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Whoopi Goldberg will serve as host of the Tony Awards on June 15 at Radio City Music Hall, the show's executive producers, Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, have announced.
"I love Broadway and I'm thrilled to be doing anything for the first time," said Goldberg, who's hosted the Academy Awards four times."I'm gonna have a blast."
Goldberg, a regular on ABC's The View, has been on Broadway with her own one-woman show as well as in revivals of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
