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Tony Awards Live Updates: Revisit All the Best Moments From This Year’s Tonys

The 2025 Tony Awards toasted a Broadway season teeming with delights—and lucky for us, no less a dynamo than Cynthia Erivo was on hand to host.

Catch up on Vogue’s moment-to-moment coverage of the 78th Tony Awards—from our picks for the best looks of the night, to privileged glimpses inside the ceremony at Radio City Music Hall and an accounting of all the winners—right here.

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Thanks for Tuning In!

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Now That’s How You Say Goodnight!

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Cynthia singing a version of “And I Am Telling You” from Dreamgirls??? This is too much!!!

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And in purple ostrich feathers and sequins, no less!

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Whatever they paid her for this wasn’t enough

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Best New Musical

WINNER: Maybe Happy Ending

Buena Vista Social Club

Dead Outlaw

Death Becomes Her

Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical

See a list of all the night’s winners here:

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“I’m surrounded by loved ones today. That gives me strength and keeps me going even on the most stressful days,” Nicole Scherzinger told Vogue today between her Sunset Boulevard matinee and the 2025 Tonys.

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If Nicole cries, I cry!

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Best Leading Actress in a Musical

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WINNER: Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Blvd.

Megan Hilty, Death Becomes Her

Audra McDonald, Gypsy

Jasmine Amy Rogers, Boop! The Musical

Jennifer Simard, Death Becomes Her

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Sarah Crompton spoke to Nicole before Sunset opened last fall, and the images by Annie Leibovitz are glorious.

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Okay a very sly Patti LuPone joke from Oprah…well played…

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“Lotta talkin’ going on!”

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More on that here (though FWIW Patti has since apologized!):

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Best Leading Actor in a Musical

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WINNER: Darren Criss, Maybe Happy Ending

Andrew Durand, Dead Outlaw

Tom Francis, Sunset Blvd.

Jonathan Groff, Just in Time

James Monroe Iglehart, A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical

Jeremy Jordan, Floyd Collins

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It’s always “love you” and never “you are the very shiny pedestal that upholds the shiny spinning thing of our lives.”

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Cynthia Erivo Outfit Count: 9

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Ariana DeBose made a very game and high-energy Tonys host in 2022, 2023, and 2024. While it had been rumored that she would star in Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Evita in the West End this summer, that part ultimately went to…her old West Side Story co-star Rachel Zegler.

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Justina Machado is so, so good in Real Women Have Curves. Also, the set by Arnulfo Maldonado is totally dazzling.

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You simply LOVE to see it

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We Spoke to the Cast of ‘Operation Mincemeat’ as They Touched Down in New York Earlier This Year…

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Cynthia Erivo giving Oprah Winfrey a gift bag with a toy car in it…and making a “you get a car!” joke…she is lowkey good at this.

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“Share with Gayle” is doing numbers in the Vogue chat.

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Best Revival of a Musical

WINNER: Sunset Blvd.

Floyd Collins

Gypsy

Pirates! The Penzance Musical

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We were there when Sunset opened on Broadway in October; relive that exciting night here:

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Inside Nicole Scherzinger’s Sunset Blvd. Broadway Opening
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Lea Michele proving she can read lmao

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THE AUDIENCE ROSE TO THEIR FEET FOR MAMA!!!!

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Oh my God, Audra’s going to do “Rose’s Turn” ???

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This number is so powerful I was not expecting to face it at 10:30 p.m. on a Sunday (thought it would be “Some People” or “Together (Wherever We Go)”) but here we are…!

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“It’s been a pleasure spending time with you over these warm salads,” Cole Escola says, addressing their fellow nominees for lead actor in a play. Oh, to be a fly on that wall…or that salad.

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Why are there no photos of Cole Escola and George Clooney together? Let’s remedy this!