{"id":99011,"date":"2017-04-19T04:29:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T08:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=99011"},"modified":"2017-04-19T04:29:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T08:29:24","slug":"movie-and-tv-star-kevin-spacey-to-host-the-tony-awards-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/19\/movie-and-tv-star-kevin-spacey-to-host-the-tony-awards-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie and TV star Kevin Spacey to host the Tony Awards show"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_99012\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99012\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/12314119_10153118055776883_2998554558145971602_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99012\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/12314119_10153118055776883_2998554558145971602_n.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Spacey has been picked to host this year's Tony Awards, putting the award-winning star of \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d in the unenviable position of steering a telecast surely facing a post-\u201dHamilton\u201d hangover. (Photo: Kevin Spacey\/Facebook)\" width=\"540\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/12314119_10153118055776883_2998554558145971602_n.jpg 540w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/12314119_10153118055776883_2998554558145971602_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/12314119_10153118055776883_2998554558145971602_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Spacey has been picked to host this year&#8217;s Tony Awards, putting the award-winning star of \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d in the unenviable position of steering a telecast surely facing a post-\u201dHamilton\u201d hangover. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KevinSpacey\/photos\/a.440352101882.256123.11177446882\/10153118055776883\/?type=1&amp;theater\"> Kevin Spacey\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Kevin Spacey has been picked to host this year&#8217;s Tony Awards, putting the award-winning star of \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d in the unenviable position of steering a telecast surely facing a post-\u201dHamilton\u201d hangover.<\/p>\n<p>The telecast on June 11 will originate from the 6,000-seat Radio City Music Hall, and producers are sure to be keeping their fingers crossed that they avoid any technical or human snafus that have marred previous awards shows this year, including the wrong winner announced at the Oscars and sound issues at the Grammys.<\/p>\n<p>Spacey, who won Oscars for the movies \u201cThe Usual Suspects\u201d and \u201cAmerican Beauty,\u201d won a Tony Award in 1991 in Neil Simon&#8217;s \u201cLost in Yonkers\u201d and starred in the Broadway and West End productions of \u201cLong Day&#8217;s Journey into Night.\u201d With a foot in both Broadway and Hollywood \u2014 and a career singing onscreen and in concert to boot \u2014 Spacey brings glamour and acting chops to the job.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, he alluded to the telecast producers scrambling for a host after other celebrities dropped out. \u201cI was their second choice for &#8216;Usual Suspects,&#8217; fourth choice for &#8216;American Beauty&#8217; and 15th choice to host this year&#8217;s Tony Awards. I think my career is definitely going in the right direction,\u201d he said. \u201cMaybe I can get shortlisted to host the Oscars if everyone else turns it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Producers hope Spacey will limit the audience erosion likely from the numbers last year when \u201cHamilton\u201d and host James Corden drew 8.73 million viewers, up 35 per cent from 2015 and its largest audience since 2001. Previous hosts include Hugh Jackman, Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Lane and Sean Hayes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Kevin Spacey has been picked to host this year&#8217;s Tony Awards, putting the award-winning star of \u201cHouse &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":99012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[18120,18121],"class_list":["post-99011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-kevin-spacey","tag-tony-awards-show","mauthors-mark-kennedy","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}