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Tony Dress Rehearsal

Tony Dress Rehearsal

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mattporter17
#1Tony Dress Rehearsal
Posted: 6/7/15 at 11:39am

Do they announce the winner at the Tony Dress Rehearsal? Like who's going to win the award tonight?

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n2nbaby
#2Tony Dress Rehearsal
Posted: 6/7/15 at 11:48am

No.

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RaiseYouUp
#2Tony Dress Rehearsal
Posted: 6/7/15 at 12:43pm

Do they announce a fake winner or what? I'm curious about how that works at the dress rehearsal.

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Someone in a Tree2
#3Tony Dress Rehearsal
Posted: 6/7/15 at 12:59pm

According to the live blog, they pick a random winner from the actual nominees. Michael Cerveris fake-won best actor in a musical. Chita fake-won best actress.

KathyNYC2
#4Tony Dress Rehearsal
Posted: 6/7/15 at 1:09pm

They announce all the nominees and then the envelope says "for dress rehearsal purposes only, the winner is Xx". And then one of the maybe 10 stand-ins go up and give a little speech. They need to do all that so the cameras, timing, etc go on sync. They only had to stop a couple of times throughout the show for re-dos. Otherwise it went very smoothly. 

Updated On: 6/7/15 at 01:09 PM

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mattporter17
#5Tony Dress Rehearsal
Posted: 6/7/15 at 1:41pm

"According to the live blog, they pick a random winner from the actual nominees. Michael Cerveris fake-won best actor in a musical. Chita fake-won best actress."


I don't like this fake-winner thing, if I was nominated, that would freak me out.

KathyNYC2
#6Tony Dress Rehearsal
Posted: 6/7/15 at 1:58pm

It's not so bad really. They are totally random selections...and frankly, you get a chance to clap and hear applause for your show, even if you don't ultimately win.


I noticed at one point Something Rotten was selected for a fake win of something...and the cast was in the audience waiting to perform.. and they got all excited.. I imagine it's fun to even "fake win".

ARTc3
#7Tony Dress Rehearsal
Posted: 6/7/15 at 11:28pm

Besides, some of the "fake" acceptance speeches were brilliant.


ARTc3 formerly ARTc. Actually been a poster since 2004. My name isn't Art. Drop the "3" and say the signature and you'll understand.

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LizzieCurry
#8Tony Dress Rehearsal
Posted: 6/8/15 at 9:58am

Do tell!


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