What song will they do at the Tony's? — Page 3

"Wonder if FUN HOME could do a medley with the three Alisons? Start with "Ring of Keys", into a piece of "Changing My Major", and ending with "Telephone Wire". It might give some an idea of the arc of the show and the three ages concept. If done correctly, it might de-mystify it for some people. And it would still save plenty of surprises and not give too much away."

YAAASSSSS!!!!! Carolinaguy you NAILED this maxichallenge, you are this week's winner! FUN HOME has been a tough sell when I'm telling the hotel guests about it... their eyes glaze over unless they already know about the book or Alison Blechdel. I think America needs to hear that trio of amazing "audition" songs!

I think THE VISIT should do the quartet version of "You, you, you" where young and old sing together. When that moment happened in the show the breath was taken out of my lungs. One of the most beautiful musical moments of the entire season... a song like that can sell a show on it's own merit. 

I agree that "A Musical" might not come off well if they cut it to 3 min 30 seconds... but I think it's worth the risk... if they pull it off... it would run for 3 to 5 years based off the Tony Awards performance alone. 

Agree with everyone else about the rest of them... the performance that I have been really clueless about was FUN HOME... I have no idea how to present that in 4 minutes and sell it... but I think Carolinaguy has it on the money... the only other thing I might consider would be "COME TO THE FUN HOME" and play it up as a fun catchy musical... but that's sort of false advertising lol... which can have the opposite affect. Still... a weird Tony performance can screw a show for eternity... that PASSING STRANGE performance was such a missed opportunity...

Yes! I'm glad they're doing a number. I love the show and that number is a lot of fun. It will definitely boost attendance.

"OTTC should just let the porters do "Life is Like a Train.""

I'm sure they will be featured, and so they should, but so not have Kristin perform with her cast would be a scandal imo

Finding Neverland and It Shoulda Been You will be performing on the Tony Award broadcast.  Scheduled to perform....

Updated On: 5/20/15 at 02:03 PM

"The Tony Awards upholds a valued tradition of recognizing the excellence of the entire Broadway season each year. This year’s telecast will also feature not-to-be missed performances including:

• Past Tony-nominees Matthew Morrison and Kelsey Grammer, and the cast of Finding Neverland; and


• Tyne Daly and the cast of It Shoulda Been You."

I laughed my ass off reading this. Um, the "valued tradition of recognizing the excellence of the entire Broadway season" manifests itself in actually being nominated for a Tony. Having non-nominated productions perform is the valued tradition of grabbing extra bucks out of producers for what amounts to a four-minute commercial for their shows.

You fork a LOT to do this even if you are nominated.

I like the idea of showing more shows than just the nominees. It's going to be obvious that they are not nominated for anything or for much of anything..so it's not like anyone is stealing anyone's thunder.

If you watch the Oscars, they often highlight not nominated movies of the year in the "entertainment" segments.

So hey it's one day a year where Broadway can showcase shows to get the general public interested ..so I so go for it.

Seeing as the press release specifies that James, Oscar, and Borle will perform it seems to be a given that it will be a medley of "A musical" and either "hard to be the bard" of "will power"

I think they will perform Live by the Hook/Stronger since they specified Matt and Kelsey will be performing it and that's been one of their most promoted numbers, it's a crowd pleaser. Almost all the critics singled out Kelsey's turn as Hook. 

What if OTT did "Ya Got Me?" It features the principles, the ensemble, and most importantly Tony. Maybe If we're lucky we'll get some of Jackie Hoffman singing "I Wish I Was Dead".

^Well, since Holler closed almost a year ago and ended up getting zero nominations, I'm guessing that they will not be performing.

Is Finding Neverland the only musical to be featured in back to back Tony Awards in recent history?   If so, it's insane that it is for a musical that wasn't even on BW the previous year and is completely shut out from nominations this year.   Harvey must be paying through the nose.

"^It's happened before, but mainly with Best Musical winners coming back for an encore performance such as Jersey Boys, Memphis, The Book of Mormon, Once, etc."

OK, I can understand with shows with Tony cred, but Finding Neverland  has nothing but Harvey money to warrant being included on this list.