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A Coffee House Tony Awards Preview at the Coffee House Club at the Salmagundi Club
A Coffee House Tony Awards preview with Mark Rifkin, Simon Jones, David Barbour, and Martha Wade Steketee
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 at 5:30pm
The Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets

Details excerpted from Mark Rifkin’s This Week in New York on-line publication appear below. Post event musings from participants may follow. These conversations are always smart and fun, and a terrific runup to the Tony Award celebration that will be broadcast on Sunday June 8, 2025.

Who: Simon Jones, David Barbour, Martha Wade Steketee, and Mark Rifkin, plus Steve Ross
What: Tony Awards preview and cabaret concert
Where: The Coffee House Club at the Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue between Eleventh & Twelfth Streets
When: Wednesday, June 4, free for members, $10 for nonmembers, 5:30
Why: The seventy-eighth annual Tony Awards take place Sunday, June 8, at Radio City Music Hall, but you can get a sneak peek at who the winners might be when the prestigious Coffee House Club hosts its popular Tony Awards preview on June 4. Discussing the shows nominated in the major categories will be the inimitable Martha Wade Steketee, the incomparable David Barbour, and me, moderated by the wonderful actor and raconteur Simon Jones. You can read our bios below.

The event begins at 5:30 at the Salmagundi Club and will be followed at 6:30 by “Steve Ross & Friends: Cole Porter, Sung & Unsung,” in which the legendary Crown Prince of New York Cabaret will perform favorite and surprise Porter tunes. Admission is free for members and $10 for guests; everyone is invited to an a la carte dinner afterward to continue the party with advance RSVP.

© Martha Wade Steketee (June 4, 2025)