2025 Tony appointments announces: what to know and how to look

Broadway has a lot to boast this season: an exceptional harvest of 42 players and musicals eligible for Tony, many cinema stars that work on the boards, several productions that attract a young audience and a healthy mix of original and original shows alongside the big brand show.

On Thursday, the industry is starting its annual celebration for Broadway’s best with the announcement of this year Tony Awards candidates. Over the next five weeks, Tony’s voters will finish seeing the last shows, then will then vote for the productions and the performances they admired the most. On June 8, the award ceremony will take place at the Radio City Music Hall.

The Tony Awards are awarded by the Broadway League and the American Theater Wing. Here’s what you need to know about appointments:

When is the ad?

Tony Award’s appointments will be announced Thursday morning in New York by actors Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce. Some categories of marquee will be announced at 8:30 am Eastern on “CBS Mornings”, then the full Slate will be revealed at 9 am on the YouTube channel of Tony Awards. (We will publish the list of nominees, as well as news and comments, on nytimes.com/theater.)

What shows are eligible?

The 21 pieces and 21 musicals that opened in Broadway between April 26, 2024 and April 27, 2025 are eligible. (This season has also included a two -week concert led by Ben Platt; this show is not eligible for Tony.)

What show and what actors are the main contenders?

Keep an eye on “perhaps a happy ending”, “dead outlaw” and “buena vista social club” in the best musical category, and “purposes”, “John Proctor is the villain” and “Oh, Mary! In the new game category. (There will be at least five appointments in each of these categories.)

There are a certain number of strong contenders for the best actress in a musical, but the overlaps seem to be Audra McDonald, already victorious of Tony, for “Gypsy”, and Nicole Scherzinger, a former member of the Pussycat dolls, for “Sunset Boulevard”. The race for the best actor in a musical is more open, but is likely to present Darren Criss of “perhaps happy end”, Andrew Durand of “Dead Outlaw”, Tom Francis de “Sunset boulevard”, Jonathan Groff of “Just in Time” and Jeremy Jordan of “Floyd Collins”.