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Neil Patrick Harris to host the 63rd annual Tony Awards
May 14, 2009
Neil Patrick Harris is to host the 63rd annual Tony Awards ceremony at Radio City Music Hall on Sun 7 Jun 2009.
Harris can currently be seen as 'Barney Stinson' in the CBS comedy series 'How I Met Your Mother,' a role which recently garnered him a 2009 Golden Globe nomination and two consecutive Emmy Award nominations. He won the Young Artist Awards three times in a row for his starring role in "Doogie Howser, M.D."
His Broadway credits are "Assassins" (Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald: 2004), 'Proof' (Hal - replacement: 2000) and 'Cabaret' (Master of Ceremonies: revival 1998).
�The discipline of live theatre -- doing the same perfect thing night after night, eight times a week -- never ceases to amaze me,� said Harris. �I'm truly honored to have been chosen as the Master of Ceremonies for this year's Tony Awards, and I hope to help provide a first-class evening for all.�
The Tony nominations where announced on 5 May 2009. Amongst this years crop of Broadway productions Billy Elliot, The Musical leads the way with fifteen nominations, followed by Next to Normal with eleven nominations, Hair & Shrek The Musical each have eight nominations and Mary Stuart and The Norman Conquests follow with seven nominations each.