Julie Andrews at the Tonys.- Page 2

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 10:35pm

Her song "Yout Crowning Glory" from The Princess Diaries can be found. She sang that song a few years ago. She can sing, yet not hit high notes.

[Fabrizio2]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 10:40pm

Muscle...HOW MANY THREADS ON THE TONYS DO YOU HAVE TO START?!?!?

Why not just start one called "Muscle's Tony Discussion Thread"

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 10:49pm

What they should do is cast her as "Desiree" in "A Little Night Music". She may be sixty, but Julie is still beautiful. And the part was not written for a singer. Julie probably has more voice left than Glynnis Johns ever had!

[JohnBoy2]

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

This certainly wasn't Julie Andrews' first appearance at The Tonys, since she declined the nomination for Victor Victoria; and she's 70, not 60.
Updated On: 6/12/06 at 11:12 PM

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 2:24am

It wasn't?! What year did she appear at the Tony Awards since 1995?

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 2:33am

Oh God, I don't remember years. She presented Best Revival of a Musical, in 1997 or 1998, and a couple of years later, she appeared again. I can't remember what she did. I'm sure it's listed somewhere on the internet, if you really want to know. Either at the Tony site or IMDB. All I know is I'm certain that this past Tonys wasn't her first since before V/V.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 2:41am

Julie did not attend the 1996 Tony Awards. Her nomination was never withdrawn but Donna Murphy won for THE KING AND I.
(Nathan Lane got in a few good cracks about Julie at the top of the show.)

Julie did appear in 1997 as a presenter, noting that in a week's time she would be leaving VICTOR/VICTORIA.

She and Carol Burnett appeared together to present a couple of Awards in 1999.

So this was not her first appearance since her VICTOR/VICTORIA scuffle. (Sometimes I think the fans bear grudges longer than the performers do.)

[DG]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 3:02am

She is perfection personified. Nobody today even comes close to her. Nobody.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 3:22am

She is perfection personified. Nobody today even comes close to her. Nobody.


I could not agree more. She truly is a beautiful person, inside and out.

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 9:03am

"She is perfection personified. Nobody today even comes close to her. Nobody. "

Not to quibble but I would like to mention the name Angela Lansbury in the perfection personified department.

[jv92]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 10:24am

It still shocks me that she lost the Tony for BOTH of her legendary roles in My Fair Lady and Camelot. She should have just put on a smile and accepted her nod 11 years back. She probably would have won. She should have given her egriously overlooked specch when Lerner and Loewe were snubbed for Best Score in 1961.

[uncageg]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 11:44am

I was there and got goosebumps when she walked out to present the award. She is class, personified.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 11:47am

I would agree that nobody compares to either Julie Andrews or Angela Lansbury, in the perfection department.

[H.Higgins]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 11:56am

I'm sorry, but I HAD to hop on this bandwagon! =)
To me, both Julie Andrews and Angela Lansbury truly define the word "lady." They are so classy, poised, gracious, and talented beyond words.

"Perfection personified" is absolutely right.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:13pm

It still shocks me that she lost the Tony for BOTH of her legendary roles in My Fair Lady and Camelot

I saw both those shows, although I saw MY FAIR LADY, in London, and not on Broadway; and, her presence in that show, was like none I have seen since. She was, as Eliza, something where a word does not suffice to describe it; but, spectacular is a good start.

[jv92]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:17pm

And she lost to Judy Holliday in Bells are Ringing?!?! Yes, Holliday was talented, but will Bells are Ringing be remembered in 50 years? No, but Fair Lady will. And will Holliday be remembered with such admiration? Perhaps, but not as like Andrews will be.

[H.Higgins]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 12:37pm

JohnBoy2-

I am terribly jealous! =) What amazing experiences those must have been. I imagine those are memories you will always treasure.

She was robbed in those two Tony instances. I imagine few performances in any time and place can rival hers as Eliza.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:07pm

While it is true, and somewhat unbelievable, that she does not have a Tony, she has won every other award there is, and has become a legend, in her own time, so she's done pretty well for herself, without it.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:33pm

I think that she would have won the Tony for Victor/Victoria if she wouldn't have turned it down, at the same time, she is the queen of Broadway, even if she hasn't won a Tony Award. I doubt she is worried about that fact. She made it. I'd think of Liza Minnelli as the other queen of Broadway, not of Lansbury, i like Angela, but i don't think she is close to represent what Julie Andrews does.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:36pm

Really? I don't even think of Liza when I think of Broadway; but I sure do think of Angela! Well, whatever. Everybody has their favorites.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:39pm

Well, we agree on the fact that Julie was the most appropiate person to present the last Tony Award. She is a class act.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:41pm

I think Angela Lansbury personifies Broadway a hell of a lot more than Julie Andrews does.

Sure, she gave star turns in THE BOY FRIEND, CAMELOT, and MY FAIR LADY - and they led to her fame (and her Oscar) in MARY POPPINS and THE SOUND OF MUSIC.

I obviously adore Julie Andrews, but I tend to think of her more as the epitome of Hollywood class and grace rather than a Broadway star.

Lansbury is one of the few people - among the likes of Ethel Merman, Carol Channing, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, and Gwen Verdon - that just epitomize the Broadway experience for me.


I had the extreme pleasure of meeting Julie Andrews two years ago, and I couldn't even speak I was so in awe of her. I was standing before the woman who inspired me to do what I do, and before the woman who - once upon a time - I was obsessed with.

Unfortunately, she declined to take a photo with me, but it's a memory that I will cherish forever.

(Not to detract from the thread, but up close and in person - wow, does she look like she's had some work done....)

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 5:23pm

Anyways, did anyone watch Kanye West on Ellen? the same episode featured Anne Hathaway, who talked about Julie Andrews and they showed a tape of Julie at Ellen's show and she was cursing all the time. I couldn't believe it, was it a joke? anyone else caught that?

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 5:36pm

Of course it was a joke. They just ran her interview and stuck bleeps in. It wasn't even all that cleverly done. It was amusing, though.

[Nathan_Lane_Rules!]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 5:39pm

I wish that she would get involved with a straight play or serious movie. She can act.