Tony Performance: AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH
Tony Performance: AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#1Tony Performance: AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH
Posted: 8/25/15 at 4:05pm
Some thoughts I had watching this:
This ran on Broadway for 581 performances. Unthinkable now. Did anyone see it?
Apparently, the Tony Awards show devoted nearly ten minutes of programming time to each new musical back in the day.
Also, apparently, back in the day you could sing the lyric "give head" on network television. Ah, the Seventies!
Enjoy:
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Updated On: 8/25/15 at 04:05 PM
#2Tony Performance: AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH
Posted: 8/25/15 at 4:10pm
Had never heard of this... Wikipedia says 325 total performances, Broadway and off-Broadway combined. Still-- wouldn't happen today.
(10 min devoted to each new musical would be awesome! Cut the paid performances from shows that have been running for 10+ years.)
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#3Tony Performance: AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH
Posted: 8/25/15 at 4:20pm
I got the number from IMBD, which states the show ran from October '71 to July '72, so the 325 performances makes more sense.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
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