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What shows have gotten Standing Ovation at Tonys?
#25re: What shows have gotten Standing Ovation at Tonys?
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.
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#26re: What shows have gotten Standing Ovation at Tonys?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 8:49amIf you go to youtube, and watch Mitchell singing the Impossible Dream, you see a standing ovation at the end.
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#27re: What shows have gotten Standing Ovation at Tonys?
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.
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#28re: What shows have gotten Standing Ovation at Tonys?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 11:57amSide Show should have.
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#29re: What shows have gotten Standing Ovation at Tonys?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 12:16pmI 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!)
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#30re: What shows have gotten Standing Ovation at Tonys?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 12:17pmBernadette Peters did get one.
#31re: What shows have gotten Standing Ovation at Tonys?
Posted: 6/15/07 at 12:20pmYou said that.
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#32re: What shows have gotten Standing Ovation at Tonys?
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.
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#33re: What shows have gotten Standing Ovation at Tonys?
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.
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