2005 Tony Performances
2005 Tony Performances
#02005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 12:07pm
Do we know whoat numbers are being performed at the Tonys this year???
Very excited to see Norbert, Sherie, & Sutton perform!!!
#1re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 12:09pm
Oy. There are now THREE threads on this! (Search, people! They're all on page one!)
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=851502&dt=052605112254
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=851514&dt=052605120856
And the answer is still no.
#3re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 1:57pmr u kidding me Ken ?! Why wouldnt she perform ?! Shes amazing.... Aparently you didnt look at the Tony nominations for this season or your just new to the whole Broadway thing. ANd if you have nething against Little Women or Sutton wow how is that possible ?
#4re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 1:58pmSutton in all likelihood will not perform. Her show is not nominated for Best Musical. If history is any barometer, she will not sing a note.
musicnmath
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/13/05
#5re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:08pm
...like the year Heather won and we didn't get to hear her sing because Aida wasn't nominated 
Lucifer
Stand-by Joined: 8/26/04
#6re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:13pmalso the show must be open still to perform... it's like an unwritten rule
#7re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:35pm
"also the show must be open still to perform... it's like an unwritten rule"
except in 1998 when Alice and Emily performed I Will Never Leave You
pndmnd
Broadway Star Joined: 4/3/04
#8re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:43pmI believe that James Joyce's The Dead had already closed, as well, and still performed, but then last year Big River wasn't allowed to. The only reason Sutton Foster would perform would be if they used her in the opening act.
#9re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:44pm
Its not always an unwritten rule that closed shows don't perform. RAGS, SIDE SHOW, many others performed on the Tony's long after they closed. These shows, were, of course nominated for Best Musical. I think the rule there is that it depends on the lobbying of the Producer of the show to the Producer of the telecast.
There does seem to be a general rule of thumb that closed revivals don't perform, which means no PACIFIC OVERTURES.
As others have said, Sutton Foster wouldn't be performing because LITTLE WOMEN wasn't nominated.
#10re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:44pm
And civil war performed, didn't it? Even though it closed.
525600 - sutton won't perform because her show wasn't nominated for best musical. It was nothing against Sutton.
romanov
Stand-by Joined: 5/6/05
#11re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:45pm
closed shows have performed before. Judy Kuhn and Dick Latessa did Rags. And the looks on their faces afterwards were so pitiful I thought they'd take the gas pipe.
Updated On: 5/26/05 at 02:45 PM
#12re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:48pmSoshanna Bean, Eden Espinosa, and David Ayers are going to a do a medely of all the crappy shows/performances this year.
#13re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:49pmBobby, then perhaps Sutton WILL perform!
#14re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:52pmShe'll be in the medely of mediocre songs of the year.
musicalsaregreat
Understudy Joined: 4/13/05
#15re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:52pmThe general rule is that only the shows nominated for original or revival of a musical get to perform. Heather did perform for Aida, she and the cast performed The Gods Love Nubia. Exceptions have been made in the past. The year Rent won, both Big and State Fair performed even though they were not nominated in either category.
#16re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:53pmWeren't the Big and State fair performances pre-recorded? Actuallly, I think a lot of that year was pre-recorded.
#17re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:54pm
A couple of years ago, some pretty amazing people did a Rodgers and Hammerstein Medley.... Lea Salonga, Harry Connick, Jr, I believe were among them. Perhaps if there's something like that this year, Sutton would be a part. I think it would be a really nice gesture to involve her somehow.
However, I had to laugh at 525600's comment - Sutton's not going to perform simply because she's "OMG SO AMAZING!" nor just because she was nominated for best actress. It's usually the shows nominated for best musical and revival (the ones that are still open, to be more exact) that perform. But of course, someone who was asking why she'd perform, probalby based on that is crazy and must be new to the scene! 
#18re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:56pm
I heard a rumor Sutton is going to sing/present every award while the celebrities dance Twyla Tharp's choreography.
Updated On: 5/26/05 at 02:56 PM
#19re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:57pm
Politics do play a part...The revival of SHOW BOAT performed (via Satelite from Toronto) before it opened on Broadway and I REMEMBER MAMA got a huge segment though it wasn't nominated because they were doing a celebration of Richard Rodgers that year.
It may be interesting to note, that until the early 80s, not every nominated musical performed on the Tonys. The selection was much more arbitrary. A lot of the most popular musicals of the 1970s -- THE WIZ, NIGHT MUSIC, FOLLIES didn't perform.
Updated On: 5/26/05 at 02:57 PM
#20re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:58pmI enjoyed the short number from Busker Alley.
romanov
Stand-by Joined: 5/6/05
#21re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 3:02pmMichael Bennett: That god-awful number from I Remember Mama got on because Alex Cohen produced that musical and the Tony Awards that year. Cohen engineered the special Tony for Richard Rodgers so he could get that number on the air and hopefully increase ticket sales. It didn't work.
#22re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 3:06pmDidn't they perform from Busker Alley because there were practically no Best Musical nominees that could perform due to closings? It was telecast from the road, wasn't it?
#23re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 3:13pmYeah I think it was a slow year. They did a few clips from tryout productions, I seem to remember a Hello Dolly! clip and a Master Class clip. I think but am not positive that it was the year Smokey Joe and Sunset were the 2 best musical noms.
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#24re: 2005 Tony Performances
Posted: 5/26/05 at 3:15pmWhat is up with the sudden stupidness on BWW?
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