Tonys 2025: 17 Must-See Moments From This Year's Tony Awards
The biggest night in the theatre calendar took place in New York last night, as the red carpet was rolled out for the Tony Awards.
Hosted by Wicked fave Cynthia Erivo, the night welcomed some of the biggest names from the stage world in the last 12 months – including a host of A-listers and true icons from the theatre world.
Unfortunately, unlike many other major US awards shows, the Tonys is a bit of a tough one to watch here in the UK.
However, we've managed to round up some of the night's top moments, so you don't need to feel like you've missed out. Enjoy…
Kristin Chenoweth, Aaron Tveit and Adam Lambert join Cynthia Erivo in song during her opening performance for the 2025 #TonyAwardspic.twitter.com/aeR1y7R1W8
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 9, 2025
Oprah makes an appearance during Cynthia Erivo's opening of the 2025 #TonyAwards with a fun little moment "making space" from #WickedMoviepic.twitter.com/WgtE1LW2Zl
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 9, 2025
Cynthia Erivo just told Oprah to check under her chair at the Tonys, and she pulled out a package with a toy car in it"You get a car! I've been waiting all night to do that!" pic.twitter.com/8MGRl0ybPt
— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) June 9, 2025
Nicole Scherzinger accepts the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Norma Desmond in @sunsetblvd. pic.twitter.com/G9NWBDhUkL
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) June 9, 2025
I haven't seen her performance, but I did get to interview Nicole Scherzinger once and she was delightful, lovely, humble, but she also clearly felt like she had something to prove. There was something more she wanted us to see in her. I'm so happy she got this moment. https://t.co/xghm8x8UrV
— Olivia Truffaut-Wong (@iWatchiAm) June 9, 2025
Clearly someone in the crew salty about Nicole Scherzinger winning. When have we EVER see them go to the wrong person after the winner is announced? In any awards show. Especially the biggest award of the night. https://t.co/pIlOqSlF5gpic.twitter.com/AhSIjir1z6
— Principe 🫅🏾 (@Pri_Letterman) June 9, 2025
Nicole Scherzinger delivers stunning vocals at the #TonyAwards. pic.twitter.com/sMP2I2eFJs
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) June 9, 2025
Nicole Scherzinger is undeniable. Truly a masterful, ferocious tour de force of a performance. Brava! #TonyAwardspic.twitter.com/dBi68LE5tL
— DRAMA. with Connor & Dylan MacDowell (@TheDramaPodcast) June 9, 2025
me watching nicole scherzinger's performance pic.twitter.com/5Xa42fyffw
— Tom Smyth (@Tom_Smyth_) June 9, 2025
Audra McDonald's full performance at the #TonyAwards. You're welcome. pic.twitter.com/WN6bwvrZmy
— ariely ¨̮ (@sinadiemequiere) June 9, 2025
📌Sarah Snook's Full Award Acceptance Speech at the Tony Awards for her performance as 26 characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray! @DorianGrayPlaypic.twitter.com/TyMpXMImPV
— nitsi | succession broadway & tony era! ᡣ𐭩 (@hosseinisgeckos) June 9, 2025
'Is this our maybe happy ending?'Congratulations to Darren Criss on his win for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for Maybe Happy Ending!#MaybeHappyEnding#DarrenCriss#TonyAwards@thetonyawards@mhemusicalpic.twitter.com/iSvO23UuAJ
— Alliance Theatre (@alliancetheatre) June 9, 2025
MAYBE HAPPY ENDING JUST WON SIX TONY AWARDS #tonyawardspic.twitter.com/1ce4MEtHYl
— day (@eurydaisies) June 9, 2025
'8 shows a week i play a woman onstage. and if you found yourself believing in hester, you have just bid farewell to those rotten old binaries and opened yourself up to a world that is already out there in glorious technicolor and is not going away anytime soon!' 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️#TonyAwardspic.twitter.com/gKeTPrJjXy
— lotte!!! (@lotteyaps) June 9, 2025
thanking "T-Bo from Grindr" during your acceptance speech is the funniest shit i've ever heard. Cole Escola the legend that you are. #TonyAwardspic.twitter.com/paKjRxSRZX
— prank sinatra (@KyloCool630) June 9, 2025
I love that Cole Escola thanked T Bone from Grinder 😂 and Amy Sedaris for 'always making sure to remind me how important she is to me' in their acceptance speech for 'Oh, Mary!'
— Chris Wallenberg (@chriswallenberg) June 9, 2025
Words can't express how truly moved and thrilled I am that Cole Escola won. And not just because was a terrific speech.
— Adam Feldman (@FeldmanAdam) June 9, 2025
They should've allotted ten minutes for Cole Escola's speech
— Ian Michael Stone (@ianmichaelstone) June 9, 2025
Only thing this Cole Escola acceptance speech was missing was a plea for Ariana Grande to come back to Broadway. #TonyAwards
— HTownKris (@BMK1080) June 9, 2025
YES YES HAPPY PRIDE pic.twitter.com/WWY4hJzXnk
— yosh (@sandrxrobbins) June 9, 2025
Jean Smart and Sarah Paulson giving a tony to Cole Escola is the gay climax of pride month
— king cookie (@Hashtag_Niko) June 9, 2025
SHE'S A STAR!!!!! pic.twitter.com/3K9hjGvUJw
— ems megan hilty's pr manager 🫧 (@galindawithga) June 9, 2025
AHHHHHHH @JinkxMonsoon IS PERFORMING AT THE #TonyAwards!!!!!!!!! SO, SO PROUD!!!!!!!!! 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/Dt8CTUvttW
— Caleigh Miller (@CaleighAMiller) June 9, 2025
JINKX GIRLIES RISE!! when i say it's monsoon season year round I MEAN THAT SHIT 🗣️✨🥹💗 @JinkxMonsoonpic.twitter.com/SLV6WvUHpm
— jojo 🌞 (@gaylimonchips) June 9, 2025
JINKX MONSOON PERFORMING ON THE TONY AWARD STAGE IS SO CORRECT HAPPY PRIDE MONTH pic.twitter.com/G4Xjjk0g8H
— Princess Thighana (@JakeDoesntCare) June 9, 2025
Omg was that Jinx Monsoon?! #TonyAwards#DragRacepic.twitter.com/5o7FE2AuhH
— The Ooh Aah Aah Sensation (@indigenousgae) June 9, 2025
the casting producers of 'Pirates!' while casting Jinkx Monsoon in a role where she sings 'I guess im such a jinx' #TonyAwardspic.twitter.com/H1JkGy2bRx
— FRESH PRINCESS 💋👑⛓️ (@belair_bankss) June 9, 2025
Harvey Fierstein – through tears – just gave an all-timer kind of acceptance speech while accepting his Lifetime Tony Award"There is nothing quite like bathing in the applause of a curtain call, but when I bow, I bow to the audience...with gratitude, knowing that without them I… pic.twitter.com/5ukGXStyKe
— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) June 8, 2025
Paul Tazewell did it! He's now won an Oscar and a Tony in the same year! #TonyAwardspic.twitter.com/jzNERWUbbl
— travis's video soul. (@travisfromdabk_) June 8, 2025
Inimitable. The original. #Hamiltenpic.twitter.com/r5YpwujkUw
— Hamilton (@HamiltonMusical) June 9, 2025
pic.twitter.com/CFtvqwRK5ahttps://t.co/eJkHSQi8fh
— lucy ford 🍊 (@lucyj_ford) June 9, 2025
how it felt watching the hamilton reunion at the tony's pic.twitter.com/BtAq20lNFp
— lee (@thwiptom) June 9, 2025
"history has its eyes on you" hits even harder 10 years later with how our world has changed. #hamilton#tonyawardspic.twitter.com/8MAF4DwYdU
— ab 💌 (@strangesapphics) June 9, 2025
still not over lin crying after hamilton im sobbing pic.twitter.com/cob5unJ9k1
— nico ⚓️ WISHBONE (@dinoftina) June 9, 2025
my name is alexander hamilton and there are a million things I haven't done but just you wait JUST YOU WAITTTT *standing ovation both at the tonys and in my living room* #TonyAwardspic.twitter.com/QQ8JqHdMUI
— annie 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 (@thatssoannie_) June 9, 2025
'This night was sooo gayyyy ,sosososo gayyy' ts finna be stuck in my head 😭 pic.twitter.com/ZogaOgOi5r
— Stephanie (@stephstehp) June 9, 2025
Cynthia Erivo just got a standing ovation by closing the Tonys with her version of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." she changed the lyrics to be about tonight's ceremony"And I am telling you I ~am~ going. This was the best time I'll ever know!" pic.twitter.com/KNuxxoiu1v
— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) June 9, 2025
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