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Here Are the Performers & Presenters for the 2025 Tony Awards

The Tony Awards on Sunday night (June 8) will include performances from all five nominees for best musical and all four nominees for best revival of a musical — as well as two more 2024-25 shows — Just in Time, which stars Tony-nominated Jonathan Groff as legendary performer Bobby Darin, and Real Women Have Curves, which features Tony-nominated Justina Machado.

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There will also be a special 10th anniversary salute to Hamilton, with a performance by that show’s original cast. Three of that show’s stars, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Ariana DeBose, are also set to present on the show.

There will also be a performance by Broadway Inspirational Voices. The ensemble, founded by Michael McElroy, won a 2019 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theater.

Cynthia Erivo, who won a Tony in 2016 for The Color Purple, is set to host the show for the first time. Brian Stokes Mitchell, who won a Tony for in 2000 for a revival of Kiss Me, Kate, will serve as the show’s announcer. The show will air from Radio City Music Hall in New York City for the first time in three years.

Other presenters include Adam Lambert, who played the emcee in Cabaret on Broadway; Lea Michele, who starred on Broadway in a revival of Funny Girl; and Sara Bareilles, a three-time Tony nominee and past Tonys cohost.

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Past Tony winners Aaron Tveit, Bryan Cranston, Kelli O’Hara, Kristin Chenoweth, Lea Salonga and Sarah Paulson are also set to present.

Darren Criss and Renée Elise Goldsberry are set to host the pre-show, dubbed The Tony Awards: Act One. This could be a very big night for Criss, who is also a leading nominee for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical for Maybe Happy Ending.

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Two nominated shows, Buena Vista Social Club (which received 10 nods) and Stanger Things: The First Shadow (which got five) are guaranteed to go home with awards. The musicians who make up the band Buena Vista Social Club have been voted a special Tony Award. Other special Tonys will be presented to the illusions and technical effects of Stranger Things: The First Shadow.

Other special Tonys will be presented to Harvey Fierstein, for lifetime achievement in the theatre; Celia Keenan-Bolger, the 2025 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award; and Great Performances, Michael Price, New 42 and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 2025 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre.

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The 78th annual Tony Awards will air live coast to coast on Sunday, June 8, from 8 to 11 p.m. ET on CBS (its network home since 1978) and streaming on Paramount+ in the U.S.

The Tony Awards: Act One is available to viewers for free on Pluto TV from 6:40 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET/3:40 to 5 p.m. PT. Viewers can access the show on their smart TV, streaming device, mobile app or online by going to Pluto TV and clicking on the Live Music channel, found within the Entertainment category on the service.

The Tony Awards are produced in collaboration with Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League, and White Cherry Entertainment. Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss are executive producers and showrunners for White Cherry Entertainment. Weiss will serve as director.

Here are the performers and presenters on the 2025 Tony Awards. Additional names will be added as they are announced.

Performances:

Best musical nominees

Buena Vista Social Club

Dead Outlaw

Death Becomes Her

Maybe Happy Ending

Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical

Best Revival of a Musical nominees

Floyd Collins

Gypsy: A Musical Fable

Pirates! The Penzance Musical

Sunset Blvd.

Other 2024-25 shows

Just in Time (Bobby Darin musical)

Real Women Have Curves

Special performances

Hamilton original cast, 10th anniversary

Broadway Inspirational Voices

Presenters

Aaron Tveit

Adam Lambert

Alex Winter

Allison Janney

Ariana DeBose

Ben Stiller

Bryan Cranston

Carrie Preston

Charli D’Amelio

Danielle Brooks

Jean Smart

Jesse Eisenberg

Katie Holmes

Keanu Reeves

Kelli O’Hara

Kristin Chenoweth

LaTanya Richardson Jackson

Lea Michele

Lea Salonga

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Michelle Williams

Oprah Winfrey

Rachel Bay Jones

Renée Elise Goldsberry

Samuel L. Jackson

Sara Bareilles

Sarah Paulson

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