The Official TONY Awards Thread- Page 6
The Official TONY Awards Thread
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#126The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:27pmThey have five minutes to sell the show to a national audience to lead up to their tour and this is what they decided to do? Glad I never saw this..
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blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#127The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:27pm96, 000 flips
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#128The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:27pmWhoever chose that as the song they would perform should be fired from their life.
zamedy
Broadway Star Joined: 6/27/07
#129The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:27pmThis is definitely not making me regret not seeing BRING IT ON. I'm bored.
pacificnorthwest
Broadway Star Joined: 5/29/03
#130The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:27pm
re: Opening Number. A big bust.
I loved it, as did most on the board it seems.
But am curious for details why you didn't?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#131The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:28pm
I had 96,000 drinks before I saw BRING IT ON. After that performance, I'm thinking maybe that's why I liked it....
Regardless, I feel like it didn't do it justice. It was fun.
Updated On: 6/9/13 at 08:28 PM
#132The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:28pm
Was that the sequel to In The Heights?
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
Updated On: 6/9/13 at 08:28 PM
Broadway Joe
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/15/10
Toowylde
Swing Joined: 10/25/03
#134The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:29pmI loved Bring It On and this was NOT the number I would have chosen at all. It was way better than this.
finebydesign
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/17/07
#135The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:29pm
Judith Light was so great.
I saw In the Heights and even though all the music sounds pretty much the same and the set it is hideous, they had better stuff to present. They were certainly given a great opportunity there. My only regret is I'm watching this live and unable to fast-forward my TIvo.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#136The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:30pm
Opening number:
Unfocused. A mishmash. Horrible song, awful lyrics. Who wrote that tripe?
donte7162004
Understudy Joined: 7/12/10
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#138The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:31pmZZZZZZ.zzzzz.zzzzz.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#139The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:31pmI'm liking the introductions of each performance by current Broadway shows.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#140The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:32pmI was lucky enough to see the opening number the morning in the theater. It was amazing there and I thought it translated well to the TV screen. I LOVED it.
#142The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:33pmI personally LOVED the opening number and thought NPH NAILED it! I was a cheerleader and so was my daughter, but that number from "Bring it On" was NOT good in my opinion! They all looked so old too! Yeah- I just said that.
#143The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:33pmIt's so big of Alan to present, given the unforgivable snub.
finebydesign
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/17/07
#144The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:33pm
So wait, "characters" from shows are introducing stuff in "character"?? Argh. So weird to see Musfasa with a mic.
NPH should fire his joke writer. You can hear the audience faking it.
#145The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:34pmHahah nice one Alan.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#146The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:35pmWas it me, or did Scarlett totally roll her eyes and drop the class for a moment?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#147The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:35pmSO happy for Gabriel Ebert! Definitely the most deserving nominee in that category.
#148The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:35pm
Good for Gabe.
But Keith Carradine should have won.
Musicaldudepeter
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/10
#149The Official TONY Awards Thread
Posted: 6/9/13 at 8:36pmOh God this is bad. Gabriel Ebert winning for featured, and so early on. This means they've honored Ebert and not going to honor Bertie perhaps....? :-/
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