2008 Tony Awards: Performance & Presenters Lists — Page 4

AHHHH.
Hahahaha broadway divas in HSM.
Laughing so hard.
Next year they can all have a "fabulous" battle/sing-off.

Passing Strange will perform half Amsterdam and Keys per jay's remix report on passing strange.

Good for ACA, but how the hell are they going to have time for the awards?!

I pay allll this money to go, and I'll basically be watching excerpts from shows I've either seen or have absolutely no interest in seeing. There's no way they'll have time for a proper Sondheim tribute now, in any event.

"Suhhhhh weeeee nEEEEEED a li'l ChristmAHs, right this very mineeeeht."

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Why shouldn't they get to perform, if it helps sell tickets?

Even if LEGALLY BLONDE didn't get to perform on the Tonys, they got their revenge by airing the show on MTV: if that wasn't a commercial, I don't know what is.

And I, for one, would love to see A CATERED AFFAIR get some more publicity!

THE LITTLE MERMAID? Eh, it can fend for itself.

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Someone just brought this up to me and I thought it was interesting. What are the odds of the Grease producers using the Tony Awards to showcase their first attempt at stunt casting rather than an ensemble number? Could we possibly see Taylor Hicks warbling "Beauty School Dropout" on the Tonys telecast?

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I actually think that the odds of a High School Musical number being performed are very slim. I mean, wouldn't we have heard about it now?

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Xanadu is doing "Don't Walk Away" ... i thought they were doing a medley....that's depresing.

I was hoping to see Radio City Music hall FILLED with Disco Balls.

My apologies, I didn't see the official DONT WALK AWAY announcement on playbill.com. That is an awful, awful choice for XANADU. It's a great song but it's not going to sell tickets. For producers with such a keen sense of advertising and campaigning, this is really a shock. Especially because the show isn't doing very well.

I'm concerned about Xanadu selection -- yes, it's a beautiful number and the whole country will be exposed to Cheyenne and Kerry, which is great. But I would have thought something that captured the sheer fun of the show would have been a better choice. That's what everyone walks away saying about the show and I feel it should be memorialized. Just my opinion.

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Weeks ago, I heard that all new musicals (no mention of the revivals) would be "involved" and get to perform to a degree. (I interpreted this as doing a group number to open the Tonys, such as the "One Night Only" number from 2004.)

Since, we learned THE LION KING is opening and LITTLE MERMAID is doing "Part of Your World" -- so the "ensemble" number idea is out. I know YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN is performing for sure, but I still haven't heard a confirmed "yes" about A CATERED AFFAIR.

What I THINK is happening is that there is a montage of ACA/LM/YF performing back-to-back, each getting about a minute. So "Part of Your World" et al will be edited to fit the time alloted.

What I would LOVE to happen is to have this montage not just be these three shows, but all SEVEN new musicals, which would mean the new shows get to perform twice (as in the 2005 Tonys). If this is the case, I could see XANADU doing "Xanadu" + IN THE HEIGHTS doing "In The Heights" + PASSING STRANGE doing "Amsterdam" (I was told PS was doing "Amsterdam" but the Playbill article only mentions "Keys." Odd.)

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Updated On: 6/9/08 at 10:49 PM

Ha. I knew they would do EVERYTHING'S COMING UP ROSES. I called this since day one.