2004 Tony's Not a Good Representaton Of Broadway

If I had never been to Broadway or didn't know much about it , I would think that last nights show was a bad representation of it. First of all : The opening # ok, Hugh was cute but the whole song and harmonies were out of key and didn't blend well at all! And the Rockette thing was cheesy and boring all they did was kick. But then again I guess thats what they do. lol. The Caroline or Change's number bored everyone who watched to tears. Sorry folks but it was mind numbingly boring on tv. Then Wicked came out and performed something that looked and sounded like a HS musical production. It was the single most awful performance I have ever seen on the Tony's. If I hadn't seen that show and saw Idina win after that I would have thought she bribed the voters. Avenue Q gave a flawless performance! Perfect! Glad they won, Boy From Oz's song was a poor choice to perform, and I was hoping someone would pull Hugh offstage with a cane at any moment. And what was with Mary J Blige??? That was a big WTF for me. Wonderfull Town also chose a poor song to perform...who is in charge of picking these things?? yikes... If I were not a huge Broadway fan I would have turned off the show within the first 20 minutes this year.

I thought the Wonderful Town number was the best, but unfortunately they had to cut too much of the dancing. The swing dancing in that number was phenomenal. But at least it looked like a "real" musical.

Never been a fan of Wicked, but I think Idina's performance was poor.

Haven't seen Caroline, hope Tonya was just having a bad night, but definitely wouldn't go based on that performance.

Fiddler...we've all forgotten it...not surprising.

Assassins...what was that? Besides the touchy subject matter, a bunch of guys (and the girl) lines up in separate boxes waving guns around? That'll really draw them in!!!

I've seen both BFO and Ave Q and liked (not loved) them, so I'm not sure how their performances came across on tv. BFO should have done Rio (too much production I think, and too much like the opening number!) but Q's choice was probably the best....nothing else would pass the censors!

Fiddler was ok..nothing exciting..

They did have a rather NICE BIG RIVER clip, but it was too short.

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The problem with Fiddler was that....well the Old one was amillion times better. I liked the Original Tevye much better the Alfred Molina. And the choreaography I have seen in more than one higschool production (but of course the dancers carried it off much better so not saying it resembled high school too terribly) it was really just alot of 'Evita arms' and then the bottle dance. It the performance I found the least Broadway gratifying.

Wow. ADD poster!

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