Ariana De Bose is about to do her thing in 2024 Tony Awards – for the third time in a row.
The Oscar winner will host the annual awards ceremony for the third year on Sunday at New York’s Lincoln Center. While she’s no stranger to running the show at this point, the 33-year-old artist also knows the audience she’s about to introduce to.
That’s because she’s a Broadway star herself. O Hamilton The alumna got her start in theater professionally over a decade ago and has since earned her own Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Musical as Disco Donna in 2018. Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. The prom the actress achieved stardom in Hollywood as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s film West Side Historyearning her first Oscar nomination and win.
But on Sunday night she will be back in the company of her beloved theater companions.
“I love the community,” she told ET’s Rachel Smith. “I started on Broadway. I worked…on Broadway for 10 years and it feels like home, so every year I have the opportunity to come back, I’m so grateful.”
This year, however, she is adding an extra credit to her resume as a producer of the awards show.
“It looks different, but then again, it’s not that different. I’m doing the same things I used to do. I’m very practical anyway,” she says. “But, you know, sitting at the table, they’re kind of forced to listen to me, but luckily everyone at White Cherry (Entertainment) and I have a great collaborative process.”
After starting the show last year without a script amid the Writers Guild of America strikeThere will still be an opening number this year – co-choreographed by DeBose herself – but expect a new look at the magic of theater.
“I think this show is really going to try to elevate what the Tonys can be. We’re trying some new things. It’s an ambitious Broadway season,” she points out, “so why not try to give them an ambitious show?”
Notes DeBose: “We’re not trying to duplicate or recycle any of the magic of last year, right? It was a time – I don’t think I could do it again if I tried, so, you know, we’re at Lincoln Center this year and it’s about to take the tools and the space we’re in and see what it can bring to the Tonys.”
While DeBose is keeping most of the details to herself until show time, she did confirm that there will be “amazing” musical performances and a star-studded lineup of presenters — Including Jennifer Hudson, Taraji P. HensonIt is Angelina Jolie — all while she juggles accommodation and four outfit changes.
Ultimately, of course, it is the shows and their nominated artists who are at the center of Broadway’s biggest night.
“There is literally something for everyone,” she says of this year’s Broadway season. “That’s what I love so much, it’s like we’ve opened so many shows. I believe there were a total of 36 productions this season, and it’s amazing because Broadway is transforming, so if you’ve historically thought that Broadway might not be for you, I promise you, if you give it a chance, there’s a show for you. you. Come see. Hell’s Kitchencome see Strangers, Illinois, Mom Play, Appropriate, Enemy of the people – there is literally the cerebral, the strictly fun, there is the moving and transformative. We are ready for you. Come see us.”
O 2024 Tony Awardswhich will be hosted by Ariana De Boseairs live from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, June 16 at 5pm PT/8pm ET on CBS and Paramount+.
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