NEW YORK -- The 68th Tony Awards will take place at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday evening, and The Hollywood Reporter is hearing interesting bits and pieces about the opening number, musical acts, special performances and presenters. If you want to be completely surprised by everything to do with the show, stop reading now... but if you want to whet your appetite, read on!

PHOTOS: Tony Awards 2014: The Nominees 

"Here's what happens when you're 88," says Jerry Lewis, jabbing at a giant black-and-blue mark on his arm. "You bump your arm and get these 'tattoos.' It's annoying. I look like a f--ing bike rider!"

NEW YORK – Few performers have won an acting Tony for work in a show that closed after Tony nominations were announced due to poor ticket sales, as opposed to the expiration of a preordained limited engagement. The most recent exceptions to this rule were Julie White, who won best actress in a play for The Little Dog Laughed (2006), and John Lithgow, who won best actor in a musical for Sweet Smell of Success (2002), the latter of which featured an up-and-coming young actress by the name of Kelli O'Hara.

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Over the years since Sweet Smell of Success, O'Hara has become one of the biggest names on Broadway, scoring five Tony nominations along the way -- for The Light in the Piazza (2005), The Pajama Game (2006), South Pacific (2008), Nice Work If You Can Get It (2012) and, this year, for The Bridges of Madison County. To her great disappointment, the one in which she invested the most time, heart and soul, Bridges, closed just days after she received her nom. It failed to receive one in the category of best musical, which represented its last best hope of generating some sustainable interest at the box office.

Consequently, the 38-year-old now finds herself in the same aforementioned situation as White and Lithgow, as well as Angela Lansbury, the last person to win the best actress in a musical Tony under these circumstances, for the revival of Gypsy, way back in 1975. The only others who have won in that category for closed shows: Mary Martin for Peter Pan (1955); Dolores Gray for Carnival in Flanders (1954), which closed after just six performances, the shortest run ever recognized with an acting Tony; plus Patricia Routledge for Darling of the Day and Leslie Uggam for Hallelujah, Baby, who tied in 1968.

NEW YORK -- On Monday morning, Jenna Bush Hager, the daughter of former president George W. Bush and granddaughter of former president George H.W. Bush, spoke with The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg about the recent announcement that Greenwich, Connecticut, will play host to an international film festival starting in June 2015 -- and that she is a member of the board that is making it possible.

THR decided to ask the 32-year-old, who works as a special correspondent for NBC's Today and as a contributor to NBC Nightly News, about her connection to the affluent town located about 45 minutes outside of New York City, where she lives; why she wants to be associated with a film festival in the first place; and the name of the last great movie that she saw.

Here are some snippets of our exclusive conversation.

NEW YORK -- Just over a week ago, The Hollywood Reporter conducted our first Tonys Actress Roundtable with six 2014 Tony nominees -- Tyne Daly (Mothers and Sons), Sutton Foster (Violet), LaTanya Richardson Jackson (A Raisin in the Sun), Idina Menzel (If/Then), Jessie Mueller (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) and Kelli O'Hara (The Bridges of Madison County) -- and the conversation produced so much interesting material that it couldn't all fit into the main video. Therefore, THR is now releasing an 11-minute bonus feature: the actresses' discussion about what first brought them to New York and what they regard as their "big break" on Broadway.

NEW YORK – Just over a week ago, The Hollywood Reporter conducted its first Tonys Actor Roundtable with six 2014 Tony nominees — Neil Patrick Harris (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin), Andy Karl (Rocky), Jefferson Mays (A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder), Chris O'Dowd (Of Mice and Men) and Tony Shalhoub (Act One) — and the conversation produced so much interesting material that it couldn't all fit into the main video. Therefore, THR is now releasing an 11-minute bonus feature: the actors' discussion about what first brought them to New York and what they regard as their "big break" on Broadway.

The 21st annual Austin Film Festival & Screenwriters Conference won't get underway until Oct. 23, but it has already cast a bright spotlight on several prominent members of the television community who are in the midst of vying for Emmys votes.

NEW YORK -- On Monday morning, New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira, a two-time All-Star and World Series champion, spoke with The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg about the recent announcement that an international film festival will take place in the affluent Connecticut town in which he lives with his wife and three children -- and that he is a member of the board that is making it possible.

The first Greenwich International Film Festival won't take place for another year -- it's slated for June 4-7, 2015 -- but THR decided to ask the 34-year-old for a preview of what it will entail; why Greenwich is a good place for an event of this sort; how he will juggle his "day job," which includes summer games, with the festivities; what his favorite films are; whether or not he is interested in acting gigs beyond the TV and Broadway cameos he's already made; and, most pertinent to Yankees fans, how his wrist is doing.

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Here are some snippets of our exclusive conversation.

NEW YORK -- A week ago, The Hollywood Reporter was on Broadway -- or at least at a studio nearby -- for a momentous occasion: the taping of our first Tony Roundtables, which represent an expansion of our award-winning Roundtables franchise that was previously limited to the Oscar and Emmy seasons.

With the 68th Tony Awards rapidly approaching -- voting closes on June 6, and the ceremony itself will take place on June 8 at Radio City Music Hall -- we decided to gather six of this year's most impressive Tony-nominated actors for a photo shoot and a videotaped conversation about their lives, careers, pet peeves and the roles for which they are nominated.

PHOTOS: Tony Awards 2014 Nominees

They were best actor in a musical nominees Neil Patrick Harris (Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Andy Karl (Rocky Balboa in Rocky) and Jefferson Mays (nine members of the D'Ysquith family in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder), best featured actor in a musical nominee James Monroe Iglehart (Genie in Aladdin) and best actor in a play nominees Chris O'Dowd (Lennie in Of Mice and Men) and Tony Shalhoub (middle-aged Moss Art, Moss Hart's father and George S. Kaufman in Act One).

NEW YORK – A week ago, The Hollywood Reporter was on Broadway — or at least, at a studio nearby — for a momentous occasion: the taping of our first Tonys Roundtable videos, which represent an expansion of our award-winning Roundtable franchise that was previously limited to the Oscar and Emmy seasons.

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With the 68th Tony Awards rapidly approaching — voting closes on June 6 and the ceremony itself will take place on June 8 at Radio City Music Hall — we decided to gather six of this year's most impressive Tony-nominated actresses for a photo shoot and a videotaped conversation about their lives, their careers and the roles for which they are nominated.

The six were: best actress in a musical nominees Sutton Foster (Violet in Violet), Idina Menzel (Elizabeth in If/Then), Jessie Mueller (Carole King in Beautiful: The Carole King Story) and Kelli O'Hara (Francesca in The Bridges of Madison County) and best actress in a play nominees Tyne Daly (Katharine in Mothers and Sons) and LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Lena "Mama" Younger in A Raisin in the Sun).

NEW YORK – Most pundits believe that A Raisin in the Sun's LaTanya Richardson Jackson faces an uphill climb in the best actress in a play Tony race, in which she is nominated alongside Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill's Audra McDonald and The Glass Menagerie's Cherry Jones, among others. But, as far as the youthful 64-year-old is concerned, she has already "won" just by getting the chance to play Lena Younger -- aka "Mama" -- opposite Denzel Washington in the latest Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking drama.

On Tuesday afternoon, Julianne Moore hosted a tea in Jackson's honor at Lady Mendl's Tea Salon, a part of The Inn at Irving Place in Gramercy Park, which was attended by many of Jackson's friends from the New York theater and cultural scene -- among them her Tony-nominated Raisin costars Sophie Okonedo and Anika Noni Rose, the play's costume designer Ann Roth, Ellen Barkin, Judith Jamison, Star Jones, Judith Light, S. Epatha Merkerson, Judge Judy Sheindlin, Pauletta Washington (Raisin star Denzel Washington's wife) and Phylicia Rashad, who won a Tony for her portrayal of Mama in the last revival of Raisin a decade ago -- and at which a letter from the first lady of the United States toasting Jackson was read aloud.

The following projections and commentary are based on THR awards analyst Scott Feinberg's ongoing viewings of the nominees; his consultations with THR theater critic David Rooney; and careful readings of other Broadway commentators, plus Tony history books, rule books and much more. You can expect new and updated forecasts each Monday [Tuesday this week due to the holiday] through the Tonys!