75th Tony Awards celebrate a back-in-business Broadway

After two years of pandemic-prompted delays, the Tony Awards are back on track in time for their 75th anniversary.

Broadway's salute to its best marks that milestone Sunday, June 12, on CBS and Paramount+. Ariana DeBose, the New York stage alum (with a 2018 Tony nomination for "Summer: The Donna Summer Musical") who won an Oscar for the recent movie remake of "West Side Story," will serve as host ... with a highlight sure to be the presentation of a Lifetime Achievement honor to Dame Angela Lansbury, a five-time Tony winner. Darren Criss and Julianne Hough will preside over an hourlong preshow on Paramount+.

The nominee list, led by the musical "A Strange Loop" with 11 bids, typically includes widely familiar names as well as others primarily known to New York theatergoers. Sutton Foster could earn her third Tony for the hit revival of "The Music Man," which has six nominations, and she says she's enjoyed "the challenge and the surprise" in her career thus far.

"That's one of the reasons Marian was so appealing to me," Foster notes. "She wasn't on my radar, but it's one of my favorite roles I've ever done, and it says to me that I should just stay open to anything. Every day that I get to walk through a stage door into a Broadway theater is a gift."

Following are the nominees in several categories in The 75th Annual Tony Awards.

Best play: "Clyde's," "Hangmen," "The Lehman Trilogy," "The Minutes," "Skeleton Crew"

Best musical: "Girl From The North Country," "MJ," "Mr. Saturday Night," "Paradise Square," "SIX: The Musical," "A Strange Loop"

Best revival of a play: "American Buffalo," "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf," "How I Learned to Drive," "Take Me Out," "Trouble in Mind"

Best revival of a musical: "Caroline, or Change," "Company," "The Music Man"

Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play: Simon Russell Beale, "The Lehman Trilogy"; Adam Godley, "The Lehman Trilogy"; Adrian Lester, "The Lehman Trilogy"; David Morse, "How I Learned to Drive"; Sam Rockwell, "American Buffalo"; Ruben Santiago-Hudson, "Lackawanna Blues"; David Threlfall, "Hangmen"

Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play: Gabby Beans, "The Skin of Our Teeth"; LaChanze, "Trouble in Mind"; Ruth Negga, "Macbeth"; Deirdre O'Connell, "Dana H."; Mary-Louise Parker, "How I Learned to Drive"

Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical: Billy Crystal, "Mr. Saturday Night"; Myles Frost, "MJ"; Hugh Jackman, "The Music Man"; Rob McClure, "Mrs. Doubtfire"; Jaquel Spivey, "A Strange Loop"

Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical: Sharon D Clarke, "Caroline, or Change"; Carmen Cusack, "Flying Over Sunset"; Sutton Foster, "The Music Man"; Joaquina Kalukango, "Paradise Square"; Mare Winningham, "Girl From the North Country.