#1
Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:08pm
...will be a first, unlike anything done in the history of the awards show. Any ideas?
Updated On: 6/4/09 at 08:08 PM
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#2
Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:11pm
Nudity?
#3
Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:21pm
it will play to viewers?
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#4
Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:22pm
...presenting the Best Musical award and calling it a night?
...turning the 3-hour long broadcast into a political campaign for gay marriage and ditching the awards altogether?
...Liza Minnelli will wash Barbra Streisand's feet?
...Neil Patrick Harris will chain himself down onto the stage and refuse to leave until Jerry Herman's tribute is put back in the show?
...President Obama will make a cameo?
...Neil Patrick Harris will rise up from the trap door, say "gotcha!" and exit while Hugh Jackman takes over hosing responsibilities?
...will be interrupted by a picture-taker following the offender getting LuPwned live on TV?
...will include a makeout session between Dolly Parton and Elton John?
...turning the 3-hour long broadcast into a political campaign for gay marriage and ditching the awards altogether?
...Liza Minnelli will wash Barbra Streisand's feet?
...Neil Patrick Harris will chain himself down onto the stage and refuse to leave until Jerry Herman's tribute is put back in the show?
...President Obama will make a cameo?
...Neil Patrick Harris will rise up from the trap door, say "gotcha!" and exit while Hugh Jackman takes over hosing responsibilities?
...will be interrupted by a picture-taker following the offender getting LuPwned live on TV?
...will include a makeout session between Dolly Parton and Elton John?
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#5
Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:28pm
It won't suck?
#6
Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:29pm
...will be interrupted by a picture-taker following the offender getting LuPwned live on TV?
I would be entertained by that alone.
I would be entertained by that alone.
#7
Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:53pm
An interview with Neil Patrick Harris also said that he/the show is doing something they've never done before. But he said that he won't be doing magic. Hmm...
~Steven
~Steven
#8
Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:55pm
I wonder what the odds of him singing the Confrontation from Les Miz are.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#9
Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:57pm
.... a medley of songs from musicals that closed after a single performance.
2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)
#10
Posted: 6/4/09 at 9:06pm
...won't actually be unlike anything anyone has seen before and is just something they are saying to get people to actually watch the Tonys?
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#11
Posted: 6/4/09 at 9:07pm
The announcement of the Tale of Two Cities concert cast?
#12
Posted: 6/4/09 at 9:11pm
"The announcement of the Tale of Two Cities concert cast?"
... you would :P
... you would :P
#13
Posted: 6/4/09 at 9:11pm
"...won't actually be unlike anything anyone has seen before and is just something they are saying to get people to actually watch the Tonys?"
But the people who would watch the TONYS to see something unlike anything before are the same dorks (myself included) who would watch the awards regardless.
But the people who would watch the TONYS to see something unlike anything before are the same dorks (myself included) who would watch the awards regardless.
#14
Posted: 6/4/09 at 9:15pm
Perhaps a live performance of Dr. Horrible?
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#15
Posted: 6/4/09 at 9:20pm
Prop 8 The Musical?
#16
Posted: 6/4/09 at 9:25pm
I'm thinking it will be the composers of all of the nominated musicals performing a medley of songs from the nominated musicals...what with Elton and Dolly...
#17
Posted: 6/4/09 at 9:28pm
Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim will sing "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better" and then present the Tony for Best Musical.
Do you know what happens when you let Veal Prince Orloff sit in an oven too long?
#18
Posted: 6/4/09 at 9:28pm
scaryclowns2232: That's what I was thinking as well. Why else would Poison be there?
Your latest 7in sounds obscene unless you spin it at a 45.
Updated On: 6/4/09 at 09:28 PM
#19
Posted: 6/4/09 at 9:41pm
It's some sort of medley (Liza said during the BWW video feature that she'll be performing "The World Goes 'Round" as part of it.)
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#20
Posted: 6/4/09 at 10:07pm
Maybe they'll pull something like one of those YouTube video. A bunch of people randomly dancing in a train station. Kind of what they did with 42ND STREET, but different.
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
#21
Posted: 6/4/09 at 11:18pm
It's going to be a live feed of Neil Patrick Harris' twitter.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#22
Posted: 6/4/09 at 11:54pm
Actually I really hope mirandasings08 is part of the opening act.
#23
Posted: 6/4/09 at 11:58pm
Are we gonna see Neil's Twitter?
He was just brilliant on Letterman's
TopTen about hosting the TONYS.
He was just brilliant on Letterman's
TopTen about hosting the TONYS.
#24
Posted: 6/5/09 at 12:25am
I just spoke to Kate Jennings Grant at the stage door of Guys and Dolls and she said that Craig was doing "Luck Be A Lady" in the opening. Don't know what else it will entail.
#25
Posted: 6/5/09 at 12:41am
So maybe all productions will get a second performance, kind of like the 2005 Tonys.
~Steven
~Steven
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