CBS 365 Gay News On LOGO confirms that the Tony Awards opening number...

[dramadude]

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

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:11pm

Nudity?

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:21pm

it will play to viewers?

[CapnHook]

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?

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:28pm

It won't suck?

[thespian geek]

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.

[HeyMrMusic]

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

[Eris0303]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:55pm

I wonder what the odds of him singing the Confrontation from Les Miz are.

[TimesSquareRegular]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 8:57pm

.... a medley of songs from musicals that closed after a single performance.

[millie_dillmount]

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?

[CyCoSpAz2]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 9:07pm

The announcement of the Tale of Two Cities concert cast?

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 9:11pm

"The announcement of the Tale of Two Cities concert cast?"

... you would :P

[RyToast1]

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.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 9:15pm

Perhaps a live performance of Dr. Horrible?

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 9:20pm

Prop 8 The Musical?

[scaryclowns2232]

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...

[fflagg]

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.

[mariusmyhomeboy]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 9:28pm

scaryclowns2232: That's what I was thinking as well. Why else would Poison be there?

Updated On: 6/4/09 at 09:28 PM

[somethingwicked]

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.)

[theaterkid1015]

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.

[Kad]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 11:18pm

It's going to be a live feed of Neil Patrick Harris' twitter.

[CyCoSpAz2]

Posted: 6/4/09 at 11:54pm

Actually I really hope mirandasings08 is part of the opening act.

[CurtainPullDowner]

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.

[sarbear2]

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.

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 6/5/09 at 12:41am

So maybe all productions will get a second performance, kind of like the 2005 Tonys.

~Steven