Predicting the 2025 Tony Awards

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Richard is joined by a panel of Broadway experts to debate this theater season’s most pressing questions. Will Audra McDonald win her seventh Tony, or will young upstart Nicole Scherzinger beat her out? Can anyone beat Sarah Snook? And just what, exactly, is BOOP?

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from Lucasfilm, presenting Andor Season 2.
0:06.1	Vanity Fair raves that Andor is the best television of the year so far,
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0:13.8	with some of the most complex, heartbreaking characters on television.
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0:24.9	Hey everyone, Rebecca here.
0:27.3	Your book club votes are in, and I wanted to share the results with you before today's episode.
0:32.4	The winners are Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell and The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck.
0:38.5	Read along and send us your questions about these stories or their soon-to-be-released film adaptations to Little Gold Men at VF.com.
0:47.4	We'll discuss the History of Sound first on our July 10th episode and Hamnet in August.
0:53.1	Happy reading!
0:59.7	Music 10th episode and Hamnet in August. Happy reading. Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Fair's podcast for film TV and awards lovers, even theater awards lovers.
1:05.7	I'm Richard Lawson. This Sunday the Tony Award ceremony will take place, so we're taking a
1:10.2	break from our regular boring old film and TV coverage
1:12.6	to bravely offer some predictions on what's going to win the Tony's.
1:16.2	Yet again, I think this is our third, fourth year in a row, maybe more than that,
1:20.3	enlisted the help of some special guests to help me go through the categories.
1:24.0	We have Vanity Fair staff writer Chris Murphy.
1:26.4	Hi, Richard.
1:29.0	Hello, we also are joined by entertainment writer extraordinaire Esther Zuckerman. Hello. And last but not least,
1:33.8	we have vulture critic Jackson McHenry. Hello, hello. Thanks for all joining me yet again.
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