Ariana DeBose, tonight’s host for the Tony Awards for the third time, desires to be within the viewers subsequent time.
“I’m actually craving being again on stage, in a bigger approach than merely internet hosting the Tonys,” she stated to Individuals. “And for that purpose, this can in all probability be one of many final instances I host for some time, so another person can maintain the ropes.”
The magic – and the nerves – haven’t gone out of internet hosting the present.
“Oh, yearly I need to throw up,” the Oscar-winning actress stated. “I’m not going to lie. I’ve a trash can ready within the wings. I by no means in 1,000,000 years thought I’d host the Tony Awards. That was not in any type of plan that I noticed for myself. And final 12 months I used to be so nervous. I paced for a stable half-hour on my own. I’ve by no means completed that within the historical past of my performing profession.”
As for her successor, “I’ll go away them my bucket,” she jokes.
DeBose takes the mission of the awards severely.
“The Tony Awards is an important second for the Broadway group, and an evening that has actual financial influence on how this business capabilities. So it looks like a sacred accountability to be there to indicate what they’ve to supply, and one thing I don’t take flippantly,” she stated.
“There’s such an enormous number of expertise and creativity on show on these phases,” she provides. “There’s really no place like Broadway. And I’m grateful that I’ve even a fraction of the platform that I maintain to attempt to be a useful entity.”
The 2024 Tony Awards airs Sunday, June 16, on CBS and Paramount+ starting at 8 p.m. ET. Choose awards will probably be handed out in a pre-show viewers can stream that starting at 6:30 p.m. ET on Pluto TV.
