TONYS Aren't Everything
TONYS Aren't Everything
TonyaFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/04
#0TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:03pmwhy is everyone saying TONY! TONY! TONY! as artists we do not perform for tony awards. as phylicia rashad said, they are nice and wonderful to have but when it(entertainment) becomes about winning awards it becomes something else. that something else she had enough class as an AKA woman to say. but this AKA woman does not. IT BECOMES A PIECE OF CRAP. so everybody jus stop screaming TONY! just because something wins a tony doesnt mean its good.
"Girl, this cupcake is the jumpoff"- Adriane Lenox
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#1re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:05pm
Rashad is the most pompous, self-absorbed person on the planet...anything she says about entertainment not being about winning awards is utter crap
Updated On: 3/30/05 at 06:05 PM
#2re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:05pm
I believe the "it" she was refering to was not entertainment, but ART.
You are young, life has been kind to you. You will learn.
Updated On: 3/30/05 at 06:05 PM
#3re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:06pm
marilyn- Are you serious? How do you know? She didn't give me that vibe at all.
You are young, life has been kind to you. You will learn.
Updated On: 3/30/05 at 06:06 PM
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:07pmI have my sources...and I just don't like her that much, anyways!
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#5re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:09pm
AKA woman? Also Known As? Little help here?
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Updated On: 3/30/05 at 06:09 PM
#6re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:09pm
Yeah i was thinking the same thing. What does that mean?
You are young, life has been kind to you. You will learn.
GypsyRoseLee
Broadway Star Joined: 7/5/04
#7re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:10pmIt's great to award great work, and it feels great to win things, but I feel like they can be a bit distracting at times. I'm referring to awards of any kind, not just Tonys.
"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being."
--Phylicia Rashad
Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#8re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:10pm
Whatever, Tonya. We constantly discuss Tonys because competition is fun. I don't think anyone here actually lives by the Tonys.
And I totally get the pompous vibe from Phylicia Rashad. She always seems so phony and scripted, especially her Tony speech. I was so turned off by her. But she is definitely a talented woman. I don't have anything to backup my claim; it is just my personal opinion from what I've seen of her and heard from her.
GypsyRoseLee
Broadway Star Joined: 7/5/04
#9re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:13pm*see signature for Gypsy's opinion*
"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being."
--Phylicia Rashad
#10re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:13pmwow, I can't believe that, I get the total opposite! Not that either opinion is right, I just find that interesting.
You are young, life has been kind to you. You will learn.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#11re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:13pmWay off topic, but did anyone ever notice that TONY spells To New York. ? I've always thought it was interesting.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#13re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:15pm
LMAO
I agree, Marilyn.
I was watching with my mom and mid-way through her scripted and rehearsed acceptance speech, we simultaneously gave each other this look that said, "What the &*$% is this?" I found it to be so phony. But whatever... she can do what she wants. She's Phylicia Rashad!
Updated On: 3/30/05 at 06:15 PM
TonyaFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/04
#14re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:28pm
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. is the first Sorority created and by black women on the campus of Howard University in 1908. Ms. Rashad is a soror. she pledged at her college Howard University. If you havent guessed im also a soror and an actress. i look up to her and respect everything she stands for. she is an incredible actress, teacher, and person. she talks the way she does all the time, not just on tv.
"Girl, this cupcake is the jumpoff"- Adriane Lenox
Updated On: 3/30/05 at 06:28 PM
Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#15re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:32pmWell, then she's a hardcore phony if she keeps that humble act going 24/7.
#16re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:36pm
"TONYS Aren't Everything"
Yes they are. :)
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TonyaFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/04
#17re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:39pm
why because she's a humble person does she have to be a phony?
haters man
"Girl, this cupcake is the jumpoff"- Adriane Lenox
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#18re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:39pmTonys are everything to Rashad because you know she'll eventually have to sell her award for food when she can't get work...
#19re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:42pmI hate when people accept awards by saying it's not about the award.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
TonyaFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/04
#21re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:44pmand who r your sources marilyn? i bet uve never even met the woman. i swear some people on this board hate to see a black woman on the top her game.
"Girl, this cupcake is the jumpoff"- Adriane Lenox
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
TonyaFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/04
#23re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:47pmoh thats what i thought
"Girl, this cupcake is the jumpoff"- Adriane Lenox
#24re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:48pm
TONYs are something. To be acknowledged by your peers for doing something you love is an honor. Should we, as theatre artists, make our goal throughout our individual careers to win the TONY? No, not neccessarily, but one should strive to have their art be in the league of such greats also honored by those distinguished awards, like Jefferson Mays, Elaine Stritch, Lillias White, or even fellow Denison Univeristy alum, Hal Holbrook.
The Tony Award does not define the value or worth of a piece of art in theatre, but it celebrates it. And why not want to be apart of that celebration that we all love so much.
And Rashad, though possibly a bitch, is a damn fine actress whose Tony was well-deserved.
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