Tony Awards Dress Rehearsal

I'm wearing jeans.
Gettin' there about 8:30.

I am wearing jeans also but note that at times Radio City has been freezing cold and at other times, pretty warm. Bring/wear layers..you want to be comfy. (OK, I am sounding like a mom...)

For those of you that went to the dress rehearsal today, was it cold inside today? Trying to determine what I should wear tonight. :)

Was the Hedwig number awesome?

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Every number has been amazing. Idina gave the best version of starting over

Agreed Kad!! How much of 'Starting Over' is cut? Or is she doing the full song?

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Cut the beginning

The BWW Live Blogger has left out three things:

-When is Orchestrations being presented?

-What is "Violet" performing?

-When is Leading Actress in a Play being presented?

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Updated On: 6/8/14 at 12:29 PM

When is Orchestrations being presented?

During a commercial break, as are best Book of a Musical, Best Lighting, and a few others. Which is pretty egregious.

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It was the same thing last year - both Choreography and Book were given during the commercials and we just saw clips of their acceptance speeches.

I would like to really blame CBS and Les M for this... but frankly, CBS has been pretty faithful and good to the Tony's for many many years despite the ratings being mediocre (sometimes downright bad). It's a shame more people don't watch but I would like to commend CBS for sticking with the Tony's when others might have dropped them already.

Sure I would like to see more (and years ago, PBS used to telecast the creative arts awards right before the regular telecast - I remember having to switch channels at that point- but even PBS said it was too pricey and stopped)...and I might disagree with some of CBS' choices, but I don't feel comfy being too picky at this point.

Depaultheatrekid, I'm 99% sure Mitchell's speech was shown as a clip last year. They did, however, present Best Score during the broadcast last year. Probably because they were aware of the likelihood of Cyndi Lauper winning.

Gotta say that this morning was a true treat (and A LOT of Billy Porter and Karen Ziemba). And it's not a spoiler, but holy damn...JHud knocked the Finding Neverland song out of the park. Gorgeous. Sting was great too. Nice to get a little preview of the upcoming season in the show (there were clips too for some other shows). My only complaint was the Rocky bit (aside from the first few seconds). Didn't sell the show to me at all. On the other hand, I had no desire to see Gentleman's Guide (go ahead, shoot me) until today. Can't wait to actually find out the winners in just a couple of hours. Such a tease. I have to wonder how many of the "fake" winners actually win, because some of the "fakes" seemed dead on.