Favorite TONY acceptance speeches- Page 2

[AndAllThatJazz22]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#25

Posted: 8/11/09 at 11:12am

I LOVED Patti's "SHUT UP IT'S BEEN 29 YEARS!!!!!!!"

"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

[PalJoey]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#26

Posted: 8/11/09 at 11:15am

Stephen Sondheim's first time winning, 1971.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fGIhWmVn9A

[givesmevoice]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#27

Posted: 8/11/09 at 11:43am

this is a thread I have to keep returning to! I keep thinking of more things to say.

re: Patti's speech. I know it sounds creepy, but one of my favorite parts of her speech was actually the shot of her husband crying. I also loved her gasping, overwhelmed speech when she won her Tony for Evita.

Alice Ripley's speech wasn't my favorite, but more because she was a little too shouty for me. I thought the core message of her speech was wonderful though.

I also have to agree with Lin-Manuel Miranda. he's adorable and charming and it was so nice that he tipped his hat to Sondheim.

and Angela Lansbury is just class. her Tony speech for when she won for Gypsy was elegant as well.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#28

Posted: 8/11/09 at 12:04pm

Daisy Eagan
Michael Jeter
Marc Shaiman and Scott Whittman

[CSonBroadway]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#29

Posted: 8/11/09 at 12:16pm

Watching Angela win her Tony this year made me smile. When she was laughing in the beginning and was so shocked.

It was so sweet.

I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&. "Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."

[roseaddams]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#30

Posted: 8/11/09 at 12:37pm

I second Mark Rylance (the one shot of Mary McCormack in open-mouthed confusion and wonder is worth the price of admission =D) and Mary-Louise Wilson.

"You mean what was the best picture of the year or what did they pick as the best picture of the year?" - California Suite

[musikman]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#31

Posted: 8/11/09 at 1:00pm

I'm with Curtain on this one.

Daisy Eagen and Michael Jeter have two of the most memorable speeches.

-There's the muddle in the middle. There's the puddle where the poodle did the piddle."

Updated On: 8/11/09 at 01:00 PM

[Renart]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#32

Posted: 8/11/09 at 1:27pm

Tom Murphy winning for The Beauty Queen of Leenane when he thanked Martin McDonough for writing a fecking good play.

Then there's John Napier's strange speech where he complained that he was not nominated for Starlight Express.

[ColorTheHours048]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#33

Posted: 8/11/09 at 2:22pm

Julie White for THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED.

"You Tony voters! What a bunch of wacky, crazy kids!"

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#34

Posted: 8/11/09 at 2:35pm

Karen Olivo- I'm not sure if I liked her speech as much as I was just SO happy that she won. But I did go back and watch it and I loved it!

Gavin Creel- He didn't win but his would be amazing!

Lin Manuel Miranda- Hilarious.

Mark Rylance- Probably the best speech I have ever heard.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#35

Posted: 8/11/09 at 2:41pm

"Gavin Creel- He didn't win but his would be amazing! "
BAHAHAHAHA! That was hilarious, Chita. I'll add Raul Esparza and Sherrie Rene Scott to that list as well.

"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#36

Posted: 8/11/09 at 2:52pm

"Gavin Creel- He didn't win but his would be amazing!
BAHAHAHAHA! That was hilarious, Chita. I'll add Raul Esparza and Sherrie Rene Scott to that list as well."

Haha, thank you. Our dreams would come true! Imagine if Gavin, Raul, Sherrie, and Karen all had Tonys?

[AndAllThatJazz22]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#37

Posted: 8/11/09 at 2:56pm

Raul Esparza is already a Tony Award Winner...in my mind.

"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#38

Posted: 8/11/09 at 3:18pm

Michael Jeter's for 'Grand Hotel'

Wow, I just watched this. Beautiful speech! It made me tear up.

[givesmevoice]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#39

Posted: 8/11/09 at 3:23pm

Michael Jeter's is also one of my favorite Tony performances.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[Elphaba43]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#40

Posted: 8/11/09 at 3:26pm

Alice Ripley's speech was very heartwarming and very passionate. Anika Noni Rose also got me all teared up. Ditto for Audra McDonald.

I am a bagel on a plateful of onion rolls. If you know what I'm talking about, good. If you don't, you're on your own!

[jv92]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#41

Posted: 8/11/09 at 3:46pm

"But, Sondheim's acceptance speech for his second Tony will always make me smile."

Are you talking about when he won Best Lyrics in 1971 (technically his second) or when he won for Follies in 1972?

[Lamc16]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#42

Posted: 8/11/09 at 3:49pm

Bill Irwin. Beautiful, humble, and *succinct.*

"You've gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are."

[Elke]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#43

Posted: 8/11/09 at 3:50pm

I loved Paulo Szot's speech. The man had just received a Tony Award and he says: "Wow, this is unbelievable. Liza Minnelli, wow!"

Of course also Lin-Manuel Miranda's rap, Hugh Jackman practically tearing up and I thought Marcia Gay Harden's was very classy and funny as well.

[RevolutionaryCostume]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#44

Posted: 8/11/09 at 3:54pm

Mary-Louise Wilson for "Grey Gardens."

-Jacob.

[Marianne2]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#45

Posted: 8/11/09 at 4:02pm

Sara Ramirez-Cute and funny.

"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005 "You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy. Ignored Users: suestorm, N2N Nate., Owen22, master bates

[Theatreboy49]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#46

Posted: 8/11/09 at 4:06pm

as already mentioned i loved jeters, Lin manuels, Pattis etc. Those are all great Tony moments. My favorite is defintily when Sondheim won the second tony for company and just walked on stage and goes "its even nicer to win 2".

<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado

[singtopher]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#47

Posted: 8/11/09 at 5:04pm

I really enjoyed Christian Hoff's because he was just so taken aback when he won. So nice to see a man's man weep.

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert

[born2bebroadway]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#48

Posted: 8/11/09 at 5:26pm

Hands down Lin Manuel Miranda and Mark Rylance!!

[singtopher]

re: Favorite TONY acceptance speeches#49

Posted: 8/11/09 at 5:36pm

Not the Tonys, but still the best.

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert