Wow, congrats to Robert Lopez for becoming the 12th EGOT winner tonight!!!

[April Saul]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 12:13am

And for making me laugh my butt off while dancing in my seat all through Avenue Q and Book of Mormon! Does this mean I have to go see Frozen?

[Fosse76]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 12:17am

And how undeserved it was. U2 should've won.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 12:22am

No, U2 should not have won. That totally swiped that guitar line from Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy." Note for note.

[MKunkel]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 12:23am

Much congrats to him! He is also the youngest to win the award and he has achieved them all in the shortest amount of time! Only ten years to get every award!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 12:26am

An incredible accomplishment.

Congratulations!

[uncageg]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 12:28am

My favorite was the Pharrell song, "Happy". Will buy his cd this week.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 12:29am

Also, we must send them our gratitude for being intentionally funny in their speech.

[jv92]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 12:43am

Good for him! He's given every young writer hope in succeeding.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 12:45am

It's a wonderful thing. To have accomplished all that in 10 short years--from 2004 to 2014,

And their speech was WONDERFUL.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 12:52am

Does the list of 12 include those who've won special awards (i.e non-competitive awards)? Are they part of the "official list"? I've always wondered that.

Updated On: 3/3/14 at 12:52 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 1:15am

No, they're not. The 12 have all won in competitive categories, not honorary.

Here are the 12:

Richard Rodgers
Helen Hayes
Rita Moreno
John Gielgud
Audrey Hepburn
Marvin Hamlisch
Jonathan Tunick
Mel Brooks
Mike Nichols
Whoopi Goldberg
Scott Rudin
... and Robert Lopez


LINK

[A Director]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 1:36am

Congrats for what? It's a so-so song badly sung. The Moon Song should have won.

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 2:31am

I find it strange that we live in a world where Bobby Lopez has EGOT-ed, while Stephen Sondheim has not. I am happy that the song "Let It Go" won tonight, but I do wish that his Tonys belonged to Tesori/Kushner and Kander/Ebb.

[broadwayfever]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 4:03am

Congrats to Robert Lopez and his wife.

Let it Go sequence with Idina Menzel has now reached over 118 Million views on Youtube, with another 87 Miilion for Demi's version.

I'm sure neither Robert or his wife ever thought their song would be such a huge hit.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 5:00am

You can't blame him for having an honor BESTOWED upon him, for christ's sake. If you can't just be happy for someone else's success, I'm sorry for you.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 11:34am

How dare he? How very dares Robert Lopez to snatch EGOT directly from Sondheim's hand?

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 11:42am

Sondheim better write something for TV fast, and it better be good. I'm sure he's so completely pissed at Lopez right now.

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 6:43pm

Whoa, I want to be clear that I wasn't "blaming him" for anything. I was merely commenting on the strange nature of these honors. I do think that he is a very talented writer.

[binau]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 7:40pm

I'd still rather be Sondheim. Lopez seems to like writing about and working with Clitoris (clitori?). Sondheim has a PGOT and his by the look of his hot young squeeze Sondheim's P probably has GOT a lot of recognition recently so he has the last laugh anyway!

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 10:44pm

I still don't understand how it's strange that Bobby Lopez got the EGOT before Stephen Sondheim. It's a measure of success in all 4 mediums. Sondheim doesn't work in TV. He doesn't magically deserve an honor he hasn't earned just because he's more talented.

[binau]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 11:30pm

I do agree with you. Sondheim has more Tony awards and more Pulitzer prizes than Lopez because that is exactly where his strength is - theatre.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 11:44pm

Sondheim has a hot young squeeze? When did this happen?

[binau]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 12:01am

You can see them together on the 2010 Birthday concert DVD. Searching google images I THINK I recall this to be him:

http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/4062033-david-ehrenstein-presents-god-and-his-boyfriend-jeff

No joke but I had a random dream that Sondheim was massaging my naked body the other night. Can I be next in line? I'd let him teach me to Whistle, give me an Epiphany, wrap me in chains while I shout No More then he replies There is No Other Way and shows me his Black Dragon. For the climax I'd let him Send in the Co...

Updated On: 3/4/14 at 12:01 AM

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 12:00pm

No joke but I had a random dream that Sondheim was massaging my naked body the other night.

Dude, really? You made me throw up in my mouth a little.

[binau]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 12:03pm

I think Arthur Laurents was there too, and Corine.