2025 Tony Awards Reactions Thread — Page 18

kingslim said: "So Audra acted the hell out of the role but her voice did suitthe score or just what we are use too. And Nicole sang beautifully but couldn’t act to save her life. I’m loss and over it lol"

Agreed 100%

I just read this whole thread, I wasn't following it as I was watching and WHEW. This thread is a wild mix of people genuinely commenting on the show and just being downright a**holes to each other

Anyway, here were my general thoughts:
- Loved Cynthia Erivo's opening and closing number. Very well done. Her bits mostly worked too, she was a solid host especially after DeBose's stuff felt so tired last year.

- Best speeches of the night IMO were Celia Keenan Bolger (so heartfelt) and Darren Criss (so well prepared). All the reading off papers and phones - I get it (well, not the phones) - but I never like it as much.

- In Memoriam was beautifully done. Love that they chose "Tomorrow" as the song and Sara and Cynthia were great.

- I did enjoy seeing the Hamilton cast performing again. The mash-up was a little too much IMO but I get they wanted to highlight everyone. It just felt like every time I got into a moment, it abruptly changed.

- I was a little disappointed in the Purpose win only because I want it to be OK for comedic plays to win.

For the show performances, I felt like this was one of the weaker years broadly speaking:
- Death Becomes Her: underwhelming and messy
- Just in Time & Real Women Have Curves: not a great song choice
- Sunset & Gypsy: maybe these work better in context? I am seeing both this summer but haven't seen either yet. They were interesting but also not quite the moments I feel like people thought they'd be
- Dead Outlaw: wild but fun
- Maybe Happy Ending: maybe not the best song choice but I still found it charming
- Pirates & Floyd Collins: meh
- Mincemeat & Buena Vista: both were OK but I haven't seen these shows and this didn't make me change my mind on wanting to see them

Updated On: 6/9/25 at 12:15 AM

Mr. Wormwood said: "
For the show performances, I felt like this was one of the weaker years broadly speaking:
- Death Becomes Her: underwhelming and messy
- Just in Time & Real Women Have Curves: not a great song choice
- Sunset & Gypsy: maybe these work better in context? I am seeing both this summer but haven't seen either yet. They were interesting but also not quite the moments I feel like people thought they'd be
- Dead Outlaw: wild but fun
- Maybe Happy Ending: maybe not the best song choice but I still found it charming
- Pirates & Floyd Collins: meh
- Mincemeat & Buena Vista: both were OK but I haven't seen these shows and this didn't make me change my mind on wanting to see them"

I was fortunate enough to be in the room tonight.  The song choices seemed ... odd, for the most part.

Buena Vista and Just In Time had an electricity to their performances that I don't think would've translated well on television.  (Also, folks were texting me about sound issues?)

Sunset and Gypsy were both incredible, although I don't ever recall Audra belting Rose's Turn like she did during tonight's performance.  Something seemed ... different.  (And I've seen her twice.)

Hamilton was incredible.  Dead Outlaw didn't grab me at the beginning but had me at the end.

What a tough season. 

Mr. Wormwood said: "I just read this whole thread, I wasn't following it as I was watching and WHEW. This thread is a wild mix of people genuinely commenting on the show and just being downright a**holes to each other

That's every thread. "A wild mix of people genuinely commenting on the show and just being downright a**holes to each other" should be BroadwayWorld's tagline.

Updated On: 6/9/25 at 01:04 AM

ElephantLoveMedley said: "I thought Nicole's acting as Norma was as sublime as her singing."

It played better within the context of the script when I say her on stage. You also had to see her performance leading up to the song to appreciate it. Well deserved!

Which & why? Who should have won?

Good overall assessment. I really enjoyed seeing Pirates last week (as did the audience, great energy) so do yourself a favour and check it out and I also enjoyed (in London) Mincemeat. )

Updated On: 6/9/25 at 01:31 AM

For such a strong season, I thought the show was oddly off the entire time. Cynthia acquitted herself well, but none of the performances seemed to fully gel and those LED screens were awful. It all felt rushed and pushed. I can’t quite put my finger on it. 

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