After hosting the annual Tony Awards in 2009 and 2011, actor, singer, and director Neil Patrick Harris is back to host the 66th Annual Tony Awards on June 10, 2012 at The Beacon Theater in New York. There will be a live telecast on Velvet Channel on June 11, 8:00 a.m. Neil Patrick Harris is best known with his title role as Doogie Howser, M.D. and later as Barney Stinson, a serial womanizer, in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother.
Harris is also a veteran of the theater where he appears in Broadway shows inluding Assassins, Proof and Cabaret. He also starred in the New York Philharmonic production of Company. Additional theater credits include roles in “All My Sons,” “Tick, Tick… Boom,” “The Paris Letter,” “Sweeney Todd,” and “Romeo and Juliet.” He also made his theater directorial debut via the 2010 production of “Rent” at the Hollywood Bowl where he casted his “Beastly” co-star Vanessa Hudgens.
He made a mark in the stage of the Tony Award with his witty remarks including on how he interacts with the audience and of course the nominees. The shows nominated in the 66th Annual Tony Award includes Clybourne Park, Other Desert Cities, Peter and the Starcatcher, Venus in Fur, Leap of Faith, Newsies, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Once, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Master Class, Wit, Evita, Follies, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lysistrata Jones, Bonnie & Clyde, Peter and the Starcatcher, Ghost the Musical, End of the Rainbow and Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark.
The 66th Tony Awards prime time airing will be on June 11, 8pm and other airings on June 16 (6pm), June 17 (3pm), June 22 (8pm), June 23 (3am & 1pm) and June 27 (3:30am & 2pm) only on Velvet, home of the biggest red carpet events. Velvet (SkyCable Channel 53) is available on SkyCable Platinum, SkyCable Gold, SkyCable Silver and other quality cable operators nationwide.
