WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS

[munkustrap178]

Whoopi Goldberg to "host" Tonys#1

Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:01am

per The View, right now

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[CapnHook]

WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#1

Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:01am

She just announced on the View!!

"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

[FOAnatic]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#2

Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:03am

THREAD MERGE!!!!!!

"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde

[CapnHook]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#2

Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:03am

Wow, we both started threads at the same time and they got merged, haha.

"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

[Midnight Radio]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#3

Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:04am

Hah how many threads can we all make about the same topic at once

[munkustrap178]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#4

Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:04am

The caps are a big much for me...I generally prefer to not feel like I'm being screamed at when I read the title of a thread.

But, what was weird.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[broadwayfan7]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#5

Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:05am

Heard her announce it too. So glad for her!

"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."

[LuPonatic]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#6

Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:06am

I'm glad they are doing a host, I didn't like it without one.

[uncageg]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#7

Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:20am

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/117539.html

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[Trekkie2]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#8

Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:21am

YES! I love her! She's hysterical, and was the best Oscars host in recent memory.

"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell

[LuPonatic]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#9

Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:27am

I was hoping for Ellen, but this is good, too

[ACL2006]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#10

Posted: 5/8/08 at 11:27am

YEAH WHOOPI!!!!!!!! She'll make a great host!! Good choice!

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

[fnyboi88]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#11

Posted: 5/8/08 at 12:03pm

Yay!!!

Broadway Shows I've Seen: Hairspray, Chicago, Little Shop of Horrors (2003), The Wedding Singer, Spamalot, Riverdance, Rent, Beauty and the Beast, Spring Awakening, Wicked, Legally Blonde, Phantom of the Opera, Sweet Charity (revival), Drowsy Chaperone, The Lion King, Dreamgirls(2010 Tour).

[B3TA07]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#12

Posted: 5/8/08 at 12:05pm

Holla

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#13

Posted: 5/8/08 at 12:09pm

Actually she saod she would be "narrating" and didn't want to use the "H" word.
She said they would be celebrating all the shows not just the nominees, I quess this is to avoid the LEGALLY BLONDE debacle of last year.

[Testing1232]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#14

Posted: 5/8/08 at 12:14pm

Great choice !!! LOVE IT !

[Vespertine1228]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#15

Posted: 5/8/08 at 12:19pm

This makes me happy. I really think it's most enjoyable if a single person is at the helm.

[uncageg]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#16

Posted: 5/8/08 at 12:21pm

I wish I could be there. I was offered a ticket but can't make it to NYC at the time of the awards.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[BustopherPhantom]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#17

Posted: 5/8/08 at 12:24pm

This was an interesting way to start my day.

Good. And if they're actually celebrating all the shows for once, I'm a very happy guy.

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[jigblob]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#18

Posted: 5/8/08 at 12:26pm

aw i was hoping for rosie....

[H.Higgins]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#19

Posted: 5/8/08 at 12:28pm

I think this is a great choice. I imagine she'll be fantastic!

[Dre2387]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#20

Posted: 5/8/08 at 12:33pm

I am so excited!!!!

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~Curtains~
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[James885]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#21

Posted: 5/8/08 at 12:44pm

Great news! I really hated the host-less telecasts. And I'm glad they're celebrating all the shows this year. That's what the Tonys are about: a celebration of Broadway.

"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#22

Posted: 5/8/08 at 12:54pm

I was hoping for Ellen, but this is good, too

What does Ellen have to do with Broadway?

I was actually hoping for Kristin Chenoweth, since she has achieved Hollywood fame now and is a recognizable face. She was a riot hosting the Drama Desks last year.

But Whoopi will be great.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[ShuQ]

re: WHOOPI GOLDBERG TO HOST TONY AWARDS#23

Posted: 5/8/08 at 1:00pm

GREAT news!!! FINALLY CBS can make a smart decision