Tony awards
David Lawver
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David Lawver la...@charter.net
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Moni
"David Lawver" <la...@charter.net> wrote in message
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They just ended here on the West Coast. I wasn't surprised "Mormon" won,
but I sure liked the number from "Sister Act." I wish I had seen "Good
People."
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Joan in GB-W
"Moni" <fmo...@fakeaddress.net> wrote in message
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I liked the Cole Porter number, Anything Goes . . . guess I'm living in the
past.
Joan
Steve Newport
From: la...@charter.net (David Lawver)
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"There's nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music.
Musicals carry us to a different time and place, but in the end, they
also teach us a little bit of something about ourselves. In many ways,
the story of Broadway is also intertwined with the story of America.
Some of the greatest singers and songwriters Broadway has ever known
came to this country on a boat with nothing more than an idea in their
head and a song in their heart. And they succeeded the same way that so
many immigrants have succeeded through talent and hard work and sheer
determination. Over the years, musicals have also been at the forefront
of our social consciousness, challenging stereotypes, shaping our
opinions about race and religion, death and disease, power and politics.
But perhaps the most American part of this truly American art form is
its optimism. Broadway music calls us to see the best in ourselves and
in the world around us."-- President Obama
"Musicals blow the dust off your soul."-- Mel Brooks
Moni
"Joan in GB-W" <jjk...@aol.com> wrote in message
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the Tonys is so that I can see what I haven't seen before. I love the old
stuff, don't get me wrong, but seeing what is new makes for good viewing,
too.
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Moni
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Harlett O'Dowd
I don't think I have ever been bored watching the Tonys - but was this
year. I did a Sodoku at one point. Thought the AG number was the most
unfocused production number I had ever seen - all sound and fury and
no joy, let alone ecstasy (and no subesequent verses either.)
Really hated all the infomercials for un-nominated shows at the
expense of awards with a low TV-Q. The thing ran over three freaking
HOURS and they still couldn't make time for the pretty awards?
Hated the dueling hosts number. And after having Martha Walsh sing
"It's Raining Men" with the cast of the (un-nominated) PRISCILLA -
whatever will the Tony's do next year to out gay itself?
The SISTER ACT number came off best, and there were a few nice
acceptance speaches - even one from Larry Kramer.
StormChaser
the gay community's
public relations savior.
It's like his only "transgression"
(to add another trans)
is being gay.
Nothing else shows up on the
radar (gaydar?) screen.
As for the Tony Awards show.......
increasingly I am confusing
it with the Academy Awards.
God bless real Broadway
stars like Sutton Foster.
Neil Patrick's turn as Robert
in the Side by Side by Side
number from Company was
the highlight of the show for
me.
(Brooke Shields should've
stayed in movies.)
Robert Bouton
I thought it was the best Tony broadcast in many, many years, which is
fitting, since this was a better year for Broadway musicals than most
of the past 30.
The show opened and closed very well, due to witty lyrics by Broadway
vets David Javerbaum, and, writing under an impressive time restraint,
Lin-Manuel Miranda (he did the closing rap).
I thought Side By Side By Side was absolutely terrible, the only real
low-point of the evening; stupid and uncommitted and meaningless.
Plus, it sends the wrong message about Broadway: No, we don't have
Stephen Colbert, Martha Plimpton, Patti LuPone and Christina Hendricks
in ensemble roles.
Any viewer wondering how the internationally famous film superstar
Daniel Radcliffe failed to get a nomination needed merely to listen to
the breath he took between "brother" and "hood."
I was surprised to find Bono and The Edge charming (perhaps
chastened?) although their song, from a 2011-12 season musical, was
very boring.
It's something of a miracle that Larry Kramer kept himself to a few
well-chosen words. Nikki James and Sutton Foster gave delightful
speeches and I wish the latter had brought some of her delightful
personality to Cole Porter's lyrics. Norbert Leo Butz showed genuine
commitment to a number that was generally witless. Chris Rock was
funny and perfectly appropriate.
Sad that the best musical I've seen in years, Scottsboro Boys, didn't
get any awards. But it's hard for a long-closed show to carry the
day. I would have preferred to have heard Josh Henry do "Go Back
Home" as it's one of the outstanding show-tunes of the new century.
As always, the TV special presents viewers with a completely different
experience than they'd have in the theatre. There are words you can't
say, and all manners of things that don't work for the cameras. But
such is the nature of theatre: It's created to be seen live in a place
where audience and actors breathe the same air, sense the same
vibrations, with energy flowing back and forth.
Stephen Newport
stars like Sutton Foster.
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SN: I hated that number and the way she sang it. The choreography was
dull.