Sara Ramirez misses first performance as a Tony Winner
Sara Ramirez misses first performance as a Tony Winner
#0Sara Ramirez misses first performance as a Tony Winner
Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:23am
So I saw Spamalot last night, very excited to see the Tony-winning Best Musical and who's not there? Sara Ramirez! What the...? She just won a freakin' Tony and she doesn't show up for her first performance? Man. And her understudy sucks. This was my first time seeing Spamalot, I was very disappointed. Anyone know why she was MIA last night?
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Updated On: 6/8/05 at 08:23 AM
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#1re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:25amI know you're disappointed, but she's been really sick. Didn't you hear her hacking up there when she won?
Ebonic_Singer
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/18/04
#2re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:26amAwwww...that shtinks. To be sick on Tony night.
#3re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:29amThis is going to become her "responsibility to the fans" debate. Why don't we toss stage door habits in there, too? Save ourselves time.
Cabchic
Leading Actor Joined: 8/1/03
#4re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:30amI assume they didn't make a change in the Diva's lament song? Since Sara wasn't there to sing it. I'm curious if they will change the I've won no Tony award line.
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#5re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:30am
She's probably still hung over from the after party.
It'll pass :)
#6re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:31am
S'cusi, Wanna... but that came off as extremely ignorant and RUDE. Sara is SICK, damnit. And if you were watching the telecast AT ALL, you would know that. Hacking and sniffling, accepting the award and still somehow managing to belt the hell out of "Find Your Grail" later on? That earns kudos from me. Not criticism from Joe Nobody. I'm sure you were majorly disappointed, but please think of someone but yourself. She's obviously not ready to come back yet. I'd like to see you hop right back in to 8 shows a week after a big-time viral infection.
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Updated On: 6/8/05 at 08:31 AM
Kay, the Thread-Jacking Jedi
Quando omni flunkus moritati (When all else fails, play dead...)
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#7re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:35am
That earns kudos from me. Not criticism from Joe Nobody.
I'm not saying Wanna is right to criticize this, but who the hell do you think you are? If you're going to tell someone that they're ignorant, don't do it from such a high horse - you look like an even bigger idiot. 'cause, you know, YOUR kudos are worth more than somebody else's criticism.
God, people are ridiculous early in the morning.
#8re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:35amJeez, sorry. I paid $101 for that ticket, and for me that it is a heck of a lot of money. She sounded fine to me on the Tony telecast. Didn't mean to offend anyone.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#9re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:37am
Alright... yeah. I'm sorry. That was totally out of character for me... and I admit it's early and I'm cranky. Also currently sick, so I guess I'm kinda over-empathizing... 
And I admit, I'll be majorly pissed off too if she's not back in the show in two weeks when I have my tickets. ( 6/28 )
Note to self: Cool down. THEN post.
And go blow nose...
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Updated On: 6/8/05 at 08:37 AM
Kay, the Thread-Jacking Jedi
Quando omni flunkus moritati (When all else fails, play dead...)
"... chasin' the music. Trying to get home."
Peter Gregus: "Where are my house right ladies?!"
(love you, girls! - 6/13/06)
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#10re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:46amOuch, getting yelled at by Emcee must HURT!
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#11re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:47am
Deserved, though. I submit to 10 (verbal...?) lashings. 
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Kay, the Thread-Jacking Jedi
Quando omni flunkus moritati (When all else fails, play dead...)
"... chasin' the music. Trying to get home."
Peter Gregus: "Where are my house right ladies?!"
(love you, girls! - 6/13/06)
#12re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:47amI'm not a morning person.
QueenMuppet
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/29/04
#13re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:49am
'Why don't we toss stage door habits in there, too?'
Yes, let's! She really is the biggest DIVA at the stage door! 
QM
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BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#14re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 8:50amLOL, I was late for my last full day of school...I am not a morning person, either. I was talking with that reporter last night and we were talking about how people working in the theatre stay up late and sleep in. She can never get an interview before 11 AM.
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sports620
Stand-by Joined: 6/10/04
#15re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 9:44am
They did in fact change the lyric..
She sang something like, with all our tony awards i'm still in and out of betty fords..
I wonder if Sara will sing that line also...
Cabchic
Leading Actor Joined: 8/1/03
#16re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 9:50am
My guess is they will make it more subjective when she comes back, like I wona Tony award but I'm still in and out of Betty Fords.
I was at the Tonys and I can say she was sick as a dog. I saw her backstage after rehearsal and she was coughing quite a bit. Drinking a lot of water.
twogaab2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/19/03
#17re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 9:53am
Keep in mind guys that on the Tony broadcast her vocals were pre recorded. This is peak allergy season for singers who are suseptable to them. So cut her some slack. Someday, you may be in this position also.
TWOGAAB
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#18re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 9:55am
Let's remember her speech, people!
"I'd like to thank Claritan, and I'd like to thank my doctors"
This was said after she hacked up a cough, and later said to the cast of Spamalot "I miss you guys".
Obviously, she hasn't been feeling well. It's not like she's taking the award and running with it.
More kudos to her, knowing she was sick as a dog, and still managed to make me a fan (I had never heard her before) by performing on the Tony's!
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"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
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#19re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 10:01am
These are the kind of posts that make me insane!!! This is the part I like:
She just won a freakin' Tony (that she probably didn't even deserve but that's debatable)
Then he goes on to say he's never seen the show before last night...so let me translate:
"I have no idea what I'm talking about, as I've never seen her perform the role, but I know she's no good in it."
God, thatre people can be such jerks.
sports620
Stand-by Joined: 6/10/04
#20re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 10:02am
She is a wonderful performer!
I just wish the people at Spamalot would have realized that they need to have a semi comparable standby for when she is out.
#21re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 10:11am
Her vocals were not pre-recorded, as she did a completely different thing at the end than she normally does and came in rather late on the "look left/right" ad-lib line as she had to take a fairly visible swallow in order to sing again.
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#22re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 10:18amThere was a time when performers went on even if they were on their death bed. I take it those days are gone. Can you imagine Merman ever saying to Jack Klugman,"I'm gonna call in sick....for me and for you."?
mikewood
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/05
#23re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 10:22am
Didn't you hear her hacking up there when she won? >>>.
No, that was me hacking when she won.
Alas, poor [EDIT: INSERT PREFERRED FEATURED ACTRESS NOMINEE HERE].....
psst....IT'S A JOKE!
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Updated On: 6/8/05 at 10:22 AM
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#24re: Sara Ramirez misses first performance after winning her Tony
Posted: 6/8/05 at 10:30amThe joke would make sense if Sutton was nominated for a Featured Actress.
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