Snarkiest Tony Award acceptance speech?- Page 4

[JSquared2]

Posted: 5/1/19 at 12:53pm

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...?

[Scarlet Leigh]

Posted: 5/1/19 at 4:34pm

Not an acceptance speech, but can we take a moment to honor Newarth and Lane at the 2010 Tonys? Presenting Best Leading Actor and Actress in a musical the season they were both left out for Addam's Family. RIGHTFUL snubs, that show was a hot mess and them in it, but you gotta appreciate their good humor and the writing of their jokes in it poking snarky fun at themselves and the whole snub.

[gypsy.rose.blanchard]

Posted: 5/1/19 at 5:20pm

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

[LuPita2]

Posted: 5/1/19 at 6:08pm

Jason Robert Brown's bitterness really came through when he won for Bridges. 

[Broadway61004]

Posted: 5/1/19 at 6:23pm

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.

[NYCblurb]

Posted: 5/1/19 at 6:56pm

https://www.todaytix.com/insider/nyc/posts/9-most-memorable-tony-acceptance-speeches

 

Twas a joke, lady finger.

[poisonivy2]

Posted: 5/1/19 at 7:41pm

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.

[nativenewyorker2]

Posted: 5/1/19 at 9:24pm

They didn’t get along? Reasons?

[LuPita2]

Posted: 5/1/19 at 10:02pm

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". 

[devonian.t]

Posted: 5/2/19 at 2:07am

I love vintage threads!

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 5/2/19 at 2:27am

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

[devonian.t]

Posted: 5/2/19 at 2:52am

Nothing much happened last Tuesday.

[imeldasturn]

Posted: 5/2/19 at 6:35am

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.

[goodlead]

Posted: 5/2/19 at 11:16am

Back around 1971, when Sondheim won his first Tonys for "Company," he said on accepting one award, "I"ve never thought much of these awards, but it's nice to win one."  Then he won a second award (perhaps there was one for lyrics and one for music) and said, "It's even nicer to win two."


 

[Music_Maker42]

Posted: 5/2/19 at 11:24am

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.)

[imeldasturn]

Posted: 5/2/19 at 11:43am

Music_Maker42 said: "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.)"

Absolutely! 

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 5/3/19 at 12:04am

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.

[ariel175]

Posted: 5/3/19 at 6:18pm

This isn't from the Tonys but when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice won Oscars for Best Original Song with "You Must Love Me" from Evita, it was the year The English Patient dominated all the categories.  Lloyd Webber's opening line, "Well thank heavens there wasn't a song in 'The English Patient' is all I can say!" is one of my favorites.