Six hours of live coverage of Broadway's biggest night - the 60th annual Tony Awards - will be available exclusively on Sunday, June 11th from 6 PM to midnight ET on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's Broadway's Best, channel 77.
The coverage will be highlighted with exclusive SIRIUS interviews of 2006 Tony Award nominees and previous winners, and phone calls from SIRIUS listeners across the U.S. Broadway's Best on-air hosts
Christine Pedi,
Seth Rudetsky and Michael Bourne will host the live Tony Awards coverage and take listener phone calls at 866-603-8316.
In addition, segments of exclusive SIRIUS interviews with 2006 Tony Award nominees
Harry Connick, Jr. (
The Pajama Game),
Sutton Foster (
The Drowsy Chaperone),
Michael Cerveris (
Sweeney Todd),
Phil Collins (
Tarzan the Musical) and
Chita Rivera will be featured, along with previous Tony winners
Bernadette Peters, Matthew Broderick, Marvin Hamlisch,
Brian Stokes Mitchell and
Betty Buckley.
This
year, The American Theatre Wing's Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards will
be celebrating their 60th Anniversary. The 2006 Tony Awards are
presented by the League of American Theatres and Producers and the
American Theatre Wing.
This year, the duty of hosting the Tony Awards will be shared. The
60th Anniversary show is bigger than just one host," said executive
producers Weiss and Kirshner previously. "So we've put together a
line-up of 60 stars from the stage
to lead our celebration." The Tony
Awards will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS,
Sunday, June 11th, 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT time delay).The Tonys are presented by the League of American Theatres and Producers and the American Theatre Wing. At the League, Gerald Schoenfeld is Chairman and Jed Bernstein is President. At the Wing, Sondra Gilman is Chairman, Doug Leeds is President and Howard Sherman is Executive Director. For Tony Award Productions, Elizabeth I. McCann
is Managing Producer and Joey Parnes is Coordinating Producer. Kirshner
and Weiss/White Cherry Entertainment are Executive Producers of the
2006 Tony Awards. Weiss will also serve as Director of the 2006 Tony
Awards.
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