The Tony Awards--ABRIDGED

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 10:12am

This is the meanest abridged ever. I love it.
THE 2009 TONY AWARDS: ABRIDGED: A "Broadway Abridged" Recap

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 10:19am

Hmmm...coupla bloopers, Gil.

Liza sings a song about how to spell her name. Listen to it sometime.

And the memorial clips were to "What I Did for Love" not "Memory."

[blueroses]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 10:21am

"KID OVER OSKAR'S LEFT
SHOULDER
(is welling with tears)
(is moaning)
(is having an orgasm?)
(is... getting a blowjob right
behind Oskar Eustis?)"

Hilarious, PJ! I couldn't take my eyes off that guy. He's the same cast member who gave me a huge hug on stage when I saw the show.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 10:23am

I'm seeing it again in a few weeks. I'll look out for him.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 10:30am

loved it

[BroadwayAbridged]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 10:36am

There were (still are?) typos and errors all over this one... now imagine next year when I actually bother staying up to get it done for the next day.

And I swear--even going back over the thing in Tivo last night--that there was at least an instrumental Memory, even if it only started out like that. Not near the Tivo right now though...

By the way, I am finding it harder and harder to believe I used to watch award shows without Tivo once...


Broadway Abridged

Updated On: 6/9/09 at 10:36 AM

[yay_gerb]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 10:36am

i've never read one of these before. this is freakin hilarious.


"Anyway, the winner of West Side vs. Hair is...
(does mini Herbal Essences
commercial)
Hair."

too funny!

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 10:40am

This is basically how I viewed the Tonys. Love the NPH love all over it.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 10:41am

In the 33 Variations quote, the author wrote "they're embalmed" instead of "they're in Bonn." I find that funny.

Also, he writes "AUDIENCE (is confused at the lack of context)
(doesn't even *consider* buying tickets)"

The show is already closed.... Updated On: 6/9/09 at 10:41 AM

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 10:42am

SOUND GUY
(more snoring)

pretty much!


AUDIENCE
I still have no idea what that play is, but at least I heard them say the title in that clip! So that's good I guess?


These are hilarious!!

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 11:02am

That's Gil's best one yet.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 11:08am

We love you, Gil, despite your mistakes.

Keep on, abridgin'!

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 11:11am

This is absolutely hilarious! Much more entertaining than the actual telecast.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 11:18am

Amazing. PLEASE eviscerate Billy Elliot next.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 11:35am

Yeah, those poor nominated plays--they got, what, one line?

Oh, and Liza didn't get cut off. I was laughing because the other person had but she didn't.

Updated On: 6/9/09 at 11:35 AM

[Kad]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 11:36am

It was really embarrassing. It was about 20 seconds of the least exciting point of each play.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 11:46am

So funny!

I love the Alice Ripley speech part!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 12:24pm

The thing about the HAIR cast member was right on. I couldn't take my eyes off of him. It was like he was going through a screen test and showing a range of emotions.

I also loved this part:

"Next to Normal does a number.


It's funny to watch the INTENSITY when
you can't understand a word, nor what's going on...


And it kinda sounds like drunk people playing ROCK BAND."

[jordangirl]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 12:27pm

Yes, as the in memoraium section was starting, the music was "Memory" but the song sung by the chorus was "What I Did For Love"

[scaryclowns2232]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 12:35pm

Thank the lord I'm not the only one who noticed how huge Gregory Jbara's wife's cans are...

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 12:41pm

How could you miss them?!

That dress was a marvel of engineering.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 12:49pm

I'm going to have to re-watch the HAIR revival award part to see that guy!

Also, I thought the Jbara wife thing was more of a "Look, I won a Tony and I'm not gay! Here is my wife and these are her bit tits!" Updated On: 6/9/09 at 12:49 PM

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 1:45pm

Only had time to read the opening, and it was absolutely HYSTERICAL. Wonderful!

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 2:08pm

ANGELA LANSBURY: I haven't aged in forty years, and I'm proud to accept the OLD WOMAN NOBODY WOULD EVEN CONSIDER VOTING AGAINST award in the category of ANGELA LANSBURY AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO AREN'T ANGELA LANSBURY.

Brilliant! Thanks!

[BroadwayAbridged]

Posted: 6/9/09 at 2:08pm

"Look, I won a Tony and I'm not gay! Here is my wife and these are her bit tits!"

MTVMANN, those are hardly "bit tits".

(Yes I know a typo when I see it.)