Worst Tony's Ever? — Page 2

The show itself was fine, but I was disappointed with the winners. The actual telecast was entertaining.

I'm with you, Margo

I would have preferred a stronger opening to the show.

I forgive the error with Mr. McGillin and chalk it up to a live production

I was extremely disappointed with Paul Rudd. If you know you're eyes are bad, bring your glasses with you.

I wish you got bigger tastes of the plays and a little more time to take in the professionals who departed this world in the past year.

I loved that the silly banter was taken out.

There were highs and lows, moments to cherish or quickly forget, mistakes and highlights, surprises and expected wins. I enjoyed the night.

In the Phantom thing, it sounded like it was a cd that skipped...it didn't even sound like it was supposed to jump to that spot...and he did a good job of getting back on track.

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I'm sorry, but Hugh Jackman's self-love really was getting on my nerves. I couldn't have taken a third year.

I gotta agree with Margo on this one.

I enjoyed the lack of useless banter and uneccessary songs/medleys from a 'host' thrown in just to give the host more star power.

I liked that the winners spoke longer.

Agree that there could have been more featuring the plays although I've still never seen them do anything like I liked. They always try different things like scenes, etc. and nothing, IMO, has clicked just yet.

I also really enjoyed this year's tribute to colleagues lost. While I completely agree that they did really zoom through the montage of names, I thought the tributes to Wilson and Wasserstein were incredibly classy without being mushy and/or sentimental. I think part of that was the actors that participated in that segment.

I was pleasantly surprised, as I expected it to crash and burn, as I felt it did several years ago when it went wihtout a host.

I do also wish there were a better opening number. With that much talent in Radio City, can't they make some kind of fun medley so that the Tony opening is a real treat - something you don't see everyday?

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I've been watching Tonys for about 30 years and the shows did seem zippier back when they were only two hours long. Of course, back in the '70's they didn't have separate categories for best revivals and best set design for plays and musicals.

But now it's three hours long, why can't we get more than four minutes of a song from a nominated show? I saw a clip of Liza singing "City Lights" on the Tony's the year that "The Act" was nominated and it lasted over six minutes. (A bit too long, true.) And a Tony Awards medley should have no more than two songs in it. That's why "Jersey Boys" came off better than "Sweeney" in tonight's broadcast.

And, finally, Best Musicals have not also won Best Book and Score for some time now. "Phantom" lost book/score to "Into the Woods". "Two Gentlemen" lost score to "Follies".

Acknowledge. Accept. Move On.

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You missed it.
And while it was better than just being talked at, I hate Spamalot, so I didn't enjoy it.
And, at the beginning, I wish they had stopped focusing on Harry... I wanted to see the video going on behind him.
My sister and I both literally moved our bodies to the right to look around him... and then realized we weren't actually in the room... so that wouldn't work... lol

Okay, as good as Jersey Boys is, it's not exactly original material... why should it win Best Musical? There were other shows nominated with original songs that deserved the award much more.

I'm angry at this year's Tonys. Then again, I'm angry at every year's Tonys for some reason or another.

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Forgive me for asking if this has been answered before, but what did they do for the opening number? I didn't get home till around 9:00 sunday night, so i missed the first hour of the awards.

In a world where VCRs cost about 20 bucks, there really is no excuse for missing an hour of anything.
I agree with those that think this was one of the best Tony Award shows in recent years. I loved the no host concept, as well.

worst Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yeah, I think he has a good voice, but he seemed so nervous.

Yikes. Well that might explain it a bit, especially during Hernando's Hideaway, he seemed so...lackluster.