The Tonys 2009 - And The Winners Are.....

I enjoyed reading about it... not really many suprises though. I like that the Billy Elliot boys got the Nod but i was rooting for Gavin Creel

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yawns again to join mama. boring boring boring. gone are the days when award shows were entertaining and a genuine interest to watch... theyre all WAY too predictable now

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Haven't seen the show as yet but I meant the actual nominations and the eventual winners.
Yawwwwn!

Next To Normal!
Whats Next At The booth?
The show will be gone before summers end.

yea but only in the build up to yesterday when they spent loads on getting it known to the public. It didnt win anything like they thought it would. Its life is now limited.

I think the show will easily last the year and then close.

The Tonys will add more advance on to the show (its already getting bigger) simply because the performance was amazing on the Tonys, it walked away with Best Leading Actress and won best score over Elton John and Dolly Parton.

BE, Next To Normal and Hair will all benefit from the Tonys

the biggest looser of the night which will see a dip (or continued dip) in the Box Office is 9 to 5 which walked away without any and didnt have that many nominations to begin with.

People know 9 to 5 advance was around 4 million which is not very good, and unlike something like N2N which has a tiny running cost, 9 to 5 needs an army to keep it open.

I also thing Reasons To Be Pretty will announce its closing in the next few days and Shrek is in trouble

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Reasons cloes next Sunday 14th!

The word of mouth of the show is not great.

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I for one was totally absorbed in the Tonies last night - and on the edge of my seat, where I sat up until way past 4 am checking the results as they came up on the Tony website!

I'm not sure they were totally predictable - Billy was odds-on favourite to win just about everything - and (perfectly deservedly) lost out to NTN for score. And the tie for Best orchestrations was not really in the script either.

I can't comment too much on the awards for plays as I did not see any plays in NYC this year. But I saw most of the musicals on offer and agreed with most of the awards - though I would have given my vote to Next To Normal as Best Musical (much as I do adore BE). And to me the guy who gave the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical was not even nominated - which I thought was criminal neglect lol - Aaron Tweit in NTN. Greg Jabara was excellent in BE, but I think Aaron was astonishing.

As for how long NTN will remain open, I don't have a crystal ball, so I don't know. All I know is - if there is any justice, it will have a lengthy run. Alice's performance alone should make it a "must see" (it's one the half dozen best performances I've seen in the last 40 years!). And the show is intelligent, incredibly funny, heartbreakingly moving - and has one of the best scores to hit a broadway stage in years. If audiences don't flock to see it, especially after it's just won two the of "Big Five" Tony awards, it's time to start despairing over the future of "new" musical theatre.

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The best peformance has to go to Hair, it had no competition from any other performance! I really liked that BE did Angry Dance, it's one of my favourite bits of the show, and i think part of the reason they decided to do AD may have something to do with all the talk about the role of Billy not being a demanding one (due to 3performances a week etc.) and that routine shows off Billy really well...i enjoyed it a lot!

Btw, i havent seen the show in London since 2007, now is it my bad memory or is the choreography different on Broadway? And have these chages been implemented into the London production?

i've only been able to catch bits on YouTube, which is annoying cause i wanna see the In Memorium section

has anyone seen pal joey with Stockard channing in yet???

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