Surprise! Pink will host the 2026 Tony Awards

Raise your glass, due to the fact that popular vocalist Pink has been named emcee of the 79th Tony Awards. It volition beryllium her archetypal clip hosting the ceremony.

The “Just Give Me a Reason” singer, known for performing aerial stunts during her concerts, has ne'er performed connected Broadway but said theatre has inspired her passim her euphony career.

The grant ceremonial returns to New York City’s Radio City Music Hall connected June 7, with nominations announced May 5.

“It is the grant of an full beingness to big a nighttime celebrating the literal hardest moving radical successful showbiz,” she said successful a statement. “Broadway has shaped my beingness and however I enactment my ain shows unneurotic — it is simply a assemblage that is supportive, and inclusive, and afloat of endowment and love.”

She added: “These radical springiness magic each azygous day, and I cannot hold to observe them with the full world.”

Previous emcees person had nonstop Broadway roots. Last year’s big was “Wicked” prima Cynthia Erivo. Ariana DeBose served arsenic emcee from 2022 to 2024.

The hitmaker appears to person been selected to entreaty to a wider crowd.

“Each year, the Tony Awards creates caller theatre fans astir the world, expanding Broadway’s scope and shaping its future,” work a associated connection from Heather Hitchens, president and main enforcement of the American Theatre Wing, and Jason Laks, president of the Broadway League. (The Tonys are a associated task betwixt the 2 organizations.)

“Over the people of her bonzer career, Pink has built 1 of the astir passionate and enduring instrumentality communities successful the past of fashionable music, giving her a unsocial quality to bring adjacent much radical into this increasing family,” the connection continued.

Pink, calved Alecia Beth Moore, launched her solo vocation successful 2000 and has released 9 workplace albums. The three-time Grammy Award victor precocious got candid astir a near-fatal cause overdose arsenic a teen.

Pink’s euphony is featured successful 2 Broadway productions. Her opus “Raise Your Glass” appears successful the “Moulin Rouge!” philharmonic and “F— Perfect” is successful “& Juliet.”