{"id":29736,"date":"2024-06-14T21:04:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T21:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/report-pete-townshend-to-perform-at-the-tony-awards\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T21:04:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T21:04:03","slug":"report-pete-townshend-to-perform-at-the-tony-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/report-pete-townshend-to-perform-at-the-tony-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pete Townshend to perform at the Tony Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-14\/Getty_PeteTownshend_061224.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Alan Chapman\/Dave Benett\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 77th annual Tony Awards are happening Sunday in New York, with <strong>The Who<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0<strong>Pete Townshend<\/strong> previously confirmed as a presenter. Well, he may be doing more than that.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/06\/tony-awards-in-memoriam-1235973430\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Deadline<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> is now reporting that Townshend is actually going to perform on the show, joining the cast of <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Who\u2019s Tommy<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> for \u201cPinball Wizard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">The Who\u2019s Tommy<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> is nominated this year for Best Revival of a Musical, where it\u2019s up against <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Gutenberg! The Musical!\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">and\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Merrily We Roll Along.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Townshend previously won\u00a0the Tony for Best Original Score for <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Tommy\u2019s<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> original run in 1993. The show\u00a0won a total\u00a0of five Tonys that year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 77th annual Tony Awards air Sunday at 8 p.m. ET live on CBS from Lincoln Center\u2019s David H. Koch Theater.<\/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 77th annual Tony Awards are happening Sunday in New York, with The Who&#8216;s\u00a0Pete Townshend previously confirmed as a presenter. Well, he may be doing more than that.\u00a0 Deadline is now reporting that Townshend is actually going to perform on the show, joining the cast of<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/report-pete-townshend-to-perform-at-the-tony-awards\/\">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\/29736"}],"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=29736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}