Tony Awards 2017: Red carpet and show highlights

Josh Groban and the cast of “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812� perform at the 71st Tony Awards.

Tina Fey, presenting at the Tony Awards

Stephen Colbert speaks during the 2017 Tony Awards.

The cast of “Bandstand� performs during the 2017 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall.

Kevin Spacey, left, Michael Kelly and Robin Wright appear as their characters from “House of Cards� as they present Lin-Manuel Miranda with the envelope for best musical.

The cast of “Bandstand� performs at the 71st Tony Awards.

Jill Biden introduces a performance by the cast of “Bandstand.�

The cast of “Bandstand� performs at the 71st Tony Awards in New York.

Ben Platt, an L.A. native, accepts the award for lead actor in a musical for “Dear Evan Hansen.�

The mix of performers, presenters and winners backstage. From left, Josh Groban, Allison Janney, Rachel Bloom, Christopher Jackson and “Come From Away’s� Tony-winning director, Christopher Ashley.

“Hamilton� creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, last year’s big Tony winner, announces the best musical prize the 2017 awards.

Josh Gad presents the educators awards at the 71st Tony Awards.

Rebecca Taichman accepts the award for direction of a play for “Indecent.�

Andy Karl and the cast of “Groundhog Day The Musical� perform at the 71st Tony Awards.

Christopher Ashley accepts the award for direction of a musical for “Come From Away.�

Mimi Lien accepts the award for scenic design of a musical for “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812.�

The Rockettes perform “New York, New York� at the 71st Tony Awards.

Rachel Bay Jones accepts the featured actress in a musical award for “Dear Evan Hansen.�

Bette Midler presents the award for performance by a leading actress in a play.

Patti LuPone, left, and Christine Ebersole perform from the musical “War Paint� during the 2017 Tony Awards.

Andy Blankenbuehler accpets the award for choreography for “Bandstand.�

Uma Thurman at the 2017 Tony Awards.

David Hyde Pierce performs the song “Penny in My Pocket� from the Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!�

Choreographer-director Tommy Tune at Radio City Music Hall.

Patina Miller, left, and Sara Bareilles speak during the 2017 Tony Awards.

Host Kevin Spacey impersonates Johnny Carson.

Kevin Kline accepts the award for his lead performance in the play “Present Laughter.�

Christopher Akerlind accepts the award for lighting design for the play “Indecent.�

Alex Lacamoire accepts the award for the “Dear Evan Hansen� orchestrations.

Ben Platt, who portrays the title character in “Dear Evan Hansen,� performs the song “Waving Through a Window� during the Tony telecast.

Betsy Wolfe, left, and Tracie Thoms perform with the cast of “Falsettos.�

Gareth Fry, left, and Pete Malkin, receive a special Tony Award for their sound design for “The Encounter.�

Cynthia Nixon, left, accepts the Tony Award for featured actress in a play for “Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes.� The handoff is by presenters Olivia Wilde and Tom Sturridge.

Scarlett Johansson presents the award for featured performance by an actor in a play.

Jenn Colella of “Come From Away� links arms with Rockettes during a production number at the 71st Tony Awards.

Justin Paul, left, and Benj Pasek accept the original score award for “Dear Evan Hansen.�

James Earl Jones accepts the special Tony award for lifetime achievement in the theater at the 71st Tony Awards.

The cast of “Come From Away� performs onstage during the 2017 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

The cast of “Miss Saigon� performs onstage during the 2017 Tony Awards.

Whoopi Goldberg and host Kevin Spacey perform onstage during the 2017 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Stephen Colbert and host Kevin Spacey perform onstage during the 2017 Tony Awards.

Host Kevin Spacey, center, performs the intro to the 2017 Tony Awards.

Host Kevin Spacey during the intro to the 2017 Tony Awards.

Host Kevin Spacey arrives at the 71st Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Anna Kendrick

Sutton Foster

Uma Thurman

Presenter Scarlett Johansson arrives at the 71st Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall.

Glenn Close, who’s on Broadway in a revival of “Sunset Boulevard,� arrives at the 71st Tony Awards.

Olivia Wilde attends the 2017 Tony Awards.

Bette Midler, nominated in the musical-lead-actress category, arrives at the 71st Tony Awards.

Jason Sudekis

John Legend and Chrissy Teigen

Nominee Cynthia Nixon and presenter Orlando Bloom arrive at the 2017 Tony Awards.

It’s a selfie moment for actors, from left, Nick Kroll, John Mulaney and Darren Criss on the red carpet at the 2017 Tony Awards.

Actor Jonathan Groff

Eva Noblezada, nominated in the lead actress category for the revival of the musical “Miss Saigon.�

Tina Fey

Josh Groban, nominated in the lead actor category for the musical “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812.�

Actress Sally Field

Actress Cynthia Erivo

L.A. native and lead actor nominee for the musical “Dear Evan Hansen� Ben Platt arrives at the 2017 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall.

Laurie Metcalf, lead actress nominee for the play “A Doll’s House, Part 2�

John Lithgow.

Christine Ebersole, left, Baayork Lee and Courtney Reed.

Jenn Colella.

Mark Hamill.

Actors John Mulaney, left, and Nick Kroll.

Patina Miller, left, Steven Levenson and Cobie Smulders.

Christian Borle.

Andrew Rannells.

Andy Karl, a musical-lead-actor Tony nominee for “Groundhog Day,� arrives at the awards with his actress-singer wife, Orfeh.

Jordan Roth, president of the Jujamcyn Theaters on Broadway, attends the 2017 Tony Awards.

Denis Arndt, a leading actor nominee for the play “Heisenberg,� at the Tonys. He’s headed to L.A. this month to perform the play at the Mark Taper Forum.

Members of the Radio City Rockettes.

The entrance to the 2017 Tony Awards’ red carpet at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.