What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?

[After Eight]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#1

Posted: 5/20/12 at 11:16pm

So many posts/ threads expressing one's anger/disappointment at people being robbed of awards and nominations, from Ethel Merman to Laura Benanti to poor Bernadette Peters. It's not that I don't share such sentiments, but how about thinking positive for a change-- like the award wins that made us happy, even ecstatic?

Here are my top 3- I was on a cloud when these awards were announced. I'd be interested in hearing about the favorite moments of others as well.

1- Jerry Herman (La Cage) over Sondheim. That joyful noise you heard was my applause.
2- La Cage aux Folles over Sodden in the Dark with George for best musical. For once they got it right!
3- Julie Harris for best actress in Forty Carats. Ecstacy! If only the Morosco Theatre were still here and still playing Forty Carats! What a wonderful world it would be.





Updated On: 6/7/12 at 11:16 PM

[AC126748]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#2

Posted: 5/20/12 at 11:25pm

The most recent one that comes to mind, for me, is Jim Norton winning for The Seafarer.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[BroadwayFan12]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#2

Posted: 5/20/12 at 11:35pm

What Makes Me Happiest Is When People Don't Capitalize Every Word.

To be honest, for me it was Idina Menzel for Wicked. I was the quintessential teenage fangirl at the time and I reacted in typical fangirl fashion. I now think Tonya Pinkins gave a much better performance, but the fangirl in me is still happy for Idina.





Updated On: 5/21/12 at 11:35 PM

[After Eight]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#3

Posted: 5/20/12 at 11:41pm

^

oh.

so how did you feel about charles nelson reilly's tony for how to succeed in business without really trying?

[givesmevoice]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#4

Posted: 5/20/12 at 11:43pm

Mary Louise Wilson's for Grey Gardens.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[Far From Home]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#5

Posted: 5/20/12 at 11:53pm

Maggie Smith for Lettice and Lovage - 1990. Helen Gallagher for No, No Nanette - 1971.

[Bwaydide92]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#6

Posted: 5/21/12 at 12:01am

All of the wins for both Hairspray and Spring Awakening. Hairspray got me into theatre and Spring Awakening is my current favourite. They should both still be on Broadway because they are just amazing.

[gravity87]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#7

Posted: 5/21/12 at 12:28am

Katie Finneran for Promises, though I didn't get a chance to see her in the show. Usually I can't stand acceptance speeches, but I found that speech so moving, compelling, and heartfelt that I was so elated that she won and had a chance to deliver it. I re-watched it a few months ago, and got misty eyed.

[ljay889]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#8

Posted: 5/21/12 at 12:45am

Karen Olivo for West Side Story. I may have started jumping up and down!

[willep]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#9

Posted: 5/21/12 at 12:49am

I know I'm in a minority here, but David Hyde Pierce winning for Curtains.

Also, any that Once manages to get this year, i will be thrilled for. I really truly wish that Cristin could win Best Actress, but I know the likelihood of that is not very high at all. But if Steve would manage to win, I'd be thrilled, and also if it manages to take Best Musical.

[undercoveractor]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#10

Posted: 5/21/12 at 1:00am

Julie White for THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED

all the wins for TITANIC

[bwayphreak234]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#11

Posted: 5/21/12 at 1:09am

Sutton Foster for Anything Goes. If Once wins the Tony, I will jump for joy.

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[CATSNYrevival]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#12

Posted: 5/21/12 at 1:53am

When Avenue Q beat Wicked.

[bwayphreak234]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#13

Posted: 5/21/12 at 1:55am

^ Oh and that too of course!

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[After Eight]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#14

Posted: 5/21/12 at 5:42am

Updated On: 6/7/12 at 05:42 AM

[madbrian]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#15

Posted: 5/21/12 at 6:17am

"Julie White for THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED"


^^^THAT^^^

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[D2]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#16

Posted: 5/21/12 at 7:39am

"I said let's share the joy, not kill it."

Says the control freak killjoy.

DHP: Curtains

Avenue Q

Urinetown's "Triple Crown"

Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)

Updated On: 5/21/12 at 07:39 AM

[once a month]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#17

Posted: 5/21/12 at 8:11am

Best Play- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Best Actor- Roger Rees

Rees directed Peter and the Starcatchers, Herringbone and A Man of No Importance, 3 productions I thoroughly enjoyed, and he no longer claims his best actor award in the most recent Playbill bios.

[tazber]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#18

Posted: 5/21/12 at 8:17am

I'm also on the David Hyde Pierce wagon.

And of course both ladies for Grey Gardens, although that wasn't really a surprise so it wasn't like the kind of "happy" you feel when your underdog wins.

Into The Woods score over Phantom

La Chanze for The Color Purple

....but the world goes 'round

[EponineAmneris]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#19

Posted: 5/21/12 at 9:01am

Every Tony LES MIZ and THE PRODUCERS won

Joanna Gleason for INTO THE WOODS.

"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

Updated On: 5/21/12 at 09:01 AM

[chewy5000]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#20

Posted: 5/21/12 at 9:15am

John Napier winning Best Costume Design for Starlight Express

[castlestreet]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#21

Posted: 5/21/12 at 10:51am

Michael Jeter, Grand Hotel- what a performance, what a speech!

[ChildrenwillListen]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#22

Posted: 5/21/12 at 11:06am

There are a few for me

Idina Menzel-Wicked
Sutton Foster-Anything Goes
Memphis-Best Musical
Billy Elliot-Best Musical
Alice Ripley-Next to Normal
Katie Finneran-Promises Promises
Anything Goes-Best Revival
Hair-Best Revival

[Wynbish]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#23

Posted: 5/21/12 at 11:07am

Lin-Manuel Miranda

[GlindatheGood22]

What Tony Award Wins Made You the Happiest?#24

Posted: 5/21/12 at 11:09am

My best friend and I sit in my living room and scream at the TV every Tony night. I think the noisiest we've ever gotten was Next to Normal's win for Best Score, though we did stand up and clap for Alice Ripley and Ellen Barkin when they won.

I know you. I know you. I know you.