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Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 2:16pm

Out of all the Tony award winning or non winning performances you've seen at the Tony's, which ones are on your top 10 list?
1.JERSEY BOYS
2.WICKED
3.Evita
4.Les Miserables
5.The Drowsy Chaperone
6.Sweeney Todd (revival)
7.The Phantom of the Opera
8.CATS
9.The Pajama Game (revival)
10.Your A Good Man Charlie Brown (revival)

Well that's mine.

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re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 2:21pm

I havent seen many but i really like the Avenue Q one. Just out of interest - Did Millie do a Tony performance. Ive been looking around but can't seem to find one anywhere.

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 2:23pm

Millie did one. I remember it from years ago. They did Forget About The Boy, I believe.

I haven't seen a lot either, but I enjoyed The Secret Garden, Avenue Q, and especially Jersey Boys. That was the performance that got me hooked on the show.

What the puck?!

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 2:31pm

It did that to me too! When I saw the Tony performance of JERSEY BOYS I was hooked! I started to get interested after the Macey's parade but the Tony's made me obsessed!

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re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 2:33pm

1. Crazy For You
2. Contact
3. Rent
4. Chicago (revival)
5. Hairspray
6. Tommy
7. 42nd Street (revival)
8. The Full Monty
9. The Lion King
10. Rocky Horror Show

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re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 2:37pm

1. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
2. Sweet Charity (revival)
3. The Light In The Piazza
4. Mamma Mia
5. Hairspray
6. The Wedding Singer
7. Cats
8. Into The Woods (revival)
9. Rent
10. Les Miserables

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 3:00pm

In no particular order:

Dreamgirls
Hairspray
A Chorus Line
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
The Secret Garden
The Who's: Tommy
Gypsy (2003)
Into the Woods
Side-Show
RENT

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re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 3:08pm

1. "Turkey Lurkey Time" from Promises, Promises - 1969
2. "It's All Over"/"And I Am Telling You" from Dreamgirls - 1982
3. "We'll Take a Glass Together" from Grand Hotel - 1990
4. "24 Hours a Day" from Golden Rainbow - 1968
5. "Vodka," performed by Dorothy Loudon - 1983
6. "Step to the Rear" from How Now, Dow Jones - 1968
7. "Rose's Turn" from Gypsy - 2003
8. "Kicking the Clouds Away" from My One and Only - 1983
9. "You're Never Fully Dressed"/"Easy Street"/"Tomorrow" from Annie - 1977
10. "Movie Star"/"Gorgeous" from The Apple Tree - 1967

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

Updated On: 10/15/06 at 03:08 PM

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 3:10pm

1. Jersey Boys
2. Sweeney Todd(revival)
3. SpamAlot
4. The Drowsy Chaperone
5. Avenue Q
6. The Boy From Oz
7. La Cage Aux Folles
8. The Producers
9. Urinetown
10. Assassins

#10

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 4:40pm

Forgive me, but can someone point out to me what was so special about the Jersey Boys performance at the Tonys? It seemed very plain to me

I can recall a few that were particularly astonishing
"We'll Take a Glass Together" from Grand Hotel
"Drummin'/Taxi" from Bring in da Noise Bring in da Funk
"Circle of Life" from The Lion King
"Wilkommen" from Cabaret revival [1998]
"Rose's Turn" from Gypsy revival [2003]

"Inside every actor there is a Tiger, a Pig, an Ass, and a Nightingale. You never know which one is going to show up." -John Michael Higgins in FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

#11

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 5:26pm

1. Jersey Boys
2. The Wedding Singer
3. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
4. The Drowsy Chaperone
5. Avenue Q
6. You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
7. The Producers
8. Hairspray
9. Rocky Horror Show
10. Rent

#12

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 5:38pm

Does Hugh Jackman's opening performance of "One Night Only" count?

#13

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 7:03pm

Those are all great choices, but I have to add the performance from the revival of Guys and Dolls with Peter Gallagher, Josie De Guzman, Faith Prince, and Nathan Lane. They sang "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" and "Guys and Dolls". It gets me up on my feet everytime I watch it.

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#14

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 7:39pm

The Ragtime Tony performance still gives me chills. My other favrites would be The Scarlet Pimpernel (Into the Fire, which is an amazing song), Titanic, The Dead, Side Show, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Wicked.

#15

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 8:30pm

Thanks to the site that I will not name I have been able to see past performances.

1. One Night Only- Hugh Jackman
2. Both A Chours Line performances
3. Light in the Piazza
4. Gypsy(2003)
5. Jersey Boys
6. The Full Monty
7. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
8. Avenue Q
9. Spelling Bee
10.Boy From Oz

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#16

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 8:35pm

If it counts, I adored the Diva Medley from the 52nd Tonys.

Note that you did not once see Betty Buckley and Patti LuPone stand next to eachother, how much more diva can you get???

Bosom Buddies, that's an amazing one! I didn't think about it!

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Updated On: 10/15/06 at 08:35 PM

#17

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/15/06 at 9:16pm

1."I Hope I Get It"-A Chorus Line, 1976
2."Be Italian"-Nine, 1982
3."We'll Take A Glass Together"-Grand Hotel, 1990
4."Bossom Buddies"- Performance by Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur in 1987.
5."It's All Over/And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"-Dreamgirls, 1982
6."Ragtime"-Ragtime, 1998
7.Tribute to Michael Bennett ("I Hope I Get It," "Music and the Mirror, "One Night Only," "Dreamgirls") from 1988 broadcast.
8."Willkommen"-Cabaret, 1967
9."Shall We Dance?"-The King and I revival, 1996
10."Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat"-Guys & Dolls revival, 1992.

#18

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/16/06 at 12:22am

i havnt seen many .
but id have to say wicked definatly
one word . amazing

#19

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/16/06 at 12:55am

Don't fret... the Wicked performance was not one of my favorites... unless we're talking about ones to watch repeatedly when in need of a good laugh.

I absolutely adored the Sweet Charity performance from the 1986 Tony Awards with Debbie Allen. She dances for about 30 seconds, sings two lines, and exits. But it was amazing. Watch it on the unmentionable site.

#20

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/16/06 at 3:58am

Sorry, this is a baker's dozen:

Zero Mostel, "Comedy Tonight"
Zero Mostel, "If I Were a Rich Man"
Barbara Harris, "Oh, to Be a Movie Star/Gorgeous"
James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, and company, The Great White Hope
Scott Jarvis, William Duell, B.J. Slater, "Momma Look Sharp"
William Daniels, Virginia Vestoff, "Yours, Yours, Yours"
Carol Channing, "Before the Parade Passes By"
Mary Martin, Robert Preston, "Nobody's Perfect"
Mako and company, "The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea"
John Cullum, Judy Kaye, Imogene Coca, Kevin Kline, and company, "On the Twentieth Century/Together"
Angela Lansbury, Bea Arthur, "Bosom Buddies"
Dorothy Loudon, "Broadway Baby"
Alfred Drake, "Where Is the Life That Late I Led?"

Updated On: 10/16/06 at 03:58 AM

#21

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/16/06 at 10:48am

I've always been a fan of Kathi Moss' "Be Italian". Whatever happened to her? She was great!

#22

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/16/06 at 11:02am

1. Ragtime
2. Dreamgirls
3. Kiss of the Spider Woman
4. Assassins
5. Les Miserables
6. RENT
7. Nine (revival)
8. A Chorus Line
9. Sweeney Todd (revival)
10. Gwen Verdon performing "Whatever Lola Wants"

"A New Argentina" from Evita also deserves mentioning.

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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

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#23

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/16/06 at 11:46am

We'll Take A Glass Together with Michael Jeter and Brent Barrett was perhaps the best dance number in Tony Awards History. Although typically I am not a fan of Tommy Tune, I cant think of anything off hand besides that performance that makes me want to stand and applaud for hours. Brilliant, just plain Brilliant!

#24

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/16/06 at 11:55am

I believe Tommy Tune provided some of the best Tony numbers. I am always awestruck when I see the tambourine dance during "Be Italian," it is simply exhilarating and brilliant staging. Though I agree nothing beats Michael Jeter's scene-stealing turn during "We'll Take A Glass Together."

#25

re: Top 10 favorite Tony Award performances

Posted: 10/16/06 at 12:13pm

Although I have been watching the Tony broadcast for many years, and have also seen all of the "Lost Treasures" videos - nothing beats seeing the performances live. I was able to attend the 2002 and 2003 award shows. Although Urinetown with "Run Freedom, Run" and Hairspray with "You Can't Stop the Beat", were high energy and fun, the performances that still stick out the most in my mind from those two evenings were Brian Stokes Mitchell singing "The Impossible Dream" and Bernadette Peters doing "Rose's Turn". The audience gave each of them a standing ovation after their performances.

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