Who should host the Tony Awards?
Who should host the Tony Awards?
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#1Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 4:11pm
My Choice: A drunk Patti LuPone. Feed her some shots and let 'er rip.
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#2Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 4:36pm
Not Chris Rock, as Riedel suggested. He bombed the Oscars and he'll bomb the Tonys.
The Patti LuPone of that recent video should host. She and Laura could storm out and go to dinner after they lose Best Featured Actress.
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#2Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 4:46pmPatti LuPone hosting the Tony Awards would be wonderful. I have been underwhelmed with the hosts for the past couple of years.
Broadway61004
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/11
#3Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 4:48pmSince we already basically know "Mormon" is going to dominate most of the awards, why not just have Gad and Rannells host it to top things off (sort of like when Lane and Broderick hosted the year of "Producers")? May seem a little idiotic, but could it really be worse than Sean Hayes?
#4Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 4:48pmAnd no one can improve the Tony ratings, so it doesn't really matter how big a star the host is.
"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."
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#7Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 5:11pm
Paul Ruebens.
No joke.
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#8Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 5:12pmSeth Rudetsky and Patti LuPone power duo
Jealous? I ain't jealous. I can take on these fellas whateva.
Steel Pier Fan
Featured Actor Joined: 4/11/11
#9Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 5:13pmKristin Chenoweth. LOVE HER!! and no I'm not a crazed teeny bopper.
#10Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 5:16pmOh my god, I love the idea of Seth Rudetsky...
peerrjb
Featured Actor Joined: 7/7/09
#12Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 5:19pmDeffinatly just changed my mine, Seth Rudetsky and Susan Blackwell fo sho
Jealous? I ain't jealous. I can take on these fellas whateva.
#13Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 5:23pm
I thought Sean Hayes was wonderful last year.
In all seriousness, I can see them giving the gig to Rock, Williams, or have Whoppi and Bette co-host.
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Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#15Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 5:26pmLoretta Swit.
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Steel Pier Fan
Featured Actor Joined: 4/11/11
#16Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 5:29pmEven better Neil Patrick Harris and Kristin Chenoweth. They would even each other out.
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#17Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 5:33pmKate Shindle should host or KRISTIN CHENOWETH!
#19Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 6:05pm
I actually kind of like the idea of Chris Rock hosting.
If LuPone hosted, the Tonys would be about a half hour.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#20Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 6:09pmI thought Whoopi was a fantastic host... I'd love to see her do it again!
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#21Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 6:13pmIf Seth Rudetsky was let anywhere near the Tonys, I would die inside. I used to like him but now I just think he's an ignoramus.
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#22Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 6:19pmWhoopi again! Those segments of her in the the different shows are still some of the funniest Tony moments.
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#23Who should host the Tony Awards?
Posted: 5/1/11 at 6:29pm
What I'd love to see is that the powers that be stop trying to get the ratings they're never going to get and devote the show to Broadway at its best - full production numbers as opposed to truncated versions (like they did in years gone by). I also liked what PBS did for several years as well.
Not sure who I want as host though.
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