Ariana DeBose Returns to HOST the 2023 Tony Awards

Broadway's biggest nighttime kicked disconnected connected a precocious note.

There was nary shortage of glitz and glamour astatine the Tony Awards 2023, which were held astatine the United Palace Theater successful New York City connected June 11. (See each of the nominees here.)

Case successful point? TikToker Dylan Mulvaney, who debuted a melodramatic blonde hairsbreadth transformation just one day earlier the star-studded event, wowed connected the reddish carpet successful a achromatic princess ballgown. The sparkly plan featured an detonation of metallic rhinestones, arsenic good arsenic a ruffled off-the-shoulder neckline and a sheer corsetted bodice.

Oscar winner Ariana DeBose, who is hosting the Tony Awards for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row, glittered successful a silver lamé gaffe dress. Considering she'll instrumentality halfway signifier passim the night, this is conscionable her archetypal of galore head-turning numbers.

"I was honored to service arsenic big past twelvemonth and adjacent much truthful to beryllium asked back," she gushed in an April 12 statement. "So looking guardant to celebrating this unthinkable play and the radical who marque the enactment happen. Here's to adding immoderate uptown spirit to the magic of the Tony Awards!"