Tony Question

[StateOfJade]

Tony Question#0

Posted: 5/12/04 at 10:08pm

I know that some musicals perform, but I was wondering if scenes from plays are also performed during the show?

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[cvapb]

re: Tony Question#1

Posted: 5/23/04 at 9:50pm

I don't think that they perform scenes from plays. I am pretty sure it is only musicals.

[CapnHook]

re: Tony Question#2

Posted: 5/23/04 at 9:55pm

Last year they showed very brief video clips.

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[BroadwayDiva]

re: Tony Question#3

Posted: 5/23/04 at 9:58pm

Do plays get to do anything?

I don't really think it's fair that all the musical people get to perform, and the play people don't.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me...

[brdwaybabe052]

re: Tony Question#4

Posted: 5/23/04 at 9:59pm

I remember watching the Tonys on TV a few years back, and I saw a scene from 'Tale of the Allergist's Wife'... but that could have just been a clip... my memory is failing me.

[MargoChanning]

re: Tony Question#5

Posted: 5/23/04 at 10:02pm

They've done scenes from plays in the past and it really just doesn't work -- you can do a song/production number from most musicals out of context an it's totally fine, but a two minute scene from a play, in most cases is just really odd. Last year, they did these well-edited and compiled montages of scenes from each of the plays (sort of like movie trailers), with voice over narration giving a nice little synopsis of the plot and the play's themes that worked very well. While the goal of the Tonys is a celebration of LIVE theatre, these clip packages worked better for the plays than any live presentation they've ever been able to come up with before, so I hope they repeat them again this year.

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