Phantom Faults on Tonys

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 12:50am

Did anyone else notice the small edited Phantom piece was terrible. I was embarrassed by it.

[JustChillin8908]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 12:51am

It was extremly short and uneccesary. Plus it just plain sucked...

[suzycat]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 12:52am

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=900411&dt=10

[cturtle]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 12:53am

didn't he start to sing the entire song ... miss a few beats ... and then sing the tacked on ending?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 12:55am

It was exactly how it's going to be sung in the 90 minute Las Vegas production.

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 12:55am

hahaha

[JustChillin8908]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 12:55am

"It was exactly how it's going to be sung in the 90 minute Las Vegas production."

Oh please god no!

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 1:08am

I thought it was perfect that after BSM's intro of "and now from the longest running show in Broadway history..." they still couldn't get it right. It was really pathetic.

[Parks]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 1:32am

poor guy.

although it was amusing.

and gotham, that made my night

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 1:39am

The orchestra actually cut the second part of the first verse... apparently without Howard McGillin's knowledge! He stopped for a second, then switched to the bridge and picked it up.

Either he forgot about the cut... or they neglected to rehearse it enough to make it smooth.

Either way, it was an unfortunate "oops" on live TV.

Personally, I liked the "fake Evita" and her big bulky bracelets sliding up her arms.

Updated On: 6/12/06 at 01:39 AM

[Joshua488]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 1:39am

You know what really sucks?

Howard McGillin got into all that makeup for about 30 seconds of screen time.

Hopefully, they didn't do all of the makeup; just an abriged version for television audiences.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 1:46am

"Howard McGillin got into all that makeup for about 30 seconds of screen time."

Maybe next time he'll take a page from the Gerard Butler makeup book and use a bigger mask.

Posted: 6/12/06 at 2:27am

and that Evita was like 50 years old!

[Vespertine1228]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 2:31am

I didn't find the Phantom bit nearly as embarrassing as the poor people who had to make up that Hal Prince assembly line. I felt particularly awful for Sweeney Todd and that one girl who looked like she could be from Forum OR West Side.

[TLKfan]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 2:31am

OMG, I about died when I saw it. First of all I didn't enjoy him in Phantom when I saw it years ago and then seeing him screw up. I do feel sorry cause no one wants that to ever happen.

I loved the line he messed up, "touch me.." and then to the end of the song. And why did they do like a 30 second song? They should have let the cast do something longer.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 2:34am

Yeah, that Hal Prince assembly line was horrible.

And how did they choose the shows for the assembly line? Were Company, Follies, and Candide included?

Updated On: 6/12/06 at 02:34 AM

[sondwisenheimer]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 2:48am

Never has a tribute from the Tony's looked more like a bad sequence from the Oscars than this one.

[TLKfan]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 3:02am

Haha. Yeah I'd agree. It was...interesting and strange, to say the least.

[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 3:09am

Maybe they would have put a little more effort into the sequence had Prince hopped on a jet for that long 2 hr flight to recieve the award in person. He snubbed them a bit, and I think they snubbed back.

[TLKfan]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 3:32am

Yeah that was strange that he wasn't there. I think he should have been there and then just fly out ASAP if he needed to.

[Linds]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 7:54am

I agree that something went on without Howard noticing. I just watched it again, and Mitchell was actually still introducting them as the music began the "floating, falling" bit. Thus, Howard came in with "Floating, falling," when he should have sung "Touch me, trust me..." With all the intro stuff I doubt if he heard it. Looks like this one wasn't Howard's fault - the timing with Mitchell was ridiculous.
Updated On: 6/12/06 at 07:54 AM

[cirqueboyvegas]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 12:31pm

It is a 6 hour flight pratically from Vegas to NYC. And trust me Hal is very busy here.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 2:38pm

Oh, please, there's no damned excuse for Prince's absence. They knew way in advance, and his return might've been for 48 hours maximum. It was pitiful -- a phoned in thanks for lifetime achievement? He wasn't in the hospital; he was trying to open that Phantom for Dummies in Vegas. (I keep thinking there's a chandelier ride included). A low in an already pitiful show.

[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 3:28pm

Yeah, a six hour flight.... in the Wright Brothers plane. They have these things nowadays called jets, and I hear that the famous folks have access to them, even in obsolete Vegas. And by saying Hal " is very busy here, trust me," you make it sound as if you are a personal friend and valet to Mr. Prince. Puhlease..another person living an internet fantasy.

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 6/12/06 at 3:55pm

They should have had Hugh Panaro sing.