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Posted: 6/11/06 at 4:02pm
I saw as close to the stage as you can get, front row orchestra. My hand touched the stage. It was AMAHZING!
Inches away from Julie Andrews, Bernadette Peters, Glenn Close, etc. Oprah and Julia Roberts were not at the rehearsal.
Here's my opinion on the contents of the Tony show. Spoilers will follow below that.
- The show is fluid without a host. Still, I missed that one person that holds everything together.
- The musical numbers are all outstanding. Surprisingly, THE WEDDING SINGER went over the most with the audience. Understandable, as it was a high power high energy number. THREEPENNY OPERA didn't do much to me, but I think it would look MUCH better on TV than it did live.
- There were reports that Jennifer Hudson, Anika Noni Rose, and Beyonce were going to be there. They aren't. BUT - a Dreamgirls trailer will air during the broadcast. We didn't see it. During the commercials there is video entertainment from Seth Rudetsky for everyone in the audience.
- The opening number is lackluster (compared to the AMAHZING Hugh Jackman number from the 2004 telecast). Bland. Just bland. The end to the number is SOO overdone.
***SPOILERS BELOW***
I'm not going to just make a list and ruin everything. But I do have opinions on some things.
- When Hal Prince receives his Tony, there is a little number that follows (if you want to call it that) and at the end someone from a Hal Prince show comes out to sing a song. The singer is fine, but the "number" is quite cheesy and laughable.
- The August Wilson and Wendy Wasserstein tribute is quite nice.
- For the third year in a row, John Tartaglia and Rod make a return to present an award.
- Judging by rehearsal, it's not going to be as good as the 2004 and 2005 telecasts. There's no audience involvement. There's no one BIG blowout number (that's not from a specific show). There's no host.
- There's a Spamalot surprise when the American Theatre Wing executives come out to do their speech about the Wing. There should be more of this type of Broadway show involvement.
Inches away from Julie Andrews, Bernadette Peters, Glenn Close, etc. Oprah and Julia Roberts were not at the rehearsal.
Here's my opinion on the contents of the Tony show. Spoilers will follow below that.
- The show is fluid without a host. Still, I missed that one person that holds everything together.
- The musical numbers are all outstanding. Surprisingly, THE WEDDING SINGER went over the most with the audience. Understandable, as it was a high power high energy number. THREEPENNY OPERA didn't do much to me, but I think it would look MUCH better on TV than it did live.
- There were reports that Jennifer Hudson, Anika Noni Rose, and Beyonce were going to be there. They aren't. BUT - a Dreamgirls trailer will air during the broadcast. We didn't see it. During the commercials there is video entertainment from Seth Rudetsky for everyone in the audience.
- The opening number is lackluster (compared to the AMAHZING Hugh Jackman number from the 2004 telecast). Bland. Just bland. The end to the number is SOO overdone.
***SPOILERS BELOW***
I'm not going to just make a list and ruin everything. But I do have opinions on some things.
- When Hal Prince receives his Tony, there is a little number that follows (if you want to call it that) and at the end someone from a Hal Prince show comes out to sing a song. The singer is fine, but the "number" is quite cheesy and laughable.
- The August Wilson and Wendy Wasserstein tribute is quite nice.
- For the third year in a row, John Tartaglia and Rod make a return to present an award.
- Judging by rehearsal, it's not going to be as good as the 2004 and 2005 telecasts. There's no audience involvement. There's no one BIG blowout number (that's not from a specific show). There's no host.
- There's a Spamalot surprise when the American Theatre Wing executives come out to do their speech about the Wing. There should be more of this type of Broadway show involvement.
"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
