Pink Brings Along Her Entire Family for Her Tony Awards Debut
The singer is the star host of the ceremony this year
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
Pink arrived at Radio City Music Hall for the 79th Annual Tony Awards the way she does most things — fully committed and slightly over-the-top in the best way possible. The singer-turned-host showed up in a sparkly black gown layered with petal-like ruffles, a blue rosette pinned in her hair, and long dangly earrings, with her entire family in tow: mom Judith Moore, husband Carey Hart, and her two kids, Willow and Jameson Hart. It was a Tony Awards debut, and she brought receipts.
The Opening Number Alone Is Worth Tuning In For
According to Harper's Bazaar, the night was set to kick off with a seven-minute opening number featuring Pink alongside Queen Latifah, Rachel Zegler, and Leslie Odom Jr. — plus, apparently, hundreds of other performers. The sequence was written by Tony-winning duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul in collaboration with Oscar-winning songwriter Mark Sonnenblick, with choreography by Broadway's own Sarah O'Gleby. For a first-time host with no Broadway credits to her name, Pink didn't exactly ease in quietly.
She's been candid about the nerves. Appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers ahead of the ceremony, Pink coined her emotional state as "terricited" — somewhere between terrified and genuinely thrilled. It tracks. Hosting the Tonys is a different beast than headlining arenas, and Pink knows it. What's interesting is that while she never took the theater path herself, her daughter Willow is actively building a career in musical theater, and Pink told Meyers the Broadway community has been "lovely" in welcoming her.
The rest of the night's lineup reads like a very good party list: Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Alex Newell, Adrienne Warren, Cedric The Entertainer, Julianne Hough, Whitney Leavitt, and Dylan Mulvaney are among those set to present or perform. But the moment many people are watching for is Queen Latifah's Chicago tribute — the musical hits its 30th year on Broadway this year, and Latifah, who earned an Oscar nomination for playing Matron Mama Morton in the film adaptation, feels like the only person who could properly honor it.
Pink hosting the Tonys is a cultural crossover moment that makes complete sense in retrospect — theatrical instincts, a fanbase that shows up, and just enough Broadway adjacency to pull it off without pretending she's something she's not.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
