2019 Tony Awards Reactions Thread — Page 13

ChildofEarth said: "I saw a news report (CBS) that said ticket sales for Hadestown went up 1,300% ....that’s insane and the best musical title obviously does still mean something no matter what the ratings are."

I figured they’d go up significantly, but that’s a huge increase! I will say that I haven’t seen it yet and wasn’t too sold on the story, but I liked their performance a lot more than I expected. Maybe that changed other people’s minds about the show as well.

I have no interest in seeing Beetlejuice, but their performance was surprisingly funny. The Cher Show, though, was a complete train wreck. I saw Tootsie during the tryout in Chicago in the fall and it was a really enjoyable night at the theater... too bad they couldn’t showcase one of their better numbers, but Santino absolutely deserved the Tony win.

I thought James Corden would be much funnier, but found his whole performance very forgettable and even boring. I just kept thinking that all I really wanted for this Tony Awards was for Audra McDonald to sing.

 

ChildOfEarth, you have badly misquoted the Reuters article. It says:

"Ticket sales for “Hadestown” increased by more than 1,300% on Sunday thanks to the Tony exposure, online booking platform TodayTix.com said." Full Article

That's a 1.3k% increase in TODAYTIX (a third-party ticket broker) sales for Hadestown –– not a 1.3k% increase in its wrap the day after the Tonys. TodayTix might only sell 150 tix to Hadestown on a normal day, which would mean they sold 2,000 today... 

Updated On: 6/11/19 at 01:11 AM

Yes, I'm sure the Tony Award Mr Corden has on his mantle tells him he'll never get a call back.

It took longer than usual to get this year's equivalent to the "WORST TONYS EVER" post, so I'd say this was one of the better broadcasts.  Especially considering every Tonys broadcast is always the worst ever.

and that's STILL damn impressive.  I'm sure that the regular box office also saw a big jump in sales today - the winning musical almost always does!

 

"It took longer than usual to get this year's equivalent to the "WORST TONYS EVER" post, so I'd say this was one of the better broadcasts.  Especially considering every Tonys broadcast is always the worst ever."

I may be wrong (ha ha) but the year "Hamilton" won everything I don't remember many people saying the broadcast was the worst one ever.

Updated On: 6/11/19 at 03:46 PM

dramamama611 said: "Yes, I'm sure the Tony Award Mr Corden has on his mantle tells him he'll never get a call back."

^ This. Exactly!!! 

What really bothered me was the response from stan twitter when Santino won. From "time to take a bathroom break" to "I guess we don't have a best actor this year", it was totally wrong. I even heard that on Instagram people were targeting Santino as well as his pregnant wife who has NOTHING to do with the show, and no matter your opinion on a show, it is NEVER okay to target an actor or their wife. Someone apparently said they hope he gets hit by one of the Hadestown lights. I can't even with how inappropriate they're being. I'm sorry for bring Twitter drama on here, I am, but I thought people should know. 

yankeefan7 said: ""and that's STILL damn impressive. I'm sure that the regular box office also saw a big jump in sales today - the winning musical almost always does!"

In the end, that is the only award that really moves the the box office sales. I don't think any of the other awards really help that much."

I don't know about that...after The Proms performance they apparently sold a lot of tickets! 

 

Can we have a new Tony category for best virtue signalling during the show?