What shows have gotten Standing Ovation at Tonys?- Page 2

[scooter38432]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 8:37am

I was there when Brian Stokes Mitchell sang "Impossible Dream". I remember no standing ovation. I know I certainly didn't stand. Maybe others did, but it would have been only partial, at best.

[Horton]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 8:49am

If you go to youtube, and watch Mitchell singing the Impossible Dream, you see a standing ovation at the end.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 11:53am

Having been to more Tonys that most people have years, standing ovations are rare, very rare. There may be scattered folk standing up, but I remember no one performing from a show to get a standing ovation. There have been plenty of nice reactions, but no out-of-their-seats.

They are usually given when people get special awards like Richard Rodgers or when Merman tore the roof off.

However this year in the pre-show, Gerry Schoenfeld pointed out his good friend in the audience, Celeste Holm who turned 90 this year, and we stood and applauded her out of true affection.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 11:57am

Side Show should have.

[bwaygal1]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 12:16pm

I was at the Tonys this year and did deliver my own standing ovations. (needless to say to whom!) But, I did notice people get up for Ms. Holm. (I saw her afterward-she looks great! And she's sharp as a tack!)

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 12:17pm

Bernadette Peters did get one.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 12:20pm

You said that.

[NBC]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 1:02pm

John Kander got a standing ovation this year when he introduced Curtains - at least he did in the orchestra.

And on the Tonys clip I have, I clearly see part of the audience stand up after Movin' Out's performance, but it might not have been a full one.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 6/15/07 at 1:03pm

wonderfulwizard11- I know I did. But someone before made it sound like no one ever gets one and that we're all making it up.

Stokes Mitchell had like 5 people stand up in the very back.