Ahead of the 78th Tony Awards, which will take place on Sunday night at Radio City Music Hall in New York and air on CBS, The Hollywood Reporter gathered seven of the 2024-2025 Broadway season’s standout performers for our annual Tonys Roundtable .

Joining us to discuss their Tony-nominated parts, as well as hot-button issues like nontraditional casting, gender-neutral awards and screens on stages, were two nominees for best actress in a musical, Audra McDonald (stage mother Rose in Gypsy ) and Nicole Scherzinger (aging film star Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. ); two nominees for best actor in a musical, Darren Criss (a futuristic A.I. “Helperbot” in Maybe Happy Ending ) and Jonathan Groff (Bobby Darin in Just in Time ); a nominee for best actress in a p

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