Tony Award performances - standing ovation

[binau]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 2:07am

Does every performance receive a standing ovation during the TONY awards?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 2:09am

No.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 2:13am

Almost never...

[binau]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 2:14am

Oh cool. So looking at what appears to be Bernadette's standing ovation for her performance of "Rose's Turn", (Well at least in the orchestra), it actually meant something?

Did Patti get a standing O for her Gypsy performance?

[Lumen2]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 2:27am

She got a standing ovation because she was incredibly ill and still performed amazingly. That's Bernadette for you.

[legally_popular]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 2:37am

Yeah, and Patti's Gypsy performance got a standing O too last year.

There weren't any standing ovations for any performance at this year's Tony Awards, but Angela Lansbury and Jerry Herman got ones when they received their trophy.

[being.jeremiah]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 2:39am

The opening number and the NPH's Eleven O'Clock Number got well-deserved standing ovations.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 2:41am

Aside from the aforementioned standing o's for LuPone and Peters, I remember the cast of The Lion King receiving one when they performed Circle of Life back in 1997.

[binau]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 2:42am

Cool :), thanks.

[minicko88]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 2:56am

If I'm correct I believe Brian Stokes Mitchell got a standing O when he sang The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha...

[blaxx]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 3:15am

^^^ Just from a dozen people or so.

[singtopher]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 9:18am

I distinctly remember the LION KING S.O.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 10:29am

Exactly. A standing ovation from Tony Awards audiences is a rare thing. You never see them except for the above mentioned performances.

On occasion, you WILL see the handful of people that do stand up after a certin number, but its only a few people and not the entire audience.

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 12:26pm

Last year, there was also a standing ovation when they brought the original and current casts of Rent to perform "La vie Boheme" and "Seasons of Love", but that was a special tribute to honor the closing of its twelve-year run on Broadway.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 8/3/09 at 4:36pm

And Dorothy Loudon doing "Broadway Baby" and "Vodka"... oh wait... nevermind. It was all in her head!

"Betcha didn't know what ya had when you wrote this one, huh, Steve?"

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