TONYS Aren't Everything- Page 2
TONYS Aren't Everything
Joined: 12/31/69
#26re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:49pmSo I see Tonya has come back to start another ridiculous argument. Yes we know Tonya, we are all haters and racists.
"When you're a Jet, / You're a Jet all the way, / From your first pirouette / To your last grand jete." --Brian Kaman
#27re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:53pm
Phylicia Rashad gave the commencement speech at my college last year. Her whole speech was about 2 minutes long, where she all talked about was being a TV mom, and she was paid an obscene quantity of money for just that. Previous years speakers included Bill Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, so it was clearly disappointing to the graduating class.
So after I saw the Tonys last year, I just figured that she probably wasn't the best at making speeches.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#28re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:55pm
I am new to the TONYA postings...
But some things are not always as easily boiled down to the argument of race Tonya...it may be an easy excuse, but really, is it always the answer? In this case, NO!
#29re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:56pm
drew - tell that (your original posting) to Tovah Feldshuh. A true Broadway legend whose Tony was ripped from her hands by a TV star for ratings. And don't think it wasn't. I'm not saying Rashad is not a good actress - but we all know why she won over Feldshuh, and it wasn't because she was "better."
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Updated On: 3/30/05 at 06:56 PM
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#30re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:57pmI just wanted to take this moment to say how dissapointed I was last year with the presenters of the "Best Featured Actor in a Musical" category. "Raul Esparaza"??? Who the hell is that?!
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#31re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 6:57pmIt's not Rashad's fault she's black...but it is her fault that she comes off as an arrogant, selfish person
#32re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 7:03pmUgh, Rashad's acceptance speech last year was the most contrived and ostentatious thing I have ever heard.
4 8 15 16 23 42
Hilda, Hilda, wake up! I've invented a maneuver.
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#33re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 7:05pmSo true cream puff...hahaha can't type that name without a chuckle
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
oh go shave your facial hair!
#36re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 7:52pm
Wilson Jermaine Heredia won a tony in 96 and after he won said something like "a tony aint sh*t it doesnt guarantee work"
how many times has he worked after Rent?
2 movies not including Rent
2 tv show
1 song written for Sesame St
Updated On: 3/30/05 at 07:52 PM
#37re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 7:58pm
lol. Marilyn, you make me laugh
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
#38re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 8:03pmGhetto, I don't believe anyone ever said a Tony was a guarantee of future work. It's supposed to be a recognition of merit for the job it was won for. Theater is highly competitive - many many more people want to make a living at it than there are jobs. It's just that kind of business.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#39re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 8:04pm
everyones a little bit racist sometimes, doesnt mean we go around commiting hate crimes
sorry everytime I see the word racist I just have to sing that lol
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
lyfeisacabaret
Understudy Joined: 8/18/04
#40re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 8:07pm
It's amazing how a "discussion" about Tony's (which, by the way, was started in a most confronational manner) has dissolved into a petty argument about race (also, by the way, achieved by the same poster who began this topic). I'm sure none of us feels threatened by the fact that a black woman is successful in theatre. The preoccupation with racism is one of the reasons that it still exists. The majority of people today are not racist, and those who do harbor feelings of racism and subsequently voice that opinion or act out are so shunned by society that their views become almost comical.
Awards are nice.
People who do good things should be rewarded.
Phylicia Rashad is extremely pompous and absurd.
maybethistime
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/04
#41re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 8:55pmMaybe someone already posted this, but as said in the book, "Making it on Broadway", "the base of the Tony is plasic." -Patti LuPone
#42re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 9:39pmWhatever you feel about Rashaad, I can bet that you did NOT see her performance in A Raisin in the Sun. It was one of the most moving performances I have ever seen on a Broadway stage. She deserved that award. She also accepted it with elegance and grace. Do Not confuse Pompous with Sophistication.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"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."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
TonyaFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/04
#43re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 9:58pm
exactly justice. thats why im not worried about it. i didnt start this thread as a confrontation. i dont care what anybody thinks. i posted what i posted.if u decided to respond thats your business. and to correct some misunderstandings. i didnt say everybody's a racist and a hater. i never stated that. i said "some people on this board". not all. if it doesn't apply to u, then dont respond. and i didnt say that Tonys arent anything. I said they werent everything. a lot of people have the misconception that if it/she/he won a Tony that doesn't mean it's good. that's my opinion.
and yes Rashad's Tony was well deserved and it was a historic moment and she accepted the award with grace and class. qualities she exudes at all times because that's the type of woman she is. you may not like her.you may not love her. but she deserves her RESPECT.
"Girl, this cupcake is the jumpoff"- Adriane Lenox
#44re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 9:58pmDid you see every nominated performance in the category, Justice?
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#45re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:01pmRath, i did not. But, i didn't vote, either.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"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."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
#46re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:05pmYou all owe me three minutes of my life back for attempting to read this utter garbage of a thread.
#47re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:05pmNo, you didn't vote, Justice, but you did say definitively that she "deserved" the award. How can you know she deserved it if you didn't see the other women?
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#48re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:08pmBecause she did a great job on the stage. That proved her deserving. If she was awful and had won, then that means she wouldn't have deserved the award. i.e. IMO, Take Me Out did not deserve the Tony.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"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."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
#49re: TONYS Aren't Everything
Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:09pmBut you can't say she deserved it over the others if you didn't see them.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Videos