Favorite acceptance speech

#1

Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:29pm

Mine was definitely Lin-Manuel Miranda's!! (: I'm completely in love with him!! (:

I loved all but one of the televised acceptance speeches - I thought Tracy Letts was really obnoxious! (Loved the play, he deserved it, but...)

#2

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:30pm

Rylance.

#3

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:31pm

Laura's. Lin's was a close second.

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#4

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:32pm

Patti's was pretty funny, but my favorites were Anna D. Shapiro and Bartlett Sher.

#5

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:34pm

Patti and Lin-Manuel Miranda hands down!

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#6

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:34pm

Favorite: Lin-Manuel Miranda's, Laura Benanti's, Patti LuPone's.

Worst: Andre Bishop's, might be the most boring acceptance speech I've ever heard.

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#7

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:34pm

Without a doubt, Mark Rylance.

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#8

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:35pm

Lin and Rylance !!!

#9

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:35pm

Anna Shapiro's speech was the best all around. Emotional without being over the top, funny, respectful, and really summed up how she got to where she was. Perfect speech.

Rylance's was notable for being so "him". A great, quirky man.

Miranda's was nice and exuberant.

#10

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:36pm

Patti, Lin, Rylance, and Laura.

#11

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:36pm

i loved Tracy Letts' speech about having Broadway actors in a new American play. i thought that was amazing

#12

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:37pm

lins, and lauras!!!!

lin for popping out the flag

#13

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:38pm

Pattis was excellent for sure.

#14

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:39pm

Rylance's speech can be found in my signature. It's a prose-poem called "the Back Country" by Louis Jenkins.

That said, Lin's was the most spontaneous, heartfelt, and striking. He looked like a deer in the headlights the entire time. That's what I like to see.

#15

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:41pm

Patti, Lin, Rylance, and Laura.

#16

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:42pm

i loved Tracy Letts' speech about having Broadway actors in a new American play. i thought that was amazing

#17

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:48pm

folkyboy, small but important difference. It wasn't "Broadway actors" but "THEATRE actors" -- in this case a group of unknown regional theatre actors as opposed to famous TV, Film, or even Broadway actors.

My favorite? Mark Rylance -- so off the wall.

#18

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:49pm

You think Andre Bishop is bad? Let's just consider ourselves lucky they didn't let Bernie Gersten speak again this year. He comes off as a self-important, 184 year old troll.

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#19

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:50pm

Patti!

#20

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:51pm

Double.

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"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)

Updated On: 6/16/08 at 11:51 PM

#21

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:52pm

Laura's and Mark Rylance's were both amazing. and Patti's would've been the best on its own, but what really killed me were the shots of her husband crying in the audience.

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#22

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:53pm

Mark Rylance.

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Updated On: 6/15/08 at 11:53 PM

#23

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:56pm

Mark Rylance's was just so unique. Thanks yankeefan for the info on where that speech came from.

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#24

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/16/08 at 12:01am

LIN!
Patti was great too.

#25

re: Favorite acceptance speech

Posted: 6/16/08 at 12:02am

Patti, Laura, & Lin!