Snarkiest Tony Award acceptance speech? — Page 4

TheKeel said: "The Broadway documentary series that PBS did in 2004 perpetrates the myth about the Jerry Herman speech being a slam against Sondheim. They placed it immediately after they showed the finale for Sunday in the Park, and then showed Sondheim's face immediately before the speech. They might as well have posted a banner saying JERRY HATES STEVE. It was absolutely inferred, unfortunately. (Julie Andrews' delivery didn't help, either.)"



And you are reviving a 13 year old thread because...?

Glenda Jackson making a dig towards Mantello during last years Tony's

This would be more for "Snarkiest Tony Award loser speech", but when Alan Alda presented after losing earlier in the night for Glengarry Glenn Ross and talked about having written a really good speech if anyone wanted to hear it.

Andrew Garfield's "bitch please" face when Nathan Lane mentioned him in his Tony acceptance speech was pretty snarky and consistent with the rumors that the two of them did not get along.

When I saw it, Andrew was late to the curtain call by just a few seconds, but Nathan looked pissed and Andrew looked scared and mouthed "sorry".

dry2olives said: "When Rita Moreno accepted her best supporting actress Tony for her leading role in The Ritz, she said in her speech, "The only thing I supported was my bra."...

Admittedly, I was only 12 [actually I was 22; I miscounted the decades] at the time (and that was [almost] a half-century ago), but what I remember her saying is the usual thank yous, then "I would like to point out that I am the leading lady of THE RITZ and as my character, Googie Gomez, would say it (here she switched into a thick Puerto Rican accent), "The only thing I support in that show is my beads." ("Beads" was pronounced "bids", which cracked me up at the time.)

ETA Here is the clip from You Tube. If only I could remember last Tuesday as well as I recall 1976.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8nj-mNKApQ

Updated On: 5/3/19 at 02:27 AM

imeldasturn said: "When Eversole won the Tony for Grey Gardens she mentioned having to leave Hollywood because at her age she was "over the hill" and said something like "And look at me now, I'm over the hill in a role of a lifetime". Love her."

That was good. Mary Louise Wilson’s speech was very funny too. She said “I never thought I’d actually win one of these but I’m finally up here and I deserve it.” Hey she was right. (And she’d been robbed several times before.)

Have we mentioned Patti LuPone's win for GYPSY? She said something like, "It's about time. It's been 28 years!"

Honey, I realize you are Patti-p*ucking-LuPone, but most actors never win a Tony despite a lifetime of sterling work, and you had just won your (well-deserved) second. The moment called for a little noblesse oblige, if not actual graciousness.