Can we get a "BOOO" for the tonyawards.com interviewer???

[442namffug]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:28pm

Oh my lord..this guy is terrible. I'm watching the Winner's Circle Video and he has NO knowledge of what they have done (For example, he asked Jerry Mitchell "Oh! Wait...how are you involved with Broadway Bares???!) He has no charisma, the stars hate him, he has no screen presence and he is nervous as hell all the time. PLEASE HIRE SOMEONE NEW NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!!

[rKrispyt]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:36pm

I'm going to throw a 12 year old tantrum right now - it amazes me how unfair life can be - that here we have this thriving community of people who have a strong passion and knowledge of the theatre...and they get some asshat in there doing these interviews and stuff...it just sucks.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:36pm

haha do you have a link? id like to see this.

[Pinguin]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:37pm

awwww...the poor thing. He seemed SO out of his element. They should at least get someone who will be more COMFORTABLE doing the job!

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

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

"I'm going to throw a 12 year old tantrum right now - it amazes me how unfair life can be - that here we have this thriving community of people who have a strong passion and knowledge of the theatre...and they get some asshat in there doing these interviews and stuff...it just sucks. "


agreed. get somebody who has passion and knowledge for it. somebody who asks the things the fans wanna hear and can really get into an interesting question.

[442namffug]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:53pm

the guy looks like he's completely not even paying attention. Like...in Cherry's interview, she goes through the WHOOLLLEE theme of Doubt and discusses it. The guy zones out through her little speech and finally he snaps back into the program at the end and makes up some B.S. answer like "Oh yeah! It's like that in all of your plays!" And Cherry looks at him for 3 seconds with a blank stare and says, "Oh..really? What plays?"...he's a humiliation. Plus, never put a fat man in a tux under lights in hot New York in June...I've seen more of his sweat than is necessary....

"haha do you have a link? id like to see this."
just go to tonyawards.com....it's on the first page like "Winner's Circle" or "See what the Winner's have to say" or something

Updated On: 6/6/05 at 06:53 PM

[broadwaybaby77]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:01pm

Almost the exact same thing happened with those moronic TV Guide Channel people. They asked both David Hyde Pierce and Hank Azaria to name their characters in Spamalot and to say their favorite line. Seriously, they only cared about people on tv or in movies, when many of the nominated talents were kind of blown off.

It ticked me off. It was funny, though, when Harvey Fierstein was mock hitting-on the male interviewer. He was so creeped out; it was like he didn't know that Harvey was kidding.

-Grace

[TVBoy]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:25pm

I didn't get to see the .com video, but I saw parts of the TV Guide Channel's red carpet arrivals. The talent they used was horrible, especially the guy (but at least he kept admitting he didn't know anything about Broadway). Come on, TV Guide could have hired a freelancer just to host that show. Heck, hire an "up and coming" chorus boy to freelance for the arrivals. That way the cable network would be getting someone who is knowledgable (which the stars themselves would appreciate), the audience would be hearing from someone who at least knows what he is talking about, and the freelancer (chorus boy) would get some exposure. It's not that hard.

[decotodd]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:28pm

I had the same revulsion to the TV Guide people. They only seemed to care about household names and the male host even ADMITTED he knew nothing about Broadway and was glad to have the researach person with him. If he knows nothing about theatre, then why in the hell are they having him host the pre-show?!! I couldn't believe it - he wasn't even particularly funny/cute/charming anything that would make the TV Guide folks use him despite his knowledge shortcomings. Dreadful.

[frontrowcentre2]

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

AGREED!

And in addiition to discussing it here we whoudl all be sending letters and e-mails to TV GUIDE and letting them know that this sloppy "journalism" will not be tolerated!

[JudasIscariot]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 8:59pm

"I'd like to congratulate you, David on YOUR 13 TONY nominations.

[itstheM]

Posted: 6/6/05 at 9:04pm

While I really did not like the TV Guide coverage because the only talked to "Hollywood" types except for Norbert, I won't complain. At least people all over the country who get the station were forced to acknowledge Broadway's existence for a few seconds. It's good publicity no matter what it is.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 6/7/05 at 12:53am

And on the tonyawards.com pre-tonys interview, the guy introduced leslie uggams as "a nominee tonight for best actress in a play". she wasn't nominated at all, and i felt bad for her that he put her in that awkward situation. grr!