BEST performances by performers at the Tonys!

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:05am

This does NOT include lip-synced performances (i.e. Angela Lansbury - Gypsy).

I choose Hunter Foster's performance of "Run Freedom Run" from URINETOWN, and the same year, Sutton Foster's performance of "Forget About the Boy" from THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE.

Bro & Sis should have BOTH won Tonys that year.

Updated On: 12/26/05 at 12:05 AM

[musicalsaregreat]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:12am

Brent Carver and Carolee Carmello performing "This is Not Over Yet" from Parade.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:18am

Bernadette Peters' ROSES TURN may have been the best performance at the Tonys ever. She was large and looming like the monster Mama Rose is while also managing to be delicate and fragile. She brought so much depth into her three minute song that it's literally unfathomable. And she got a standing O. To get a standing O for a performance at the Tony awards is quite astonishing. She totally and undeniably deserved it. She was phenomenally engrossing.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:27am

OK honey, we get it, you can use adjectives.

[alwy15]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:43am

my favorite is dorothy loudon from the 1984 tony awards performing broadway baby. it was fantastic. so lively, so much fun.

[iliketheater]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:43am

lol, Wanna Be A Foster

[soulman83]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:53am

Jennifer Holliday and the cast of Dreamgirls performing "It's all over" and "and i am telling you i'm not going" duh! amazing! and recently i saw the 1995 tonys and watched Matthew broderick and Lillias White KICK BUTT in BROTHERHOOD OF MAN!! OMG LILLIAS WAS AMAZING!!!!!!!

[jonartdesigns]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 1:07am

hairspray
avenue q- (the censor bar over kate's mouth still makes me laugh)
spamalot
drs (even if greg and john were overglorified set pieces)

p.s. if anyone can get the h2$ video clip online please post it or pm me

[Jazzysuite82]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 1:19am

I second the Bernedette Rose's Turn. It was thrilling.

[Kringas]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 1:27am

Add me to the Dreamgirls list. That was a truly amazing performance.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 1:54am

seeing Kelli and Vicki in the Piazza "skit" made me REALLY want to see the show. by the way, has anyone ever noticed how gorgeous Kelli is on camera?? wow..

[FosseBoi]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 2:15am

Does anyone have Bernedettes clip? I you do, please PM me!

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 2:19am

Anyone interested should rent or buy Broadway's Lost Treasures. There are 3 installments. I think Debbie Allen in WSS was phenomenal. So many good ones, though.

[gumbo2]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 5:06am

I haven't watched a lot of Tony's but Norbert's performance was great this year.

[jimmirae]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 8:43am

Mine was Chita doing "Where You Are" from "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (in the white suit!)

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 9:52am

i was also going to say "run freedom run!" it was really great.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 9:56am

Brent Barrett, Michael Jeter and the ensemble from GRAND HOTEL doing "We'll Take a Glass Together".

[lildogs]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 10:06am

You can add me onto the Brotherhood of Man fans--simply terrific and I'll also go and pick Maggie Smith from Lettice and Lovage for back in ye olde days when they still did play scenes.

[Kgshrauder]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 10:11am

I like Norbert's preformance too. I also liked the Spelling Bee this year, how they used Al Sharpton, that was hysterical.

[freeadmission]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 10:13am

If anyone has a . . . you know. . . legal . . . clip of the TMM, Urinetown, or Parade performances, I would be forever in your debt if you could send it/them to me.

[James2]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 10:15am

My favorites:
"Let It Go" - The Full Monty
"Along Came Bialy/Act One Finale" - The Producers
Richard Rodgers Tribute - 2002
"Into the Woods Medley" - Into the Woods (2002)
Medley of New York Songs - 2002 (one of Gregory Hines' last appearances)
"Run, Freedom, Run" - Urinetown
Billy Joel/Movin Out Medley - 2003
"You Can't Stop the Beat" - Hairspray
"Rose's Turn" - Gypsy (2003)
"The Impossible Dream" - Man of La Mancha (2003)
"One Night Only" - 2004
"Tradition/Wedding Dance" - Fiddler on the Roof (2004)
Tony Bennett's "Lullaby of Broadway" - 2004
"Everybody's Got the Right" - Assassins
"It Sucks to Be Me" - Avenue Q
"Not the Boy Next Door" - The Boy From Oz
Medley of Best Musical Nominees - 2005
"Great Big Stuff" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Statues and Stories" - The Light in the Piazza
"The 25th...Spelling Bee/Prayer of the Comfort Counselor" - Spelling Bee
""Find Your Grail" - Monty Python's Spamalot

[Nothatsmrt]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 10:17am

I'll never forget watching the Tonys in '94. I was an 8th grader recently bitten by the bug, and the Lincoln Center revival of Carousel, among others, was nominated. Hearing Shirley Verrett sing "You'll Never Walk Alone" was absolutely incredible. I also fell in love with Boyd Gaines, who won Best Actor, singing "She Loves Me". '94 was a great year to discover Broadway...Damn Yankees, Carousel, Passion, She Loves Me...

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 10:18am

jerry orbach "She Likes Basketball" from PROMISES PROMISES. no, i am not that old, i saw it on a video and he was very very special.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 10:21am

Here are my all-time favorites (so far)... (not in any order):

Dreamgirls (cast)
Rose's Turn (Peters)
Impossible Dream (both Kiley AND Stokes)
Forget About the Boy (Mille cast)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (cast)
Once on this Island (cast)
Secret Garden (cast)
We'll Take a Glass Together (Grand Hotel cast)

And I will NEVER forget Maggie Smith and Margaret Tyzak (sp?) in Lettice and Lovage (play). That was absolute Nirvana.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 10:23am

Garland Grrrl --- Orbach's performance was special, but unfortunately so was his key. And it wasn't the same as the orchestra's. I can't watch it anymore for that reason, charming as he is.