Neil Patrick Harris is known to most of his fans as the womanizing Barney on the unwatchable How I Met Your Mother sitcom, but to many others, he’s the openly gay song-and-dance man who turned coming out into a career renaissance. Last year, he did an excellent, camped up job as the host of the Tony Awards, and he’ll be back again this year.
In addition to Harris, scheduled presenters and performers, announced today, include Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe (currently on Broadway in the revival of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying), Oscar winner and Broadway producer Whoopi Goldberg, gay Tony winner David Hyde Pierce and his TV brother, Kelsey Grammer, who recently left the musical La Cage aux Folles, gay Emmy winner (The Big Bang Theory) Jim Parsons, currently in his Broadway debut of the AIDS play The Normal Heart, co-directed by Oscar winner and fellow presenter Joel Grey.
The Tonys air on CBS June 12.
I don’t believe JIm Parsons is officially “gay”, and I don’t think you should label him as such until he says he is.
That was Sean Hayes who hosted last year. NPH hosted in 2009 and won his first Emmy.
Thanks for the correction!
Jim Parsons has a boyfriend he thanks at ceremonies. He’s gay.