Tony Awards: Live coverage of Broadway's biggest night
Welcome to our live coverage of the Tony Awards ceremony. The awards, organized by the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League, will be broadcast live on CBS starting at 8 p.m. ET, with a delay for the West Coast.
This year's ceremony is taking place at the Beacon Theatre in New York. We'll be live blogging the event here so check back throughout the ceremony for updates and commentary. (Here's a list of this year's nominees.)
In addition, we will be hosting a live Tonys chat at The Envelope.
"The Book of Mormon" is the heavy favorite going into tonight's ceremony, with a total of 14 nominations. The musical comedy, from the makers of "South Park," has a chance of breaking the record for the most Tonys won by a musical, which is the 12 won by "The Producers" in 2001.
In the play category, the favorite is harder to call, but many expected "War Horse" to be the big winner. The British war drama, adapted by Nick Stafford from the book by Michael Morpurgo, uses life-size puppets to represent its equine characters.
This year's host is Neil Patrick Harris, who previously hosted the Tonys in 2009.
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-- David Ng
Photo (top): Neil Patrick Harris arrives at the Tony Awards ceremony at the Beacon Theatre in New York. Credit: Jason Kempin / Getty Images
Photo credit (bottom): American Theatre Wing
I sense some fallout from the Prop 8 campaign. Let these guys write a satire of the Koran. They won't, they are cowards.
Posted by: Max Plank | June 12, 2011 at 05:14 PM
Little do the tony elites who heap praise on this cesspool of a production know that they are acting out the script of a vision given to Lehi, the first prophet of the actual Book of Mormon, about 2,600 years ago.
"And I also cast my eyes round about, and beheld, on the other side of the river of water, a great and spacious building; and it stood as it were in the air, high above the earth.
"And it was filled with people, both old and young, both male and female; and their manner of dress was exceedingly fine; and they were in the attitude of mocking and pointing their fingers towards those who had come at and were partaking of the fruit." (1 Nephi 8:26-27) http://bit.ly/gfX0bQ
The objects of their mockery were partaking of the fruit of the Tree of Life, which is a symbol of the love of God as manifest in the gift of his Only Begotten Son. Lehi's response was: "we heeded them not." (v. 33)
This evening I will follow Lehi's example and turn off the TV.
Nephi, son of Lehi, received the same vision and recorded his own inspired interpretation. The great and spacious building represents the pride of the world. Anyone aspiring to a penthouse in that building may want to learn its fate: 1 Nephi 11:36 http://bit.ly/kqJV9O
Tracy Hall Jr
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Posted by: Tracy Hall Jr | June 12, 2011 at 05:09 PM
I laughed when I read "Host Neil Patrick Harris, right, with companion David Burtka."
Why can't the LA Times just say Neil Patrick Harris with his boyfriend David Burtka.
Referring to him as his companion makes him sound like a pet dog.
Posted by: Alfred Newman | June 12, 2011 at 05:03 PM