The worst Tony Winning Performance You Have Seen- Page 2

[lakezurich]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 4:39pm

That we are not allowed to stray from the topic even a LITTLE? I mean come on, we were still discussing the Tony Awards, but we just shifted to Idina's performance.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 4:39pm

That's not the point of what I said. At all.

What, are you in such desperate need of something to do that I'm the person you've chosen to be a brat to today? Is that it?

Updated On: 4/14/08 at 04:39 PM

[Jonny boy]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 4:41pm

lucky you luvtheEmcee=-)

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 4:41pm

Oh, I know, I'm so excited.

And for lakezurich -- I was making a point. Not telling you what to do. Or anybody, but hell, I wasn't even addressing you.

Updated On: 4/14/08 at 04:41 PM

[Kalimba]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 4:43pm

Hands down, Idina. Still can't figure out how she won considering the other actresses she was up against. Let's not even talk about her horrendous Tony award appearance.

[lakezurich]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 4:43pm

Well, if that was not the intention of your comment than I apologize, but to me that is just how it came across.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 4:45pm

The Full Monty didnt win any tony's.

Updated On: 4/14/08 at 04:45 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 4:46pm

Then that's the fault of your assumption, not anything I said -- nobody else seemed to have that problem.

[lakezurich]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 4:47pm

So much for apologizing...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 4:48pm

Accepted, okay?

[lakezurich]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 4:49pm

Okay, thank you. And again I am sorry.

[Mbmusic]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 5:06pm

I just watched Idina's performance at the Tony's. What was wrong with it?

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 5:13pm

Her voice was shot, for one thing...

[lakezurich]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 5:20pm

Shot to hell. And the ending, can you spell shrieking?

[Miss Elphaba]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 5:27pm

As bad as it was, if I was in hell and forced to listen to one horrific thing for the rest of forever, i would pick that over her Royal Variety Performance any day.

Idina's okay, even good sometimes, but Elphaba is TOO BIG for her unless shes having a really, really good night. Acting and singing wise

[theaterguy11]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 5:34pm

John G Jr. from Spring Awakening.

I thought he was a weak link in a weak show. I was SHOCKED when he won.

[lakezurich]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 5:37pm

I would not want to listen to either of them for eternity EVER. The only redemptive quality about the Royal Variety version is the staging.

[sondhead]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 5:53pm

"I just watched Idina's performance at the Tony's. What was wrong with it?"

Sorry.. I know this is bitchy... but sometimes I don't think people have ears...

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 5:55pm

For me, it was John Lithgow in Sweet Smell of Success. I couldn't even figure out why he was nominated other than having a recognizable name.

Runner up would be Heather Headley in Aida. Her singing was great, but that was it. Her acting was rather so-so. When she wasn't mumbling her lines, she was speaking such a an affected inflection, it was bordering on silliness. Every time she said "RAH-DAH-MEEZ...", like Queen of the Zombies, I would almost burst out into a fit of giggles. Considering her competition (Rebecca Luker, Marin Mazzie, Toni Collette and Audra McDonald), I could only imagine the votes were split somehow allowing Heather to land on top.

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 5:57pm

I don't know that I'd call Idina Menzel a "sure thing" going into the Tonys. As I recall, Ken Mandelbaum weighed in on it and felt that Tony voters were likely to go with Tonya Pinkins or Donna Murphy, calling Menzel a "dark horse" whose odds were further hampered by being nominated alongside her co-star.

I don't know that I've seen any truly bad Tony-winning performances, but I've seen some underwhelming ones. Gretha Boston in Show Boat, for example. I loved the production and her performance was fine, but honestly she won by default. Her competition was 3 women in the same show (a revue at that). In retrospect, Wilson Jermaine Heredia was nothing special in Rent either, but maybe I shouldn't say that out loud.

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 6:01pm

I don't think Menzel's voice was so bad on the Tony performance. It was her Amazing Face Contortions that bug me.

[lakezurich]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 6:06pm

If you think her contortions on the Tonys was bad watch the Royal Variety performance!

[misschung]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 6:11pm

I was sincerely disappointed in Tonya Pinkins' Tony night performance. Ouch.

As for Tony winning? I don't know that I've actually seen a bad Tony winning performance..

Updated On: 4/14/08 at 06:11 PM

[lakezurich]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 6:14pm

But srsly though, I don't know how Idina's Tony night performance can in any way, shape, or form be considered GOOD.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/14/08 at 6:19pm

I'm certainly not judging by Tony night performances, in which there have been FAR worse than Idina. But when I saw Idina in Wicked about a month after the Tonys, I totally got why she won. Her voice was spot on, her acting was solid, and she blew the roof off the place in three huge belting numbers. Kristin was funny, but it was clear it was Idina's show and she nailed it.

Tonya Pinkins was arguably the best "actress" that season, but her voice was completely unreliable. She cracked the opening line of the show when I saw it, forcing her voice out as hard as she possibly could and it just went downhill from there. Great acting, but the performance was completely overshadowed by how often her voice cracked or completely gave out.

And as for Wilson's Angel in Rent, well, I've seen many an Angel and none played with as much affection or honesty as I'd seen in his performance. The first time I saw Rent, Wilson, Idina and Daphne were the standout performances, though there really wasn't a wink link in the entire original cast.