Let the Pop Stars Present

They are already taking over shows. The Tony awards dont need to be taken over too. They need to have some class and tradition, not just pop stars.

Perhaps Mary J. is very secretly up for the revival of The Wiz.

Should we start the rumor here.

No. Just...no.

You know who really looked out of place during the ceremony? Not Nicole Kidman (she just looked weird). Not Renee Zellwegger. It was Jimmy Fallon. As he said himself, he was a piece of MTV stuck where it didn't belong. IMHO, good movies, like the kind Zellwegger and Kidman tend to try to make, are a higher art form than pop music of the kind Joey Fatone and Co. manufacture. That's why the Grammys are the lowest of the big 4 awards shows to me.

There is nothing less relevant to the success or failure of the Tony's than who is presenting what. No one cares. At all. Even if someone DOES care they can go to eonline and see what their favorite performer was wearing, which is really all they're going to to tune in to see.

The Tony's are irrelevant because Broadway is irrelevant and that goes back to who is writing what and what is being presented on the stage every night EXCEPT the first Sunday night in June. The fate of the Tony's is sealed long before that broadcast begins.

I wouldn't worry too much about who presented,won,lost,showed up, sat where,wore what,sang off key, etc... there wasn't anyone watching to witness any of it, anyways.

If Idina Menzel wins an Award and the Tony's and there's no one watching, did she really win anything?

"(however inappropriate and undeserved those ties may be)"

Um.... You are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO way off base there...
first of all.....

Christy Carlson Romano -- appeared in Parade BEFORE she landed Even Stevens.. back when she was totally unknown.....
Frenchie Davis -- was studying musical theatre in school and a working actress (Little Shop, JCS) BEFORE American Idol
Joey Fatone -- was acting BEFORE he landed NSYNC.. he also worked theme park shows like MANY Broadway folks today once did.... and some do now (Aladdin at California Adventure has nu,erous Broadway vets)
Joey McIntyre -- he didn't get theatre roles by his "name"... watch him perform.. he is SPOOOO not up there because of New Kids..
Melanie Griffith -- she has no business on ANY stage. That is the only one you were on base with..


I admit, I don't like several folks you listed, but you listed them for teh WRONG reason

Okay, I did not mean for this to be an anger-inducing thread.

I just feel that as long as these people are on Broadway anyway, it's a better idea to put them into the Tonys than some of the other people that were presenting on Sunday night. That's ALL. I am not rooting for Pop stars and Hollywood types to take over the Tonys. But I bet that if you asked any of them, they would say that they are Broadway stars in their own right. They HAVE, after all, been on Broadway.

Second, since people on this board talk so much about stunt-casting to sell tickets, I see nothing wrong with bringing these "stunt-casted actors" to the Tonys to get people to tune in.

Third, broadwayguy2, I actually only put the phrase "(however inappropriate and undeserved those ties may be)" into my post to try to head off the kinds of comments that I got - ones about Pop stars taking over Broadway. I have not seen any of these performances, and therefore know that it would be inappropriate for me to judge them. I only listed the people that I did because it seems that they are always mentioned in stunt-casting threads. (For the record, I thought that Joey Fatone was great in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", and I loved Joey McIntyre's voice in "The Fantasticks".)

I hope that in typing this, I managed to make peace and not get more people riled up.

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How bad do you have to be to make Grease suck?

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We don't believe in letting people expand! WE WANT THEM TO STAY ON THE TREADMILL OF MUSICAL THEATRE. GO REALLY FAST THROUGH LIFE BUT ALWAYS STAY IN THE SAME PLACE!

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I guess with all these disucssions I'm confused as to why the networks think that presenters make that much of a difference. Like oooh, I'm so excited to see my favorite actor stumble out on stage and read a teleprompter for 2 minutes. I think the majority of people watch award shows because they care about the awards. I doubt that if they put all my favorite broadway actors on the Country Music Awards I would eagerly tune in. I might flip past hoping to catch a glimps of Idina handing out the award for Best Twang of the year, but mostly, I wouldn't care. It's been aptley summed up on other threads that Broadway fans watch the Tonys and they are simply not as numerous as any other genre of awarded subjects.

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