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June 1 (UPI) —<\/span> Queen Latifah<\/a>, Pink and other stars will perform a tribute to the Broadway musical Chicago<\/i> at the Tony Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Latifah, who played Mama Mortin in the 2002 film adaptation, will take the stage alongside Pink, Jesse Tyler Ferguson<\/a>, Alex Newell, Adrienne Warren, Julianne Hough<\/a>, Whitney Leavitt and Dylan Mulvaney.\n<\/p>\n

The tribute will celebrate Chicago<\/i>‘s 30th anniversary on Broadway.<\/p>\n

Previously announced performers include<\/a> the original Book of Mormon<\/i> cast and cast members from The Lost Boys<\/i>, Schmigadoon!<\/i>, Titanique<\/i>, Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)<\/i>, Cats: The Jellicle Ball<\/i>, Ragtime<\/i> and Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Pink will host the Tonys Sunday at Radio City Musical Hall in New York. The ceremony airs at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and will also stream on Paramount+.<\/p>\n

The Lost Boys<\/i> and Schmigadoon!<\/i> lead this year’s nominees<\/a> with 12 nominations each, including for Best New Musical.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Radcliffe arrives on the red carpet at the annual Tony Awards meet the nominees press event in New York City on May 14, 2026. Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.upi.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 1 (UPI) — Queen Latifah, Pink and other stars will perform a tribute to the Broadway musical Chicago at the Tony Awards. Latifah, who played Mama Mortin in the 2002 film adaptation, will take the stage alongside Pink, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Alex Newell, Adrienne Warren, Julianne Hough, Whitney Leavitt and Dylan Mulvaney. The tribute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2440300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741,341772,344311,370855,352075],"class_list":["post-2440299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-jesse-tyler-ferguson","tag-julianne-hough","tag-queen-latifah","tag-tony-awards"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Queen-Latifah-Pink-to-perform-Chicago-tribute-at-Tony-Awards.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440301,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440299\/revisions\/2440301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2440300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}