The Huffington Post: "Why the Tony Awards are Flopping on TV"- Page 3

[Virgo]

Posted: 6/7/07 at 3:34pm

Don't be an a$$ Rathnait62. The topic is "why the tony awards are flopping on tv" and SOME in this thread have said that Fantasia is being used for ratings and I simply added a small comment that they are not using her to promote the show. If she was there for ratings shouldn't she be highlighted in the tony tv spots? Um yes!

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/7/07 at 3:36pm

Actually, no one in this thread said Fantasia was being used for ratings. No one even mentioned her until (yet again) you brought her up.

[Virgo]

Posted: 6/7/07 at 3:44pm

orangeskittles, I will continue to mention anyone that I choose. I also mentioned the Oscars, Emmy and Grammy's. Just because you don't like fantasia doesn't mean the board can't mention her name. I suggest you people who don't like her simply block people who use her name because I'll talk about whomever I what. Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson, Kelly Clarkson, Syjanya, the list goes

Fantasia, Fantasia, Fantasia.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 6/7/07 at 4:19pm

I didn't say you couldn't mention her. The issue is that you blatantly lied in your last post:

"The topic is 'why the tony awards are flopping on tv' and SOME in this thread have said that Fantasia is being used for ratings and I simply added a small comment that they are not using her to promote the show."

You can choose to mention anyone you want, but don't claim it's because other people brought her up first. We can read and see for ourselves that no one did.

[me2]

Posted: 6/7/07 at 7:56pm

I like his idea of making it all about the performance. I would have loved to see those Tony Awards from the 70s.

I wrote about this topic on my blog . . . a little late apparently! And I thought I was being so smart, writing it BEFORE the Tonys. :)
Broadway Blog: Only One Night Only (The Tonys Post)

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/7/07 at 9:47pm

"Well, at least Alexis Smith did Lucy and Jessie on another Tony Awards. "

Yes but without the Bennett choreography, dancers or costume--so really what's the point. I may sound grumpy but...

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[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 6/7/07 at 9:48pm

Eh, it's better than nothing.
And wasn't it a truncated version of Bennett's choreography?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/7/07 at 10:04pm

Well the movements were very loosely based on his choreography (similar to when the three ladies of COmpany did Drive a Person Crazy for That's Singing around 1980 and they only did remnants of the original staging sadly--as that choreography is meant ot be crazy) but I'm still grumpy about it :P Even fromt he brief bootlegs of the original production you can see how wonderful the full staging of that number was.

(The exclusion of anything on the Tonys from Night Music is more upsetting--do we have ANYTHING on video of that original production??_)

[traveler2]

Posted: 6/7/07 at 11:45pm

I'm new here and live on the west coast. This whole discussion is most interesting to me because I'm the only one I know that watches the Tonys!! Except you guys. My question is this, what is the purpose of televising the Tony Awards? Is it to honor the award winners? To showcase the Broadway talent and sell tickets? Is it to generate revenue for the network? As a lover of the theater but not a full time afficiando as all of you are, I can tell you, I most certainly enjoy the performances the most and I want to see both musical and dramatic performances during the telecast. I don't want movie stars who have no connection to the theater presenting awards. They have upteen award shows of their own. It sounds like the decision makers need to decide what they want to accomplish and then determine the best way to do that because they're not succeeding the way the yare going. Broadway deserves better than this.