Tony Awards host Kevin Spacey paid tribute to this year's nominees during an extended self-effacing song-and-dance joke about the many people who had passed on the gig before it was offered to him. Spacey was not CBS or producers’ first choice to host – or second, or third, as press noted while the process slogged on. Unlike other recent trophy show hosts – and defying expectations for the actor who…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:48PM on June 11, 2017