2006 Theatre World Award Tidbits

[Enjolras77]

Posted: 6/7/06 at 10:06am

I was reading Peter Filichia's column today on Theatermania.com and he was talking about his experiences hosting this year's Theatre World Awards ceremony. There were some interesting tidbits in the article including the two excerpts I have referenced below. One, a funny line uttered by Jonathan Pryce and the other an acknowledgement by Harry Connick, Jr. of John Lloyd Young.

Jonathan Pryce said that when he moved, he put his two Tonys and Theatre World Award in the same box, and when he opened the box, he found that the heavy-based Theatre World Award crushed his plastic-based Tonys – and he was hoping he'd get (good line!) a replacement award....

...Liza Minnelli reminisced that the award ceremony wasn’t always held in places like Studio 54; when she won in 1963, it was in “a church basement between A.A. meetings.” Minnelli also told about wanting to go into the business once her parents brought her to New York to see Bye Bye Birdie. (She also saw and liked The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Gypsy, and An Evening with Nichols & May.) She did acknowledge, "If you have famous parents, it can open a lot of doors for you -- but in theater, between eight and eleven p.m., you’re on your own.” She also pointed out that people usually win this award at the beginning of their career, but that it was just the opposite for the man to whom she was presenting: Harry Connick, Jr. When he came up, he said, “I'd like to thank Liza, especially, for helping me celebrate the end of my career today." He also graciously offered an unconditional surrender to John Lloyd Young, saying that Young won all the awards so far in which they’ve been in competition, and knows Young will win the Tony on Sunday...

[Corine2]

Posted: 6/7/06 at 12:25pm

I love Peter! And I hope he is right about John.
My fingers and toes are already crossed!