Tonys 2025: 17 Must-See Moments From This Year's Tony Awards

A selection of highlights from the 2025 TonysThe biggest night in the theatre calendar took place in New York last night, as the red carpet was rolled out for the Tony Awards.Hosted by Wicked fave Cynthia Erivo, the night welcomed some of the biggest names from the stage world in the last 12 months – including a host of A-listers and true icons from the theatre world.Unfortunately, unlike many other major US awards shows, the Tonys is a bit of a tough one to watch here in the UK.However, we’ve managed to round up some of the night’s top moments, so you don’t need to feel like you’ve missed out. Enjoy…Cynthia Erivo roped in some famous guests to help sprinkle some showbiz magic into her opening numberKristin Chenoweth, Aaron Tveit and Adam Lambert join Cynthia Erivo in song during her opening performance for the 2025 #TonyAwardspic.twitter.com/aeR1y7R1W8— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 9, 2025The A-listers just kept on showing up for Cynthia, as the Wicked star also shared two very special moments with Oprah Winfrey as the night unfoldedOprah makes an appearance during Cynthia Erivo's opening of the 2025 #TonyAwards with a fun little moment "making space" from #WickedMoviepic.twitter.com/WgtE1LW2Zl— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) June 9, 2025Cynthia Erivo just told Oprah to check under her chair at the Tonys, and she pulled out a package with a toy car in it"You get a car! I've been waiting all night to do that!" pic.twitter.com/8MGRl0ybPt— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) June 9, 2025After one of the tightest Best Actress In A Musical races in recent memory, it was Nicole Scherzinger who came out on topNicole Scherzinger accepts the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Norma Desmond in @sunsetblvd. pic.twitter.com/G9NWBDhUkL— New York Magazine (@NYMag) June 9, 2025I haven't seen her performance, but I did get to interview Nicole Scherzinger once and she was delightful, lovely, humble, but she also clearly felt like she had something to prove. There was something more she wanted us to see in her. I'm so happy she got this moment. https://t.co/xghm8x8UrV— Olivia Truffaut-Wong (@iWatchiAm) June 9, 2025Clearly someone in the crew salty about Nicole Scherzinger winning. When have we EVER see them go to the wrong person after the winner is announced? In any awards show. Especially the biggest award of the night. https://t.co/pIlOqSlF5gpic.twitter.com/AhSIjir1z6— Principe 🫅🏾 (@Pri_Letterman) June 9, 2025The Sunset Blvd star also delivered a knock-out performanceNicole Scherzinger delivers stunning vocals at the #TonyAwards. pic.twitter.com/sMP2I2eFJs— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) June 9, 2025Nicole Scherzinger is undeniable. Truly a masterful, ferocious tour de force of a performance. Brava! #TonyAwardspic.twitter.com/dBi68LE5tL— DRAMA. with Connor & Dylan MacDowell (@TheDramaPodcast) June 9, 2025me watching nicole scherzinger's performance pic.twitter.com/5Xa42fyffw— Tom Smyth (@Tom_Smyth_) June 9, 2025As did her fellow nominee (and, lest we forget, six-time winner) Audra McDonald, giving us all this show-stopping Rose’s TurnAudra McDonald’s full performance at the #TonyAwards. You’re welcome. pic.twitter.com/WN6bwvrZmy— ariely ¨̮ (@sinadiemequiere) June 9, 2025Succession star Sarah Snook is now a Tony winner, who famously played all 26 characters in a recent production of The Picture Of Dorian Gray📌Sarah Snook's Full Award Acceptance Speech at the Tony Awards for her performance as 26 characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray! @DorianGrayPlaypic.twitter.com/TyMpXMImPV— nitsi | succession broadway & tony era! ᡣ𐭩 (@hosseinisgeckos) June 9, 2025And – one for the Gleeks out there – so is Darren Criss“Is this our maybe happy ending?”Congratulations to Darren Criss on his win for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for Maybe Happy Ending!#MaybeHappyEnding#DarrenCriss#TonyAwards@[email protected]/iSvO23UuAJ— Alliance Theatre (@alliancetheatre) June 9, 2025In fact, his show Maybe Happy Ending (a musical about two AI bots who fall in love) was the night’s top winner, picking up six awards in totalMAYBE HAPPY ENDING JUST WON SIX TONY AWARDS #tonyawardspic.twitter.com/1ce4MEtHYl— day (@eurydaisies) June 9, 2025One of this year’s British winners was Operation Mincemeat’s Jak Malone, who made a poignant point during his speech“8 shows a week i play a woman onstage. and if you found yourself believing in hester, you have just bid farewell to those rotten old binaries and opened yourself up to a world that is already out there in glorious technicolor and is not going away anytime soon!” 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️#TonyAwardspic.twitter.com/gKeTPrJjXy— lotte!!! (@lotteyaps) June 9, 2025Cole Escola picked up Best Actor for their play Oh Mary! – becoming the first person to win this award for a production they’d written since Harvey Fierstein – and was as irreverent as we’d hoped with their acceptance speechthanking "T-Bo from Grindr" during your acceptance speech is the funniest shit i've ever heard. Cole Escola the legend that you are. #TonyAwardspic.twitter.com/paKjRxSRZX— prank sinatra (@KyloCool630) June 9, 2025I love that Cole Escola thanked T Bone from Grinder 😂 and Amy Sedaris for “always making sure to remind me how important she is to me” in their acceptance speech for “Oh, Mary!”— Chris Wallenberg (@chriswallenberg) June 9, 2025Words can’t express how truly moved and thrilled I am that Cole Escola won. And not just because was a terrific speech.— Adam Feldman (@FeldmanAdam) June 9, 2025They should’ve allotted ten minutes for Cole Escola’s speech— Ian Michael Stone (@ianmichaelstone) June 9, 2025Only thing this Cole Escola acceptance speech was missing was a plea for Ariana Grande to come back to Broadway. #TonyAwards— HTownKris (@BMK1080) June 9, 2025The fact they were presented with their award by Jean Smart and Sarah Paulson was just the cherry on topYES YES HAPPY PRIDE pic.twitter.com/WWY4hJzXnk— yosh (@sandrxrobbins) June 9, 2025Jean Smart and Sarah Paulson giving a tony to Cole Escola is the gay climax of pride month— king cookie (@Hashtag_Niko) June 9, 2025And speaking of Pride month… shall we talk about this Megan Hilty performance? Incredible (side note: we need Death Becomes Her to transfer to the West End yesterday)SHE'S A STAR!!!!! pic.twitter.com/3K9hjGvUJw— ems megan hilty's pr manager 🫧 (@galindawithga) June 9, 2025Drag Race fans were delighted to spot two-time champion (and, let’s just say it, future Tony winner) Jinkx Monsoon performing as part of the Pirates Of Penzance castAHHHHHHH @JinkxMonsoon IS PERFORMING AT THE #TonyAwards!!!!!!!!! SO, SO PROUD!!!!!!!!! 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/Dt8CTUvttW— Caleigh Miller (@CaleighAMiller) June 9, 2025JINKX GIRLIES RISE!! when i say it’s monsoon season year round I MEAN THAT SHIT 🗣️✨🥹💗 @JinkxMonsoonpic.twitter.com/SLV6WvUHpm— jojo 🌞 (@gaylimonchips) June 9, 2025JINKX MONSOON PERFORMING ON THE TONY AWARD STAGE IS SO CORRECT HAPPY PRIDE MONTH pic.twitter.com/G4Xjjk0g8H— Princess Thighana (@JakeDoesntCare) June 9, 2025Omg was that Jinx Monsoon?! #TonyAwards#DragRacepic.twitter.com/5o7FE2AuhH— The Ooh Aah Aah Sensation (@indigenousgae) June 9, 2025the casting producers of ‘Pirates!’ while casting Jinkx Monsoon in a role where she sings “I guess im such a jinx” #TonyAwardspic.twitter.com/H1JkGy2bRx— FRESH PRINCESS 💋👑⛓️ (@belair_bankss) June 9, 2025Harvey Fierstein, the legend that you are…Harvey Fierstein – through tears – just gave an all-timer kind of acceptance speech while accepting his Lifetime Tony Award"There is nothing quite like bathing in the applause of a curtain call, but when I bow, I bow to the audience...with gratitude, knowing that without them I… pic.twitter.com/5ukGXStyKe— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) June 8, 2025In the space of just a few months, costume designer Paul Tazewell won both an Oscar for Wicked and Tony for Death Becomes Her, which we think is pretty damn fabulousPaul Tazewell did it! He’s now won an Oscar and a Tony in the same year! #TonyAwardspic.twitter.com/jzNERWUbbl— travis’s video soul. (@travisfromdabk_) June 8, 2025Meanwhile, Hamilton’s special 10-year anniversary performance gave Broadway fans the world over chills (and yes, LTW’s husband was the OG George Washington)Inimitable. The original. #Hamiltenpic.twitter.com/r5YpwujkUw— Hamilton (@HamiltonMusical) June 9, 2025pic.twitter.com/CFtvqwRK5ahttps://t.co/eJkHSQi8fh— lucy ford 🍊 (@lucyj_ford) June 9, 2025how it felt watching the hamilton reunion at the tony's pic.twitter.com/BtAq20lNFp— lee (@thwiptom) June 9, 2025"history has its eyes on you" hits even harder 10 years later with how our world has changed. #hamilton#tonyawardspic.twitter.com/8MAF4DwYdU— ab 💌 (@strangesapphics) June 9, 2025still not over lin crying after hamilton im sobbing pic.twitter.com/cob5unJ9k1— nico ⚓️ WISHBONE (@dinoftina) June 9, 2025my name is alexander hamilton and there are a million things I haven't done but just you wait JUST YOU WAITTTT *standing ovation both at the tonys and in my living room* #TonyAwardspic.twitter.com/QQ8JqHdMUI— annie 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 (@thatssoannie_) June 9, 2025Cynthia Erivo brought the night to a close with this dramatic reinvention of And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going – and everyone had one favourite line in particular“This night was sooo gayyyy ,sosososo gayyy” ts finna be stuck in my head 😭 pic.twitter.com/ZogaOgOi5r— Stephanie (@stephstehp) June 9, 2025Cynthia Erivo just got a standing ovation by closing the Tonys with her version of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." she changed the lyrics to be about tonight's ceremony"And I am telling you I ~am~ going. This was the best time I'll ever know!" pic.twitter.com/KNuxxoiu1v— Spencer Althouse (@SpencerAlthouse) June 9, 2025READ MORE:Cynthia Erivo To Play Dracula (And 22 Other Roles) In New West End ShowNicole Scherzinger Reacts To Backlash After Liking And Commenting On Pro-Trump PostsLady Gaga Is Now Just 1 Award Away From EGOT Status After Her Latest Surprise Win

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