Julianne Hough and Utkarsh Ambudkar will host the Tony Awards pre-show on June 16.
The pre-show, titled The Tony Awards: act 1, presents a presentation of the inaugural series of Tony Awards at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The show airs live on Paramount’s free streaming service, Pluto TV, from 6:30-8 p.m. ET/3:30-5 p.m. PT.
The Tony Awards ceremony, hosted by Ariana DeBose, airs live immediately afterwards at the same location, from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. PT on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ in the United States. the third year DeBose hosted. She will also choreograph the show’s opening number and act as producer.
Hough, known for Dancing with the starswhere she first appeared as a dancer and is now a co-host, made her Broadway debut in the play POTUS in 2022. She hosted the pre-show with Skylar Astin in 2023 and Darren Criss in 2022.
Ambudkar made his Broadway debut in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop show Freestyle Supreme Love in 2019. He currently appears on the CBS show Ghosts and has already appeared in Perfect pitch And I have never, among other titles.
The Tony Awards are presented by the Broadway League and the American Theater Wing and produced in collaboration with Tony Award Productions and White Cherry Entertainment, with Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss serving as showrunners and executive producers. Weiss will also serve as director. Jack Sussman also serves as executive producer.
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