#26
Posted: 6/13/11 at 2:15am
My gay dog tied a rope around his neck and jumped off the couch after it aired.
5 Minutes into the Tony's... Worst Opening Ever!!! — Page 2
#27
Posted: 6/13/11 at 2:16am
Ended up loving the open -- dicey at first, thought it might be offensive.... 'til I remembered that you can take the gay out of Broadway like you can take the red out of pink.
NPH is a delight.
NPH is a delight.
#28
Posted: 6/13/11 at 2:57am
Our group found it hilarious, and a fun opening - Broadway poking fun at itself. It didn't have much to do with the current season, but I felt more of tat tongue-in-cheek humour might have worked as a running gag in the program.
Anyone else suspect that the OP (Jen) wanted to be the first to trash it on BWW?
Anyone else suspect that the OP (Jen) wanted to be the first to trash it on BWW?
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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#29
Posted: 6/13/11 at 7:53am
with the NBA FINALS on tv at the same tme, NPH was talking to us...the broadway fans...the gays and jews and women who make up the majority of broadway fanatics...trust me on this one...:)
#30
Posted: 6/13/11 at 7:59am
I'm pissed because I don't want to share Broadway with straight people! It's the province of gays. It belongs to us!
....but the world goes 'round
#31
Posted: 6/13/11 at 8:04am
Everyone in our house loved it. Do we know who wrote it? I'd guess Shaiman.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#32
Posted: 6/13/11 at 8:20am
I found it to be refreshing, on the edge and extremely funny. I also thought it the best Tony telecast in years even though the outcome was known beforehand. For me the only dead spot was Bono and The Edge leading up to a Spiderman number when the energy and fun stopped. Thank God it was mercifully short.
#33
Posted: 6/13/11 at 8:30am
Jordan... sorry about your dog
backwoodsbarbie...i agree, i still love that 2009 opening, it did give me chills, but i am a HAIR fanatic
this opening..i did love it, i must say! loved the lyrics and enjoyed the spin. the only slight backlash i have heard (and expected) was that the sodomy line went too far...pfffffffft! it was all in good fun.
backwoodsbarbie...i agree, i still love that 2009 opening, it did give me chills, but i am a HAIR fanatic
this opening..i did love it, i must say! loved the lyrics and enjoyed the spin. the only slight backlash i have heard (and expected) was that the sodomy line went too far...pfffffffft! it was all in good fun.
"it's a dirty little war"
#34
Posted: 6/13/11 at 8:31am
You know the worst thing about any Tony ceremony in my memory? The female who does the voice-overs. She is so dull. She sounds like she is back announcing the playlist on a easy listening FM radio station.Get rid of her.
#35
Posted: 6/13/11 at 8:34am
LOVED the opening. The guests just added to the fun, and Brooke Shields was HYSTERICAL! What a mess. Was she drunk?
#36
Posted: 6/13/11 at 8:37am
I thought this was one of the best Tony show openings ever.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#37
Posted: 6/13/11 at 8:56am
I thought it was great! The Tony Awards now holds the responsibility of being true to Broadway while trying to expand its audience, and the opening number helped do that.
Jealous? I ain't jealous. I can take on these fellas whateva.
#38
Posted: 6/13/11 at 9:11am
Great opening - great show.
Jennafan ... no taste.
Jennafan ... no taste.
#39
Posted: 6/13/11 at 9:15am
Jennafan's made some homophobic remarks in the past. I imagine that's the source of the objection to the opening.
I thought it was great.
I thought it was great.
#40
Posted: 6/13/11 at 9:18am
I liked it a lot. It was cute, different, and funny.
#41
Posted: 6/13/11 at 9:19am
I hate to say it, but I know of a lot of channels that were changed after that opening number (mine wasn't one of them).
#42
Posted: 6/13/11 at 9:26am
I thought it was fun and it was nice to feel included.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#43
Posted: 6/13/11 at 9:28am
I liked it. It was energetic though faltered with Brooke Shields.
#44
Posted: 6/13/11 at 9:52am
Marc Shaiman had nothing to do with the opening.
"Neil Patrick Harris is doing great original numbers tonight at The Tonys. Scott and I did not write either of them. So, no "you guys clearly wrote those!" messages need apply."
And still, there are a pile of congratulations posts on his Facebook wall...
"Neil Patrick Harris is doing great original numbers tonight at The Tonys. Scott and I did not write either of them. So, no "you guys clearly wrote those!" messages need apply."
And still, there are a pile of congratulations posts on his Facebook wall...
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
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Updated On: 6/13/11 at 09:52 AM
#45
Posted: 6/13/11 at 9:59am
Loved it.
#46
Posted: 6/13/11 at 10:01am
It was not by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman this year. I was told it was by David Javerbaum.
#47
Posted: 6/13/11 at 10:53am
I thought it was great too. And overall one of the more enjoyable Tony broadcasts in recent memory.
"(I actually thought it was funny and made me think of the year Marc Shaiman kissed Scott Wittman when they accepted for Hairspray and Roxy said TVs all across the country shut off at that moment and people were turned off from buying tickets to Broadway.)"
Didn't Kander and Ebb say the same thing?
"(I actually thought it was funny and made me think of the year Marc Shaiman kissed Scott Wittman when they accepted for Hairspray and Roxy said TVs all across the country shut off at that moment and people were turned off from buying tickets to Broadway.)"
Didn't Kander and Ebb say the same thing?
#48
Posted: 6/13/11 at 11:07am
I have been a Broadway lover for years.
and I had not realized i was gay until i heard this number.
I found it kind of devastating.
While I am not hanging from a rope (as someone's dog)
I have now called a therapist.
"I too do no want to share broadway with the heteros"
I totally relate to that
and I had not realized i was gay until i heard this number.
I found it kind of devastating.
While I am not hanging from a rope (as someone's dog)
I have now called a therapist.
"I too do no want to share broadway with the heteros"
I totally relate to that
#49
Posted: 6/13/11 at 11:55am
PalJoey is correct as to one of the authors of the opening number.
Nope - Not Shaiman!
Nope - Not Shaiman!
#50
Posted: 6/13/11 at 6:51pm
Reginald Tresilian,
You need to take back your comment because I have NEVER made a homophobe remark EVER. I support gays. You have turned it around that because I didn't like a song that talks about straight people liking theatre too that it was a homophobe remark.
REALLY dude?? Come on now...
If you liked the performance, great!! But, do NOT call me a homophobe AT ALL you @sshole! What a PRICK you are.
You need to take back your comment because I have NEVER made a homophobe remark EVER. I support gays. You have turned it around that because I didn't like a song that talks about straight people liking theatre too that it was a homophobe remark.
REALLY dude?? Come on now...
If you liked the performance, great!! But, do NOT call me a homophobe AT ALL you @sshole! What a PRICK you are.
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