{"id":258801,"date":"2026-06-08T03:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258801\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T03:31:08","slug":"chicago-30th-anniversary-tony-awards-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/258801\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Chicago\u2019 30th Anniversary Tony Awards Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe 2026 Tonys<\/a> paid homage to Chicago<\/a>\u2018s landmark 30th anniversary on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlex Newell kicked things off with a performance of \u201cWhen You\u2019re Good To Mama,\u201d after an introduction by Queen Latifah<\/a>, who commemorated the show\u2019s three-decade run on Broadway<\/a>. Latifah\u2019s intro paid homage to her own Oscar-nominated starring turn as Matron \u201cMama\u201d Morton in the 2002 film.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd now, ladies and gentleman, from one mother hen to another, the keeper of the keys, the countess of the clink, the mistress of murderers row; Matron \u2018Mama\u2019 Morton!\u201d Latifah said before welcoming the Tony winner to the stage.<\/p>\n

\n\tPink, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Adrienne Warren, Julianne Hough, Whitney Leavitt and Dylan Mulvaney were among those who also appeared in the starry performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe long-running musical hit a new high<\/a> at the box office this year, boosted by Leavitt and her Dancing With the Stars partner Mark Ballas\u2019 limited run in the show. Chicago reached close to $1.5 million during the week of April 14, as the average ticket price went up to $171, and capacity at the Ambassador Theatre increased to 100 percent.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 78th annual Tony Awards<\/a> were hosted by Pink at the Radio City Music Hall in New York on Sunday night. The \u201cSo What\u201d singer herself opened the awards ceremony<\/a> with a performance that made reference to almost every single nominated musical and play from this season.<\/p>\n

\n\tPink also hit the stage again for the Chicago tribute, where she performed \u201cAll That Jazz\u201d and commanded the stage. She and Newell certainly gave the 2026 Tonys<\/a> the old razzle dazzle.<\/p>\n

\n\tSee all the red-carpet arrival looks here<\/a> and the full list of 2026 Tonys winners here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 Tonys paid homage to Chicago\u2018s landmark 30th anniversary on Sunday night. Alex Newell kicked things off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2470,207,8287,9,24,63,34055,122,124,123,905,30427,100768,100769,100770],"class_list":["post-258801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-awards","tag-broadway","tag-chicago","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queen-latifah","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-theater","tag-tony-awards","tag-tony-awards-2026","tag-tonys","tag-tonys-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}