NYLON went inside Arian Moayed and Kelli O’Hara’s annual Tonys afterparty at Pebble Bar, which was attended by Elle Fanning, Sarah Paulson, and Billy Porter.
The telecast for the 77th annual Tony Awards ended 11 p.m. on June 16. I figured that gave guests about an hour and a half to leave the venue before heading to the afterparties. Surely there’d be red-carpet reporters who would have questions. Then a cab to the hotel. A celebratory drink in the room with their closest friends. And another cab to the party. So I’d see people at 12:30 am. When I walked into the afterparty atat 12:20 a.m.
I thought maybe it belonged to some lighting engineer who had gotten there early . Then, its owner reentered the room. I stammered out a hurried “Congratulations!” He beamed, thanked me, and kissed me on the cheek. Being kissed on the cheek by Billy Porter the night he’s awarded a Tony must be kind of like how Catholics feel being kissed by the Pope. While other guests filled the room, we talked about the meaning and weight of his Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, given for his activism for LGBTQ+ communities and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.“I have always been an activist,” Porter tells NYLON. “My mom taught us that we were supposed to show up for other people as well. It’s just been natural to me.
As he excused himself to grab a drink, I noticed the host of the party, Arian Moayed, greeting people near the door. He was talking with William Jackson Harper, who’s brought new life to Astov in the Lincoln Center production ofBy 2 a.m., the sugar content in the champagne wasn’t doing enough to keep me awake. Luckily, at that moment, a fleet of waiters start crisscrossing the room with plates of Fini pizza slices, each with a hefty dollop of Petrossian caviar in the center.
“It’s been such a great night,” she said. “I had never been in a show like this one before. I was so, so happy for Sarah. I so wanted this for her because she’s just amazing.”
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