Ariana DeBose will host this year’s competition Tony Awards. The Broadway League and the American Theater Wing, the two organizations presenting the awards, announced the selection on Wednesday. The Tony Awards, honoring the theater and musicals staged on Broadway, will find their owners on June 12. DeBose, on March 31 won an Academy Award for …
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Ariana DeBose She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s “Anonymous”.West Side Story“This is his first Academy Award. The result was expected, but nevertheless, the 31-year-old actress made history as she is only the second Latina to receive an Oscar. First Rita Morenowon in 1962 for the same …
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Ariana DeBose wasn’t dancing on the streets much on Tuesday morning, but if you were wandering around a certain New York City river around 9pm, you might have thought she was just another crazy New Yorker. “I’m sure I scared every runner on the road with my screams and jumps,” she said on the phone …
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“Hello, birthday queen,” Ariana DeBose said and greeted Rita Moreno, who is new to “West Side Story,” and specifically 90-year-old. It was Sunday afternoon, and DeBose, 30, in his bed at his Upper East Side home, propped up on pillows, with rescue cats Isadora Duncan and Frederick Douglass parading on the occasional Zoom call. Moreno …
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Such a magical entry into the New York theater scene is almost unheard of, and knowing the wealth of opportunity available is rare, DeBose is determined to prove himself worthy of them. “No one can look at my work and say, ‘Why does he have it when you can hire someone else?’ I don’t want …
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