This year's Tony Awards nominations will be announced on April 28 by Bruce Willis and Mary-Louise Parker. (Willis has never appeared on Broadway but is soon to open in a stage version of Misery.) The Tonys will be awarded and televised live on CBS on June 7 from Radio City Music Hall. So we know who's announcing the nominations, when the ceremony will be, where it will be held…
…but we still don't know who the host will be and that's unusual. It's 53 days until the show. Usually, that announcement would have come months ago.
The presumption is that CBS's first choice is Neil Patrick Harris. Maybe he doesn't want to host it because he's burned-out after the Oscars or maybe he wants to host it again to show the world he can still do a better job than he did on the Oscars. But then CBS has two other possible hosts to consider…
James Corden is a rising CBS star. He's won a Tony. He would be a charming host. It would sure promote him and The Late Late Show to have him do the honors.
Stephen Colbert is a future CBS star. He's never appeared on Broadway but he's done a lot of stage work and been on past Tony telecasts so few would argue he's an outsider to such a role. His Late Show won't start until September but it might not hurt to remind people he exists and he too would probably be a charming host.
And of course, there are other contenders. So what's the hold up in announcing one of these people?