{"id":259239,"date":"2026-06-08T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259239\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:59:08","slug":"highlights-from-the-2026-tony-awards-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259239\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from the 2026 Tony Awards ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the performances from the Best Musical and Best Musical Revival nominees, there were multiple special performances of iconic modern classics. To celebrate its 15th Broadway anniversary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/127-the-book-of-mormon-tickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Book of Mormon<\/a> reunited original cast members including Josh Gad, Andrew Rannells, Rory O\u2019Malley, and Nikki M. James, while the show\u2019s ever-irreverrent creators \u2014 Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Robert Lopez \u2014 introduced the number.<\/p>\n<p>P!nk later rouged her knees and rolled her stockings down for a performance celebrating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorktheatreguide.com\/show\/22-chicago-tickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a>&#8216;s 30th anniversary on Broadway, also featuring the starry likes of Queen Latifah, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Whitney Leavitt. Rachel Zegler sang a tribute to A Chorus Line for its 50th anniversary, and Hamilton Tony winner Leslie Odom, Jr. led the In Memoriam section with a moving rendition of \u201cWithout You\u201d from Rent, honoring its 30th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition to the performances from the Best Musical and Best Musical Revival nominees, there were multiple special&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-259239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259239","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=259239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}