Favorite Moment from Tonys
Favorite Moment from Tonys
#0Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 8:14pmWhat was your favorite moment from the Tonys last night, for me it was either the performace from The Color Purple or Threepenny Opera
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GodIHopeIGetIt
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#1re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 8:38pm
There wasn't much that I found that great (horrible year), but I thought the Jersey Boys number was good. My favorite part out of it all was the Chorus Line commercial. 
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#3re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 8:43pm
When:
-LaChanze won
-The Color Purple performance
-Paul Rudd. Isn't that a bit sad that my favorite part about the Tonys was a presenter who was on for one minute?
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neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#4re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 8:44pmJersey Boys performance, I don't know why, but for some reason that was the highlight.
BWAYROCKS
Chorus Member Joined: 6/4/03
#5re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 8:48pm
I really, really enjoyed the performance from THE DROWSY CHAPERONE. It was fun, upbeat, Sutton was amazing as always, and it made me really want to see the show!
And I'm STILL wondering how she got changed SO quickly when the big umbrella went in front of her...talk about quick changes!
GodIHopeIGetIt
Stand-by Joined: 6/12/06
#6re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 8:48pmJersey Boys was definitely the best performance of the evening, yes.
shesamarshmallow
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/06
#7re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 8:49pmStephen Lynch looking so happy while performing. It was so cute, he looked just too happy to be there!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/06
#8re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 8:50pm
When Young and Hoff made their speeches.
I wanted to cry, Hoff made a shoutout to his baby! That was adorable.
#9re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 8:51pmHank Azaria and Oliver Platt
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#10re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 8:52pmPatti's face when they panned to her. It looked to me like a "screw you all" face. I loved it.
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#11re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 8:53pm
Rudd was hilarious. That was a nice little change from the subtle evening thus far.
I'm biased but I thought the Threepenny performance was good - a bit watered down for tv - but still worthy :) And The Wedding Singer - I haven't seen it but it was really intriguing to me from that little part - it was so energetic and Lynch and one of my favs, Cahoon, looked like they were having a brilliant time!
And how does Sutton do that 2 second costume change behind the umbrella?!
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
Villiy
Chorus Member Joined: 5/8/06
#12re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 8:55pm
I loved the Drowsy Chaperone and Sweeney Todd performances.
Seeing Beth Leavel win was also great.
Updated On: 6/12/06 at 08:55 PM
mijofly19
Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/05
#13re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 8:55pm
The Wedding Singer and Jersey Boys performances.
Christian and JLY's speeches.
LaChanze's stunned look at the audience when she was on stage.
show2n2
Featured Actor Joined: 12/22/04
#14re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 9:00pm
Tough this year, so most of mine are small moments that you might have missed if you blinked:
The very end of The Color Purple presentation when the camera catches Elisabeth Withers-Mendes raising her arms up as if to set the music free. She was totally feelin' that moment.
Sutton Foster giving the #1 sign just as she hits her slits in the DC performance. That performance rocked.
The perfect clip of Jennifer Holiday singing And I'm Tellin' You... That Face at the end knocks me out everytime.
John Lloyd Young getting caught by his emotions during his speech...very touching. I can only imagine the story behind that relationship. His father must have been blown away.
Patricia Neal's face when suprised w/a replacement Tony. Amazing.
The Look on Oprah's Face as the "Stars" rose out of the stage floor. She smiles then looks over at Julia Roberts who is managing a smile. I think the lift must have shaken one or both of them :)
The camera catching Patti LuPone dancing to Connick's opening number. The rest of the group was pretty stoic, but she rocked out and the camera caught it.
Audra McDonald having a moment with Sara Ramirez during the opening number... oh to have a live mic on them.
Interesting year. :)
Updated On: 6/12/06 at 09:00 PM
#15re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 9:06pmMs Ebersole's puppet comment. Priceless!
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wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#16re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 9:57pm
La Chanze winning 
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#17re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 10:02pm
Hal Prince's tribute....
LOL
but on the good side:
-Jersey Boys performance
Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat...
(The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)
tabbynyc
Stand-by Joined: 4/3/06
#18re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 10:08pmThe look on the faces of Christian Hoff and LaChanze when they were announced winners!! Priceless!!
#19re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 10:08pm
The Wedding Singer's performance (suprisingly), LaChanze's win, and the Dreamgirls commercial.
Honorable mention to The Pajama Game and The Drowsy Chaperone's performances.
luvwicked
Understudy Joined: 7/29/05
#20re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 10:10pm
Hal Price's tribute kind of made me tear up. PHANTOM OF THE OPERA was my first show. *TEAR*
Anyway, I'm glad to see THIS thread. FINALLY, someone started a POSITIVE Tonys thread! WOO-HOO! There IS good in the world!
Favorite moments:
Cyndi and Alan being sexy in THREEPENNY
LaChanze being genuinely surprised and happy in her acceptance speech
Christine Ebersole's puppet joke (I usually don't care for her, but last night changed all that)
John Lloyd Young/Christian Hoff - 'nough said
JULIE ANDREWS (but her dress was less-than-good - not that I focused on it too much)
JERSEY BOYS and WEDDING SINGER performances - so much energy there!
There are others. It was a good year. And the first time I ever went to a "Tony Party" (I usually watch it alone or with one or two family members, if they care to join me). It's good to have other people around when you're literally hooting and hollering at the TV. It made me feel less dumb.
And on that note...
Chris
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#21re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 10:14pm
the Jersey Boys performance
the Wedding Singer performance
Christine Ebersole's puppet comment
Patti dancing to the opening number music
seeing Beth Leavel win
the flashback video with Daisy Eagan's speech and One Day More
What the puck?!
Rentaholic2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/14/04
#22re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 10:19pm
"The perfect clip of Jennifer Holiday singing And I'm Tellin' You... That Face at the end knocks me out everytime."
Is this referring to the brief clip of a large black woman holding out a note till her eyes almost popped out and then taking a very loud breath before the last 'me'?
Sorry if that's a naive question, but I don't know what Jennifer Holiday looks like--if that's not her, who was that and what show? I loved it!
JustChillin8908
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/31/06
#23re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 10:19pm
The Wedding Singer performance, and the Dreamgirls trailer (I think I've re-watched this more than anything else).
I guess I was the only one who didn't enjoy the Jersey Boys performance... I guess it just wasn't my kind of music.
Also it looked the the umbrella in the DC performance had some kind of pouch in it, so I assume the the dress was designed to be taken off easily and slipped into the pouch in the umbrella.
#24re: Favorite Moment from Tonys
Posted: 6/12/06 at 10:21pmWhen TR Knight came on with Sara Ramirez to present the award for best featured actress in a musical. And when the credits started rolling cos other than that it was a dismal show.
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