Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches

[Elphaba43]

Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#1

Posted: 10/5/09 at 12:14am

So I was looking through a few today and I thought Idina Menzel for the 2004 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical was filled with heart and very emotional.

Who do you think had a beautiful touching speech that made you get all choked up? Please provide the link showing everyone, as I have done below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVgisIOJlcE

I am a bagel on a plateful of onion rolls. If you know what I'm talking about, good. If you don't, you're on your own!

[BwayTday]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#2

Posted: 10/5/09 at 12:21am

Updated On: 10/5/09 at 12:21 AM

[theaterkid1015]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#2

Posted: 10/5/09 at 12:22am

Most recently, Karen Olivo's choked me up. And, of course, Daisy Eagan's speech was too sweet for words.

Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

[millie_dillmount]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#3

Posted: 10/5/09 at 12:25am

"I could make some snarky-esc remark about this but I will be strait foward. I am pretty sure there was a thread about this. Next time use the search tool, to make sure your not posting something that has already been posted."

If you are so straight forward about it, how come you didn't post a link with your response?

I thought Karen Olivo's speech for West Side Story was emotional as well; you could tell she was really happy about her award.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[BwayTday]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#4

Posted: 10/5/09 at 12:32am

Ok I searched, there are different threads about "best" and "favorite" so, I'm gonna go hide in a corner...


I also think that Karen Olivo's was full of heart and was very truthful. Alice Ripley's was also emmotional, in a way.

[cmwx122]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#5

Posted: 10/5/09 at 12:43am

i agree, alice ripleys was really emotional. that woman is full of passion and i love her for it

"Art matters. You make it happen, and it becomes a priority, not on the periphery, absolutely essential to life." -Alice Ripley -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The sitting together of notes, the sitting together of words has by their very nature a puzzle aspect. It's the creation of form out of chaos." - Stephen Sondheim

[BroadwayBound062]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#6

Posted: 10/5/09 at 3:17am

I love watching David Hyde Pierce win his for Curtains. Just an amazing speech and his is so happy.

Genius lasts longer than beauty.

[ColorTheHours048]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#7

Posted: 10/5/09 at 3:24am

Michael Jeter's speech for GRAND HOTEL was a truly inspiring and emotional moment.

[nealb1]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#8

Posted: 10/5/09 at 12:34pm

Jeter's speech was so emotional.......as was Christian Hoff's for "Jersey Boys." When Laura B won for "Gypsy," as well.

[lvpblues]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#9

Posted: 10/5/09 at 1:09pm

Michael Jeter's speech is the one that immediately comes to my mind too.

[nealb1]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#10

Posted: 10/5/09 at 1:12pm

I think that Michael Crawford gave quite an emotional speech when he won for "Phantom" back in 1988.

[jpbran]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#11

Posted: 10/5/09 at 1:12pm

Karen Olivo and Alice Ripley (more exuberance than "emotion") are the most recent I -- and obviously others -- can think of...
Updated On: 10/5/09 at 01:12 PM

[madbrian]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#12

Posted: 10/5/09 at 1:32pm

I concur with respect to Michael Jeter's speech.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[givesmevoice]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#13

Posted: 10/5/09 at 1:38pm

I also concur with Michael Jeter's speech. was it taken off of youtube, though?

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[StickToPriest]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#14

Posted: 10/5/09 at 2:08pm

Yes to Michael Jeter.
This isn't his speech. Watch it anyway.

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[tazber]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#15

Posted: 10/5/09 at 2:26pm

When Raul Esparza. finally won his Tony for Company. That was a great moment.

....but the world goes 'round

[Unknown User]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#16

Posted: 10/5/09 at 2:33pm

Raul was great but seeing Bernadette triumph after all the grief she took for Gypsy- Well, it just blew me away. what a classy lady.

[Pgenre]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#17

Posted: 10/5/09 at 2:33pm

Michael Bennett's win over Hal Prince and Bob Fosse in 1976, while only slightly coked out, was truly touching. "All I ever wanted to do was direct a Broadway show...".

Speaking of coked-out Tony acceptance speeches, my absolute FAV is when Liza won for THE ACT and Steve Rubbell literally falls out of his seat next to her he is so ebulliently excited! Even the chair he sat on was numb! Oh, to be in that limo that night...

Ah, the good old days...

P

P.S. LOL taz!
Updated On: 10/5/09 at 02:33 PM

[yeomansden]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#18

Posted: 10/5/09 at 3:33pm

Cherry Jones' acceptance speech or Doubt, when she actually told people to go see Kathleen Turner in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was pretty emotional.

And I'll second the David Hyde Pierce one (though yeah, Raul should have won...but that's not DHP's fault...)

"Are you calling me a procrastibator?" Hunter, [title of show] "Guess who's gonna get blamed for the war in Europe?" Eugene, Brighton Beach Memoirs

[BroadwayBound062]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#19

Posted: 10/5/09 at 4:23pm

I totally agree Raul should have won.

Genius lasts longer than beauty.

[EponineThenardier]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#20

Posted: 10/5/09 at 5:58pm

I adored Angela Lansbury's speech this past year, so gracious...so classy.

And although it wasn't emotional, I loved Geoffery Rush's speech. Entertaining, genuine, one of the best I've seen.

[Jordan Catalano]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#21

Posted: 10/5/09 at 6:01pm

I haven't seen it in years but I recall Heather Headley's speech moving me to tears.

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

re: Most Emotional Tony Award Winning Speeches#22

Posted: 10/5/09 at 6:12pm

Karen Olivo
Sutton Foster
Laura Benanti
Angela Lansbruy (All of them but particularly the resent one)
Gavin Cre- Oh wait!