Is Liza a shoo-in?
Is Liza a shoo-in?
#1Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/5/09 at 11:24pm
For best special theatrical event? I sure hope so.
Updated On: 5/5/09 at 11:24 PM
#2re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/5/09 at 11:25pmI think Will Ferrell poses some sort of threat, IMHO.
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#2re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/5/09 at 11:29pmWell I enjoyed SLAVA more than both of those combined.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#3re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/5/09 at 11:29pm
Yes, LIZA'S AT THE PALACE will win. And deservedly so.
Updated On: 5/6/09 at 11:29 PM
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#4re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/5/09 at 11:33pm
Let's see:
A beloved Broadway legend who put her heart and fake hips on the line and scored a major success, even with a ravaged voice, and had people screaming every night she sweated her guts out.
or
A TV and Movie star who made his debut with a show he was basically working out for a Cable Special.
Tough call.
Updated On: 5/5/09 at 11:33 PM
#5re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/5/09 at 11:42pmLiza had better win this one. I saw it 11 times and I wish I had been able to see it more. She was outstanding.
#6re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/5/09 at 11:49pmI certainly hope! She was brilliant, and clearly deserves to win!
jimmycurry01
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/05
#7re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/5/09 at 11:53pmNo, she is certainly not a shoo-in. It would be cool if she did win, but Will Farrel is her major competition,and deservedly so.
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#8re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:20am
Ferrell is serious competition, but Liza had better take it. If she doesn't, I may throw my TV across the room.
(My TV survived last year, since Patti won.)
#9re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:47am
I don't understand how Ferrell could be competition. His special was AWFUL and I don't think Tony voters would have liked it.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, this is a chance to give Liza Minnelli a TONY. And I think voters would give their goddess the opportunity to make that acceptance speech.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#10re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:59amWouldn't the producers take the Tony? Even is she made the speech, the Tony wouldn't be to her. And remember what happened to Stritch...
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#11re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 1:00amWhat I dont understand is how WAT saw this show 11 times...I mean I love you WAT, but honey do you work...I hope so...how do you pay for all of this? Do you do anything outside of seeing shows? No judgement, just intense curiosity...
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#12re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 1:02amRush tickets?
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#13re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 1:05amSex?
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#14re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 3:06am
I didn't see any of the other nominees in the category, but I did see Liza's at the Palace and I was be very disappointed if it doesn't win. If Will Ferrell wins, I'll hate Bush even mote than I already do. Maybe I'll get together with the SA girl. 
#15re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 10:48amWhat about Slava's Snowshow?? I thought that was pretty good.
#16re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 11:02am
Curtain you make an EXCELLANT point and have convinced me to vote for Liza...if I could!
blaxx...so Stritch didn't get the Tony for that...does she not have any Tony yet?
#17re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 11:04am
BettyBoy, yes I work, which is why I was able to afford the tickets.
I sat in the balcony six times ($55), sat in the orchestra four times (full price) and rushed it once ($26).
December was a very costly month for me (I definitely went over budget), but I figured I would never have the opportunity to see Liza again, so I made the best of the five weeks she played the Palace.
I didn't do much else in December 2008 except take a weekend trip to DC to see West Side Story twice and Next to Normal...couldn't afford to do much else.
#18re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 11:08am
I saw her "preview" of this show in Fort Worth when she did it last summer.
She did a big section that featured songs from a female singer and her dancing boys.
What was the name of the femal singer, I forgot?
#19re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:10pmWAT, I totally feel you and I wasnt judging. I think of the Sex and the City episode where Carrie said she would buy Vogue instead of dinner because it "fed me more." I understand making theatre a priority. I wasn't making fun, but you are at everything (rushes, book signings, CD signings, stage doors) and I just wondered how you make it all happen.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#20re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:28pm
It's not easy, BettyBoy! I have everything in my calendar and am very organized as to which shows I'm seeing which days. I always have a backup plan (if this first preview is delayed, I will see it this other day instead). I try to plan my finances as best I can (keep a spreadsheet detailing everything I spend)...and I usually don't get much sleep. When I finally get home from all this theater around 11:30pm, I still have to catch up with everything on my DVR (Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Without A Trace, 90210, Ugly Betty, Castle, etc). LOL.
But I completely understand what Carrie from SatC meant. Theater makes me so happy and I would never want to give it up.
#21re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:37pmSorry to thread jack a bit, but the title of this thread has "I was a Shoo-In" stuck in my head. I don't know if Liza would be able to memorize all those words, but I would love to hear her perform that song. (Maybe not just in a bath towel though, LOL)
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#22re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:40pmI would love to hear anybody sing that song. In or out of a bath towel.
#23re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:41pmWithoutATrace i so wish i could do that
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#24re: Is Liza a shoo-in?
Posted: 5/6/09 at 12:42pmI sing that song all the time in the shower PalJoey. So if you're ever around...
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
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