Circle of Life to open Tonys

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Circle of Life to open Tonys#1

Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:18pm

The Lion King to Open the 2008 Tonys with 'Circle of Life' Updated On: 5/29/08 at 06:18 PM

[SirNotAppearing]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#2

Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:19pm

Sources?

EDIT: Wow. That's awful. Updated On: 5/29/08 at 06:19 PM

[Mr Roxy]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#2

Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:21pm

I cannot help thinking of the Forbidden Broadway send up of this. I would love to see that performed.

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[NYCboy2]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#3

Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:23pm

been there! done that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh0n0rtNqBs

[blaxx]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#4

Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:23pm

Eek! Worst choice for an opening EVER.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[RentBoy86]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#5

Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:30pm

So I would imagine that Seasons of Love will end the show?

[James885]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#6

Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:33pm

Wow, I was hoping for something a little more....exciting for the opener this year.

"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

[BustopherPhantom]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#7

Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:38pm

Really? Again?

I guess, in the most positive view, it would be "hearkening back to the days when Richard Kiley would do an encore performance of The Impossible Dream on the Tonycast."

But seriously? They couldn't have done anything else?

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[wonderfulwizard11]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#8

Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:45pm

Blah. Not that the number isn't impressive, but does it have to be the opening number? I'd really prefer to see Whoopi do something.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[scott68]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#9

Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:55pm

I suspect Whoopi will be involved in some way.

"Why, I make more money than... than... than Calvin Coolidge! PUT TOGETHER!"
~Lina Lamont


My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.

[musicandtemiror]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#10

Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:58pm

The Circle of Life with both original and today's cast will be amazing!
Thats what is happening right?

[SirNotAppearing]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#11

Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:58pm

Maybe she'll do the random African chanting.
:)

[blaxx]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#12

Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:00pm

She should be the giraffe.

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

[gonepishing]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#13

Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:00pm

Well this is disappointing.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#14

Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:02pm

it must take someone really special to put on a lame awards show year after year after year after year...

you gotta admire consistency

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

[scott68]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#15

Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:03pm

What better way to make a dramatic entrance than by riding in on an elephant's back?

"Why, I make more money than... than... than Calvin Coolidge! PUT TOGETHER!"
~Lina Lamont


My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.

[defyingravity07]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#16

Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:09pm

it must take someone really special to put on a lame awards show year after year after year after year...

you gotta admire consistency

Hey look on the bright side we could just watch another showing of the Deskies.

[TooDarnHot]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#17

Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:11pm

They should do this but incorporate everyone else...

make Lupone a giraffe. and hold up Cubby Bernstein, at the end, instead of a puppet.


also a CRY-BABY cast member told me they're probably performing the Prison song from Act Two, as their song. just thought I'd share that..

[SirNotAppearing]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#18

Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:13pm

Good. It and Alli Mauzey are the only good things about that show.

[Lavieboheme3090]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#19

Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:14pm

Better Circle of Life than a repeat of what they did for this 60th Tony Awards.

[millie_dillmount]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#20

Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:28pm

I understand they want to keep ratings up, but this is sad. I'd rather see the slots that Rent and Lion King are filling up filled by some of the other shows such as Young Frankenstein, Little Mermaid, and A Catered Affair.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#21

Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:28pm

Zzzzzzzzz...

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[Unknown User]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#22

Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:39pm

You guys give jaded show queens a bad name.

[CapnHook]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#23

Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:52pm

Richard Kiley did an encore of "The Impossible Dream" in the old Tony telecast which was a song from MAN OF LA MANCHA which starred Brian Stokes Mitchell in the latest revival who performed in the benefit concert CHILDREN AND ART in 2005 in which Whoopi Goldberg was also a participant who was the voice of Shenzi the Hyena in the film version of THE LION KING hence the Broadway production of THE LION KING opening the Tony Awards. It goes full circle. Circle of Life.

"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

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Circle of Life to open Tonys#24

Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:52pm

It doesn't say anything about the originak cast of THE LION KING.
DISNEY is greasing somebody's palm.
They have said they will feature other shows besides the nominees, let's see what happens.