Tony dress rehearsal
Tony dress rehearsal
#1Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:13am
I appear to be watching it, courtesy of: http://tinyurl.com/6m5pqx (I converted it to a TinyURL, but it's from the Tony awards website; I promise I'm not sending you anywhere suspect!)
If I ever got the chance, I would totally love to get drunk with Julie White and Michael Cerveris. :3
#3re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:19am
WOW. Thanks!!
p.s.: this is hilarious.
"My name's Lenny. What's yours?"
Updated On: 6/15/08 at 09:19 AM
temms
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/04
#4re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:24am
I love how they have boards with celebrity photos sitting in the seats! I presume for camera rehearsal, but it's very funny nonetheless.
And I notice that they are saying "Macbeth" and not "Scottish Play". I guess Radio City isn't technically a theatre...
Updated On: 6/15/08 at 09:24 AM
#5re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:24am
For comparison after the actual awards...
Best Book of a Musical - In The Heights
Best Revival of a Play - Macbeth
Best Lighting Design of a Play - August: Osage County
Best Lighting Design of a Musical - The Little Mermaid
Best Costume Design of a Play - The 39 Steps
Best Costume Design of a Musical - In The Heights (yet they played "Small World" from Gypsy as he accepted the award.)
Best Sound Design of a Play - Rock 'n' Roll
Best Sound Design of a Musical - South Pacific
Best Scenic Design of a Play - August: Osage County
Best Scenic Design of a Musical - Young Frankenstein
Best Actress in a Play - Laurie Metcalf, November
Best Featured Actor in a Play - Bobby Cannavale, Mauritius
Best Direction of a Musical - Sunday in the Park with George
Best Score: Little Mermaid
Best Direction of a Play - The 39 Steps
Best Play - August: Osage County
Best Revival of a Musical - Grease
Updated On: 6/15/08 at 09:24 AM
#6re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:28amSome speeches actually sound sort of legit...?
"My name's Lenny. What's yours?"
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#7re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:31amThis is really fun! The silliness of it all just further cements my love for Cerveris.
Now, mother always said that whenever you hear a strange, frightening, and potentially life-threatening ghostly chant coming from the dark woods that there's one thing that you should do: Not wake the others and go investigate it alone...
#8re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:32amAH! It won't work for me!
Madame Morrible: "So you take the chicken, now it must be a white chicken. The corpse can be any color. And that is the spell for lost luggage!" - The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken
#9re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:33amHey, since we're watching this, does that mean they'll stream the actual awards too? That would save me watching the California CBS stream on the TVU Player.
"My name's Lenny. What's yours?"
#10re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:35amHeee... "If you have a pager, please do yourself a favor and get a cell phone. People are starting to talk about you..."
Now, mother always said that whenever you hear a strange, frightening, and potentially life-threatening ghostly chant coming from the dark woods that there's one thing that you should do: Not wake the others and go investigate it alone...
#11re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:36am
...and it ended with "two huge knockers". :)
Hopefully this will be streaming throughout the day and it'll be as interesting as that guy's conversation at the Drama Desk Awards intermission.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8JqfZ3OVio
Updated On: 6/15/08 at 09:36 AM
#12re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:38am
besty - I've been told that this link will indeed be streaming the actual award ceremony later. But I'm still keeping TVU on standby, just in case. 
#13re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:45am
They're showing actual performances now. I'm assuming the actual awards show will go in this order also.
Performance: Lion King
Monologue: Whoopi Goldberg
Award: Best Actress in a Play presented by Laurence Fishburne
Performance: Cry-Baby
More Whoopi
Award: Best Featured Actor in a Play presented by Laura Linney
Performance: Passing Strange
Award: Best Direction of a Musical presented by John Lithgow
Performance: Gypsy (Everything's Coming Up Roses)
Whoopi: Phantom of the Tony's
Theatre Memory: Laura Bell Bundy
Julie Chen: The Year in Plays
Award: Best Score presented by Duncan Sheik
Performance: South Pacific (Medley) announced by Harry Connick
Whoopi: Mary Poppins
Award: Featured Actress in a Musical presented by Kristin Chenoweth
[Break not shown on the web]
Whoopi: Presents clips from the nominated Plays
Award: Best Direction of a Play
Whoopi: Spamalot
Updated On: 6/15/08 at 09:45 AM
#14re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:46am
besty - I've been told that this link will indeed be streaming the actual award ceremony later. But I'm still keeping TVU on standby, just in case.
Yay!!!
Ooooh, performances on the stream!
"My name's Lenny. What's yours?"
being.jeremiah
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#17re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:49amBaby Simba looked like a CareBear.
Now, mother always said that whenever you hear a strange, frightening, and potentially life-threatening ghostly chant coming from the dark woods that there's one thing that you should do: Not wake the others and go investigate it alone...
#18re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:50am
What in god's name was that Rafiki just held up? Didn't look like a lion cub to me!
Aw man, performances! Yay! Has this been timed so that everyone can do their performances at rehearsal, or will shows that have a performance today just not be taking part?
#19re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:54am
Y'know, what with getting performances, and with all the stand-ins, this might actually be better than the award ceremony itself. XD
Sinead Cusack has... changed a little since I last saw her... O_O
#21re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 9:59am
I agree Weez. This is great! Too bad the real awards didn't go this fast.
EDIT: I take that back. Commercial breaks also. Although that makes sense since they have to practice the set changes also in real time.
Updated On: 6/15/08 at 09:59 AM
LuPonatic
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#22re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 10:00amI had to download a plug in, and I just missed Cry Baby...darn it!
#23re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 10:02amIt feels like I'm spoiling watching the show by watching this! But I'm doing it anyways.
#24re: Tony dress rehearsal
Posted: 6/15/08 at 10:05am
Yeah, I tell myself it's not *really* spoilery, because it's not like we're getting the winners, but my brain isn't strictly listening. But it doesn't really care either.
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