Tony Awards 2023: Best dressed stars on red carpet

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All eyes were on Julianne Hough and Oscar-winning actress Ariana DeBose as they arrived in style to the red carpet at the 76th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday in New York City’s United Palace Theater.

While rocking a memorizing, floral-print gown, designed by Carolina Herrera, the 34-year-old Dancing with the Stars host oozed confidence as she prepared to tape a preshow telecast of the show, alongside Skylar Astin, best known for starring in Pitch Perfect.

For the occasion, she wore her golden blonde locks in a romantic updo, with a few lose pieces at the front, and a pair of glamorous statement earrings.

DeBose, 32, left little to the imagination in a plunging form-fitting silver gown that showcased her cleavage, which she paired with dangling earrings.

The actress wore her raven tresses parted on the side and pulled back into a chic ponytail for the night.

Radiant: All eyes were on Julianne Hough and Oscar-winning actress Ariana DeBose as the arrived in style to the red carpet at the 76th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday

This year’s ceremony has also become the latest production to have been impacted by the ongoing Writers Guild of America Strike. It marks the first time in 35 years that the Tonys had been afflicted by the WGA strike.

Despite the challenges, the show will still go on.

The ceremony will be airing on CBS in an unscripted format, and the union has agreed not to picket the event. Broadway icon Lin-Manuel Miranda has also dropped out as writer of the opening segment in solidarity with the WGA.

Seasoned actress Ariana DeBose will be hosting this year’s event from the United Palace Theatre in Washington Heights.

Viewers will still be entertained with plenty of performances from a variety of Tony-nominated musicals on stage.

Audience members will be treated to performances from casts of Into the Woods, New York, New York, Shucked, Beautiful Noise, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and more.

It will also feature performances from the cast of the Lea Michele-led musical, Funny Girl.

As far as nominations, Some Like It Hot, the musical adaptation of the Marilyn Monroe film, is up for the most Tonys with a whooping 13 nominations.

Floral dream: While rocking a memorizing, floral-print gown, designed by Carolina Herrera, the 34-year-old Dancing with the Stars host oozed confidence

Lovely: For the occasion, she wore her golden blonde locks in a romantic updo, with a few lose pieces at the front, and a pair of glamorous statement earrings

All angles: The star showed off her chic gown from a number of angles

Taking the plunge! DeBose, 32, left little to the imagination in a plunging form-fitting silver gown that showcased her cleavage, which she paired with dangling earrings

Tres chic: The actress wore her raven tresses parted on the side and pulled back into a chic ponytail for the night

Striking: Lupita Nyong’o rocked a risque look for the red carpet

It will be battling it out for Best Musical against & Juliet, Kimberly Akimbo, New York, New York, and Shucked.

Nominations for Best Play consist of Ain’t No Mo’, Between Riverside and Crazy, Cost of Living, Fat Ham, Leopoldstadt.

In a statement, Jack Sussman, executive vice president of specials, music, live events and alternative programming at CBS, said of the show: ‘CBS has been home to the Tony Awards for more than 40 years.

‘We are proud to once again celebrate the best of theater this season, and continue our support for Broadway, the broader theater community and all the incredible artistic talents both on stage and behind the scenes who bring the shows to life.’

‘This year’s Tony Award nominees are a reflection of a tremendous year of Broadway,’ Charlotte St. Martin, president of The Broadway League and Heather Hitchens, president and CEO of the American Theatre Wing, said in a statement.

‘The show will feature performances by Broadway’s brightest lights – from breakthrough performers to industry icons – in recognition of the momentous productions wowing audiences worldwide.’

The Tony Awards marks the latest product impacted by the ongoing walkout.

Drew Barrymore dropped out of hosting the MTV Movie & Television Awards last month in solidarity with the writers, and the event moved forward in stripped down, pre-recorded fashion.

Film and television writers are on strike over complaints that studios have underpaid them for years, particularly when it comes to streaming programs that offer almost no residuals over time. They are also fighting back against studios’ attempts to shrink writers’s rooms, to shorten the number of episodes of television seasons and to leave open the possibility of replacing human writers with so-called ‘AI’ programs.