THE MUSICAL IS BACK- OSCARS PERFORMANCE — Page 4

Here is a snarky quote from a Best / Worst list on Moviefone:

WORST: Musical Theater

Jackman proclaimed, "The musical is back!" Sorry, dude, but not even Beyonce in a tight red spangly frock and the 'High School Musical' kids could save the Up With People-ish salute to musicals. It was a good reminder of why we don't watch the Tonys, though.

I personally liked the concept of the movie musical medley, but wasn't big on its execution. The musical construction of the medley seemed sloppy and thrown together. The various song excerpts never really seemed to fit right or transition seamlessly from one to another.

With that said, I do think the dig at the Tony's was a little harsh and off-putting. Why must we insult the Tony's because of something sloppy done at the Academy Awards?
http://movies.aol.com/oscars-academy-awards/photos/best-worst-moments

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Everyone's making comparisons between this year's Oscars ceremony and the Tonys, leading to my question of "Have any of you ever actually SEEN the Tonys?"

I would kill for the Tonys to be as entertaining as the Oscars were last night.

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Updated On: 2/23/09 at 03:47 PM

The 2004 TONYS opening is my favorite opening that they have ever had.

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I thought it was kind of nice to remind everyone that such a thing as musicals exist :) nice effort, not the greatest performance but interesting. I did get quite a kick out of the Mamma Mia/drill team bit though

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Bottom line, everyone has a different opinion about this and they are entitled to it, it's really not that serious.

It might be a little late to way in, but I'm going to do it anyway.

That was an ABORTION.

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It's absurd to me that so many people are saying "what did you expect??"

Ya know what? I expected QUALITY!

I think that is the biggest problem today, the complete and utter lack of people expecting quality. People were disappointing last year when Britney Spears had a bad performance at the VMAs and are now over the moon because she can LIP SYNC PROPERLY TO HER OWN SONGS. It's so sad.

I saw Kathy Griffin the other night and she was talking about seeing the Cher and Bette Midler shows in Vegas and she said "My ears did a double take because I heard something I haven't heard in ages coming from that stage: LIVE SINGING." This doesn't merely stretch to just people being OK with lip-syncing, but has to do more with the lowered expectations we have for the "talent" of today.

Just because the Academy compiled this montage does not mean that we need to expect lower quality. If people on a BROADWAY forum even thought it was ****, then what of the general public? Why should they have any more faith in the musical genre now?