THE OFFICIAL 2017 TONY AWARDS VIEWING THREAD — Page 25

I was so tired of Spacey's lazy hack jokes about coming out. It felt tasteless in light of the anniversary of the Pulse shooting and Pride month in general. This is a field when there are scores of openly LGBT artists and you do some dumb schtick about how *wink* I'm not really out? Bye.

You mean like Rent and Wicked and Fun Home?

"Great speech from ben. And very fast too!"

He can't tell the orchestra to cut the crap like Bette - lol

I can never "hate" a Tony Awards show, always thrilling to see Broadway in my living room. I am fortunate to be able to see several productions a year, so always have an opinion/preference for the numbers I wish these shows should perform to highlight their productions. This year, my preferred numbers were not performed, oh well.

I will say, I was very disappointed by the Dolly number - even Elegance (highlighting two nominees) would have been plus. I appreciated Patti and Christine showing what Broadway divas are all about.

Kevin Spacey was the worst Tony host ever!

The song from War Paint was awful with boring music and lyrics.

Bette Midler's speech was great. She woke up the show.

I'm sorry, but did I completely miss this Dear Evan Hansen "sweep"? It won 6 awards. Not 11 like Hamilton or 12 like Producers or even 9 like Mormon. It and Dolly combined for 10, or less than half the awards. Everything else won 2 or less, resulting in 9 different shows winning out of 24 categories. I'd actually say that's "spreading the wealth" pretty well.

Biggest Shouts of Glee from Me: the Best Director win for Indecent (truly inventive); all 4 of the Play Acting wins (although I would have been thrilled if Richard Thomas had won Featured Actor); the Actor, Featured Actress, and Book wins for Dear Evan Hansen; and even though I haven't seen Hello, Dolly! (who has the cash?), I was thrilled to see Gavin Creel finally win--love that guy!

Biggest Disappointment: the Best Play win for Oslo. I managed to catch all 4 of the nominated plays (on an out of town visit) and Oslo ranks a distant 4th for me. I found that the two Norwegian characters didn't have enough to do. I would have loved to have seen Sweat or Indecent win instead. Although I do have to say Michael Aronov kicks some much-needed energy into the piece in Act 2, and I thought Anthony Azizi was also good. But seriously, it needed to 3 hours long? I spent a lot of time wondering why Ehle and Mays had little more to do than stand around and watch with concerned looks on their faces--not enough character development.

My Controversial Opinion: the Best Director win for Come from Away was deserved. I loved Great Comet too, but let's be honest: some people say they couldn't keep up with some of the action, and many on this board have complained about sight lines. Come from Away had a tricky task for Ashley--the director had actors doubling up on roles and had to make all of this role shifting clear. The fact that he managed to make all of this potentially confusing action easy to navigate is a credit to his work with the gifted ensemble. I would have liked a 3 way tie (DEH, CFA, GC).

Caught a lot of it. Waiting for On Demand to put the 2nd and 3rd parts up. All that I have seen so far I enjoyed. Thought Spacey did a womderful job. The first part of the opening was a bit clunky but was still funny.

Would like to have seen Greif finally win an award. Of the three plays I saw I was torn between A Doll's House and Indecent. By last night I was hoping Indecent would win as the show has stuck with me since seeing it 2 weeks ago.

Yeah, Bette's speech was fun but being a fan of hers since the 80's, I just lost some respect for her with her behavior during Tony season. I am sure they could have come up with a nice production number for the awards. And did I read somewhere that she arrived late last night? Bad form, in my opinion. Just my opinions.

"Yeah, Bette's speech was fun but being a fan of hers since the 80's, I just lost some respect for her with her behavior during Tony season. I am sure they could have come up with a nice production number for the awards. And did I read somewhere that she arrived late last night? Bad form, in my opinion. Just my opinions."



Just curious as to what behavior you are referring too? As far as I can tell she only missed one award ceremony. So just curious.. besides not performing at the Tonys which as far as we know probably had nothing to do with her.. what behavior? BTW.. the full show is is already out there .. if you know how to look. One with Gavin and one without.

Updated On: 6/12/17 at 02:13 PM

Dame, I thought she was a no show for a few things. And if not, I hear she also was behind wanting to broadcast from the theater. Just my opinion but I thought she should be live at the awards in a production number.

As far as where to watch. I can wait for On Demand. I have seen a alot of it out of order online. I just like to watch it from beginning to end in one sitting. On my couch! Waiting has given me time on my day off to do a lot of laundry and make myself a nice meal for lunch and dinner!

uncageg said: "Dame, I thought she was a no show for a few things. And if not, I hear she also was behind wanting to broadcast from the theater. Just my opinion but I thought she should be live at the awards in a production number.

As far as where to watch. I can wait for On Demand. I have seen a alot of it out of order online. I just like to watch it from beginning to end in one sitting. On my couch! Waiting has given me time on my day off to do a lot of laundry and make myself a nice meal for lunch and dinner!



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Nope. Except for one thing she went where she said she would. There was one luncheon she also missed.. but I believe she was never going. When you say behavior I thought you meant like tantrums or something. BTW she has had perfect attendance... and something I do know as a fact.. the Hello Dolly company loves her. She has been very generous with all of them in every way.

DAME said: " "Yeah, Bette's speech was fun but being a fan of hers since the 80's, I just lost some respect for her with her behavior during Tony season. I am sure they could have come up with a nice production number for the awards. And did I read somewhere that she arrived late last night? Bad form, in my opinion. Just my opinions."



Just curious as to what behavior you are referring too? As far as I can tell she only missed one award ceremony. So just curious.. besides not performing at the Tonys which as far as we know probably had nothing to do with her.. what behavior? BTW.. the full show is is already out there .. if you know how to look. One with Gavin and one without.

Dame, when you say full show are you talking about the Tonys or Hello Dolly? One with or without Gavin confused me.