Posted: 6/9/15 at 2:08pm
"It was rather unfortunate that the majority of the scenery for which it won was displayed by the electronic board in radio city."
You do realize that 80% of AAIP's scenery is projections – almost exactly like the "electronic board in radio city" right? In fact, it's a perfect representation of how it actually is like in the Palace.
Still baffled as to how it won scenic design.
Posted: 6/9/15 at 2:10pm
I actually liked Finding Neverland's performance. The song and choreo was really great. I can't wait to see it!
The King and I was the best though
Posted: 6/9/15 at 2:16pm
The Visit should have been nominated for Scenic Design over AAIP as it is a real set as opposed to projections.
Finding was a real dog IMO. King and I is the King & I after all
Exposure, even if you lose , can help. Rotten was helped but AAIP not so much. Many on this board say after seeing it on the Tonys they are questioning whether to see it in person or not.
Saw it on stage and was underwhelmed by it
Updated On: 6/9/15 at 02:16 PM
Posted: 6/9/15 at 2:21pm
me too!! I never really liked the idea of aaip being a broadway musical, but after it was nominated i thought "well i guess i'll see what all the hype is about." But now after seeing the tony performance, I'm not so sure anymore.
Posted: 6/9/15 at 2:23pm
Ring of Keys, followed by On the Town
Posted: 6/9/15 at 3:32pm
""It was rather unfortunate that the majority of the scenery for which it won was displayed by the electronic board in radio city."
You do realize that 80% of AAIP's scenery is projections – almost exactly like the "electronic board in radio city" right? In fact, it's a perfect representation of how it actually is like in the Palace.
Still baffled as to how it won scenic design."
I actually thought Bob Crowley's win for AAIP was one of the 2 or 3 most deserved awards of the night. I was sitting there in awe watching the set painted in, essentially dancing along with the show. I think it was absolutely one of the best set designs I have seen in 50 years of theatre going. Such imagination and so striking in person.
Posted: 6/9/15 at 3:34pm
"Ring of Keys, followed by On the Town"
You got it right
Posted: 6/9/15 at 4:28pm
Fun Home.
Lisa Howard sold the hell out of a rather lousy song (which is basically her job in the show: sell the hell out of lousy material).
I thought Finding Neverland's number was totally baffling. "A Musical" achieved its goal: to be a one-joke Tonys opening number.
Posted: 6/9/15 at 5:24pm
Ring of Keys!
I also really liked the choreo and blocking in On The Town's performance. I thought they made good use of the space.
Posted: 6/9/15 at 5:58pm
To me, the best performance by a landslide was Fun Home. I also loved the Something Rotten performance and thought it was a decent representation of a great performance in a great show.
An American In Paris could have just been the Pas de Deux instead of including S'Wonderful and I Got Rhythm, which are not major songs in the show. If they showed more, it would have been fun to have the Pas de Deux to go in to Stairway To Paradise. Likewise, The Visit should have just done Love And Love Alone.
Tony Yazbeck sounded great, but On The Town was only alright. On The Twentieth Century should have shown more of Kristin. The King and I was a fantastically executed medley. Gigi was fun, It Shoulda Been You was a surprising highlight, and Finding Neverland was just bizarre. No way I could pay full-price to see that mess. Student rush, maybe. josh Groban was alright, and Jersey Boys was a pointless mess.
Still, overall a better telecast than usual.
Posted: 6/9/15 at 7:28pm
Yea Lisa Howard was awesome. I wish I liked the show more though. I thought On the Town's performance was great also. Gigi on the other hand...
Posted: 6/9/15 at 8:42pm
Sydney's "Ring of Keys" no doubt, and THE KING AND I. I keep rewatching both!
Posted: 6/9/15 at 11:44pm
I still wish they had kept the "You didn't notice her at first, but I saw her the MOMENT she walked in. She was a delivery woman, she had a handcart full of packages; she was an old-school butch." line as an intro to Ring of Keys. I like how poetic the lines they used instead were (and a friend of mine told me they were lines from the book, so kudos), but I think it would've made more sense to audiences not familiar with the show to go with the more straightforward line.
I get that they probably couldn't be as straightforward on national television, but...oh well. It was still the best performance of the night.
Posted: 6/9/15 at 11:48pm
The King & I
Fun Home
Posted: 6/10/15 at 1:24am
Posted: 6/10/15 at 1:31am
The performances of FUN HOME, THE KING AND I, ON THE TOWN, and the tribute to Tommy Tune were all wonderful, enjoyed them the most. The only dud to me was FINDING NEVERLAND.
Posted: 6/10/15 at 2:35am
Best- Fun Home, Something Rotten and It Shoulda Been You
Worst- hands down An American In Paris. Soooooo long and boring.
Posted: 6/10/15 at 3:26am
I liked Finding Neverland, even though I think the cuts they had to do to the song changed it in a weird way. I did not like AAIP at all. Haven't seen it, and that performance didn't make me want to. I was pleasantly surprised by It Should Have Been You. I haven't seen it and I don't think I'll get the chance, as it'll probably be closing soon, but Lisa Howard was fierce. Gigi was pointless, On The Town had the cute moment with the audience but I was completely underwhelmed by the show when I saw it.
Fun Home and The King and I were great. Not impressed by Something Rotten, but probably it's because I didn't love the show when I saw it.
Posted: 6/10/15 at 4:03am
God, I wonder what was going through Elizabeth Stanley's mind at this moment.
Posted: 6/10/15 at 8:17am
Sydney Lucas and Ring of Keys
followed by ... nothing. I enjoyed the other performances but wasn't knocked out by any of them. I was surprised at how cold "The King and I" was. I got zero warmth from Kelli and zero chemistry between her an Ken. That is solely based on what they did in front of the cameras for this Tony telecast, but I thought it was as flat as three-day-old soda.
Chenoweth was cute and funny, but again the cast seemed "flat" (lackluster) compared to the original cast performing on the Tonys (Judy Kaye & Co.).
Gigi looked more like "The Night They Invented Cocaine" rather than champaign.
On the Town and An American In Paris had able dancers who seemed to be running through their choreography like a workout video.
... and then there was Sydney Lucas, who acted. And sang. And connected. And blew everyone else away.
Posted: 6/10/15 at 11:33am
"Gigi looked more like "The Night They Invented Cocaine" rather than champaign. "
That^ got a genuine LOL out of me.
Posted: 6/10/15 at 11:37am
"Sydney Lucas and Ring of Keys
followed by ... nothing. I enjoyed the other performances but wasn't knocked out by any of them. I was surprised at how cold "The King and I" was. I got zero warmth from Kelli and zero chemistry between her an Ken. That is solely based on what they did in front of the cameras for this Tony telecast, but I thought it was as flat as three-day-old soda.
Chenoweth was cute and funny, but again the cast seemed "flat" (lackluster) compared to the original cast performing on the Tonys (Judy Kaye & Co.)."
I thought both The King and I and On the Twentieth Century were hurt by the decision to do medleys and what songs were in the medleys. I liked that The King and I featured Ruthie Ann Miles, but going from Getting to Know You to Something Wonderful to Shall We Dance seemed to be an odd decision to me. (But I thought O'Hara was cold in her actual performance at the Beaumont anyway.)
On the Twentieth Century just tried to jam too much in and it didn't pay off.
Posted: 6/10/15 at 1:03pm
"Ring of Keys" (and, although I have qualms about the way I shot, I do love how the other two actors, Malone in particular, helped supply the context for the number and gave a sense of what the show is like, something that amazing song on its own does not do)
