2013 Tonys - Carrie Dunn's Live Britsnark Blog!

4am: Well. The press room cam tells me that Kinky Boots wins Best Musical. And that wraps it up for the night. I'm going to get some sleep - don't forget to check in with Michael Dale and BroadwayGirlNYC for their views on the evening. I think that this evening's viewing experience from London has been so frustrating that I'll probably have to go to New York for the 2014 Tonys. Goodnight!

3.55am: Apparently Pippin wins Best Revival - so now we're just waiting for Best Musical after the next ad break? The birds are starting to sing outside my window, and the sun is preparing to rise. And I have to get up in three hours...

3.40am: There is a LOT of cheering for Stephanie J Block's nomination being read out, ditto for Patina Miller and Laura Osnes. It's Miller who wins; fabulous particularly bearing in mind the amount of bitching that there was around her being cast as the Leading Player because "it's a man's role". Patina Miller for the Doctor?

3.30am: The audio is skipping, but I think we're hearing Cyndi Lauper's True Colours accompanying the montage of those Broadway folk who passed away this year.

3.20am: Billy Porter's acceptance speech sounds both loud and hilarious, although I can't make out the punchlines from the press room cam...

3.05am: Everyone involved with the production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf appears to have trooped on stage and broken the microphones.

3am: Sorry, I had to stop typing to concentrate on the excerpt from Pippin - that looks incredible. Even if all on-stage trapeze now does make me think of Fleck's aerialism in Love Never Dies.

2.46am: The acceptance speeches are getting too long. The orchestra are starting to interrupt the speakers. It's a sensible approach but seems rather mean when Christopher Durang is speaking about his dead mother.

2.45am: Speaking of "reeling off", Jesse Eisenberg's links between the excerpts from plays are a little...thrown away, shall we say? Finally we get to the bit where he announces the Best Play award for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.

2.40am: I love US adverts, I really honestly do. I love the list of side-effects they reel off with any medication ad. Way to put a downer on Tonys night.

2.35am: Don't forget you can catch up on the proper press room blog courtesy of Michael Dale, and BroadwayGirlNYC's live blog too.

2.30am: It is very weird trying to write about a theatre awards ceremony when you can only hear some of the ceremony because you're watching a static camera in the press room. Still, I can't complain. We in the UK don't even get to watch our OWN theatre awards live on television, so it's nice to be even able to see a little bit of Broadway's.

2.10am: There are a LOT of ad breaks, aren't there?

2am: Oh, apparently Dennis Kelly has won Best Book for Matilda! Yay! North London represent! And Pam McKinnon wins Best Direction of a Play - cool stuff for two women directors winning both categories.

1.55am: Diane Paulus wins Best Direction of a Musical for Pippin! She keeps it together brilliantly, although a little eye-poppingly over-excited, but I guess one can forgive that. Oh, and then as I type that it all falls apart as she starts to thank her family and sobs.

1.45am: I quite want a magical dress like Laura Osnes's.

1.40am: Scarlett Johansson and Alan Cumming - both non-nominees - present Best Featured Actor in a Musical to Gabriel Ebert for Matilda! He has to stoop ridiculously to the microphone to do an adorable if very swiftly spoken acceptance speech.

1.30am: Is that Amra-Faye Wright still playing Velma Kelly, or a doppelganger? Wowsers. Anyway, she introduces a performance from Bring It On: The Musical. This looks fun, but I can't actually understand much of what they're saying. Is it a sound problem or diction? Who knows.

1.20am: Tom Hanks and his moustache does some Broadway ingratiating before presenting the award for Best Featured Actress in a Play to Judith Light, who had started kissing all her friends and family before her name was even announced.

1.15am: Amazing, the Matilda kids have brilliant Gavroche/Dick van Dyke pronounced Cockney accents!

1.10am: Neil Patrick Harris explains that characters from existing musicals will be doing some introductions over the course of the evening. In character. I think we already learnt earlier in the evening that keeping up kayfabe in that way isn't necessarily the most successful plan. But anyway - the boys from Newsies introduce Matilda!

1am: Right. Let's get this going then!

12.45am: I'm feeling a bit sorry for the tash-hag lady now. She seems to be really puzzled every time her producers talk to her down her ear-piece, and we're just left with dead air.

12.40am: OK, I have literally no idea what the tash-hag lady is doing now. She seems to be lobbying for "best performance by an animal" and "best shirtless performance".

12.30am: Now we're back in Times Square with the tash-hag lady, who's with the stylist man and inviting us to do our own Tony voting, suggesting a new category of "Best Song in a Musical" and then explaining to us what a song in a musical is. Seriously?

12.15am: The lady presenting from Times Square just talked about a "tash-hag".

12.10am: They're talking about dresses and designers and fashion stuff. I would say I don't care about this but I fear Miranda Priestly would track me down and traduce me.

12 midnight: Oh, Matthew Morrison is at the Tonys. Is some random West End person going to perform at the Tonys for no obvious reason?

11.55pm: Mike Tyson. I have no words. He says that he has been touring with his show all over the country "and even in Canada". And now he's threatening to move into musicals.

11.30pm: Ooh, it's Tom Hanks and his moustache! He says there are no immediate plans to bring Lucky Guy to London but it would be nice. So that's a "no", then?

11.20pm: "I do neurotic women very well," says Judith Light, as much hilarity ensues about alcoholism and valium addiction. The dichotomy of the red carpet in action, folks!

And it is wonderful to see reporters struggle with interviewing actors in character as they switch over to Times Square to talk Peter and the Starcatcher.

The Newsies boys say that the show is so very American that they think it'll do well in the West End because we don't have much like that. Interesting hypothesis. We've got "exploratory open auditions" happening here next week so we'll see.

11.10pm BST: Ooh, the clip from Pippin looks fun. We had the show here in the West End a year or so ago, with Frances Ruffelle as Fastrada, but it was small-scale and intimate - no trapeze.

11pm BST: OK, so I'm ready for the red carpet. I love these little interludes, everyone's always so excited to be there, including the presenters.

9pm BST: Evening all! Here I am, live from London, ready to watch this year's Tony Awards.

Let me start with a proviso - non-UK readers, please note the time here. When the show starts, it'll be gone midnight here. I've had a nap but don't be surprised if I lapse into sleep-deprived delirium at any point, particularly if the show is in any way off the wall.

So that said, I'm totally psyched up and cheering on 'Matilda'. Oh, come on, what did you expect me to say? It's our West End representation this year. (OK, Tim Minchin's an Aussie by birth, but we've adopted him as British.)

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