{"id":29719,"date":"2024-06-12T21:02:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T21:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-whos-pete-townshend-confirmed-as-tony-presenter\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T21:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T21:02:35","slug":"the-whos-pete-townshend-confirmed-as-tony-presenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-whos-pete-townshend-confirmed-as-tony-presenter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Who\u2019s Pete Townshend confirmed as Tony presenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-12\/Getty_PeteTownshend_061224.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Alan Chapman\/Dave Benett\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Who<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Pete Townshend<\/strong> will be in New York\u00a0to attend the 77th annual Tony Awards, which will air Sunday live on CBS at 8 p.m. ET.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Townshend is confirmed as a presenter on the telecast, where the cast of <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Who\u2019s Tommy<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> is set to perform. The\u00a0show\u00a0has been nominated for Best Revival of a Musical, where it will compete with <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Gutenberg! The Musical! <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">and<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0Merrily We Roll Along.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This isn\u2019t Townshend\u2019s first encounter with the Tonys. The 1993 original run of <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Who&#8217;s Tommy<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> won five Tony Awards, including Best Original Score for Townshend.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">The Who\u2019s Tommy<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tommythemusical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>currently running<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> at Broadway\u2019s Nederlander Theatre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Chapman\/Dave Benett\/Getty Images The Who\u2019s Pete Townshend will be in New York\u00a0to attend the 77th annual Tony Awards, which will air Sunday live on CBS at 8 p.m. ET.\u00a0 Townshend is confirmed as a presenter on the telecast, where the cast of The Who\u2019s Tommy is set to perform.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-whos-pete-townshend-confirmed-as-tony-presenter\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}