How to make the Tony Awards better next year
How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#0How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:30pmCarol Channing as host.
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#1re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:31pm
equal time for plays
each freaking musical gets to do a whole number or medley
let's show more than a :30 clip with no context for the plays!
Pinky
Broadway Star Joined: 3/31/04
#2re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:33pm
I agree with zzannahk....plays need some love too!
Next year needs a MUCH better opening!!!!
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#3re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:38pmIt's always hard to get a clip from the plays. The songs in a musical can stand alone, but it's much harder for a clip from a play.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#4re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:39pmI can see Ashley Brown fly to the stage as an opening number.
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:40pm
oh YEAH! MORE still photos, lines out of context, brief unitelligble snippets and synopses of plays! THAT will certainly make the show LESS boring.
Sorry-- where is my "SARCASM" key?
#6re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:40pm
A host...and a legitimate, CREDITED host...
...and I want to exclude Hugh. Sorry baby. You're hot and I love you, but I can't sit through you again
#7re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:44pmI'd like the Tony's to get a host, and yes, more play recognition. Anyone else feel that some performances were much longer than others?
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#8re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:45pmMaybe Bruce Vilanch can write a few good jokes? An opening number written by Flaherty & Ahrens?
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#9re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/12/06 at 12:59am
i LIKED that there was no host. they just zipped right along to the scenes from the shows and the awards. it wasn't such a bad show, it's just that the shows and winners were less than spectacular this year.
i agree about the opening number. harry sounded like crap. and i thought he would have developed a "broadway" voice, instead of just using his same old jazz voice.
RIP glebby <3
FoscasBohemianDream
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/06
#10re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/12/06 at 2:00amWell, since this was one of the most boring and pointless Tony Award ceremonies I have seen, to make it better next year try to avoid whatever was done this year. Don't make it so predictable, pick an actual host, no Harry Connick Jr. pretending he can command the stage in such a bland opening, no medleys for the musical numbers, and yes I agree they should let actors perform excerpts from the nominated plays.
Theatreboy33
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/03
#12re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/12/06 at 2:12amneeds more Hugh Jackman/Aretha Franklin duets.
Dot2
Swing Joined: 6/12/06
#13re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/12/06 at 2:15amStop worrying about what the non-theater buffs will want to be (that means no Hugh, no LL, no Harry Connick Jr opening act). I did think that this year was very nicely done and that they integrated the Hollywood and Bway names quite well. And TEACH YOUR CAMERA OPERATORS HOW TO FILM A PRODUCTION NUMBER. I don't want to see someone's face when they are dancing, I want to see the entire stage. Just leave that zoom alone and let the performers do their work.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#14re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/12/06 at 2:31am
"And TEACH YOUR CAMERA OPERATORS HOW TO FILM A PRODUCTION NUMBER."
That is so true. There was a moment during Drowsy Chaperone were they cut away from Sutton and the camera should have been on her.
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FoscasBohemianDream
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/06
#15re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/12/06 at 2:35amThis is very true, the camera cut to Bob Martin completely away from Sutton Foster, which was completely absurd.
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#16re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/12/06 at 2:52amI say return the show to a real live Broadway house!
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#17re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/12/06 at 2:55amWanda Sykes as host.
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jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#18re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/12/06 at 3:06amGet better shows!
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bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#19re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/12/06 at 3:11amI think that plays should be recognized, but they'll never get more time on the Tony's. No one outside of theatre people want to see scenes out of context. For next year they need to have the movie Dreams do the opening number. I know some people might not like it, but I want Rosie O'Donnell back. She brought such a sense of fun to the Tony's.
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tabbynyc
Stand-by Joined: 4/3/06
#20re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/12/06 at 4:17pm
I would like to see more excerpts from plays instead of just pictures and a synopsis. I would limit it so it doesn't get too boring, but the plays deserve some exposure to see the actors work. It would be hard, but I'm sure there are enough talented people in the business to come up with something. Has it ever been tried, if not, it would be worth it?
Also, I didn't notice too much difference with or without a host.
#21re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/12/06 at 4:20pmBring back the background footage on the technical awards, scenes from the nominated plays, and Rosie O'Donnell.
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#22re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/12/06 at 4:21pmAnother thing: I think that the Tony committee will learn a lot from this year. Especially what with a lot of the voters not completing their responsibility of seeing the shows, which a lot of them had not.
mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#24re: How to make the Tony Awards better next year
Posted: 6/12/06 at 4:24pmGet a new producer.
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