Loved the Mormon opening; loved Neil Patrick Harris’s opening; loved the cameos throughout both. Shaping up to be a fun evening.
Anyone else watching?
Yeah! “Once” wins Director.
I’m not watching the show, but just happened to turn on the TV with that channel on as I was getting ready to watch something else. Jessica Chastain came on to present an award (someone I’m not familiar with at all). Was her dress see through? Not see through as in I could see her skin, but see though as in I’m quite sure I could see both her nipples though her dress.
Glen and Marketa in attendance.
You may not be the target audience for the Tonys.
Has anyone here seen Ghost? Is that song any more comprehensible if you’re familiar with the show? 'Cause I’m not, and I was strongly reminded of alley cats in heat, and not in a *Cats *kind of way.
…Other than that, I’ve enjoyed the broadcast so far.
I could see both her nipples though her fabulous dress?
Was that a seat filler doll being passed around behind NPH as they went to the commercial?
The performance was AWESOME. Did anyone notice that the celebs answering the doorbell rings from the Mormons were all either gay or suspected to be gay? (Ricky Martin, Matthew Brodrick, Cynthia Nixon, Darth Vador…dunno about Judith Light)
Am MAD that Nice Work if You Can Get it lost out to TrEnDy hipster Once. The music from Once sounds exactly like 90’s hipster music. Saw NWIYCGI in previews and LOVED it… Judy Kaye SO deserved the Best Actress in a Muscial…seriously, if you love musicals, go and see “NWIYCGI” It is hilarious, and reminded me of Anything Goes…(as an aside, I am very “butch"but there is a song in NWIYCGI that had me BAWLING!) Once is going to be forgotten in five years, but damn NWIYCGI was AWESOME.
Has there ever been a revival of Death of a Salesman that DIDN’t get Best Revival of a Play?
Newsies and Ghost look extremely " We went to NYC and saw a REAL Broadway Play” style Broadway.
The Every Broadway Show Medley was AWESOME and very funny. Is there a law that says that every Tony winner must have a relative that dies of cancer whom they thank in their speech?
Neil Patrick Harris just gets more and more talented. His singing, dancing, and acting is fabulous. And the Spiderman skit. Angela Landsbury is one classy lady.
Glad to see Audra McDonald win her first for Best Actress, after four wins for Best Featured Actress. I’ve been a huge fan since seeing her in Carousel in 1994!
The Spiderman bit was excellent – and the closing song, wow!
I went to bed before the awards were over, but I mostly liked what I saw so far. I agree with the above comment that the Ghost bit didn’t impress. I’ve seen the movie, so I can sort of guess who the three singers are, but I still had no clue what was going on. Sometimes those musical numbers where a bunch of people are singing over each other works because the scene is set up and the lyrics aren’t all that important, but for the Tony Awards, they really should have picked something else to showcase. Confusing the audience is not a great way to capture ticket sales.
I had the good fortune of seeing Once back in April. This is the first time ever that I’ve seen the best musical winner before the Tony Awards. So that was cool. I enjoyed the show very much and am happy for them to have won so many awards last night. I think the show is great and the win is well deserved. That isn’t to say the other productions are poor in anyway, only that the assertion that Once is undeserving seems unwarranted in my opinion.
Exactly. I think polyphony can work very well if the listener is already familiar with the melodies being piled on top of each other. But generally that’s done by introducing each melody separately, either at the beginning of the song, or earlier in the show as solos which are reprised in polyphony. Since I didn’t have prior exposure to the three melodies, I couldn’t follow any of them, or enjoy the way they worked together. My ear just couldn’t hear it as music.
Take “One More Day” as an example: it’s a fargin’ amazing song, but if you don’t know the melodies each singer is singing, it just sounds like a hot mess. Even though you can’t make out all the words, being familiar with the melodies (which we’ve heard already in the show) makes their interplay comfortable to the ear. But it’s not the best song to play for someone who’s never seen Les Mis or heard any of the music from it (if people like that really exist. 
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(my bolding) Nope, but she is a huge gay rights activist- board of the Matthew Sheppard Foundation etc. Weird that I already knew that - I think from stories about her helping her Who’s the Boss “son” come out.
Frankly, I got the exact same overwhelmingly “MEH” feeling during the Ghost thing as I did during the Spiderman song last year. There’s just almost a NEGATIVE attraction to the show for me. Just don’t care at all.
And was it just me, or did Tracy Turnblad on the big boat look more like a 1960s middle-aged housewife tottering into the spotlight than a 1960s teenager?
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I would pay to listen to Audra McDonald sing the phonebook.
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Whoever invented dancerpants deserves some kind of award and my eternal gratitude.
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I will never, ever understand how it took 25+ years to bring Les Mis to the screen but less than 5 to bring Rock of Ages.
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If you turned the sound down, you could hear 10 million gay chubby chasers’ hearts shattering during James Corden’s acceptance speech.
That was hilarious.
You in the thread.
One of the best Tony shows in a very long time - zipped right along and even though I have not been to NYC in ages, I felt like I was right there and got a glimpse of some of the shows currently running.
NPH was great as the MC - hope he keeps doing it!
I saw the film “Once” and thought is was just “OK”, despite the hype - so I doubt I would pay to see the musical. Same for Newsies or Ghost (of which, Ghost really did have the worst song represented or else it is just a sucky show). Mathew Broderick was a bit lethargic in his number - just seemed to be going through the motions - but maybe he was pissed he wasn’t nominated.
:: Drops trou and takes a bow::
From what I’ve heard (no cite), that’s pretty much how the show is – not as good as you’d expect from an all-Gershwin musical.
Broderick doesn’t really excite me as a stage performer (or a musical performer, maybe). All of his characters SOUND the same…slightly nebbishy and not really terribly sincere. If they hadn’t SAID this character was supposed to be devil-may-care rich playboy, I’d have never gotten that impression from his performance.