MY MOM, WHO DID NOT STOP A LITTLE

GAY BOY FROM DOING LITTLE GAY THINGS.

MY HUSBAND, THANK YOU FOR NOT LETTING ME QUIT THEATER.

COLE ESCOLA!

[APPLAUSE] YOU HAVE TAUGHT ME TO MAKE WHAT YOU LOVE AND NOT WHAT

YOU THINK PEOPLE WANT TO SEE.

I SHARE THIS WITH EVERYONE WHO PUT THEIR FINGER PRINTS ON "OH,

MARY!"

UPTOWN AND DOWNTOWN.

THE CAST, THE STAGE MANAGERS, DESIGNERS, THE UNDERSTUDIES, MY

ASSISTANT, MY COCONSPIRATORS, OUR AMAZING PRODUCERS.

KEVIN, LUCAS, MIKE, CARLY.

YOU HAVE TRUSTED ARTISTS AND DONE IT WITH DECENCY AND

GENEROSITY.

THIS CAST.

I WANT TO THANK THE AUDIENCES WHO HAVE MADE THIS PLAY WHAT IT

IS.

THANK YOU FOR COMING, THANK YOU FOR FEELING JOY.

THIS IS A THING WE CAN DO.

WE CAN BRING JOY TO PEOPLE AT THE END OF A CRAPPY DAY AND THAT

FEELS LIKE A BIG DEAL TO ME.

I LOVE MAKING THEATER AND I LOVE BEING PART OF THIS COMMUNITY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

I LOVE YOU!

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Bryan: AND NOW, ONCE MORE, BUT

WITH MUSIC.

HERE ARE THE NOMINEES FOR BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL.

♪ ♪ >> Announcer: SAHEEM ALI, "BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB."

MICHAEL ARDEN, "MAYBE HAPPY ENDING."

DAVID CROMER, "DEAD OUTLAW."

CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI, "DEATH BECOMES HER."

JAMIE LLOYD, "SUNSET BLVD."

[APPLAUSE] >> Allison: AND THE TONY AWARD GOES TO...

MICHAEL ARDEN.

"MAYBE HAPPY ENDING."

>> Announcer: DIRECTOR MICHAEL ARDEN HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR

SEVEN CAREER TONY AWARDS.

HE WON TWO IN 2023.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ SAM PINKLETON JUST WON A TONY AWARD.

THANK YOU TO ALL THE HELPER BOTS WHO SHAPED "MAYBE HAPPY ENDING"

AND MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE SEEM EFFORTLESS.

EIGHT TIMES A WEEK AT THE GLASGOW THEATER.

YOU ARE THE REASON I SENT YOU TONIGHT.

WILL ARONSON AND HUE PARK WROTE A PERFECT MUSICAL, AND IT DARES

US TO LOVE WITH RADICAL ABANDONED DESPITE THE FACT THAT

WE KNOW WE HAVE SHELF LIVES.

HE REMINDS US THAT COMPASSION IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR ISOLATION, AND

THAT EMPATHY IS NOT WEAKNESS, BUT A GIFT AND OUR SHARED

RESPONSIBILITY.

THE EXPERIENCE OF LIVE THEATER CONFIRMS, NO MATTER HOW

DIFFERENT WE MAY BE FROM ONE ANOTHER, WE ARE ALL CONNECTED

AND WE ARE ALL HERE AND IN IT TOGETHER IN THIS BRIEF BEAUTIFUL

LIFE.

SO I IMPLORE YOU, PLEASE, GO TO THE THEATER.

WHETHER IT'S A BROADWAY SHOW OR A SCHOOL PLAY, SUPPORT THE ARTS,

SUPPORT ARTISTS.

WE NEED YOU NOW MORE THAN EVER.

"MAYBE HAPPY ENDING" WAS A MONUMENTAL RISK SO MANY PEOPLE

TOOK, SO TO EVERYONE IN THIS COMMUNITY, AND ARTISTS, I SAY

KEEP TAKING RISKS, KEEP TELLING STORIES THAT PROBE FOR DEEPER

TRUTHS AND INSPIRE HOPE, BECAUSE THE DARKER IT GETS THE MORE WE

NEED YOUR LIGHT.

AS DADDY SONDHEIM SAID, GIVE US MORE TO SEE, AND IF THERE ARE

ANY QUEER PEOPLE WATCHING TONIGHT...

[LAUGHTER] HAPPY PRIDE.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ MUSICAL >> Cynthia: IT'S BEEN A

REMARKABLE YEAR ON BROADWAY, BUT IT'S ALSO BEEN A DEVASTATING

ONE.

WE LOST CHANGED COLLEAGUES FROM ONSTAGE AND BEHIND THE SCENES.

TO HELP PAY TRIBUTE TO SOME BELOVED MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY

WHO HAVE PASSED ON, PLEASE WELCOME MY FRIEND SARA

BAREILLES.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ♪ THE SUN'LL COME OUT ♪ ♪ TOMORROW ♪ ♪ BET YOUR BOTTOM

DOLLAR THAT TOMORROW ♪ ♪ THERE'LL BE SUN ♪ ♪ JUST

THINKIN' ABOUT ♪ ♪ TOMORROW ♪ ♪ CLEARS AWAY THE COBWEBS AND THE

SORROW ♪ ♪ 'TIL THERE'S NONE ♪ >> ♪ WHEN I'M STUCK WITH A DAY

THAT'S GRAY ♪ ♪ AND LONELY ♪ ♪ I JUST STICK UP MY CHIN ♪ ♪ AND

GRIN ♪ ♪ AND SAY ♪ ♪ OH ♪ >> ♪ THE SUN'LL COME OUT ♪ ♪ TOMORROW

♪ ♪ SO YA GOTTA HANG ON 'TIL TOMORROW ♪ ♪ COME WHAT MAY ♪ ♪

TOMORROW, TOMORROW ♪ ♪ I LOVE YA, TOMORROW ♪ ♪ YOU'RE ALWAYS A

DAY AWAY ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ♪ THE SUN'LL COME OUT ♪ ♪ TOMORROW ♪ ♪

BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR THAT TOMORROW ♪ ♪ THERE'LL BE SUN ♪ ♪

JUST THINKIN' ABOUT ♪ ♪ TOMORROW ♪ ♪ CLEARS AWAY THE COBWEBS AND

THE SORROW ♪ ♪ 'TIL THERE'S NONE ♪ >> ♪ WHEN I'M STUCK WITH A DAY

♪ ♪ THAT'S GRAY AND LONELY ♪ ♪ I JUST STICK OUT MY CHIN ♪ ♪ AND

GRIN ♪ ♪ AND SAY ♪ ♪ TOMORROW, TOMORROW ♪ ♪ I LOVE YA, TOMORROW

♪ ♪ YOU'RE ALWAYS A DAY AWAY ♪ ♪ TOMORROW, TOMORROW ♪ ♪ I LOVE

YA, TOMORROW ♪ ♪ YOU'RE ALWAYS A DAY ♪ ♪ AWAY ♪ ♪ ♪ [APPLAUSE] ♪

♪ ♪ [APPLAUSE] >> Cynthia: WE'RE BACK WITH AN ACTRESS CURRENTLY

ON BROADWAY IN "CALL ME IZZY," ALONG WITH LAST YEAR'S LEADING

ACTRESS IN A PLAY, JEAN SMART AND SARAH PAULSON.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Sarah: IT'S FINE, IT'S A MAN-EATING

DRESS.

>> Jean: YOU STOLE MY JOKE.

>> Sarah: I DID STEAL YOUR JOKE.

SIX DEDICATED ARTISTS ARE NOMINATED FOR THIS NEXT AWARD.

WHETHER THEY PLAYED A TV NEWS ICON, A PROMINENT POLITICAL

FATHER, OR HIS FIERCELY INDEPENDENT SON, A TONY-WINNING

PLAYWRIGHT, AN OUTCAST WITH TELEPATHIC POWERS, OR MARY TODD

LINCOLN -- [APPLAUSE] THESE ARTISTS INHABITED THEIR ROLES

WITH THE UTMOST COMMITMENT.

>> Jean: BY COMPLETELY IMMERSING THEMSELVES IN THEIR CHARACTERS,

THESE GIFTED PERFORMERS CAPTIVATED AUDIENCES AND EARNED

THE ADMIRATION OF THEIR PEERS.

THEIR CHALLENGING WORK HELPED MAKE THIS AN ELECTRIFYING SEASON

ON BROADWAY.

HERE ARE THE NOMINEES FOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A

LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY.

>> Announcer: GEORGE CLOONEY, "GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK."

COLE ESCOLA, "OH, MARY!"

JON MICHAEL HILL, "PURPOSE."

DANIEL DAE KIM, "YELLOW FACE."

HARRY LENNIX, "PURPOSE."

LOUIS McCARTNEY, "STRANGER THINGS: THE FIRST SHADOW."

♪ ♪ >> Sarah: AND THE AMERICAN THEATRE WING'S TONY AWARD GOES

TO...

COLE ESCOLA, "OH, MARY!"

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Announcer: COLE ESCOLA EARNS THE

TONY AWARD FOR THEIR REIMAGINING OF MARY TODD LINCOLN AS A

WANNABE CABARET STAR.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> THANK YOU.

THANK YOU.

OH, MY GOD.

WOW.

JULIE HARRIS HAS A TONY FOR PLAYING MARY TODD LINCOLN.

SORRY.

I WANT TO THANK THE OTHER NOMINEES.

GEORGE AND JOHN AND HARRY AND DANIEL AND LOUIS.

IT'S AN HONOR TO BE IN YOUR COMPANY.

MORE THAN THAT, IT'S BEEN A SINCERE PLEASURE SPENDING TIME

WITH YOU OVER THESE WARM SALADS AT ALL THESE LUNCHEONS.

[LAUGHTER] I HAVE TO THANK -- OH, FIRST OF ALL, HI, MOM.

I LOVE YOU.

I'LL CALL YOU WHEN I CAN.

23 SECONDS.

SAM PINKLETON AND THE PRODUCERS, LUCAS McMAHON, CARLY, MICHAEL,

KEVIN, THE CAST.

CONRAD, JAMES, BIANCA, TONY, THE EXTENDED CAST, AND MOST

IMPORTANTLY, THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN MY LIFE, MY FRIENDS

ARE HERE TONIGHT.

JEFFREY, JEN, THEN COME EVERYONE WATCHING AT HOME CHRISTIAN,

DAKOTA, THE WHOLE GANG.

JOHN, CLAUDIA.

AND FROM GRINDR, AND AMY SAID AS HE ALWAYS REMIND ME HOW

IMPORTANT SHE IS TO ME, AND SHE IS.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, GOOD NIGHT.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Announcer: AND NOW, A TONY AWARD

WINNER FOR HER PERFORMANCE AS ANGELICA SCHUYLER IN "HAMILTON"

-- WEK WWERK -- RENEE ELISEGOLDSBERRY.

>> Renee: AS A PROUD GRADUATE OF CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, I AM

SO HAPPY THAT CMU AND THE TONY AWARDS COCREATED THE EXCELLENCE

IN THEATER EDUCATION AWARD, WHICH RECOGNIZES ARTS EDUCATORS

NATIONWIDE.

EARLIER, THIS YEAR'S AWARD WAS PRESENTED TO EDWIN ROBINSON,

THEATER ARTS TEACHER OF BOYS AND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL IN BROOKLYN,

NEW YORK.

[APPLAUSE] CONGRATULATIONS, AND THANK YOU FOR INSPIRING THE NEXT

GENERATION OF TONY WINNERS.

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FOR NEXT YEAR'S AWARD, SO YOU CAN TELL US

ABOUT A THEATER EDUCATOR WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR LIFE.

AND NOW, OUR NEXT NOMINEE FOR BEST MUSICAL.

PLEASE WELCOME THE COMPANY OF "DEAD OUTLAW."

[APPLAUSE] >> I WANT TO TELL YOU THE TRUE STORY OF THE DEAD

OUTLAW ELMER McCURDY.

TO BEGIN, IT'S 1911.

WE'RE IN PAWHUSKA, OKLAHOMA.

A SMALL GROUP OF MEN SIT AROUND A CAMPFIRE, UNDER A NIGHTTIME

SKY, AND ONE OF 'EM STARTS TO SING.

>> ♪ WHEN THE STARS ARE BRIGHT LIKE THESE STARS ♪ ♪ SO THEY

ALMOST HURT YOUR EYES ♪ ♪ IT'S LIKE MAYBE GOD IS SINGING YOU A

SONG ♪ ♪ SINGING YOU A SONG ♪ ♪ WHEN THE WIND IS WARM ♪ ♪ LIKE

THIS WIND ♪ ♪ IT REMINDS YOU WHO YOU ARE ♪ ♪ THE DEW, IT APPEARS

♪ ♪ JUST LIKE GRATEFUL TEARS ♪ ♪ I'M HERE ♪ ♪ OOH, I'M HERE ♪ ♪

I'M HERE ♪ ♪ I'M HERE ♪ [TRAIN WHISTLE] ALL RIGHT, BOYS.

LET'S GO ROB THAT [BLEEP] TRAIN.

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ♪ YOU'RE BORN WITH NOTHIN' ♪ ♪ YOUR CHEEKS ARE

APPLE DUMPLINGS ♪ ♪ THE AIR, THE WATER ♪ ♪ THERE'S SOMETHING MORE

YOU'RE WANTING ♪ ♪ THE MILK, THE SUGAR ♪ ♪ OUTSIDE YOU THERE'S A

NAME, AND ♪ ♪ YOU CAME WITH NOTHIN' ♪ ♪ YOU'LL LEAVE HERE

JUST THE SAME, BUT -- ♪ >> ♪ BETWEEN THE DARK AND THE DARK IS

♪ ♪ THE VOICE YOU'RE ALWAYS HEARIN' ♪ ♪ SOME CRAZY

AUCTIONEER IS YELLING AT YOU AND ♪ ♪ YOU WALK ♪ ♪ YOU RUN ♪ ♪ YOU

FLEE THE DARK AND SEE THE SUN ♪ ♪ AND EVERY BRICK YOU EVER LAID

WILL CRUMBLE AWAY ♪ ♪ YOUR MAMA'S DEAD ♪ >> ♪ YOUR DADDY'S

DEAD ♪ >> ♪ YOUR BROTHER'S DEAD ♪ >> ♪ AND SO ARE YOU ♪ >> ♪ ABE

LINCOLN'S DEAD ♪ >> ♪ FRANK JAMES IS DEAD ♪ >> ♪ YOUR MAMA'S

DEAD ♪ >> ♪ AND SO ARE YOU ♪ ♪ AND SO ARE YOU ♪ ♪ WHOO ♪ >> NOW

IT'S 1976 AND WE'RE IN A DARK RIDE ON THE LONG BEACH PIER,

WHERE A TV CREW IS SET-DRESSING AN EPISODE OF "THE SIX MILLION

DOLLAR MAN."

AND A TEAMSTER HOLDING A LIGHT IS DRAWN TO WHAT LOOKS LIKE THE

PUPPET OF A SHRIVELED MUMMY, HANGING FROM A NOOSE, AND WHEN

THE ARM BROKE OFF IN HIS HAND...

HE SAW A WHITE SHINE OF BONE.

>> THIS IS A MAN.

THIS IS A MAN!

SOMEBODY HELP ME CUT HIM DOWN!

♪ ♪ >> ♪ YOUR ADOLESCENCE ♪ ♪ WAS JUST UNOPENED PRESENTS ♪ ♪

YOU DRANK THE LIQUOR ♪ ♪ IT MADE IT ALL GO QUICKER ♪ ♪ THOSE DEAD

ANCESTORS ♪ ♪ YOU HAD TO MAKE AN EXIT ♪ ♪ YOU FOUND THE BOTTLE ♪

♪ THEN YOU CRUMBLED AWAY ♪ ♪ YOUR MAMA'S DEAD ♪ ♪ JOHN

GOTTI'S DEAD ♪ ♪ DILLINGER'S DEAD ♪ ♪ AND SO ARE YOU ♪ ♪

BALZAC IS DEAD ♪ ♪ TUPAC IS DEAD ♪ ♪ ANNE FRANK IS DEAD ♪ ♪ AND

SO ARE YOU ♪ ♪ I'VE BEEN A PILGRIM ON THE ROAD FROM COAST

TO COAST ♪ ♪ I'VE LOOKED AROUND AND ALL I SEEN WAS HUNGRY GHOSTS

♪ ♪ GETTING AND SPENDING ON THE GRAVEL ROAD THROUGH HELL ♪ ♪ I

KNOW THE DRILL, 'CAUSE I'M ONE OF THEM, AS WELL ♪ ♪ ♪ >> SHOCK

AND HORROR IN LONG BEACH TODAY AS MUMMIFIED HUMAN REMAINS WERE

REMOVED FROM AN AMUSEMENT PARK RIDE ON THE -- >> LOCAL TEAMSTER

FOUND THAT WHAT HE'D BEEN TOLD WAS A PUPPET WAS IN FACT THE

BODY -- >> COUNTY CORONER'S OFFICE, WHO WILL TRY TO

DETERMINE WHO THIS MAN WAS, HOW HE DIED, AND HOW NO ONE WAS

AWARE OF HIM, EVEN THOUGH HE'D BEEN, ACCORDING TO EMPLOYEES,

"HANGING THERE FOR YEARS."

♪ ♪ >> ♪ YOUR MAMA'S DEAD ♪ ♪ YOUR DADDY'S DEAD ♪ ♪ THEY'RE

ALL JUST DEAD ♪ ♪ AND SO ARE YOU ♪ ♪ LOOK AT THEM DEAD ♪ ♪ LOOK

AT ME DEAD ♪ ♪ LOOK AT YOU DEAD ♪ ♪ AND SO ARE YOU ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

♪ ♪ >> Announcer: NEXT, AUDRA McDONALD WITH A PERFORMANCE FROM

"GYPSY," AND THE AWARD FOR BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL.

PLUS, THE COMPANY OF "OPERATION MINCEMEAT."

THE TONY AWARDS.

THIS IS CBS.

>> I KNOW, "DON'T TEXT IN THE THEATER."

THIS TIME, IT'S ENCOURAGED.

AMEX IS GIVING YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE PART OF

BROADWAY'S BIGGEST NIGHT HERE AT THE TONYS.

THERE'S STILL TIME, UNTIL 11:59 EASTERN TONIGHT.

JUST TELL US WHICH CHARACTER FROM THIS YEAR'S TONY-NOMINATED

SHOWS YOU'D TRADE PLACES WITH, AND WHY.

NATALIE S.

WANTS TO TRADE PLACES WITH SMASH'S IVY LYNN AND EMPLOY SOME

METHOD ACTING AT HER OFFICE.

AND LUCY T.

WOULD LOVE TO SCOPE OUT WHAT'S INSIDE MAMA ROSE'S PURSE.

TO GET STARTED, TEXT THE WORD "FANFARE" TO THE NUMBER ON YOUR

SCREEN FOR AN OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A GRAND PRIZE PACKAGE, INCLUDING

TICKETS TO NEXT YEAR'S TONY AWARDS, COURTESY OF AMEX,

BRINGING FANS CLOSER TO THE THEATER THEY LOVE.

I'LL BE BACK AFTER THIS TO PRESENT BEST REVIVAL OF A

MUSICAL WITH LEA MICHELE, ON THE TONY AWARDS.

>> Announcer: SPONSORED BY AMERICAN EXPRESS, THE OFFICIAL

PAYMENTS PARTNER OF THE TONY AWARDS.

♪ ♪ [APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> IT'S THE MOST BROADLY OF ALL BROADWAY

"GYPSY" IS THE STORY OF ROSE, THE ULTIMATE STAGE MATTER

DETERMINED HER DAUGHTER GETS A .

AND SHE'LL DO IT IN A MATTER THE COST TO HERSELF AND EVERYONE

AROUND HER.

>> SHE'S GOING TO BE A STAR!

>> IF IT KILLS YOU AND HER!

>> HER UNSTOPPABLE SPIRIT MAKES "GYPSY" THE ICONIC FABLE OF BOTH

BROADWAY AND AMERICA ITSELF.

READY OR NOT, HERE COMES MAMA!

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> WHAT I BEEN HOLDING DOWN IN ME, IF I EVER

LET IT OUT -- THERE WOULDN'T BE SIGNS BIG ENOUGH.

THERE WOULDN'T BE LIGHTS BRIGHT ENOUGH.

HERE SHE IS, BOYS!

HERE SHE IS, WORLD!

HERE'S ROSE!

♪ ♪ ♪ CURTAIN UP ♪ ♪ LIGHT THE LIGHTS ♪ PLAY IT, BOYS.

♪ YOU EITHER GOT IT ♪ ♪ OR YOU AIN'T ♪ ♪ AND, BOYS, I GOT IT ♪

♪ SOME PEOPLE GOT IT AND MAKE IT PAY ♪ ♪ SOME PEOPLE CAN'T EVEN

GIVE IT AWAY ♪ ♪ THIS PEOPLE'S GOT IT ♪ ♪ AND THIS PEOPLE'S

SPREADIN' IT AROUND ♪ ♪ YOU EITHER HAVE IT ♪ ♪ OR YOU'VE HAD

IT ♪ HELLO, EVERYBODY!

MY NAME IS ROSE.

WHAT'S YOURS?

♪ HOLD YOUR HATS AND HALLELUJAH ♪ ♪ MAMA'S GONNA SHOW IT TO YA ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ READY OR NOT, HERE COMES MAMA!

♪ MAMA'S TALKIN' LOUD ♪ ♪ MAMA'S DOIN' FINE ♪ ♪ MAMA'S GETTIN'

HOT ♪ ♪ MAMA'S GOIN' STRONG ♪ ♪ MAMA'S MOVIN' ON ♪ ♪ MAMA'S ALL

ALONE ♪ ♪ MAMA DOESN'T CARE ♪ ♪ MAMA'S LETTIN' LOOSE ♪ ♪ MAMA'S

GOT THE STUFF ♪ ♪ MAMA'S LETTIN' GO ♪ ♪ MAMA'S GOTTA MOVE ♪ ♪

MAMA -- ♪ ♪ MAMA'S GOTTA LET GO ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ WHY DID I DO IT ♪ ♪ WHAT

DID IT GET ME ♪ ♪ SCRAP BOOKS FULL OF ME IN THE BACKGROUND ♪ ♪

GIVE 'EM LOVE AND WHAT DOES IT GET YOU ♪ ♪ WHAT DOES IT GET YOU

♪ ♪ ONE QUICK LOOK AS EACH OF 'EM LEAVES YOU ♪ ♪ ALL YOUR LIFE

AND WHAT DOES IT GET YOU ♪ ♪ THANKS A LOT AND OUT WITH THE

GARBAGE ♪ ♪ THEY TAKE BOWS AND YOU'RE BATTIN' ZERO ♪ ♪ I HAD A

DREAM ♪ ♪ I DREAMED IT FOR YOU ♪ ♪ JUNE ♪ ♪ IT WASN'T FOR ME ♪ ♪

HERBIE ♪ ♪ AND IF IT WASN'T FOR ME ♪ ♪ THEN WHERE WOULD YOU BE,

MISS GYPSY ROSE LEE?!

♪ ♪ WELL, SOMEONE TELL ME ♪ ♪ WHEN IS IT MY TURN ♪ ♪ DON'T I

GET A DREAM FOR MYSELF ♪ ♪ STARTIN' NOW IT'S GONNA BE MY

TURN ♪ ♪ GANGWAY, WORLD, GET OFF O' MY RUNWAY ♪ ♪ STARTIN' NOW, I

♪ ♪ BAT A THOUSAND ♪ ♪ THIS TIME, BOYS ♪ ♪ I'M TAKIN' THE

BOWS AND ♪ ♪ EV'RYTHING'S COMING UP ROSE ♪ ♪ EV'RYTHING'S COMING

UP ROSES ♪ ♪ THIS TIME FOR ME ♪ ♪ FOR ME ♪ ♪ FOR ♪ ♪ ME ♪ ♪ ♪

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

>> Announcer: AND NOW PLEASE WELCOME TWO STARS WHO ARE COMING

BACK TO BROADWAY THIS FALL IN THE FIRST-EVER REVIVAL OF

"CHESS," LEA MICHELE AND TONY AWARD WINNER AARON TVEIT.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Aaron: WOW.

THROUGH REVIVALS, WE'VE HAD BOTH THE PLEASURE OF SHARING

BROADWAY'S MUSICAL PAST WITH NEW AUDIENCES.

THIS SEASON MORE THAN 14 MILLION THEATERGOERS CAME TO NEW YORK TO

SEE A SHOW.

>> Lea: AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY NEARLY 15 MILLION FANS ATTENDED

BROADWAY LEAGUE PRODUCTIONS ON TOUR.

WE'VE SHARED PERFORMANCES FROM THE THRILLING REVIVALS THAT

ENLIVENED THE SEASON WITH THEIR FRESH INTERPRETATIONS.

ONCE AGAIN, HERE ARE THE NOMINEES.

>> Announcer: "FLOYD COLLINS."

"GYPSY."

"PIRATES!

THE PENZANCE MUSICAL."

"SUNSET BLVD."

>> Aaron: AND THE TONY AWARD GOES TO...

"SUNSET BLVD."

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Announcer: ACCEPTING THE AWARD

FOR "SUNSET BLVD.," PRODUCER JAMIE LLOYD AND COMPOSER,

ORCHESTRATOR ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪

>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.

ON BEHALF OF THE JAMIE LLOYD COMPANY AND ADAM SPEERS, HARRIS,

WE WOULD JUST LIKE TO THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR THIS EXCEPTIONAL

HONOR.

WE THANK EVERYBODY INVOLVED IN "SUNSET BLVD."

ONSTAGE, BACKSTAGE COME IN THE ORCHESTRA, AND VARIOUS OFFICES

AROUND THE CITY.

AND OF COURSE LORD ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER.

[APPLAUSE]

>> IT'S JUST FANTASTIC FOR ME TO SEE THE OLD SHOWS WE THOUGHT,

REWORKED, AND WITH THE FANTASTIC LEAD OF NICOLE, OF COURSE.

I LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU TO ONE PERSON WITHOUT WHOM THIS WOULD

BE POSSIBLE, MY PRODUCER AND PARTNER NOW, MICHAEL HARRISON.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Cynthia: WHAT A SHOW WE'VE HAD SO FAR.

IF YOU HAVE FEEDBACK AT HOME IN REAL TIME, PLEASE EMAIL NEIL

PATRICK HARRIS.

[LAUGHTER] HE ISN'T HERE, BUT I'M SURE HE'D LOVE TO KNOW WHAT

YOU THOUGHT.

DANIELLE, IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

I THINK THAT WE REALLY NEED A "COLOR PURPLE" UNION, AND I WISH

THERE WAS SOMEONE ELSE WHO COULD REALLY HELP US FACILITATE THAT.

WHO COULD THAT BE A QUESTION MARK.

[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] HELLO.

AS A CHANGE OF PACE, I THOUGHT CHECK UNDER YOUR CHAIR.

[LAUGHTER] GOT IT, THAT'S RIGHT.

HAVE A LOOK.

>> OH MY -- THANK YOU SO MUCH.

>> Cynthia: WHAT'S THAT OTHER THING AND THEY ARE YOU GET A

CAR.

[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE] OBVIOUSLY IT COMES WITH SNACKS,

BUT YOU NEEDED IT, TOO.

YOU DESERVE IT, TOO.

THERE SNACKS HERE.

HARIBO, JUNIOR MEANTS.

SHARE IT WITH GAYLE AND YOUR NEIGHBORS.

WE DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM HANGRY.

WE DON'T NEED HANGRY PEOPLE HERE.

YES?

GOOD.

I HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR GIFT.

SHE LOVES THE CAR, EVERYONE.

SHE LOVES THE CAR.

[APPLAUSE] LET'S KEEP IT MOVING.

PLEASE WELCOME CECILY STRONG.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Cecily: IF A HOLLYWOOD EXECUTIVE WERE

PITCHING THE FINAL NOMINATED MUSICAL, THEY'D SAY, "IT'S

'SAVING PRIVATE RYAN' MEETS 'WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S.'"

THEN THEY'D PROBABLY GET FIRED.

BUT THIS IS BROADWAY.

TO THOSE WATCHING IN HOLLYWOOD, BROADWAY IS THE PLACE GEORGE

CLOONEY HAS BEEN OFF PLAYING IN.

LIKE A SECOND LAKE COMO.

[LAUGHTER] THIS INGENIOUS MUSICAL COMEDY ABOUT ONE OF THE

MOST OUTRAGEOUS MILITARY SCHEMES EVER ATTEMPTED WILL MAKE YOU

LAUGH, THEN CRY, THEN LAUGH AGAIN, UNTIL YOU'RE YOUR SHIRT

IS SOAKING WET AND YOU'RE NOT EXACTLY SURE WHY.

VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT I GO THROUGH DAILY AS THE MOTHER OF A

9-WEEK-OLD.

PLEASE WELCOME THE BRILLIANT COMPANY AND AUTHORS OF

"OPERATION MINCEMEAT."

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> ♪ SO YOU DREAMT OF BEING A PILOT ♪ ♪ BUT

YOU NEVER GOT TO FLY ♪ ♪ SO YOU DREAMT OF SAILING THE SEVEN SEAS

♪ ♪ BUT NEVER GOT TO TRY ♪ ♪ WELL, LET NAVY LADS GET SOAKING

♪ ♪ WE'LL ALL STAY NICE AND DRY ♪ ♪ WE'LL SHOUT TO ALL THE

SOLDIERS, JUMP ♪ ♪ AND HEAR THEM SHOUT HOW HIGH ♪ ♪ FOR WE ARE

MADE TO GIVE THE ORDERS ♪ ♪ WHILE LESSER MEN TAKE HEED ♪ ♪

FOR SOME WERE BORN TO FOLLOW ♪ ♪ BUT WE WERE BORN TO LEAD ♪

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WELCOME TO MI5!

>> ♪ YOU'RE SURE TO SAVE THE NATION ♪ >> ♪ NANNY TOLD ME IN

MY COT ♪ >> ♪ FOR YOUR FATHER GAVE YOU COURAGE ♪ >> ♪ ALSO

PONIES ♪ >> ♪ AND THAT YACHT ♪ >> ♪ MY CENTURIES OF BREEDING ♪

♪ I KNOW THEY'LL FAIL ME NOT ♪ ♪ FOR FORTUNE FAVORS BRAVERY ♪ ♪

AND A FORTUNE'S WHAT I'VE GOT ♪ ♪ OH YES, SOME BOYS GO TO BATTLE

♪ ♪ BUT WE'RE A DIFFERENT BREED ♪ ♪ FOR SOME WERE BORN TO FOLLOW

♪ ♪ BUT WE WERE BORN TO LEAD ♪ ♪ WE ARE THE MASTERS ♪ ♪ WE ARE

THE CLEVER MEN ♪ ♪ WHO HOLD THE REINS ♪ ♪ FOR WHO NEEDS GUNS ♪ ♪

WHEN YOU'VE GOT BRAINS ♪ ♪ YOU'LL SEE ♪ ♪ FOREVER AFTER ♪ ♪

WHEN ALL THIS WAR IS DONE ♪ ♪ AND FADES TO DUST ♪ ♪ THE WORLD

WILL TURN AND SAY TO US ♪ ♪ THAT WE WERE BORN TO LEAD ♪ >> ♪ WHEN

I WAS A YOUNG EXPLORER ♪ >> ♪ YES ♪ >> ♪ I DISCOVERED A NEW

BREED OF TROUT ♪ >> ♪ WHAT?

♪ >> ♪ IT LEAPT INTO MY KAYAK AND JUST BRIEFLY KNOCKED ME OUT

♪ >> ♪ SORRY, WHAT?

♪ >> ♪ THE FEELING WAS QUITE MAGICAL ♪ ♪ WHEN IT SLAPPED ME

ON THE MOUTH ♪ ♪ IT MADE THE LOCAL PAPERS ♪ ♪ RARE FISH

ATTACKS BOY SCOUT ♪ ♪ IT'S STILL MY PROUDEST MOMENT ♪ ♪ OF THAT I

HAVE NO DOUBT ♪ ♪ FOR SOME WERE BORN TO FOLLOW ♪ ♪ BUT I WAS

BORN TO FIND TROUT ♪ >> MORNING MILITARY DECEPTION, NOW THE NEXT

ALLIED INVASION TARGET IS SICILY.

AND WITH THE HELP OF MI5, IT'LL BE OURS FOR THE TAKING.

♪ SICILY COULD TURN THE TIDE OF THE WAR ♪ ♪ BUT WE CAN'T JUST

ROCK UP AND KNOCK UPON THE DOOR ♪ ♪ FOR EACH MAN WE'VE GOT

THEY'VE GOT TEN MORE ♪ >> ♪ WE'D BE SLAUGHTERED BEFORE WE EVEN

REACH THE SHORE ♪ >> ♪ WE NEED A WAY TO REDUCE THE DANGER ♪ ♪ TIP

THE ODDS IN OUR FAVOR ♪ ♪ GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO DRAIN THE

STRENGTH ♪ ♪ OF THE SICILIAN DEFENSE ♪ ♪ BY MISDIRECTING

THEIR DEAR DICTATOR ♪ ♪ GOTTA MAKE HITLER BELIEVE ♪ ♪ SICILY

ISN'T WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE ♪ ♪ GOTTA PROCEED WITH SOME

DISHONESTY ♪ ♪ GOTTA DECEIVE, 'CAUSE WHAT I WANNA SEE ♪ ♪ IS

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF GERMANS GETTING OFF OUR PROPERTY ♪ ♪ SO

I NEED YOUR BRAINS ♪ ♪ TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE SELL A FAKE CAMPAIGN

♪ ♪ FIND ME A STRATEGY ♪ ♪ USE YOUR GRAY MATTER TO TACTICALLY

SCATTER ♪ ♪ THE ENEMY TO THE BREEZE ♪ ♪ THEN ONCE THE ISLAND

IS UNATTENDED ♪ ♪ ONCE THE BEACHES ARE UNDEFENDED ♪ ♪ WE

SEND OUR BOYS IN, THEN WE DESTROY THEM ♪ ♪ THAT'S HOW

SICILIY IS APPREHENDED ♪ ♪ WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS A GENIUS

PLAN ♪ >> ♪ WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS A GENIUS MAN ♪ >> ♪ BUT

WE WERE BORN TO LEAD ♪ >> ♪ OH, BROTHERS!

♪ ♪ LET'S GET WINNING!

♪ ♪ MY MIND SHALL SET US FREE!

♪ ♪ GONNA WIN THE WAR, CHAMPAGNE GALORE ♪ ♪ WHILE I FLICK THE HUN

THE "V" ♪ ♪ I'LL DEFINITELY GET A KNIGHTHOOD ♪ ♪ AND A VICTORIA

CROSS OR THREE ♪ ♪ LOOK UP "VICTORY" IN THE DICTIONARY ♪ ♪

THERE'S A PICTURE THERE OF ME ♪ ♪ WE ARE THE FINEST MINDS IN

ENGLAND ♪ ♪ ON THAT, WE ARE AGREED ♪ ♪ FOR SOME WERE BORN TO

FOLLOW ♪ >> ♪ SOME WERE BORN TO FOLLOW ♪ ♪ BUT WE WERE BORN TO

LEAD ♪ ♪ ♪ [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Announcer: LATER, OPRAH

WINFREY PRESENTS LEAD ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL, AND LIN-MANUEL

MIRANDA PRESENTS BEST MUSICAL.

AND NEXT, A PERFORMANCE FROM "REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES."

THE TONY AWARDS.

THIS IS CBS.

♪ ♪ [APPLAUSE] >> Cynthia: WE'RE BACK.

AND NOW, AN ACTRESS WHO MADE HER BROADWAY DEBUT THIS SEASON IN

"CABARET," AULI'I CRAVALHO.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Auli'i: SET IN 1987 LOS ANGELES, AND

NOMINATED TONIGHT FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCORE, "REAL WOMEN HAVE

CURVES" FOLLOWS 18-YEAR-OLD ANA GARCIA, THE DAUGHTER OF MEXICAN

IMMIGRANTS.

SHE DREAMS OF ATTENDING COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TO STUDY JOURNALISM,

BUT HER MOTHER, CARMEN, WANTS HER TO JOIN THE FAMILY BUSINESS.

JUGGLING TWO JOBS FOR THE SUMMER, WORKING AT A LOCAL

NEWSPAPER AND THE FAMILY SEWING FACTORY, ANA STRUGGLES TO HONOR

HER FAMILY WHILE REACHING FOR HER OWN AMERICAN DREAM.

NOW, TO PERFORM "JUGGLIN'," PLEASE WELCOME THE COMPANY OF

"REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES."

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> WATCH AND LEARN.

>> ♪ LOOK HOW SHE MOVES ♪ ♪ NOT BREAKIN' A SWEAT ♪ ♪ GRACEFULLY

SMOOTH ♪ ♪ PERFORMING HER OWN DUET ♪ >> ♪ JUGGLIN', JUGGLIN',

JUGGLIN', JUGGLIN', JUGGLIN' ♪ >> ♪ MAYBE I CAN CATCH HER

RHYTHM ♪ ♪ GOTTA LEARN TO SYNCOPATE ♪ ♪ COULD IT REALLY BE

THAT HARD TO TRY AND COORDINATE?

♪ >> ♪ COORDINATE ♪ ♪ COORDINATE ♪ >> I'LL LEARN TO SEW, RIGHT

AFTER I RUN TO THIS INTERVIEW!

>> THAT STUPID PAPER!

SHE'S ALWAYS RUNNING AROUND!

>> JUST LIKE MY BOYS.

DOCTOR SAY THEY GOT THE A.D.D.

>> QUE?

>> OH, HALF THE SCHOOL GOT IT.

IT'S GOING AROUND.

>> EVERY TIME YOU GO TO THE DOCTOR, YOU LEAVE WITH A

PRESCRIPTION.

DO THEY THINK WE'RE RICH?

>> OH, I AM RICH!

I ONLY WORK THREE JOBS BECAUSE I LIKE IT!

>> ♪ FOUR JOBS, IF YOU COUNT YOUR KIDS ♪ >> ♪ FIVE, IF YOU

COUT YOUR HUSBAND ♪ >> ♪ SIX, IF YOU COUNT YOUR LOVER ♪ >> ♪ HOW

YOU KNOW ABOUT FLACA'S BROTHER?

♪ [LAUGHTER] >> ♪ HUSTLIN', HUSTLIN', HUSTLIN', HUSTLIN',

HUSTLIN' ♪ ♪ HUSTLIN', HUSTLIN', HUSTLIN' ♪ ♪ HUSTLIN', HUSTLIN'

♪ ♪ KEEPIN' ALL THE BALLS IN THE AIR ♪ ♪ DON'T LET 'EM DROP,

'CAUSE AY, CARAMBA ♪ ♪ EVERYBODY COUNTIN' ON US ♪ ♪ GETTIN' IT

DONE ♪ ♪ MAKIN' IT WORK ♪ ♪ THE GRIND DON'T STOP ♪ >> ANA, I

NEED THAT STORY!

>> ANA, WE NEED YOU!

>> ON IT!

>> ♪ THE GRIND DON'T STOP ♪ ♪ DON'T LET THE BALL DROP ♪ >> ♪

HOW THE HELL DO THEY GET THROUGH IT?

♪ ♪ I CAN BARELY STAY AWAKE ♪ ♪ FEELS IMPOSSIBLE TO DO IT ♪ ♪

HOW WILL I COORDINATE?

♪ >> ♪ COORDINATE ♪ >> ♪ COORDINATE ♪ >> ♪ THE GRIND

DON'T STOP ♪ ♪ DON'T LET THE BALL DROP ♪ ♪ THE GRIND DON'T

STOP ♪ ♪ DON'T LET THE BALL DROP ♪ ♪ THE GRIND DON'T STOP ♪ ♪

DON'T LET THE BALL DROP ♪ ♪ THE GRIND DON'T STOP ♪ ♪ DON'T LET

THE BALL DROP ♪ >> THIS, INTERNS, IS HOW YOU WRITE A

STORY.

GOOD WORK, ANA GARCIA.

>> ♪ JUGGLIN', JUGGLIN', JUGGLIN', JUGGLIN', JUGGLIN' ♪

>> ♪ I THINK I'M GETTIN' THE HANG OF IT 7 >> ♪ JUGGLIN',

JUGGLIN', JUGGLIN', JUGGLIN', JUGGLIN' ♪ >> ♪ I FINALLY FEEL

IN THE GROOVE ♪ >> ♪ JU-JU-JUGGLIN',

JU-JU-JU-JUGGLIN' ♪ >> ♪ I THINK I'M STARTIN' TO GET IT ♪ >> ♪

JU-JU-JUGGLIN', JU-JU-JU-JUGGLIN' ♪ ♪

JU-JU-JUGGLIN' JU-JU-JU-JUGGLIN' ♪ >> ♪ I THINK I'M LEARNIN' THE

MOVES ♪ >> ♪ JU-JU-JUGGLIN', JU-JU-JU-JUGGLIN' ♪ >> ♪ THE

GRIND DON'T STOP ♪ ♪ DON'T LET THE BALL DROP ♪ ♪ THE GRIND

DON'T STOP ♪ ♪ DON'T LET THE BALL DROP ♪ >> ♪ DO IT, DO IT ♪

>> ♪ THE GRIND DON'T STOP ♪ >> ♪ DO IT, DO IT ♪ >> ♪ DON'T LET

THE BALL DROP ♪ >> ♪ DO IT ♪ >> ♪ THE GRIND DON'T STOP ♪ ♪ DON'T

LET THE BALL DROP ♪ [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Announcer:

PLEASE WELCOME THREE-TIME TONY HOST, OSCAR-WINNER, AND TONY

NOMINEE, ARIANA DeBOSE.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Ariana: WHAT A NIGHT.

IT'S SO WONDERFUL TO BE BACK HERE AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL TO

CELEBRATE THE INSANELY TALENTED PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY.

I'M THRILLED FOR MY MANY FRIENDS WHO ARE IN THIS NEXT CATEGORY.

THERE IS NO BETTER REASON TO COME TO BROADWAY THAN TO BE

INSPIRED BY THE FANTASTICALLY MOVING ARTISTRY THEY BROUGHT,

AND CONTINUE TO BRING, TO THE SEASON.

SO HERE ARE THE NOMINEES FOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN

A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL.

♪ ♪ >> Announcer: DARREN CRISS, "MAYBE HAPPY ENDING."

ANDREW DURAND, "DEAD OUTLAW."

TOM FRANCIS, "SUNSET BLVD."

JONATHAN GROFF, "JUST IN TIME."

JAMES MONROE IGLEHART, "A WONDERFUL WORLD: THE LOUIS

ARMSTRONG MUSICAL."

JEREMY JORDAN, "FLOYD COLLINS."

♪ ♪ >> Ariana: AND THE TONY AWARD GOES TO...

DARREN CRISS.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] MUSIC OF THE .

>> Announcer: FOR HIS PERFORMANCE AS ABANDON HELPER

ROBOT, OLIVER, DARREN CRISS EARNS HIS FIRST NOMINATION AND

TONY WIN.

>> WHOO!

WHAT A NIGHT!

I WILL GET RIGHT INTO IT.

THANK YOU TO THE AMERICAN THEATRE WING AND TO THE DRAMA

LEAGUE FOR THIS TREMENDOUS HONOR AND FOR THIS MARVELOUS CEREMONY.

I HAVE SUCH IMMENSE PRIDE TO GET TO BE PART OF THIS NOTABLY

DIVERSE AND EXQUISITE BROADWAY SEASON THIS YEAR AND TO GET TO

BE AMONG THIS INDUSTRY'S FINEST, NAMELY MY FELLOW LEADING LADS.

THEY PUT US IN A CATEGORY TOGETHER, BUT YOU BOYS ARE ALL

IN A CATEGORY OF YOUR VERY OWN.

I SHARE THIS WITH ONE OF THE BEST LEADING ACTRESS IS IN A

BROADWAY MUSICAL THE SEASON, HELEN J.

SHEN.

[APPLAUSE] I AM SO OF YOU AND YOUR BROADWAY DEBUT FOR THE

BOOKS.

THIS IS WHERE YOU BELONG.

A LOT OF HUMANS GOT ME HERE, SO THANK YOU, MOM, THANK YOU TO

CRAIG AT THE YOUNG CONSERVATORY, FOR SHEPHERDING ME, SEND FOR

SHEPHERDING ME, SE SO MANY PEOPLE.

THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE ROBOTS THAT MADE THE HAPPY ENDING

POSSIBLE.

I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THAT LATER, BUT THE REAL HERO FOR

THIS REMARKABLE JOURNEY IS MY WIFE, MIA, WHO TOOK A MASSIVE

SWING ON ALLOWING ME TO DO THIS AND TO ALLOW THIS CRAZY PEOPLE

IN OUR LIFE TO MAKE THIS LOGISTICALLY POSSIBLE AND FOR

BEARING THE BRUNT OF RAISING TWO TINY FRIENDS UNDER THREE SO THAT

I COULD RAISE A SINGING ROBOT AT THE THEATER EIGHT TIMES A WEEK.

YOU ARE THE VERY PEDESTAL THAT UPHOLDS THE SHINY SPINNY BIT IN

OUR LIVES, AND YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT FOR ME AND OUR BEAUTIFUL

CHILDREN COMBINED WITH THE MIRACLE WORKING AT SOMETHING AS

MAGICAL AS "MAYBE HAPPY ENDING" HAS BEEN AND WILL ALWAYS BE

AWARD ENOUGH.

THIS IS ABOUT LOVE AND MEMORIES SO I WOULD LIKE TO DEDICATE THIS

IN LOVING MEMORY TO ONE OF THE GREATEST ROLE MODELS I EVER HAD

IN ONE OF THE BEST FRIEND I EVER HAD, AND THAT IS MY FATHER,

BILL, AND MY BROTHER, CHUCK.

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ON YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS.

EVERYONE OUT THERE, BREAK A LEG, AND I'M GOING TO CELEBRATE WITH

MY FAVORITE KIND OF PEOPLE TO PARTY WITH, THEATER PEOPLE!

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> Announcer: NEXT, OPRAH WINFREY

AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA PRESENT THE FINAL AWARDS.

ONLY THE ACCOUNTANTS FROM DELOITTE KNOW THE WINNERS.

THE TONY AWARDS.

THIS IS CBS.

♪ ♪ >> Cynthia: WE'RE BACK WITH TONY AWARD WINNING PRODUCER OF

"THE COLOR PURPLE," MY FRIEND, OPRAH WINFREY.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪

>> Oprah: OUR CELEBRATION OF THIS ASTOUNDING YEAR IN LIVE

THEATER TURNS TO THE WOMEN WHOSE WORK SPARKED LIVELY

CONVERSATIONS AMONG THEATER FANS.

A LOT OF TALKING GOING ON.

[LAUGHTER] THEIR PASSIONATELY DISCUSSED PERFORMANCES DREW

AUDIENCES OF ALL AGES FROM FAR BEYOND TIMES SQUARE TO SEE THEM

IN PERSON.

THEY INCLUDE TWO ARTISTS WHO HAVE BEEN EMBRACED FOR THEIR

ELECTRIFYING BROADWAY DEBUTS, DAZZLING PAST TONY NOMINEES, AND

THE MOST AWARDED PERFORMER IN TONY HISTORY.

[APPLAUSE] HERE ARE THE NOMINEES FOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL.

♪ ♪ >> Announcer: MEGAN HILTY, "DEATH BECOMES HER."

AUDRA MCDONALD, "GYPSY."

JASMINE AMY ROGERS, "BOOP!

THE MUSICAL."

NICOLE SCHERZINGER, "SUNSET BLVD."

JENNIFER SIMARD, "DEATH BECOMES HER."

[APPLAUSE] >> Oprah: AND THE TONY AWARD GOES TO...

FOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A

MUSICAL...

NICOLE SCHERZINGER!

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Announcer: NICOLE SCHERZINGER

WINS HER FIRST TONY AWARD FOR HER PERFORMANCE AS FADING

HOLLYWOOD STAR NORMA DESMOND.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> OKAY, Y'ALL SIT DOWN, BECAUSE THEY

SAID WE ONLY HAVE 90 SECONDS.

[LAUGHTER] FIRST OF ALL, I JUST HAVE TO THANK GOD, FOR CARRYING

ME EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.

I GIVE YOU ALL THE GLORY.

OKAY, LOOK, Y'ALL KNOW THIS BROADER SCHEDULE IS HARD CORE.

I GOTS TO KEEP IT REAL.

I'M HONORED TO BE RECOGNIZED ALONGSIDE THESE EXCEPTIONAL

WARRIOR WOMEN IN THIS CATEGORY.

I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

THIS IS GOING TO GO REALLY FAST.

FOR MAKING THIS LITTLE HAWAIIAN UKRAINIAN FILIPINO GIRL'S DREAM

COME TRUE.

SO PROUD TO REPRESENT.

I WANT TO THANK MY MOM, WHO HAD ME AT 18 AND GAVE EVERYTHING UP

FOR ME.

MY DAD, MY SISTER, MY PAPA WHO INSTILLED IN ME AN UNSHAKABLE

FAITH.

MY OHANA, A 5,000 OF YOU, YOU DIDN'T KNOW I LOVE YOU.

TO MY FIANCE, TOM, WHO BELIEVES IN YOU AND I FORGET TO BELIEVE

IN MYSELF.

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER.

IT HAPPENED, AND TRUE.

IT HAS BEEN SUCH AN HONOR TO BE ABLE TO CREATE WITH YOU THE PAST

15 YEARS.

[LISTING NAMES] YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING ME EVERY SINGLE NIGHT.

AND EVERY PERFORMANCE.

YOU ARE EXTERIOR CAST, CREW, PRODUCERS, CREATIVES, I'M

FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR YOU, AND WE KILLED THAT MATINEE TODAY.

LITERALLY.

IT'S NO JOKE, THIS SCHEDULE.

LITERALLY.

AND JOE, I LOVE YOU.

MYLA, JENNY, CRUSH.

[LISTING NAMES] ALL THE OTHER BILLION HUMAN FRIENDS WHO

SUPPORT ME, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

JAMIE LLOYD, YOU SAW IN ME WHAT NO ONE ELSE DID.

YOU HAVE GIVEN US ALL NEW WAYS TO DREAM AND YOU HAVE CHANGED MY

LIFE FOREVER.

LISTEN, I'M ALMOST DONE.

GROWING UP I ALWAYS FELT LIKE I DIDN'T BELONG, BUT YOU ALL HAVE

MADE ME FEEL LIKE I BELONG, AND I HAVE COME HOME AT LAST.

[APPLAUSE] SO IF THERE'S ANYONE OUT THERE WHO FEELS LIKE THEY

DON'T BELONG, OR YOUR TIME HASN'T COME, DON'T GIVE UP.

JUST KEEP ON GIVING AND GIVING, BECAUSE THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR

LOVE AND YOUR LIGHT NOW MORE THAN EVER.

THIS IS A TESTAMENT THAT LOVES ALWAYS WINS.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

GOD BESS YOU.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> Cynthia: PLEASE WELCOME FOUR-TIME TONY

AWARD WINNER LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA.

>> Lin: IT'S FINALLY HERE, THE MOST EAGERLY ANTICIPATED MOMENT

OF THE NIGHT, WHEN THIS STAGE IS RUSHED BY PRODUCERS.

[LAUGHTER] THROUGHOUT THE EVENING, WE'VE ENJOYED

PERFORMANCES FROM THE SHOW WAS NOMINATED FOR OUR FINAL AWARD.

ONCE AGAIN, HERE ARE THE NOMINEES FOR BEST MUSICAL.

>> Announcer: "BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB."

"DEAD OUTLAW."

"DEATH BECOMES HER."

"MAYBE HAPPY ENDING."

"OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL."

[APPLAUSE] >> Lin: AND THE TONY AWARD GOES TO...

"MAYBE HAPPY ENDING."

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] >> Announcer: ACCEPTING THE AWARD

FOR "MAYBE HAPPY ENDING," PRODUCER JEFFREY RICHARDS.

[APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪ >> WE ARE SO HONORED TO RECEIVE THIS AWARD,

FOR THIS MAGICAL, MELODICAL, HEARTFELT, THRILLING SHOW THAT'S

BEEN TELLING AUDIENCES AT THE BELASCO THEATER SINCE LAST FALL.

AND I WANT TO SALUTE PEOPLE YOU'VE ALREADY SALUTED TONIGHT.

OUR AUTHORS, WILL ARONSON AND HUE PARK, OUR BRILLIANT

DIRECTOR, MICHAEL ARDEN.

HUE PARK, AS HE IS MENTIONED MORE THAN ONCE, IS STILL SINGLE.

[LAUGHTER] AND ALSO I WANT TO THANK ALL OF THE WONDERFUL

PRODUCERS WHO JOINED TO MAKE THIS SHOW HAPPEN AND ESPECIALLY

OUR GENERAL MANAGEMENT WHO HAVE GUIDED US THROUGH THIS ENTIRE

SEASON.

>> I JUST WANT TO SAY THIS IS FOR ALL THE AUDIENCES THROUGH

ALL THE WORLD THEY CAME TO SEE LIVE THEATER THIS YEAR, AND MORE

PORTLY FOR OUR FRIENDS, FAMILIES, SPOUSES WORKING AT

HOME, LIKE MY HUSBAND JASON HAS HELD ME WHEN I BATTERIES WERE

LOW AND PUT UP WITH THIS OBSOLETE MODEL.

WE COULD NOT DO IT WITHOUT OUR SUPPORT SYSTEMS.

WE LOVE YOU, WE SEE YOU, WE THANK YOU.

GOOD NIGHT.

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> Cynthia: CONGRATULATIONS TO "MAYBE HAPPY ENDING," AND

CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE TONIGHT.

IT'S BEEN AN AMAZING NIGHT, BUT NOW IT'S TIME TO GO, SO THERE'S

♪ ♪ ♪ AND I AM TELLING YOU ♪ ♪ I AM GOING ♪ ♪ THIS WAS THE BEST

TIME I'LL EVER KNOW ♪ ♪ JUST ONE LOOK BACK AND THEN IT'S TIME TO

GO ♪ ♪ THE EVENING STARTED WHEN SARAH SNOOK WON ♪ ♪ THEN A TONY

FOR "PURPOSE" BUT WE'D JUST BEGUN ♪ COLE CAUSED QUITE A

SCENE ♪

♪ BROADWAY'S NEW QUEEN ♪ ♪ AND I AM TELLING YOU ♪ ♪ SOON, I'M

GOING ♪ ♪ AND THIS NIGHT WAS SO GAY!

♪ ♪ SO, SO, SO, SO GAY ♪ ♪ "OH, MARY!"

THAT'S BROADWAY ♪ ♪ I'M DONE HOSTING, BUT START TOASTING ♪ ♪

'CAUSE YOU, AND YOU, AND YOU ♪ ♪ YOU WON A TONY ♪

♪ THIS WAS THE TONYS ♪ ♪ TONYS ♪ ♪ THIS WAS THE TONYS ♪ ♪ ♪

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, EVERYONE.

GOOD NIGHT.