2006 Tonys: Lifetime Achievement. Who?
2006 Tonys: Lifetime Achievement. Who?
#02006 Tonys: Lifetime Achievement. Who?
Posted: 5/3/06 at 1:16amWho do you think will get it?
--Aristotle
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#2re: 2006 Tonys: Lifetime Achievement. Who?
Posted: 5/3/06 at 1:41amThey should give it to Chita, poor girl.
#3re: 2006 Tonys: Lifetime Achievement. Who?
Posted: 5/3/06 at 1:55amChita all the way. Then they don't have to feel obligated to nominate her in the Best Leading Actress or Best Musical categories.
-Kad
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dancinfan
Broadway Star Joined: 8/9/04
#4re: 2006 Tonys: Lifetime Achievement. Who?
Posted: 5/3/06 at 8:22am
Wendy Wasserstein
August Wilson
Updated On: 5/3/06 at 08:22 AM
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#5re: 2006 Tonys: Lifetime Achievement. Who?
Posted: 5/3/06 at 8:33amSenor Sondheim
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#6re: 2006 Tonys: Lifetime Achievement. Who?
Posted: 5/3/06 at 9:13am
sondheim would hate getting this award. he's still going and does wants people to look towards the future, not at his past.
wasserstein and wilson seem like logical choices. while chita should get it one year, this isn't her year, the other two are stronger candidates at this point in time.
side note, i forget, was the dancer's life deemed a special event or not? i was extremely surprised bridge + tunnel was.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#7re: 2006 Tonys: Lifetime Achievement. Who?
Posted: 5/3/06 at 10:26amA Dancer's Life was deemed a musical, unfortunately.
#8re: 2006 Tonys: Lifetime Achievement. Who?
Posted: 5/3/06 at 10:42amKristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel are only in their 30's. I don't think they should be getting a lifetime achivement award for quite a while.
#9re: 2006 Tonys: Lifetime Achievement. Who?
Posted: 5/3/06 at 10:51amI think Bobby's comment was meant as sarcasm, at least that's how I took it.
#10re: 2006 Tonys: Lifetime Achievement. Who?
Posted: 5/3/06 at 10:55am
Here's a few I'd like to see get it:
Carol Channing
Chita Rivera
Harold Prince (don't care that he has a million competitive awards already, he still deserves this one)
Stephen Sondheim (don't care that he's still working, he deserves this one)
Jerry Herman
Angela Lansbury
Betty Comden
John Kander
Elaine Stritch
Barbara Cook
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moment2music
Chorus Member Joined: 3/27/06
#11ben gazzara
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:06pm
more than 50 years in the theatre:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brick, original production), A Hatful of Rain (Tony nomination), Traveler Without Luggage, Hughie/Duet (Tony nomination), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony nomination), Shimada, Dance of Death. Off-Broadway: End As a Man (Theatre World Award), Nobody Don’t Like Yogi (Drama Desk nomination).
moment2music
Chorus Member Joined: 3/27/06
#12ben gazzara
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:07pm
with three tony nominations and now back on broadway in "awake and sing!"
he's my pick. ; )
what an actor!!!
#13Lifetime Achivement
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:12pmI think the lifetime achivement award should go to Horton Foote, with 2 plays nominated for drama desk awards
#14Lifetime Achivement
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:15pmCarol Channing already has one. She got it in the mid-90's.
#16Lifetime Achivement
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:19pmbetty comden is in very poor health.
#17Lifetime Achivement
Posted: 5/3/06 at 1:24pmOh no, is she really?? That's horrible.
--Aristotle
mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
amabele
Swing Joined: 5/15/06
#19Lifetime Achivement
Posted: 5/15/06 at 4:09pm
Mike Nichols?
Director. Producer. Performer.
73 years old.
8 Tonys.
#20Lifetime Achivement
Posted: 5/15/06 at 4:13pmJonathan Tunick, a great orchestrator.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
rentdanb
Chorus Member Joined: 10/7/03
ProducersFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/04
#23Lifetime Achivement
Posted: 5/15/06 at 4:53pm
Mike Nichols should definitely get one at some point down the line.
Has Neil Simon ever received one? I would like nominate him as well - but perhaps he would be in the same boat as Sondheim. He has 3 new plays in the works and would probably also like people to look ahead at his future endevors.
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#24Lifetime Achivement
Posted: 5/15/06 at 7:05pmDidn't Prince get one about 3 yrs ago? I remember him exhorting the league/wing to "challenge the audience, they will come". Course they'd already voted for Millie by then but it's the thought...
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