Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards

[Dylan Smith4]

Posted: 4/12/23 at 11:05am

YAY!

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Ariana-DeBose-Will-Be-Back-to-Host-the-76th-Annual-Tony-Awards-20230412

Updated On: 4/12/23 at 11:05 AM

[dyemery]

Posted: 4/12/23 at 11:50am

And... I will now 100% check it out for good and all!

 

 

Updated On: 4/12/23 at 11:50 AM

[fbueller]

Posted: 4/12/23 at 11:57am

Will there be a rap opening number?

[Luminaire2]

Posted: 4/12/23 at 12:13pm

Angela Bassett better do the thing!

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 4/12/23 at 12:39pm

She can sing, act, dance and isn’t afraid to laugh at herself. Perfect host and such a fun venue. Love.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 4/12/23 at 12:40pm

Meh.

[BorisTomashevsky]

Posted: 4/12/23 at 12:51pm

This will have them tuning in by the tens.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/12/23 at 1:00pm

The Tony Awards will NEVER appeal to a mass audience.   Heck, small numbers watch the far more accessible Oscars. People simply aren't interested in things they have no connection to.  Even people that see one or two shows a year don't have a vested interest.  The Oscars this year (while up from the previous 2 years) was still ranked as the 3rd lowest viewing.

Can't tell you how many negative comments I've seen about Hollywood awarding Hollywood.

[UWS10023]

Posted: 4/13/23 at 4:23pm

She is talented but I would have preferred someone who has never done it before.

[David10086]

Posted: 4/13/23 at 4:48pm

Time to pass the microphone to someone else to be the host. 

[DrMonicaDeMoneco]

Posted: 4/13/23 at 5:06pm

Meh, boring. 

 

we need Rosie!!! 
we need NPH!!!

we need Hugh!!!

we need all 3 of them to host!

 

[nealb1]

Posted: 4/13/23 at 6:17pm

David10086, she's only hosted it one other time.  

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/13/23 at 6:46pm

nealb1 said: "David10086, she's only hosted it one other time."

One time was 30 times too many. She’s becoming the next James Corden. Time to put her on the shelf for a bit. 

[PipingHotPiccolo]

Posted: 4/13/23 at 9:13pm

BrodyFosse123 said: 

One time was 30 times too many. She’s becoming the next James Corden. Time to put her on the shelf for a bit."

Corden theoretically can bring in his audience, and is a face of the network. He a non-theater person lending cred to theater world.  DeBose is...not that. 

I take no position re her career trajectory, but does anyone think shes good at this? Its not that shes hosting stuff too much, its that shes hosted it more than once, and never well. 

[nealb1]

Posted: 7/5/23 at 3:43pm

Bumping this thread.  Ariana did a fantastic job hosting this year.