Who was that way over animated dame who just introduced the “Company” number?
Christie Brinkley? Can you imagine…she actually had to carry “Chicago” as Roxie Hart? I’m flabbergasted at that casting…
WHAT? Only two posts on the Tonys thread so far?
I LOVED the opening number. I was howling!!! Not just for Jews and gays anymore!!! Also the " Anything You Can Do" face off between NPH and Hugh Jackman! VERY CLEVER!!!
On my “gotta see list” now: Anything Goes and Sister Act (but those were on the list before) Also, Spiderman Turn On the Dark (looks really good) and Book of Mormon. I don’t get the love for Catch Me If You Can…seemed kinda meh.
I liked Anything Goes…but I think I like Patti Lupone’s version better…I also KNEW they would do that song " In the Company of Men"
My kid asked me what was wrong with her.
It’s weird, but comic-book geek me doesn’t even have morbid curiosity about the Spider-Man musical. I went and had a smoke while that number was on.
I agree with you about “Anything Goes”. I adore Sutton Foster, but I think she was channeling Merman too much instead of doing her own Reno. And the arrangement was kind of bland, too…the swing band arrangement of the Lupone revival had a lot more energy. I was just generally underwhelmed by that number last night.
Also, the unison was not very good on the tap-dancing on it. They hit it a couple of times when it was stomp-stomp-stomp, but for a lot of the number it was blurry and not completely together. In really good tap dancing, you can have 20 people and have it sound like 1 when the unison is completely on.
Christie Brinkley was scary. Totally didn’t recognize her.
Both of NPH’s big musical numbers were excellent.
Incidentally, they’re apparently filming a movie of that Company revival. Which may be one of my rare in-theater viewings…that cast has to be absolutely fabulous: NPH, Stephen Colbert, Martha Plimpton, Katie Finneran, Anika Noni Rose, Patti Freakin’ Lupone! I spent most of that number just identifying the performers.
Stunt casting at its absolute worst. Introducing her as “actress” Christie Brinkley? She immediately proved that was an oxymoron.
The opening number was fabulous. In my opinion, Neil Patrick Harris is a theatre god. And people–Broadway had Hugh Jackman first!
Good show. That recitation that NPH did over the end credits was impressive because they had to write it during the show and he was reading it from the prompter for the first time live.
NPH did a parody set to West Side Story’s “Tonight” when he hosted two years ago. The NY Times had a good article about how the songwriters werte revising it to the end.
When Samuel L. Jackson startedf talking about “The Mother With The Hat,” I expected a snakes joke (The real title of the show is The Motherf**ker With the Hat).
Filmed. They rehearsed and performed the whole thing in a very short period, maybe a week, earlier this spring. (I follow NPH on twitter.)
Oh, cool! I wonder how limited the release is going to be?
I think the Tony’s are the best of the awards shows. Even the acceptance speeches are so much better than those at the Oscars. Maybe because the winners know more about being on stage. I loved Nikki M. James from “The Book of Mormon” who seemed genuinely surprised and excited to win and Mark Rylance of “Jerusalem” who spoke for a minute about how he moved through walls and fences.
Didn’t those horse puppets from “War Horse” look cool?
It starts this week – I already have my ticket! You can check to see where it’s showing here.
Chris Rock had the best line: The nominations for best musical? This is like taking a whore out to dinner. You know you’re going to get laid.
“Like taking a whore out to dinner” is my new favorite line for anything where you do something unnecessary that does not change the final outcome.
Was there more behind the walking through walls bit? I didn’t get it.
I kind of didn’t like Rock’s bit…it seemed really disrespectful to the other shows. I mean, you may KNOW that the monster musical of the season is taking Best Musical, but you don’t really want to act like the others are such weaksauce that they don’t stand a chance.
True. I’ll never forget the 2004 awards, when Wicked was taking everything and the announcer said “And the Tony Award for the Best Musical goes to”…Wicked people start to rise, every other show just sits there…“Avenue Q.”
Everybody’s jaw just dropped. The AQ people just sat there in stunned silence, then ran up to the stage. It was a huge major upset, but AQ was the more original show.
I don’t know. I kinda’ hope there was nothing more to it than what it seemed; a few paragraphs of nonsense as an alternative to the usual ‘thank you’s’.
We always watch the Tony’s and this year was pretty good.
I liked it was at the Beacon instead of Radio City, NPH was great as usual, many of the shows were represented well (except Spiderman - yawn…).
Scottburo Boys was shaky…board too short? They seemed to have trouble standing and moving and the song was meh…no wonder it closed.
Angela Lansbury looked like she couldn’t get off stage fast enough.
Francis Mcdormand dressed like she wasn’t sure if this was an awards show or a 4H picnic.
David Hyde Pierce annoys me - he has become quite the over-the-top, pompous “the-a-tur” figure - when he gets to be about 70, he will be insufferable when they start giving standing ovations simply because you are alive and show up at events like this at that age. He is already practicing for accolades.
Still, all in all it was another fun show to watch, even if I haven’t seen a single show.