Final Tony Award Performances Announced

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/93243.html

confused - Spamalot is doing Find Your Grail

as well as

Knights of the Round Table? Playbill says theyre doing learner and loewe's Camelot but bway,com says theire doing a song called "Spamalot" from the Camelot sequence of the show. clarify please

Yankeefan, some shows are performing twice:


Once during the opening montage of all shows produced this year -->

["Like the 2004 Tony Awards telecast, the opening number of the 2005 Tony Awards will feature host Hugh Jackman and cast members from all of the season's nominated shows. The company of Spamalot will offer a portion of the Lerner and Loewe classic Camelot during this number." - Playbill] -->Which probably means the cast of Spamalot will do some riff on something from Camelot.

THEN, the cast of Spamalot will perform "Find yoru Grail" for their actual performance during the show. Hope that helps.

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The opening number looks like it should be interesting...every show is performing in it.

The opening number is going to be awesome!

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I'm mad... I really wanted Matthew Morrison to sing at the Tonys. This stinks

[I had already been in the mindset that Sutton was not going to be singing at the Tony's this year]
~kangaroo

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Seems like pretty good choices from all the nominees. Although I wish Sherie were performing in some way.

This should make all those people happy who were upset that DRS wasn't doing Dirty Rotten Number :0)

I'm SO glad they are having Matt Morrison do something. Although I do think it's a little weird that Spelling Bee is doing the title song twice, albeit different versions.

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HAHAHA, Oh Jwei, I hope so. I forgot how disappointing the performances were last year.

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Hmmm. Well, hey! We get to see more of our favorite shows, at least! I'm highly curious about Spamalot's first number, though... (and very glad to hear they're doing "Grail".. it just works as a standalone without massive editing, which "Knights" would have needed in order to fit the Tonys 4 minute time limit).

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I am confused -- are all new musicals that opened this year participating in the opening medley, or just the 4 nominees? If it's the 4 nominees, it seems a little redundant to have them perform a snippet then a larger portion later.

Also, I really don't understand why Spamalot picked "Find Your Grail." Is the TV audience going to get it? The song is not very funny in itself, only as a parody of "that kind of song," and I think that might be lost on the viewers. There are other songs and scenes that are much funnier, and "The Song That Goes Like This" is a much more obvious parody if they wanted to go that route. I think it was smart to pick a song that prominently featured Sara Ramirez since I think she is going to be their only acting winner, but I would have chosen differently.

Also, I don't think any of the new musicals effed up their song choice last year. Avenue Q's "It Sucks to be Me" came off well. While Caroline or Change and Wicked were less successful, I think the producers were wise to choose the showcase numbers for Tonya and Idina, and they certainly had the potential to have been real showstoppers, although it didn't turn out that way. (I for one would have been disappointed if any other number from either show had been chosen.) The Boy From Oz should have chosen "I Go to Rio," but "Bi-Coastal" COULD have come across well if Sarah Jessica Parker wasn't so uptight.

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Updated On: 5/31/05 at 06:14 PM

I actually like the decisions they made for Spamalot.

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I'm so glad "Spamalot" went with "Find Your Grail." I really wanted Sara to get up there and sing her self silly, and this was a good choice. Good for them! As for last years numbers, I liked all of them.

-Vincent