Cumming, Redgrave, Burton & Mitchell to Announce Tony Noms
Four Broadway veterans will announce this year's Tony Award nominations. Alan Cumming, Lynn Redgrave, Kate Burton, and Brian Stokes Mitchell will be on hand at the Marriott Marquis Hotel to announce the nominees at 8:30am on Tuesday, May 10.
The choice to have these individuals announce the nominees represents a step back to the tradition of having theater stars make the announcement. Cumming is a Tony winner who will return to Broadway next season in The Threepenny Opera. Both Redgrave and Burton are former Tony nominees who will appear together on Broadway this summer in The Constant Wife. Mitchell is a past Tony winner in the midst of a series of performances at Broadway's Vivian Beaumont Theatre.
The tradition has usually been to have stage stars announce the nominations. In 2001 it was Reba McEntire and Eric McCormack, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Steven Weber did it in 2002, and last year Melanie Griffith and John Lithgow announced the nominees. But last year that tradition was broken when a group of "celebrated New Yorkers" including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, designer Kenneth Cole, Edie Falco, 2003 Tony winner Jane Krakowski, Grammy Award winner Cyndi Lauper, John Leguizamo, Jesse L. Martin, Anne Meara, Paul Rudd and Jerry Stiller from all different fields announced the nominees.
