NEW YORK — The best of this year's Broadway season will be shown in primetime at the 77th Tony Awards.
The 2024 ceremony will feature new musicals such as “Hell's Kitchen,” “Water for Elephants” and “The Outsiders” as well as an interactive revival of “Cabaret,” and will be hosted by Oscar winner Ariana DeBose at Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater on June 16.
The ceremony will air live on CBS from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM ET and will also be streamed on Paramount+ and available on demand the following day.
Producers announced Thursday that the show will feature performances from eight of the shows nominated for best musical and best revival of a musical.
“The Illinoisans,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Suffs” and “Tommy by The Who” are also included in this year's lineup, but specific songs have yet to be announced.
The 2024 Tony Awards nominations were announced on April 30, with “Hell's Kitchen” and “Stereophonic” receiving 13 nominations each, making them the most nominated shows of the season.
Alicia Keys, a 16-time Grammy winner, may be poised to add a Tony to her trophy case with her current performance at the Times Square theater in “Hell's Kitchen,” a critically acclaimed tour de force inspired by her teenage years growing up in the area.
The Public Theater transfer also scored highly in the best musical category out of 13 nominations, with four lead actors nominated: newcomer Maria Joy Moon, theater veterans Brandon Victor Dixon and Shoshana Bean, and veteran stage and screen actress Keshia Lewis.
Intellectual property from the literary and film industries has proven to be a treasure trove for Broadway. Among this season's productions adapted from books and films is “The Outsiders,” based on S.E. Hinton's best-selling 1967 novel and Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film of the same name, which was nominated for 12 Tony Awards.
The show, which blends bluegrass, Americana, folk and rock, details the war between two rival gangs in 1960s Oklahoma and earned first-time Tony Award nominations for its powerful performances by actors Brodie Grant, Skye Lakota Lynch and Joshua Boone.
Water for Elephants is another popular book-turned-film-turned-Broadway musical. The show was adapted from a best-selling 2006 novel (by Sarah Gruen) and later turned into a 2011 film (starring Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz) and stage adaptation, which told the story of a man reminiscing about his past with a traveling circus during the Great Depression.
“Water for Elephants,” which stars “The Flash” stars Grant Gustin, Isabel McCullough and Greg Edelman, was nominated for seven Tony Awards.
“The Kit Kat Klub Cabaret,” which regularly plays to sell-out audiences at the renovated August Wilson Theatre, garnered nine nominations, including best acting nominations for lead actress Gayle Rankin, Academy Award and Tony Award winner Eddie Redmayne, two-time Tony Award winner Bebe Neuwirth and Steven Skybell.
The immersive production, which also stars Attor Blankson-Wood, breathes new life into Kander and Ebb's iconic musical, with a circular stage in the middle of what would normally be the orchestra floor, surrounded by the audience, creating the atmosphere of a 1930s Berlin nightclub.
