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White Cherry Productions Will Produce the Tony Awards for the Next Three Years

The annual broadcast, honoring the best of Broadway, airs June 8.

Neil Patrick Harris leads a rollicking musical number during the 2013 Tony Awards, the 67th annual presentation of the honors for the best of Broadway.
Neil Patrick Harris leads a rollicking musical number during the 2013 Tony Awards, the 67th annual presentation of the honors for the best of Broadway.

White Cherry Productions, founded by Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, will return to produce Tony Awards 2014 for the next three years, Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, has announced. Weiss and Kirshner's organization has served as the annual telecast's production team since 2003.

In the decade that White Cherry Productions has worked on the broadcast, the Tony Awards has been recognized with 27 Emmy nominations and 17 wins, with Weiss and the directing team winning the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Musical Variety in 2007, 2010, 2011, and 2012. He recently received yet another nomination for the 2013 Tonys telecast.

The next Tony Awards telecast — the 68th annual show — will be held at Radio City Music Hall and air live on CBS on Sunday, June 8, 2014.

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