Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with "I'M STILL HERE"
Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with "I'M STILL HERE"
#1Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with "I'M STILL HERE"
Posted: 5/25/07 at 11:40am
The producers say they want to open the show with a recognizable song, and CBS wants more production numbers. Let the shafted and brilliant Donna Murphy, Michael Cerveris, and just shafted Laura Bell Bundy open the show with a stiring rendition of "I'M STILL HERE" from "Follies." It'll never happen, but it will give everyone to opprotunity to see these 3 talents perform, and by god all three of them could probably do a verse justice much better than Christine Biranski did this entire song a few months back.
Like I said, will never happen, but I thought LB & LM performing at this years telecast was such a good idea, it will be ashame if these 3 don't get to do anything but just sit their and watch a clip from their show. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it'll be the frist time Donna has been nominated and won't get to perform a number from the show she was in. Grrrr. Politics!
#2re: Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with 'I'M STILL HERE'
Posted: 5/25/07 at 11:42am
You're right, LaCage, it's the first time Donna is nominated and will not get to perform in the ceremony. Though the short boring THE KING & I performance they did at the Tonys hardly counts.
About "I'm Still Here"...where has Laura Bell Bundy been?
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Updated On: 5/25/07 at 11:42 AM
#2re: Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with 'I'M STILL HERE'
Posted: 5/25/07 at 11:46amLaCage, I would say that I think you're hilarious and so funny but I'd be lying through my teeth.
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#3re: Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with 'I'M STILL HERE'
Posted: 5/25/07 at 11:46am
Frankly, if the Pirate Queen hasn't posted a closing notice by Tony time, I think the cast should do a rousing rendition of "I'm Still Here" set to Irish step dance. LOL. Kidding kidding. Don't shoot me. 
#4re: Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with 'I'M STILL HERE'
Posted: 5/25/07 at 11:50am
Munk, we've never found humor in the same things, I wouldn't expect you too find this funny either.
Ray, yes the KING & I performance was indeen truncated, but I'd take a good musical like K&I over some of the garbage we get today for Broadway fare.
#5re: Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with 'I'M STILL HERE'
Posted: 5/25/07 at 12:52pmOut of those three, the right person to sing that song would be Donna.
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#6re: Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with 'I'M STILL HERE'
Posted: 5/25/07 at 12:58pm
The producers say they want to open the show with a recognizable song
Recognizable to whom? Unless they mean the diehard theatre aficiandos (the ones who already watch the show), I hardly think "I'm Still Here" is considered all the recgonizable.
Plus the lyrics would make zero sense with those three people singing them just to be singing the song on the Tonys.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#7re: Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with 'I'M STILL HERE'
Posted: 5/25/07 at 1:01pmYeah, Kringas, I agree. I still don't really get the mindset behind this thread.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
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BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#8re: Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with 'I'M STILL HERE'
Posted: 5/25/07 at 1:05pm
Yeah, I want to see Laura Bell Bundy sing "I've lived through Brenda Frazier and I'm here."
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#9re: Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with 'I'M STILL HERE'
Posted: 5/25/07 at 1:09pmUnless they have a bunch of people singing "We're Still Here", referring to the fact that the Tonys are STILL on TV despite the pathetically low number of viewers.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#10re: Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with 'I'M STILL HERE'
Posted: 5/25/07 at 1:52pmNow you're on to something!
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#11re: Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with 'I'M STILL HERE'
Posted: 5/25/07 at 2:06pm
I agree with anyone who said it would no sense, except maybe for Donna, but even she would be stretching it, if you know what I mean.
But.. "About "I'm Still Here"...where has Laura Bell Bundy been?"
- Hahah Someone's been watching the Elaine Stritch DVD....
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#12re: Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with 'I'M STILL HERE'
Posted: 5/25/07 at 3:36pm
LOL, you caught me Rockabye 
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
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#13re: Donna, Michael, and Laura need to open the Tony's with 'I'M STILL HERE'
Posted: 5/25/07 at 3:55pm
"I've been through Michael Riedel and I'm here..."
Hmm.
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