Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
#0Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 1/25/05 at 2:07pm
Oh come on! They can't do this in NYC???
Jealous of LA
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MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#1re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 1/25/05 at 2:10pm
Awwwww. I'd really love to see this. 
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broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#2re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 1/25/05 at 2:12pm
O
MY
G-D
why on earth do I live in Fl?!?!?!
#3re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 1/25/05 at 2:12pmWhat an amazing idea. *Cursing my residence in Chicago*
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
broadway_star_tomorrow
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/04
#4re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 1/25/05 at 2:18pmFinally, some good is coming out of living in Cali.
AKA Idina Pashmina
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Type_A_Tiff: There's nothing hard about her. Broadway_star_tomorrow: Yeah. Her arteries.
#5re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 1/25/05 at 2:24pmbroadway_star_tomorrow, there is a heck of a lot of good coming from your fantastic icon! Nicely done.
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
NCGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/04
#6re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 1/25/05 at 2:25pmI think there was a 100th birthday Gershwin recording a few years ago with Audra and Brian Stokes Mitchell singing selections from Porgy & Bess.
#7re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 1/25/05 at 3:04pm
WOO-HOO! Something good in Los Angeles. YAY!
I'm totally going!
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robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#8re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 1/25/05 at 3:07pm
NCGuy, I believe PBS broadcasted it and (perhaps) it was the opening night of Carnegie Hall's season.
I remember watching it and being completely enchanted. They were WONDERFUL!
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
#9re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 1/25/05 at 3:09pmMoving to Cali in June. I may just be able to catch this - if it doesn't sell out.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
sweetiedarlinmia
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/04
#10re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 1/25/05 at 3:55pmWHAT!!!?!?? COME TO NYC!!!!! The one thing I've wanted to see since I first heard their glorious voices, and I have no way of seeing it! PBS RECORD THIS PLEASE!
Mattio98
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/03
#11re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 1/25/05 at 4:51pmI really hope this comes to NY or gets recorded.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#12re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 5/26/05 at 2:57pm
Just got my ticket to this 
Anyone else going?
romanov
Stand-by Joined: 5/6/05
#13re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 5/26/05 at 3:05pmAudra McDonald is way overexposed in NYC.
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#14re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 5/26/05 at 3:17pmThen it's a good thing this is out in LA, isn't it?
#15re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 5/26/05 at 3:46pmIn never in my life thought I'd say this, but I wish I lived in LA.
#16re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 5/26/05 at 3:48pm
I got my tickets for all the awesome stuff going on at the Hollywood Bowl this summer... Porgy and Bess, Camelot, Sondheim Birthday Celebration and Great American Women Concerts.
Yay for living in Cali!!
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#17re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 5/26/05 at 3:51pm
MEF - you do know we get CAMELOT with Jeremy Irons and your lovely lady, don't you? I'm really NOT trying to rub it in
#18re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 5/26/05 at 4:04pm
"MEF - you do know we get CAMELOT with Jeremy Irons and your lovely lady, don't you? I'm really NOT trying to rub it in"
I am aware. 
I was originally going to come out to see it, but decided against it.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#19re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 5/26/05 at 4:19pmNow there's a role McDonald is well-suited for. Lucky Californians.
#20re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 5/26/05 at 4:21pmI'll probably see this. Im in LA till the end of July. It's one weekend after the amazing Sondheim Celebration at the Hollywood Bowl.
#21re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 5/26/05 at 4:24pm
hold on. Am I the only person reeling that anyone would think Audra McDonald being overxposed in NYC is a bad thing?!?!
Now, Eden or Idina or Shoshana or Arden or...well, there's a whole list of people whose overexposure I won't fight...but Audra, there's someone who, by her very nature and talent, is incapable of being overexposed.
#22re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 5/26/05 at 4:27pm
"Am I the only person reeling that anyone would think Audra McDonald being overxposed in NYC is a bad thing?!?!"
Honey, if Audra was starring in BROOKLYN, I'd go every night.
#23re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 5/26/05 at 4:35pm
Thank you. Me, too. Now, HER rendition of "Once Upon a Time" would be worth it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#24re: Tony Winners McDonald and Mitchell to Celebrate Porgy and Bess at 70
Posted: 5/26/05 at 5:24pmbsinger - I believe all that boils down to is considering the source.
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