Topic: GOOD GNUS (Read 21020 times)

Matt H. · « **Reply #30 on:** June 03, 2004, 08:03:43 AM »

I copied DR Jason's list and have amended it for my own predictions. However, I state up front that I am lousy with predictions, especially since I haven't seen any of the productions yet and am going only on the basis of reviews and features I've read on the shows:

Actor in a Musical: Hugh Jackman
Actress in a Musical: Tonya Pinkins
Featured Actor in a Musical: Michael Cerveris
Featured Actress in a Musical: Isabel Keating
Best Musical: WICKED
Best Revival: ASSASSINS
Best Score: WICKED
Best Book of a Musical: CAROLINE or CHANGE
Scenic Design: WICKED
Costume Design: WICKED
Lighting: ASSASSINS
Director of a Musical: Joe Mantello
Actor in a Play: Jefferson Mays
Actress in a Play: Tovah Feldshuh
Featured Actor in a Play: Brian F. O'Bryne
Featured Actress in a Play: Audra McDonald
Revival of a Play: RAISIN IN THE SUN
Best Play: I AM MY OWN WIFE
Director of a Play: Jack O'Brian
Choreography: Kathleen Marshall
Orchestrations: ASSASSINS

Jason · « **Reply #31 on:** June 03, 2004, 08:07:22 AM »

JRand...I'd love to see Idina win, but with all the talk about Tonya--especially since her show is the most recent one to open--I think she's got the buzz working for her.

And trust me...Mary J. Blige is HUGE in her demographic. Is she a good choice to present and/or perform on the Tonys? I don't know...no one thought that Queen Latifah would be right for "Chicago."

Panni · « **Reply #32 on:** June 03, 2004, 08:08:30 AM »

I'll post later more fully about my Tony guesses... So far, I'd say:

Actor in a Musical: Hugh Jackman
Actress in a Musical: Tonya Pinkins
Best Revival of a Musical: ASSASSINS
Actor in a Play: Christopher Plummer

The rest I have to think about...

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #33 on:** June 03, 2004, 08:15:35 AM »

Tony predictions

Best Play: Anna in the Tropics
Best Musical: Wicked
Best Book of a Musical: Avenue Q
Best Original Score: Wicked
Best Revival of a Play: Henry IV
Best Revival of a Musical: Assassins
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play: Kevin Kline
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play: Phylicia Rashad
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical: Hugh Jackman
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical: Tie - Tonya Pinkins and Donna Murphy
Best Peformance by a Featured Actor in a Play: Tom Aldredge
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play: Sanaa Lathan
Best Peformance by a Featured Actor ina Musical: Dennis O'Hare
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical: Anika Noni Rose
Best Direction of a Play: I Am My Own Wife
Best Direction of a Musical: Wonderful Town
Best Choreography: Wonderful Town
Best Orchestrations: Wicked
Best Scenic Design: Wicked
Best Costume Design: Wicked
Best Lighting Design: Wicked

Panni · « **Reply #34 on:** June 03, 2004, 08:22:43 AM »

Here's something we could do in honor of Cully...

I just got this email from a friend:

The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals.
It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on "feed an animal in need" for free. This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising. (Weight Watchers is one of the sponsors!)
Here's the web site. Click on this link, and when the site opens, click on the purple box that says Feed an Animal for Free. That's it.
And do pass it along to people you know.

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #35 on:** June 03, 2004, 08:25:15 AM »

sung is gnus backwards

JMK · « **Reply #36 on:** June 03, 2004, 08:25:36 AM »

Dr Pogue and Julianne: Betsy and I did the very same thing with our beloved collie Ethel last year (and, sadly, our beloved mixed breed Golden/Newfy Sasha, the year before that) by having the vet come to our house. Though it was sad to hold our dear dogs as they passed, at least they had very little stress, since they were in their home environment.

We, too, are without dogs for the first time ever in our married life. We have literally been counting the days until we get back from Disneyworld later this month so that we can get at least one new dog (and probably two, since that's what we're used to).

JMK · « **Reply #37 on:** June 03, 2004, 08:26:59 AM »

DR Panni--you're not Steve Newport in drag, are you?

(Inside joke for RATM-ites).

Jrand73 · « **Reply #38 on:** June 03, 2004, 08:43:06 AM »

Thanks DRPANNI....done and done....and I forwarded the link to my Morgan County Humane Society fellow volunteers.

I think Tonya and Donna will split the vote and make room for Idina.

JMK · « **Reply #39 on:** June 03, 2004, 08:43:39 AM »

[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%]A lull.[/move]

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #40 on:** June 03, 2004, 08:53:22 AM »

Quote from: Panni on June 03, 2004, 08:22:43 AM

Here's something we could do in honor of Cully...

Here's the web site. Click on this link, and when the site opens, click on the purple box that says Feed an Animal for Free. That's it.
And do pass it along to people you know.[/i]

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com

I did as you asked, but I am suspicious - is this a Democrat site?

der always-wary Brucer

DERBRUCER · « **Reply #41 on:** June 03, 2004, 08:55:47 AM »

Quote from: Dan-in-Toronto on June 03, 2004, 08:25:15 AM

sung is gnus backwards

Thank you for sharing!

And snug is gnus turned inside out!

der Brucer (and so is guns!)

Dan-in-Toronto · « **Reply #42 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:00:35 AM »

And recurb red (whatever that means) is der brucer.

MBarnum · « **Reply #43 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:06:54 AM »

Der Brucer, glad to see your posts once again!

bk · « **Reply #44 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:09:54 AM »

More Tony predictions, that's what we need.

Also, they've tried this bringing in people from other arenas - TV, rock people, all that stuff, always under the guise "maybe it will help the Tony broadcast find a wider audience". Never has.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #45 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:21:00 AM »

No it never has, it only irritates the people who wonder what the hell those "others" are doing there. I have never been tempted to buy a cd or see a movie featuring someone who shows up to boost ratings. I keep wondering when Jackie Chan will be invited.

I think Best Actress in a Play should be presented to Carroll Baker for COME ON STRONG, but since it closed in 1962, she probably won't win. I am counting on a BIG write in campaign for her though!

Jrand73 · « **Reply #46 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:25:56 AM »

I am always amazed that people choose the Tony Awards as the slowest or most boring awards show when it really is the BEST of all, with more live performances than most of the others, and it really is a contest, very few "sure" winners in any season. And a chance to see something new! I have always looked forward to seeing what the "new" shows look like! Living out of New York - way out - there are shows I will never get to see on Broadway - so for a lot of us...this is it!

Panni · « **Reply #47 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:30:06 AM »

Quote from: DERBRUCER on June 03, 2004, 08:53:22 AM

I did as you asked, but I am suspicious - is this a Democrat site?

Not to worry, derBrucer. I'm sure they rescue elephants, as well. (But the dear creatures are too shy to pose for PR shots.)

Panni · « **Reply #48 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:32:10 AM »

Quote from: JMK on June 03, 2004, 08:26:59 AM

DR Panni--you're not Steve Newport in drag, are you? (Inside joke for RATM-ites).

Please to explain...

Dan (the Man) · « **Reply #49 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:38:18 AM »

Quote from: bk on June 03, 2004, 09:09:54 AM

More Tony predictions, that's what we need.

Also, they've tried this bringing in people from other arenas - TV, rock people, all that stuff, always under the guise "maybe it will help the Tony broadcast find a wider audience". Never has.

And never will. They can jettison all legit theatre folk for presenters and bring in the hottest superstars of the mo', and most people will tune in for a while and just go "Huh?" before channel surfing elsewhere. The audience for this show is very, very slim.

As far as I'm concerned, there hasn't been a completely satisfying Tony Broadcast since about '79 or so, before it switched from ABC to CBS (and the consequent Susan Anton/Tom Wolpat era.) The one exception was the year (and I can't remember which) when Linda Lavin won for Broadway Bound. It was a decent show mainly due to the winners, who were particularly witty, eloquent and brief in their acceptance speeches that year.

JMK · « **Reply #50 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:41:21 AM »

DR Panni: Newport is the gadfly of the usenet group RATM, which supposedly exists to discuss musical theater, but is usually Newport answering his own posts ad nauseum and attacking everyone else. Newport's one saving grace (and maybe not even that is enough) is his support of the animal rescue site (he went after DR Noel for a very funny lyric about eating dogs some time ago).

Jrand73 · « **Reply #51 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:44:32 AM »

Do any of our DR's on the "inside" know what is included in this year's goodie bag for presenters at the Tony Awards?

Oh and thanks for the Monkey's Uncle lyrics yesterday DRJASON.

Noel · « **Reply #52 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:46:10 AM »

I don't really have predictions. The Wicked people are reasonably confident. I'd be surprised if Best Play goes to a play that's closed.

But what I DO have is a rooting interest for Avenue Q. Here's a show done by people who've never been on Broadway before. It's not based on a famous movie or book or a famous person's life. It has a low budget. And it's funny. Amazingly funny. You can hear some of those songs a thousand times and still laugh. And, top of all that, it's moving. A show with real heart. Just the sort of work, I feel, that should be rewarded.

There's some solace in the notion that the nominated musicals are so different from each other. One's a star vehicle that does that unforgivable thing of using a catalogue of "previously-written" songs. (That means they weren't written for this show. Peter Allen is dead.) One's a splashy production by Broadway veterans, featuring some very powerful singing by young stars. One's a chamber opera, the sort of work you'd expect to find anywhere BUT Broadway. And Avenue Q, one would have guessed, was too small for Broadway, too. And yet here it is, after almost a year, giving mostly-young fans the time of their lives.

Maybe if we all clap really hard, Tink will live and Q will win.

Panni · « **Reply #53 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:46:15 AM »

My complete Tony List (some of this is pure guesswork):

Best Play - I Am My Own Wife

Best Musical - Wicked

Best Book of a Musical - Tony Kushner, Caroline, or Change

Best Original Score - Wicked

Best Revival of a Play - A Raisin in the Sun

Best Revival of a Musical - Assassins

Leading Actor in a Play - Christopher Plummer, King Lear

Leading Actress in a Play - Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin in the Sun

Leading Actor in a Musical - Hugh Jackman, The Boy From Oz

Leading Actress in a Musical - Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change

Featured Actor in a Play - Brían F. O'Byrne, Frozen

Featured Actress in a Play - Audra McDonald, A Raisin in the Sun

Featured Actor in a Musical - Michael McElroy, Big River

Featured Actress in a Musical - Anika Noni Rose, Caroline, or Change

Best Scenic Design - Robert Brill, Assassins

Best Costume Design - Susan Hilferty, Wicked

Best Lighting Design - Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, Assassins

Best Direction of a Play - Moises Kaufman, I Am My Own Wife

Best Direction of a Musical - Joe Mantello, Assassins

Best Choreography - Kathleen Marshall, Wonderful Town

Best Orchestrations - William David Brohn, Wicked

MBarnum · « **Reply #54 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:51:11 AM »

Quote from: Dan (the Man) on June 03, 2004, 09:38:18 AM

And never will. They can jettison all legit theatre folk for presenters and bring in the hottest superstars of the mo', and most people will tune in for a while and just go "Huh?" before channel surfing elsewhere. The audience for this show is very, very slim.

As far as I'm concerned, there hasn't been a completely satisfying Tony Broadcast since about '79 or so, before it switched from ABC to CBS (and the consequent Susan Anton/Tom Wolpat era.) The one exception was the year (and I can't remember which) when Linda Lavin won for Broadway Bound. It was a decent show mainly due to the winners, who were particularly witty, eloquent and brief in their acceptance speeches that year.

Ok, I am ashamed to admit I have never watched a Tony broadcast.

...but Dantheman...is the Tom Wopat era a good thing or a bad thing??? (asks the biggest Tom Wopat fan on HHW)!

Jay · « **Reply #55 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:52:47 AM »

My heartfelt condolences to Charles and Julieanne on the loss of their beloved Cully.

Matt H. · « **Reply #56 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:53:21 AM »

I'm not really clear how the Tony posting here at HWW works. I mean, it was established the other day that the Tonys are not simulcast on both coasts like the Oscars are. I imagine you West Coasters don't want us East Coasters posting who the winners are until you've had a chance to see the show. On the other hand, I certainly can't stay up until 2 a.m. so I can post with the West Coasters. So, I guess I will be E&T on Tony night as far as posting about the awards is concerned.

Or am I wrong about the simulcast?

Panni · « **Reply #57 on:** June 03, 2004, 09:54:32 AM »

For those interested in such a thing, you can download your very own official Tony ballot at

http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/index.html

Jrand73 · « **Reply #58 on:** June 03, 2004, 10:00:12 AM »

Thanks DRPANNI....does anyone know where a printable ballot can be located on the web?

Jay · « **Reply #59 on:** June 03, 2004, 10:04:01 AM »

A little late here with the comments, but dinner with Dear Reader Panni and Dear BK last night at Musso & Frank's, indeed, was sparkling. It's always a joy to spend time and break bread with these fine people.

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