JERSEY BOYS TAKES IT!!!!

[bjh2114]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 10:58pm

JERSEY BOYS ROCKS MY SOCKS!!!!

[Fabrizio2]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 10:59pm

Yeah! Let's start a thread for every winner!

[CJWesselman]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:00pm

I'm disgusted.

[Princeton78]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:02pm

Yay!
Who's got the champagne?

[woman_in_white]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:04pm

BOOOO!!

[zoomzoom]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:04pm

I'm not anti-jukebox musicals but Jersey Boys isn't deserve the Best musical award.

[IheartJ-TAGS]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:04pm

Yay!! I am so Jersey Boys. This show deserved this award. One of the best shows I've seen in a long time.

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:05pm

I could NOT be happier.

I'm happy for Jersey.

I'm happy for the show.

I'm happy for John and Christian.

I'm happy a show finally won that truly deserved the win.

[neomystyk29]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:05pm

I like your Av zoomzoom. While I am anti-jukebox, I also don't think it deserved it. I'll never understand how a musical can win Best Scenery, Best Costumes, Best Book, and Best Score, and lose best musical. If that's not politics I don't know what is.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:07pm

Won't this thread spoil it for those on the west coast who are just watching the Tony's now?

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:07pm

Won't this thread spoil it for those on the west coast who are just watching the Tony's now?

[mijofly19]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:09pm

I am very happy!

The show, John Lloyd, and Christian all deserved the wins they got.

I agree that a show that deserved to win, finally did.

[Harpo]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:12pm

As I stated in the other thread:







I am happy for all their awards!!!!

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:16pm

How does a show loose best book and best score yet still win? I don't get it. Drowsy should have won. John's speech just....ugh. I don't know. He rubbed me the wrong way. He didn't even kiss his girlfriend or anything, he just like ran down the aisle. However, the Christopher's speech was really geniune.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:17pm

Same thing happened with Parade not winning. It's all very odd. Guess that it's just how everything comes together.

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:18pm

Is John required to kiss his girlfriend if he wins?

I guess I missed that TONY rule.

JERSEY BOYS wasn't eligible for Best Score so the Best Book/Best Score awards did NOT serve as a solid sign either way.

JERSEY BOYS was the best overall production an won the award as it should have.

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:19pm

Is it bad that I cried?

I am SO HAPPY. They deserved it. That cast is the best on Broadway, and that show is just....gahhh.

YES :).

[neomystyk29]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:20pm

I disagree, I think that best book still serves as a solid sign. Also, lest we forget that the score is unoriginal, which is certainly a negative in my book. Not to mention scenery and costumes...

Best overall production...uh huh...

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:21pm

Best overall production...uh huh...

Tell that to their TONY, babe.

[neomystyk29]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:26pm

I would if I could believe me. Even if I were just talking too a statuette. However, it's comforting to know that the Drowsy Chaperone is in the company of Piazza and Parade, while Jersey Boys is in the same class as...well...Spamalot.

[Qfan]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:27pm

I'm happy for them and everything but i must say this. I'm proud right now that i cannot sing because the fact that if i was i'd be furious. I would not want the trends to go more towards jukebox musicals(Granted Jersey Boys is a good one(I'm also a fan of All Shook up and several others
I'd be furious because i want new great shows written not everything has to be premade "just add script/storyline".
I was also so happy hearing everyother performance since it was all new. And i personally don't see John Lloyd Young being one of those tony winners people will remember or having a long career.

[anotherhundredpeople]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:28pm

i think i'm going to go drown myself. this was the worst tony's. jersey boys? please.

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:28pm

while Jersey Boys is in the same class as...well...Spamalot.

And THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, and GYPSY, and HELLO, DOLLY!

You're right...those classless Best Musical winners.

[Corine2]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:32pm

Sorry. I did a happy dance. My Mother told me to stop screaming.
I am happy. Sad about Felicia but happy about Jersey Boys.
GO, JERSEY GO JERSEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DreamFlyer22]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 11:34pm

The book of Jersey Boys is, I'm sorry- AMAZING. It's a wonderful, solid story and I was very disappointed that Brickman and Ellis didn't win. I haven't seen Chaperone yet, but I wonder if it makes you care half as much about the main characters as Jersey Boys does. Chaperone strikes me (again, only going on what I've seen/read) as a fun, high-energy show with a lot of jokes, but slim on character depth. Jersey Boys goes in to the lives of each of these men... probably more "character development" than I've seen in a show in quite some time... yet it's being strung up because it uses the music from the Four Seasons catalogue. It may not be what Rodgers and Hammerstein envisioned when they penned "Oklahoma", but I see it as a musical.

I would say that, ever since "Contact" won back in 2001, the definition of musical has been changing. I love traditional book-driven musicals with original scores, but they seem to be losing steam. Just because a show is completely new doesn't mean it should automatically deserve the big prize. Neither should a show deserve the big prize because of a big name (*cough* Spamalot *cough*). A successful night of theater for me is one in which I was both entertained and forced to think a little. I don't need to have a life-changing experience every time I go to the theater- I'll admit, I really enjoyed Spamalot- but the best theater touches you. And Jersey Boys did for me.