Without further ado: The 2022 Tony Awards will air live on the West Coast

To have fun 75 years of honoring excellence in theater, the 2022 Tony Awards will likely be broadcast reside throughout the nation for the primary time within the present’s historical past.

The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing introduced Wednesday that this yr’s three-hour Tony ceremony will happen June 12 at New York’s Radio Metropolis Music Corridor. CBS will air the telecast from 5 to eight p.m. Pacific, breaking a decades-long custom of delayed viewing choices for West Coast households.

The present may also be accessible to stream reside and on demand through Paramount+, the place subscribers may have unique entry to a preshow celebration beginning at 4 p.m. Pacific.

Till now, West Coast viewers have been pressured to observe a rerun of the Tonys three hours after the East Coast already noticed the particular. Final yr, even the Paramount+ stream was pushed again to 9 p.m. for West Coast audiences.

On Might 3, the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing will unveil the nominees for the 2022 Tony Awards. The deadline to submit stage productions for Tony consideration is April 28.

Final yr, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” dominated by securing a whopping 10 awards, together with greatest musical. The pandemic-era occasion adopted a brutal interval for the theater neighborhood, which was hit arduous by COVID-19 amid an prolonged Broadway shutdown.