It was announced today that past Tony Award winners Michael Cerveris and Julie White will host the pre-tony Award show, the Creative Arts Awards, prior to the Tony broadcast. The show will start around 7:10PM at Radio City Music Hall.
The awards honor "behind the scenes excellence in Broadway" and will also include the presentation of the Tony Lifetime Achievement Award to
Stephen Sondheim and the Regional Theater Tony Award to Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
Julie White's theatre credits include The Little Dog Laughed (Tony Award-Best Actress; Obie Award; Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, Drama League nominations), Fiction, The Heidi Chronicles, Dinner With Friends, Barbra's Wedding and also Bad Dates, Spike Heels, and The Family of Man all by
Theresa Rebeck. TV credits include "Cavemen," guest starring as Mitzi Dalton Huntley on HBO's "Six Feet Under," a series regular on "Grace Under Fire," "The Heidi Chronicles," "Law And Order," "Law And Order: SVU," "Whoopi," "Ally McBeal," "Strong Medicine," "Touched By An Angel" and "Arli$$." Film credits include The Astronaut Farmer, Michael Clayton, The Nanny Diaries, Transformers, War Of The Worlds, Slap Her, She's French and Sunday on the Rocks.
Tony Award-winner
Michael Cerveris has appeared in Cymbeline, Love/Musik,
Sweeney Todd, Assassins, The Who's Tommy and Titanic.
The Tony Awards will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS, Sunday, June 15th, 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT time delay). The 2008 Tony Awards are presented by the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.
Tickets can be purchased online through www.TonyAwards.com or by calling the Tony Awards TicketMaster Hotline, (212) 307-4544. Visa is the exclusive card of the Tonys.
The Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards are bestowed annually on theatre professionals for distinguished achievement. The Tony is one of the most coveted awards in the entertainment industry and the annual telecast is considered one of the most prestigious programs on television.
