Your Broadway boyfriend Aaron Tveit, along with theatrical legends Chita Rivera, Andrew Lloyd Webber and more have been tapped as presenters for this year’s Tony Awards! Broadway’s biggest night, hosted by James Corden, will broadcast live from the Beacon Theatre on CBS, on June 12.
Other big names enlisted for the event include Christian Borle, Common, Josh Groban, Nikki M. James, Bebe Neuwirth, Keri Russell, Meg Ryan and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
As previously announced, the star-studded evening will also feature appearances by Uzo Aduba, Cate Blanchett, Claire Danes, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Neil Patrick Harris, Sean Hayes, James Earl Jones, Daniel Dae Kim, Carole King, Diane Lane, Nathan Lane, Angela Lansbury, Lucy Liu, Audra McDonald, Marlee Matlin, Patina Miller, Andrew Rannells, Saoirse Ronan, Barbra Streisand, Blair Underwood, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Martin and Edie Brickell.
The high-energy evening will feature performances from the 2016 Tony-nominated Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical shows, including Tony nominees Brandon Victor Dixon and Adrienne Warren and the cast of Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed; Tony nominees Laura Benanti, Zachary Levi and Jane Krakowski and the cast of She Loves Me; Tony nominee Alex Brightman and the cast of School of Rock; Tony nominee Danny Burstein and the cast of Fiddler on the Roof; Tony nominees Danielle Brooks and Cynthia Erivo and the cast of The Color Purple; Tony nominees Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom Jr., Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson and Daveed Diggs and the cast of Hamilton; Tony nominees Sara Bareilles, Christopher Fitzgerald and Jessie Mueller and the cast of Waitress; Tony nominee Carmen Cusack and the cast of Bright Star; and the cast of Spring Awakening.
The telecast is also set to feature a performance by Gloria Estefan and the cast of On Your Feet!
Watch Tveit talking about presenting this coming Sunday on LIVE with Kelly (and Alec Baldwin) below.