What a Waste: 2005 Tony Awards

Boy. Could the American Music Awards or even the People's Choice Awards be better? An unfortunate waste.

Started good with Billy...went wrong with the an overblown Hugh melody....Keri Russel?? ...That's the best Charity can do?....Sara R. won for that?....Thank god we found a replacement for Mary J. Bleigh in Aretha...Chita killing one of the composers...

Perhaps running a video of BKLYN would have been just as good.

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You and specific others on this board complaining right now are pieces of elitist scum.

Well, I enjoyed this year much better than last year. I'm glad I wasn't reading this board while I was watching most of it.

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I personally find the oscars to bomb on many occassions but that does not mean the movies nominated were bad by any means! I dont know about anyone else but I imagin it to be quite hard to perform in front of every single one of your peers (and Broadway legends!)

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Not a complete waste... but definately fell far short of what it COULD HAVE BEEN. To me, the title of this thread should be more like, "Missed the Mark: 2005 Tony Awards" or "Unfulfilled Potential"...

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I didn't think the Tonys (the show) reflected the greatness of the Broadway season. I too thought it was a bit lackluster.

And haha to Mr. Tuttle, that first post was enjoyable.

~Steven

tuttle, that was completly inappropriate. i don't think saying that the show had good points and bad points makes me "clueless." why insult me? what did i mean when talking about the actual shows on broadway? i meant that the awards part made the telecast interesting. there was a lot of filler-crap that had nothing to do with theatre, but that doesn't change the fact that it was an interesting and over-all enjoyable show. why is it necessary to hit below the belt?

Hell..you obviously have no clue what's being discussed here. Back to the sand box.

The fact the this show had at its disposal the best and brightest writers, producers and technical folks makes this productions failure more evident. The Tonys are a major award that can have whomever they want.

And this is what we got? Sure there were one or two decent prepared bits. But when the project on a whole fails to entertain, its short comings become obvious.

And you think Mr and Mrs America were sitting there saying "This Aretha thing is awsome"?

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Updated On: 6/6/05 at 12:01 AM

okay, tuttle, that makes more sense than your original post. your last one, i agree with. they could do great things with the talent at their disposal and yet, the show ended up being mediocre. and i couldn't tell- was the sandbox comment directed towards me?

AMEN Tuttle...with the directors we have at our disposal, one would think we could have come up with a far better representation of who we are and what it is we do...

The performers we had on that show tonight were among the finest in the country...but many came across as pitchy and less than attractive.

Piazza seemed to come across stunningly, but that seemed to be where it ended.

I know emotions are high and people are sad about losing colleagues, but Jesse L. Martin...pitch?!? And can someone remind me what Julia Stiles' connection with Broadway is- cuz the girl has the personality of a butter knife.

WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS...

This is the ONE opportunity we have to present ourselves to the rest of the country, and we give them a fay host doing a 30-minute medley about not wanting to dance? And an aged gospel singer who seems to not have appeared on a stage since the early 70's....SINGING A DUET?

RISE UP! DEMAND BETTER! Write to the league...tell them to ask Mike Nichols or someone with some television/film experience to direct a brilliant awards show. This is LIVE THEATRE...We should have the advantage over the other awards shows in that we should know HOW to present LIVE!

WE CAN DO BETTER!