2019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
2019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
#12019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 11:35amToday is the day! Post all reactions to the awards show and the red carpet here! Cant wait to tune in tonight!
#22019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 11:36amWe can’t have red carpet in a different thread? They are basically unrelated topics.
#42019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 1:09pm
Hadestown is the best Broadway musical in recent memory
https://theweek.com/articles/845698/hadestown-best-broadway-musical-recent-memory
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After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#52019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 2:24pm
"Hadestown is the best Broadway musical in recent memory"
What?!??
Better than those works of genius, The Band's Visit, or Dear Evan Hansen?
How quickly one forgets!
Sic fugit gloria mundi.
#62019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 2:51pm
After Eight said: ""Hadestownis the best Broadway musical in recent memory"
What?!??
Better than those works of genius, The Band's Visit, or Dear Evan Hansen?
How quickly oneforgets!
Sic fugit gloriamundi.
"
Most definitely better than The Bands Visit and personally on par if not a bit better than Evan Hansen
#72019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 2:57pm
I didn't know that we thought Dear Evan Hansen or Hadestown was better than The Band's Visit lol. Personally, I think two lead characters in The Band's Visit are much much more deeper and fleshed out than the leads in Hadestown, so it would be harder for me to prefer Hadestown - as much as I love the score.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#82019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 3:03pm
THE BAND’S VISIT made great theater for 90 minutes.
HADESTOWN made great theater for 2 1/2 hours.
Math doesn’t lie— Hadestown is better than The Bands Visit.
MollyJeanneMusic
Broadway Star Joined: 3/10/19
#92019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 3:06pm
Oh, god, here we go again...
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Featured Actor Joined: 4/16/07
#102019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 3:31pm
I know you think you cannot control it, but you might just try for a few minutes...
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#112019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 3:32pm
qolbinau said: "I didn't know that we thought Dear Evan Hansen or Hadestown was better than The Band's Visit lol. Personally, I think two lead characters in The Band's Visit are much much more deeper and fleshed out than the leads in Hadestown, so it would be harder for me to prefer Hadestown - as much as I love the score."
I personally love both of these shows. I agree that Tewfiq and Dina are much better and fleshed our characters than Orpheus and Eurydice. However, Hades and Persephone are, in my opinion, on a similar level of depth as the leads from The Band’s Visit.
#122019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 7:33pm
Is this the official thread? Ha.
The Ferryman and The Cher Show won the Costume Design Tonys.
GeorgeandDot
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/16
#132019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 7:35pmThey won before the broadcast has even started??
#142019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 7:36pmThe Ferryman and Hadestown won the Scenic Design Tonys.
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#152019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 7:37pm
GeorgeandDot said: "They won before the broadcast has even started??"
All of the design categories are being awarded before the telecast.
#162019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 7:39pm
Choir Boy and Hadestown won the Sound Design Tonys.
Congrats to Jessica Paz, the first female Tony winner for sound design!
VotePeron
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/13
#172019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 7:41pm
Hadestown winning scenic design, after there was no doubt in anyone's mind that Beetlejuice would win...sounds like a sweep is a'coming...
#182019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 7:43pm
VotePeron said: "Hadestown winning scenic design, after there was no doubt in anyone's mind that Beetlejuice would win...sounds like a sweep is a'coming..."
Was thinking that. Or, the voters just really didn’t like beetlejuice
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#192019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 7:43pmInk and Hadestown won the Lighting Design Tonys.
Clyde15
Leading Actor Joined: 5/9/15
#222019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 7:47pmWow it really does sound like a sweep is coming! Keep it up Hadestown!
VotePeron
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/13
#232019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 7:48pm
HeyMrMusic said: "Ain’t Too Proud won Choreography."
There goes any doubt that Oklahoma! will lose revival
#242019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 7:50pmSheesh. Since when was choreography relegated to the creative awards pre-broadcast?
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#252019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread
Posted: 6/9/19 at 7:51pm
4 WINS already for HADESTOWN
Scenic Design
Lighting Design
Orchestrations
Sound Design
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