James Corden returns to host the annual Broadway salute

73rd Annual Tony Awards nominees

IF YOU WATCH

What: 73rd Annual Tony Awards

When: 8 p.m. tonight

Where: CBS

Best Play

Choir Boy

The Ferryman

Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Ink

What the Constitution Means to Me

Best Musical

Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Beetlejuice

Hadestown

The Prom

Tootsie

Revival/ Play

Arthur Miller’s All My Sons

The Boys in the Band

Burn This

Torch Song

The Waverly Gallery

Revival/Musical

Kiss Me, Kate

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!

Best Book of a Musical

Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Beetlejuice

Hadestown

The Prom

Tootsie

Best Original Score

Be More Chill

Beetlejuice

Hadestown

The Prom

To Kill a Mockingbird

Tootsie

Performance Actor

Paddy Considine, The Ferryman

Bryan Cranston, Network

Jeff Daniels, To Kill a Mockingbird

Adam Driver, Burn This

Jeremy Pope, Choir Boy

Performance Actress

Annette Bening, Arthur Miller’s All My Sons

Laura Donnelly, The Ferryman

Elaine May, The Waverly Gallery

Janet McTeer, Bernhardt/Hamlet

Laurie Metcalf, Hillary and Clinton

Heidi Schreck, What the Constitution Means to Me

Performance Actor Musical

Brooks Ashmanskas, The Prom

Derrick Baskin, Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Alex Brightman, Beetlejuice

Damon Daunno, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!

Santino Fontana, Tootsie

Performance Actress Musical

Stephanie J. Block, The Cher Show

Caitlin Kinnunen, The Prom

Beth Leavel, The Prom

Eva Noblezada, Hadestown

Kelli O’Hara, Kiss Me, Kate

Actor Featured Role

Bertie Carvel, Ink

Robin De Jes ∫s, The Boys in the Band

Gideon Glick, To Kill a Mockingbird

Brandon Uranowitz, Burn This

Benjamin Walker, Arthur Miller’s All My Sons

Actress Featured Role

Fionnula Flanagan, The Ferryman

Celia Keenan-Bolger, To Kill a Mockingbird

Kristine Nielsen, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Julie White, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Ruth Wilson, King Lear

Actor Featured Role Musical

Andr De Shields, Hadestown

Andy Grotelueschen, Tootsie

Patrick Page, Hadestown

Jeremy Pope, Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Ephraim Sykes, Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Actress Featured Role Musical

Lilli Cooper, Tootsie

Amber Gray, Hadestown

Sarah Stiles, Tootsie

Ali Stroker, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!

Mary Testa, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!

Scenic Design

To Kill a Mockingbird

Ink

The Ferryman

Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Network

Scenic Design Musical

Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

King Kong

Hadestown

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!

Beetlejuice

Costume Design

The Ferryman

Bernhardt/Hamlet

Torch Song

Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

To Kill a Mockingbird

Costume Design Musical

Hadestown

Beetlejuice

Tootsie

The Cher Show

Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Best Lighting

Ink

Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

The Ferryman

To Kill a Mockingbird

Network

Best Lighting Musical

The Cher Show

Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Hadestown

King Kong

Beetlejuice

Best Sound

Ink

To Kill a Mockingbird

Choir Boy

The Ferryman

Network

Best Sound Musical

Beetlejuice

King Kong

Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!

Hadestown

Direction

Rupert Goold, Ink

Sam Mendes, The Ferryman

Bartlett Sher, To Kill a Mockingbird

Ivo van Hove, Network

George C. Wolfe, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Direction Musical

Rachel Chavkin, Hadestown

Scott Ellis, Tootsie

Daniel Fish, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!

Des McAnuff, Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Casey Nicholaw, The Prom

Choreography

Choir Boy

Kiss Me, Kate

Tootsie

Hadestown

Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Orchestrations

Hadestown

Tootsie

Kiss Me, Kate

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!

Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations

Lifetime Achievement

Rosemary Harris

Terrence McNally

Harold Wheeler

Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award

Judith Light

Special Awards

Sonny Tilders and Creature Technology Company

Jason Michael Webb

Marin Mazzie

By Jay Bobbin

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For a couple of familiar faces,

The 73rd Annual Tony Awards will mean another big night, but for different reasons.

Late-late-night television star James Corden – a Tony winner himself in 2012 for “One Man, Two Guvnors” – has his second stint hosting the yearly salute to the best of Broadway’s theater season as CBS airs the event tonight from New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

Stage and television veteran Judith Light (“Transparent,” “Who’s the Boss?”) will receive the honorary Isabelle Stevenson Award for her dedication to the theater community through her related activism.

“I’m so happy to be doing it again, no matter how nervous I feel about the prospect,” Corden says of reprising his 2016 Tony Awards job (which helped that special win an Emmy Award).

“It’s a community of people that means a great deal to me, and I’m incredibly proud to be there just as a representative ushering the night along.”

The top Tony nominee this year is the musical “Hadestown,” with 14 bids. Among talents in the running are Bryan Cranston (for “Network”), Annette Bening (“Arthur Miller’s All My Sons”), Jeff Daniels (“To Kill a Mockingbird”), Laurie Metcalf (“Hillary and Clinton”), Santino Fontana (“Tootsie”) and Broadway staples Kelli O’Hara (“Kiss Me, Kate”) and Stephanie J. Block (“The Cher Show”).

“Lots of award shows essentially are just groups of millionaires giving each other gold statues,” Corden reasons, “and here is something where you see all of these unbelievable performers doing excerpts from shows they do eight times a week. And it’s such a supportive community, so open and loving, I loved doing this the last time. It was one of the best nights of my career, so I just hope I don’t let anybody down.”

Light surely won’t, having already proven her extensive service to the theater world not only through consecutive Tony wins in 2012 (for “Other Desert Cities”) and 2013 (“The Assembled Parties”), but also by her efforts toward supporting human and LGBTQ+ rights and ending HIV/AIDS.

“I remember when I was very young and I was in a theater camp in New Hope, Pa.,” reflects Light (also a two-time Daytime Emmy winner). “I didn’t realize it until later, but gay men came from the city and were there for the summer to teach dance and drama. And I thought, ‘Oh. It was that community that watched out for me.’”

Light says she “marvels” that many of her professional ventures echo her personal concerns: “I don’t understand at all how that has happened, but I don’t care that I don’t. We’re talking about people taking risks, or people who are infinitely curious about something, and that’s part and parcel of this.”