Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards

[Dylan Smith4]

Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards#1

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

The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince

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

[dyemery]

Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards#2

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]

Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards#3

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

Will there be a rap opening number?

[Luminaire2]

Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards#4

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

Angela Bassett better do the thing!

[Sutton Ross]

Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards#5

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]

Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards#6

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

Meh.

[BorisTomashevsky]

Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards#7

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

This will have them tuning in by the tens.

You can always count on me 🎶

[dramamama611]

Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards#8

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.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

[UWS10023]

Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards#9

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

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

[David10086]

Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards#10

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

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

[DrMonicaDeMoneco]

Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards#11

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]

Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards#12

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

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

[BrodyFosse123]

Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards#13

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]

Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards#14

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]

Ariana Debose to Host 2023 Tony Awards#15

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

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