Neil Patrick Harris and the Tony Awards: Looking through the years

Neil Patrick Harris will host the 67th Tony Awards on June 9. Also, the sun rises in the East. Harris previously hosted the awards show last year, in 2011 and 2009, making the "How I Met Your Mother" star and Broadway veteran something of a predictable choice. But his growing popularity and quick wit have done well with audiences in the past -- at least according to a fast look through The Post's Tony Award archives.