Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony telecast

[Yankeefan007]

Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony telecast#1

Posted: 5/29/08 at 10:57am

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/118177.html

[TonyVincent]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony telecast#2

Posted: 5/29/08 at 11:02am

I'm beginning to wish I had shelled out for a ticket to this!

Oh well, this is going to be an awesome night of television!

[ACL2006]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony telecast#2

Posted: 5/29/08 at 11:10am

I wonder what number(s) they each perform.

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[NYC_or_Bust]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony telecast#3

Posted: 5/29/08 at 11:12am

Rent will perform "Shadowland"
and Lion King will perform "Out Tonight"

I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2

[CapnHook]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony telecast#4

Posted: 5/29/08 at 11:18am

So will non-nominated shows only perform is the ATW can justify it? I'm glad RENT and THE LION KING get some airtime, but LION KING? Really? Like it needs the publicity? Of course I can understand WHY Disney and the ATW would want this show publicized, but it's a shame that new shows won't get a chance to get that spotlight. Hell, let's even switch out THE LITTLE MERMAID for THE LION KING.

How about giving A CATERED AFFAIR a performance? If it is true that CRY-BABY only beat it for a nod by one vote, this is a show that was cheated that can use some publicity.

Whatever. I could go on but I know how it all works and I need to stop dreaming.

"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

[LuPonatic]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#5

Posted: 5/29/08 at 11:28am

Maybe there is more to come?

[TonyVincent]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#6

Posted: 5/29/08 at 11:31am

Unfortunately, they're not choosing based on what need publicity. They're choosing based on what will make a higher-rated Tony performance (commercial $$$), and what will increase Broadway sales in general. A Catered Affair won't do that.

[ljay889]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#7

Posted: 5/29/08 at 11:31am

This is dumb. So these two clunkers can perform and not A CATERED AFFAIR?

[BustopherPhantom]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#8

Posted: 5/29/08 at 11:33am

Well... give them a chance.

The only thing I'm weary about is the Original Cast of RENT performing. I have a feeling Camera Closeup would not be kind to most of them, especially if they're trying to play "young."

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[being.jeremiah]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#9

Posted: 5/29/08 at 11:46am

Just thank CBS for letting the Tonys be on air again. And people without tickets can see it on television.

There.

[NYC_or_Bust]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#10

Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:05pm

You guys crack me up...its not like they're DISSING shows like A Catered Affair, etc.

This is a celebration of two shows that have been Broadway Smash hits!

I think it would be stupid to trade Lion King for Mermaid...Mermaid doesn't hold a candle to what Beauty or Lion King had/have.

Like I said...this is a celebration...One, a bittersweet send off, and the other a Love Letter to long runs.

I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2

[suicidalmickeymouse]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#11

Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:07pm

DAMMIT!

I totally should have gone this year.

I hate myself.

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[CapnHook]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#12

Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:13pm

"This is a celebration of two shows that have been Broadway Smash hits!"

BWAHAHAHAHA!! THIS is an EXCUSE to have two extremely popular musicals perform on the telecast to try and bring in more ratings, disguised as "a celebration of two shows that have been Broadway Smash hits!"

"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

Updated On: 5/29/08 at 12:13 PM

[NYC_or_Bust]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#13

Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:16pm

That's showbiz...

I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#14

Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:17pm

I agree with LJay.
Do we really need another annoying performance of "Seasons of Love" where every tween starts weeping about how tragic the closing of RENT is?
No, thanks.
Ugh, awful news.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[SporkGoddess]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#15

Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:24pm

I'm more upset by the Lion King, TBH. I think it's a terrible show. At least RENT has a few decent numbers.

Though, yeah, if they perform "Seasons of Love" I may shoot myself.

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

Updated On: 5/29/08 at 12:24 PM

[nmartin]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#16

Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:35pm

Spork, shoot me first. We'll make it a murder/suicide.

[Buscee]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#17

Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:49pm

Well why not celebrate a real milestone...Like 20 years for Phantom? 10 years is nothing these days.

[bwybuff87]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#18

Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:54pm

This makes me so excited!!! Can't wait to watch the Tony;s

[DMsquared2]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#19

Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:57pm

While I would like to see the original cast of Rent perform at the Tony's, it's clearly a tactic to increase ratings.

It'd be great if A Catered Affair was to be recorded for PBS.

[MungoGypsy8232]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#20

Posted: 5/29/08 at 1:02pm

Can LoveMusik perform when they're done :P

[BustopherPhantom]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#21

Posted: 5/29/08 at 1:04pm

Along with LEGALLY BLONDE?

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[misschung]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#22

Posted: 5/29/08 at 1:07pm

"At least RENT has a few decent numbers. Though, yeah, if they perform "Seasons of Love" I may shoot myself."

Well, which song do you expect them to perform that will include all the principals?

I'm curious to see if they'll do a SOL/La Vie Boheme medley, a la the 1996 Tonys.

The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?

[JRybka]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#23

Posted: 5/29/08 at 1:08pm

Well isn't THE LION KING celebrating 10 years on Broadway.
And RENT is closing after being a stepping stone to some of broadway's current crop of shows.

In an interview on LOGO TV... Lin-Manuel states that the first show he saw on Broadway was RENT and it was the base of why he did what he did for IN THE HEIGHTS.

"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."

[uncageg]

re: Original RENT cast and Current LION KING cast to perform on Tony teleca#24

Posted: 5/29/08 at 1:14pm

If they should do Phantom, I hope it is better than what they did at the 2006 awards. I was there with a good friend and when it was over we just looked at each other and said "what was that?"

And you know the cast of RENT is going to do Seasons of Love.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder