well... um, there IS a thread on this every two days.
but i'll just post what we're all thinkin:
Tonya Pinkins for Caroline or Change losing to that shrieking green person. i forgot her name.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
Nancy Opel losing to Sutton Foster, Spencer Kayden losing to Harriet Harris, Tovah Feldshuh losing to Phylicia Rashad...
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! :-)
Not that the others *didn't* deserve Tonys so much, but I'm still very bitter on behalf of the 'Sweeney Todd' revival. It's not like LaChanze plays the tuba, and I bet Manoel Felciano wouldn't have attempted a dialogue with an unborn baby. Plus... 'The Pajama Game'? *weeps*
On a less fangirlish note, I would quite like it if the 'Spamalot' creative team would be so kind as to send their Best Musical award on to the 'Light In The Piazza' creative team. I'm even bitterer about that one. ^_^
The fact that Idina Menzel won a Tony over Tonya Pinkins for "Caroline, or Change" is a downright travesty. I also think Elisabeth Withers-Mendes warranted the Featured Actress award last year over Beth Leavel (although I thought Beth was wonderful.)
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tonya Pinkins has to be the biggest upset I can recall. And come on - Spamalot over Piazza? But when you consider that so many voters are the people who book tours I guess we should expect commerce to trump art every time. But still...Spamalot? Over Piazza?
Sweeney Todd to The Pajama Game Ragtime to Lion King
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott
"I liked her, but I was a bigger fan of Louise Pitre from Mamma Mia."
Allentown, you asked for OUR opinions. That was MY opinion. You already gave YOURS. Duly noted.
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! :-)
IMO, Spamalot shouldn't have won the Tony for Best Musical. All three of the other musicals deserved it more than Spam. Updated On: 3/11/07 at 04:39 PM
I agree with Tazber about Nine-completely deserving of its win. I also do think that Piazza deserved its set design. David Rockwell was in no way "robbed" of a Tony for DRS. Also, add me to the list of people who say that Light in the Piazza was robbed of Best Musical.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
I'm obsessed with Joanna Gleason's performance in Into the Woods. Completely Tony worthy to me. Why do you think it should have gone to Patti? Just curious.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
Kelli O'Hara losing to Sara Ramirez Tonya Pinkins losing to Idina Menzel Any of the other 4 Best Actress nominees losing to Heather Headley in 2000 The Beauty Queen of Leenane losing to Side Man
And people who weren't even nominated: Edie Falco-Frankie and Johnny... Megan Mullally-How to Succeed in Business... Carla Gugino-After the Fall Mark Harelik-The Light in the Piazza Ben Shenkman-Sight Unseen Natasha Richardson-A Streetcar Named Desire
"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