Tony performance 'grades'
Tony performance 'grades'
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#0Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:17pm
How would you grade this year's Tony performances? Mine would go something like this:
DRS: B
La Cage: B
Spelling Bee: A-
Piazza: A-
Spamalot: B+
Sweet Charity: C+
#1re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:21pmyeaah Christina Applegate wasnt doing too well in my opinion. Does she really sing like that all the time? I mean I dont think shes awful, shes good, but not as good as I expected her to be. I'm not really familiar with Sweet Charity, but I was expecting a really powerful singer.
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#2re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:22pmI'll bet they were better live. Some of those camera angles were ANNOYING.
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Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#3re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:23pm
If you compare the shows to "A New Argentina" from Evita in 1980, they all rate an "F". Very few Tony performances have been able to generate that kind of buzz.
Rumor has it that immediately after the Evita Tony performance, phone lines in Manhattan were jammed for two hours straight.
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Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#4re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:24pmI wasn't expecting much from Christina Applegate. She delivered a much stronger performance than I thought she would. I was pleased and I'm sure I had a big, cheesy grin throughout her performance. Now I am 100% positive that I must see Sweet Charity this summer.
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#5re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:24pm
Cut down version of mine is:
La Cage- A+
Piazza-A
Spam.- A
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#6re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:25pm
Just so you know SallyBrown.
Charity isn't a singing role. It was written for Gwen Verdon, an amazing performer, but she had a very limited range. This role has been played by some Broadway legends not known for their singing voices.
Christinas voice is just fine for the role!
#7re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:25pm
I thought most (not all) shows fared better than last year:
DRS: B-
La Cage: B+
Spelling Bee: A
Piazza: A
Spamalot: B
Sweet Charity: D (My boyfriend actually asked if this was a professional production)
#8re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:26pm
ahhh thank you ljay, I figured that that would be the case. Makes sense thank you thank you
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hypertruffle
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/22/05
#9re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:27pm
If you compare the shows to "A New Argentina" from Evita in 1980, they all rate an "F"
Wasn't that performance lip synced? Not to sound rude, I like Evita. I bought it recently and play it daily.
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#10re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:29pmWhether or not Christina's voice is ok for the part or if she's supposed to be able to sing or whatever...she didn't do much for herself or the show with the performance.
-Anyone want to turn anarchist with me?"Bless you and all who know you, oh wise and penguined one." ~YouWantItWhen????
#11re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:32pmIf you watch it on Broadway's Lost Treasures, yes, EVITA's "A New Argentina" is lip synched. But still amazing anyway.
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#12re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:32pm
DRS: B
La Cage: B+
Spelling Bee: A-
Piazza: A-
Spamalot: B
Sweet Charity: C+
"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."
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#13re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:32pm
Hmm...
I like Bobby's grades except I'd switch Spamalot and DRS and give Charity a bit higher.
Eh, it'll look like this:
DRS: B
Piazza: A
Charity: C+
La Cage: B+
Spelling Bee: A
Spamalot: B-
And I only give Spamalot that high only because it was nice to see someone better than Sara's understudy singing. I thought the number didn't work at all on TV.
~Steven
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#14re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:32pm
DRS: B
La Cage: B+
Spelling Bee: A+
Spamalot: B
Piazza: B
Charity: C-
What the puck?!
#15re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:36pm
DRS: B
La Cage: B
Spelling Bee: B
Spamalot: A-
Piazza: A
Charity: D
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holdmetouchme
Chorus Member Joined: 5/3/05
#16re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:36pm
The "purpose" of these mini productions is to entice those in a national audience to see these shows. Based on this premise (and I haven't seen any of these productions)
Definitely want to see
Spelling Bee
Piazza
Would consider seeing
La Cage
Thought I'd like to see but having second thoughts
Spamalot
DRS
Thought I's like to see but having 2nd, 3rd & 4th thoughts
Charity
Perhaps it was not a dream.
lau22
Swing Joined: 6/6/05
#17re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:37pm
Spamalot: A+
DRS: A
Piazza: B+
La Cage: B
Spelling Bee: B-
Sweet Charity: C+
#18re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:38pm
DRS:B+
La Cage:A
Spamalot:B+
Charity: D (uggh Christina sucked)
Spelling Bee:C
Piazza:C
Updated On: 6/6/05 at 06:38 PM
#19re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:41pm
Oh! My grades, totally forgot:
Piazza: A
Spelling Bee: A
DRS: B
La Cage: B (only because of the fabulous Les Cagelles, thanks in no part to the horrible camera editing)
Spamalot: B-
Sweet Charity: C
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
#20re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:43pm
DRS: D
La Cage: A
Spelling Bee: C
Piazza: A
Spamalot: D
Sweet Charity: C
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#21re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:45pm
ugh! dont let the DRS performance make you not wanna see it! this show is amazing and there are so many elements that led up to it not sounding as good as it could have. spamalot was just bad cuz i thought the music was boring lol....my grades
Spelling Bee- A
Sweet Charity- pfft D
La Cage- A-
DRS- B+ but during the actual show its like A+++++ 
Spamalot- ick...C lol.
every time i see tim curry i think frank n furter. lol.
#22re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 6:50pm
DRS: B
Spamalot: A
Charity: C-
La Cage: D
Spelling Bee: B-
I thought all the performances sucked last night. They were all the wrong songs, too much dancing and not enough singing. None of the stars except Norbert and Christina were really showcased/ They seemed obsessed with featuring large groups of people this year more than in past years. I would have loved to have seen La Cage do the same thing it did in 1983 as that was much better.
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#23re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:07pm
I'm guessing that SPAMALOT is fantastic live b/c the performance last night, to me, was not bad at all. I know all the men did was sort of bumble around and look stupid. I think they were the reason it was not-so-well received.
Was Sara wearing a different costume than she normally wears as "Lady of the Lake"? Maybe I have only seen her in one of her costumes. Anybody clarify? Thanks.
Besides SPELLING BEE (please somebody tell me WHAT IN THE HELL was up with the Reverend Al Sharpton, please! I am way out of the loop, I guess.), LA CAGE, & maybe PIAZZA, I'd like to not think about the others.
#24re: Tony performance 'grades'
Posted: 6/6/05 at 7:22pm
Spelling Bee: B
Piazza: A
DRS: A
La Cage: B-
Spamalot: B-
Charity: D
And a question about "A New Argentina" on DVD. Was this really lip-synched at the Tonys or is the DVD's sound just "off"? I only ask because it sure looked like Patti was singing her heart out. Thanks.
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