Worst Tonys performance ever?- Page 2

[beltingbaritone]

Posted: 7/20/12 at 11:04pm

I also agree with best12bars on Caroline or Change wholeheartedly. Losing her voice almost seems like an understatement.

[Playbilly]

Posted: 7/20/12 at 11:10pm

CZJ and her schizophrenia.

Worst "comedy bit". Chenoweth and Hayes, her falling down, the kiss. YUK MOUTH!

Posted: 7/20/12 at 11:11pm

Fella? Why do people bash this show? Most Happy Fella is an absolute gem- chock full of magnificent songs. The revival with just piano accompaniment couldn't do that amazing score justice but the Tony performance was serviceable.

[After Eight]

Posted: 7/20/12 at 11:58pm

Well, it's not pre-2005, but I can't remember any worse Tony Award performance than the one from this very year's multi-Tony winner, Once. What seemed painfully bad in the theatre seemed ludicrously bad here. From the grimacing whiner wailing about moonbeams, to the dazed, zombified girl walking as if she had just seen a flying saucer descend to earth, to the rapt cast glued to their seats like robots, to the ungainly stomping that followed, it raised the concept of awfulness to a new level.

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 7/21/12 at 12:06am

Personally, I've hated every single Tony performance ever, dating back to Thespis. What a hack he was.

[jv92]

Posted: 7/22/12 at 1:59am

Several comments here:

Um...Lea "Bitch" Michele auditioning for FUNNY GIRL in 2010. What a sad, pathetic attempt that was.

I also found Ricky Martin incredibly, um, spirited for Che in EVITA. Almost like he was a campaign worker for the Perons. I wish him well on his recently announced plans to stay in New York to work on Broadway, but I sure hope he doesn't play Billy Flynn like a charming, perky Boy Scout, which is likely to happen.

I have a love/hate relationship with Mary Testa. Some days, like the day I first heard the QUEEN OF MIST cast album, I thought, "Wow! What a great performance! She's fabulous and this is only the CD!" And then I think of her shameless mugging and ass slapping during "Sit Down Your Rockin' the Boat" (as seen on the 2009 Tony Awards) and think "Get this woman off the stage." And then I hear her sing "Set Those Sails" by Bill Finn and think, "God, she's great." And then I think back to her performance as General Cartwright. Very conflicted feelings right there.

There's Doug Hodge and his tone-deaf (and Tony winning!) performance as Albin, brilliantly captured on the Tony Awards in 2010. When Arthur Laurents called the production "homophobic" I thought, "How? How could a production of a big, gay extravaganza be homophobic?" Then I saw Hodge, who gave Albin a great deal of camp, when he should have given him a great deal of dignity. The whole production of the show was misguided and when the Cowardly Lion...I mean Raquel Welch...handed the Weisslers the Tony for Revival (To which they obviously responded, "This IS the best of the times!" How original Barry and Fran!) I cringed.

And darling Catherine Zeta Jones, who was looking for her friend Steve at the Tonys that night. Was she singing "Isn't he rich?" "Isn't he queer?" I mean, yes Mr. Sondheim has made some money in his theatrical career and is a gay man, Catherine. But he wasn't at the Tony Awards that year. "Send in the Chiropractor."

When you make Bernadette Peters extremely uncomfortable and make Hugh Jackman look like a future-TO CATCH A PREDATOR star, you don't sell tickets. At least not to me. I'm talking about GODSPELL's performance in June.



Updated On: 7/22/12 at 01:59 AM

[jagfkb]

Posted: 7/22/12 at 7:55am

You're all wrong:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4SF6QWxOPE

THAT was the worst.

[jagfkb]

Posted: 7/22/12 at 8:03am

In all seriousness though, can anyone tell me what the hell just happened in that song?

What this musical is about other than people who apparently never sleep, guys who pretend to play trumpets, and hip thrusts.... lots of hip trusts?

And what the hell did any of that have to do with a Golden Rainbow? Really...

[jayinchelsea]

Posted: 7/22/12 at 10:29am

How can you trash GOLDEN RAINBOW? And why didn't Steve and Eydie perform one of their "great" songs from that show on the Tonys?

No, by far the most awful musical moment on the Tonys (and I've been watching them since 1960) was Ms. Zeta Jones, better known as Lady Spartacus to her many fans, as she decimated "Send in the Clowns" and then proceeded to win a Tony for her frighteningly arch performance in the show.

My ears are still bleeding...