Best performance ever at the Tonys? — Page 3

#51

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/29/06 at 1:56pm

Patti LuPone-Anything Goes
Spelling Bee
Wedding Singer
Christina Applegate's Stunt Double for Chairty
Les Miserables
One Night Only-2004 opening

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Updated On: 6/29/06 at 01:56 PM

#52

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/29/06 at 1:58pm

Best performance ever? Easy--it was this year. JLY's acceptance speech.

#53

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/29/06 at 1:58pm

Dorothy Loudon - "Fifty Percent"
Bernadette Peters, Michele Lee - "Ohio" (1975 Tonys)

#54

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/29/06 at 2:02pm

Angela Lansbury doing "The Worst Pies in London" from Sweeney.

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#55

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/29/06 at 2:07pm

It's All Over / And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going

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#56

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/29/06 at 2:11pm

I thoroughly enjoyed the Aspects of Love segment.

#57

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/29/06 at 2:23pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq4uc9b2s1o

dreamgirls

yea... it's a shame this old video tape has more power than anything seen on broadway in a decade.

Updated On: 6/29/06 at 02:23 PM

#58

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/29/06 at 2:37pm

By far Jennifer Holliday in Dreamgirls is the greatest Tony performance I've ever seen.

I also really enjoyed "Easy Street." It shows what a show stopper that number is when it's performed right. Actually, that entire "Annie" medley was pretty great.

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#59

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/29/06 at 2:44pm

The Ragtime performance gives me chills everytime I watch it. Also, the Scarlet Pimpernel performance was great!

#60

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/29/06 at 3:13pm

are there any other links to any other tony performances?

#61

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/29/06 at 3:15pm

Brent Barrett and Michale Jeter performing We`ll Take A Glass from Grand Hotel!!!!

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#62

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/29/06 at 3:36pm

RAGTIME was fantastic.

I'm surprised no one has said HAIRSPRAY. I had never seen the show before, and I thought Radio City was going to explode.

Edit: OOPS! Someone already said "Hairspray" Looks like I can't be original after all.

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Updated On: 6/30/06 at 03:36 PM

#63

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/29/06 at 7:11pm

I would never want to detract from the genius that is Patti LuPone and I love that performance just as much as anybody else, but I think it's only fair to mention that the vocals were prerecorded for that performance. (In those days, I think all of the vocals were prerecorded for the performances...) It's still her, you know she can do it, but today's performers do not have that luxury.

#64

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/29/06 at 7:59pm

I really liked Drowsy Chaperone!

I thought it was really amazing...

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#65

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/29/06 at 10:36pm

I loved Ragtimes performance. That show needs to be revived so I can see the thing as a whole.

#66

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:01am

ALSO! Sit Down You`re Rocking the Boat w/ Guys and Dolls Revival Cast 1992!

WALTER BOBBIE!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#67

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:09am

Now I can add Jersey Boys and The Wedding Singer onto my list. I also love Avenue Q and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels performances.

#68

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:22am

THANK YOU for the YouTube link.

I had goosebumps watching it.

#69

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:22am

The Wedding Singer - Fun, but not the BEST
The Rocky Horror Show - I loved it... it was also good fun
Cabaret - Pretty dang cool

The BEST?

I'm another vote for Bernadette in "Rose's Turn"

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#70

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:22am

i need to see Patti Lupone's performance of A NEW ARGENTINA

#71

re: Best performance ever at the Tonys?

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:38am

^ Then buy the DVD of Broadway's Lost Treastures! I didn't buy it just to find out that some performances were available online...

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