Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#0Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 12:47am
*It is very, very difficult to get tickets to.
*The tickets are expensive, especially if you want to get decent seats.
*Even if they are decent seats, they still require opera glasses to see the faces on stage.
*You have to dress up for the occasion ( "black tie, please", so the ticket says).
*You have to queue for an hour before they would let you into the hall (RCMH)
*While, on the other hand, you have a choice of seeing it close-up on TV in the comfort of your living room or bedroom, for free!
So, why would you like to go to the TONY Awards???
To me, it is the great feeling of community that pervades the place when everyone cheers for every nominee...and the exhilarating feeling shared with like-minded people that another good theatre season has come to a close!
Jo
Updated On: 5/13/06 at 12:47 AM
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#1re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 1:06amSo, you answered yourself? Were you having a monologue there?
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#2re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 1:07am
lol!!!!!
I'm still laughing!
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#3re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 1:27am
Just wanted to know if others have special reasons, too 
jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#5re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 4:57am
For Stephanie and The Pirate Queen?
I'm also a great fan of Steph
Tigger
Stand-by Joined: 3/18/05
#6re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 6:18am
The only sane and main possible reasons that should force anyone to ever have to go to ANY awards show are:
-You are a nominee-
-You are escorting a nominee
-You are the parent,sibling,devoted friend or employee of the nominee.
-You are presenting an award
-You crave publicity and are wearing something that will definitely grab attention such -as a swan dress or a brace of dead ducks around you neck.
"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is..." Noel Coward-Private Lives
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#7re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 6:38amI'd go to see Patti LuPone win her second Tony or to see Patrick Wilson win his first.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#8re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 2:41pm
I'd go to see John Lloyd Young win his. 
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#9re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 2:51pmI'd go to accept my award.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#10re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 3:17pmI would go to see Rath win her Tony!
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#11re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 3:25pm
blaxx: "So, you answered yourself? Were you having a monologue there?"
Even 12+ hours later, I still find that hysterical. Wow...what an odd sense of humor...
"How bout a little black dress?"~hannahshule
"I have a penis, not a vagina." ~munkustrap178
#12re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 3:28pm
xoxo Elph
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
IssaMe
Broadway Star Joined: 5/15/03
#13re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 3:37pmTo hear Mandy Patinkin at Tony rehearsal scream for the band to play faster as he sings (when he is singing to a pre-recorded tape).
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#14re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 6:50pm
Thank you SweetQ, I found the original post even funnier...
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#15re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 6:50pm
Thank you SweetQ, I found the original post even funnier...
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#16re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 7:58pmBecause I would be drooling looking into the Orchestra seeing all of the people who I LOVE!
#17re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 8:47pmNone of that stuff matters! Just to be in the same (ginormous) room with all that talent would be AMAZING.
I know this groc'ry clerk...
elphieisperky
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/05
#18re: Why would you like to go to the TONY Awards?
Posted: 5/13/06 at 9:50pm
That's interesting Jo, very interesting :)
I guess I want to go because, kind of like singinswinga said, there's so much talent in one room. Not just the people winning the awards are fantastic, but even the presenters. It's the Oscars for Broadway people.
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