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Aretha at the Tonys

Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:03pm

Does anyone agree with me that Aretha was horrible at the Tonys last night? And does anybody know what happened to her incredible voice? I wonder is 40 years of belting out crazy high notes had anything to do with it.

Updated On: 6/6/05 at 07:03 PM

re: Aretha at the Tonys

Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:08pm

Wait, Aretha performed???

I was informed that Jabba the Hut, her standby did...

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:11pm

OK thesbijean, that was just WRONG!!!!

Give me a moment to stop laughing now.

Ok.

That said.....it was indeed a low point of the award ceremony. Were they even attempting be be "dueting"? It appeared to me that each singer was following their own timing!

"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."

re: Aretha at the Tonys

Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:12pm

SHE WAS HORRIBLE!!!! ick i erased that part of the tape!

re: Aretha at the Tonys

Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:13pm

I would like to see her & Jackman do a revival of WSS with him as Tony & her as Maria

I am all for alternate casting

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re: Aretha at the Tonys

Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:13pm

She'll never work again in this town!

re: Aretha at the Tonys

Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:15pm

I used that point in the show to go take a piss.

re: Aretha at the Tonys

Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:17pm

Hahahaha

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:17pm

I was there and cringed at every last note. They were both pretty bad but her screeching was intolerable. yikes. My friend made a funny but horribly wrong joke about her... I dunno if Ill offend anyone if I post it though (had to do with her size these days)

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#10

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:18pm

it was horrible.....she didn't seem to care that she wasn't blending or even going at the same time as him. I felt bad for Hugh.

#11

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:45pm

Oh, give the girl a chance. Let her do Evillene in The Wiz revival.

#12

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:47pm

Cmon she wasnt that bad. I mean, you have to admire her because among many things, shes Aretha Franklin dammit.

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:56pm

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#14

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:59pm

Aretha as Ursula??????

#15

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 8:00pm

hmm cuz FOR GOOD and that actress have EVERYTHING to do with aretha franklin sucking royaly last night?

(btw... it was said that it took more gold to make her dress last night than it did to decorate Trumps house... i thought it was so wrong it was funny... sorry if it offends).

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#16

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 8:49pm

I thought it looked rather like she decided to wear the Egyptian shower curtain from a Target themed bathroom set (the other parts, of course, being soap dishes that look like "Egyptian" hands and a toothbrush holder shaped like King Tut's head).

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#17

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 8:50pm

I agree, she really did not sound very good last night.

"You alone can make my song take flight, it's over now, the Music of the Night!!!!!"

#18

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 8:52pm

But some people can be excused once in a while.

Because she's Aretha Franklin. Come now.

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#19

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 8:55pm

My dad compared her to a dying cat.

It's really sad. I was expecting something great. I did not recieve something even remotely good. Aretha's voice has not held up.

I wonder... Why didn't they get someone younger? Mariah Carey could have sung that wonderfully. She just released a major album. She would bring in viewers. It could ruin her "street cred" though. Whatever. Beyonce should have done it. Aretha was just .. so... BAD!

#20

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 8:57pm

NO MORE BEYONCE

#21

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 9:06pm

I can't believe that Aretha was so bad. That has to be one of the worst performances in Tony history. Why did it seem like Hugh Jackman and Arethea were in a competion. It was like she was trying to outsing him and he trying to to do the same with her. Now if they wanted to go for old school Divas they could've gotten maybe Patti Labelle, or even better my all time favorite Miss Diana Ross. Diana would've been perfect. I have heard her do a perfect rendition of Somewhere when she was with The Supremes.

#22

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 9:14pm

No please God NO MORE BEYONCE!

#23

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 9:44pm

I agree, but she would have been better than Aretha. She could have done it in Italian! That would go with the whole Tuscan Piazza theme. Right?

#24

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 9:48pm

i don't blame her. whoever selected her and that song had a screw loose. hugh (or any number of b'way performers) could have sung a lovely solo.

RIP glebby <3

Updated On: 6/6/05 at 09:48 PM

#25

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Posted: 6/6/05 at 10:00pm

Hugh was wrong for that song. His voice is too broad. Kelli O'Hara would have sounded gorgeous singing that song.

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