Best and Worst Moments From the 2025 Tony Awards
Best Reunion: The 'Hamilton' Cast
It was plugged before what seemed like every commercial break, but when members of the original cast of 'Hamilton' finally gathered onstage at Radio City Music Hall for a 10th-anniversary reunion performance, the hype proved justified. Sleekly lit and dressed and choreographed, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Leslie Odom Jr. were gloriously back; so were Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Jasmine Cephas Jones and that Tony-nominated guy who played King George. The eight-song medley — which included 'My Shot,' 'The Schuyler Sisters' and 'The Room Where It Happens'— snapped. I'd make room for it on any list of all-time-best Tonys performances.
— Scott Heller
Best Inspiration: Here's to You, Mr. Robinson
The smooth baritone, the sly half-smile and the wink at the camera. This guy had to be an actor. And, once upon a time, he was. But Gary Edwin Robinson received a Tony Award last night for his second career, as a teacher, at Boys and Girls High School in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Accepting the honor in that voice that could make you believe anything, he said that he trained his students not merely to appreciate theater, but to find careers in it. Appreciation is of course valuable, but the harder thing is to instill in young people the idea that finding 'the theater in themselves' can be honorable, and even necessary.
— Jesse Green
Best Epic Acceptance: Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Scherzinger's acceptance speech was as epically demonstrative as her movements in 'Sunset Boulevard' are controlled, restrained, precise. The acknowledging of 'the exceptional warrior women in this category'! The shaking! The crying! The swooping motions from the hand that was not holding her new award! At times it felt like seeing a modern Maria Callas shaking her fist at the heavens, except that for once those heavens had ruled in her favor. There was an outsize grandeur to the drama of it all that felt classical. Can Medea be far off?
— Elisabeth Vincentelli
Best Placement: Cynthia Erivo's Balcony Bit
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