Tonight is the Tony Awards: What you need to know

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With the Tony Awards celebrating their 78th year, Broadway will be bringing the sights and sounds of this year's wonderful productions to people watching at home.
Elphaba herself, Cynthia Erivo, will be hosting this year's 78th Annual Tony Awards.
Erivo won her first Tony for her role as Celie in "The Color Purple" in 2016 and was nominated in 2023 for the play "Fat Ham."
The 78th Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall at 8 pm. to 11 p.m. EST.
People can tune in to CBS or stream the awards show on Paramount+.
Those watching the Tonys can expect a great number of performances from new musicals and revivals.
The original Broadway cast of "Hamilton" will unite to celebrate the show's 10th anniversary.
Other performances are from shows "Buena Vista Social Club," "Dead Outlaw," "Death Becomes Her," "Floyd Collins," "Gypsy," "Maybe Happy Ending," "Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical," "Pirates! The Penzance Musical," "Sunset Boulevard," "Just In Time," and "Real Women Have Curves" and an appearance by the 2019 Tony Honor Recipient Broadway Inspirational Voices.
Nominees include some major Broadway stars, including James Monroe Iglehart, Jeremy Jordan, Audra McDonald and Megan Hilty.
But other well-known people will are nominated, including George Clooney for his role in "Good Night, Good Luck," Daniel Dae Kim for his role in "Yellow Face" and Nicole Scherzinger, of the Pussy Cat Dolls, for her role in "Sunset Boulevard."
Nominations for Best Musical are "Buena Vista Social Club," "Dead Outlaw," "Death Becomes Her," "Maybe Happy Ending" and "Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical."
Nominations for Best Revival are "Floyd Collins," "Gypsy," "Pirates! The Penzance Musical," and "Sunset Boulevard."
The Tony Awards are named after Antoinette Perry, founder of the American Theatre Wing, which established the awards in 1947.
Perry was an actress, director, and producer born in 1888 in Denver, Colorado. She spent her younger years "aspiring to replicate the thespian artistry of her aunt and uncle, Mildred Hall and George Wessels, both of whom were well-respected touring actors," the website said.
At the age of 15, she joined her uncle's touring company, but left in 1905 to join the cast of "The Music Master" in New York City. She later provided money to actors and playwrights who had overdue hotel bills, supported productions, and began directing shows.
She helped lead the theater community through World War II, co-founding the Theater Wing of Allied Relief, which turned into the American Theater Wing. It staged the Stage Door Canteen in the basement of the former 44th Street Theatre, and stars worked as dishwashers, waiters, waitresses and entertainers for members of the armed forces.
"Perry was also president of the National Experimental Theatre and financed, with Actors' Equity Association and the Dramatists Guild, the work of new playwrights," the site said. "During and after the war, she underwrote auditions for 7,000 hopefuls. Her dream of a national actor's school was realized in 1946."
She passed away at the age of 57 in 1946.
This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: Tony Awards 2025: Who is nominated, how to watch, what time