Stories, man, we need stories!
OH! -I'm fast-forwarding through the ceremony courtesy of the DVR...
Yep, they did bleep out - well, they just dropped out - the F-word from the Threepenny Opera excerpt.
And the word of the day is: REGALIA!What kind of regalia does one wear in Algeria?
Good morning DR Elmore.
No one else thought the book writers' speech was insulting?
Unfortunately, Kelli O'Hara won't be with the show if/when it re-opens. All three "names", O'Hara, Connick and Michael McKean, are done when the show closes. If they re-open it using the same staging, as I think George mentioned last night, they will need to find someone who plays the piano for the Hernando's Hideaway number.
And now, back to the Tonys...
I was sort of surprised there was not some kind of "reaction" to Julia Roberts' comment, "You guys are insanely talented..." -That was definitely a place where some uncomfortable laughter could have come into play.
I have to read last nights posts because I am sure this was mentioned... no one reminded Hal Prince to take his glasses off the top of his head? He looked ridiculous.
I have to read last nights posts because I am sure this was mentioned... no one reminded Hal Prince to take his glasses off the top of his head? He looked ridiculous.
Hal Prince always has his glasses on his head. But I guess over the years, his head has shrunk and his perscription has been calling for thicker lenses.
His thank you speech was pretty lackadaisickle. It sounded like he won the People's Choice Award.
And what did Best Scenic Design for a Play award winner Bob Crowley mean when he said, "I should have won for the other show." Was this another John Napier sour grapes moment?
I agree that the whole lifetime acheivement award presentation was lacking a certain something.
And I believe that Bob Crowley may have been referring to Tarzan, which was snubbed in all but one category, lighting.
Biggest surprise of the night for me: Bob Martin is married?
Biggest surprise of the night for me: Bob Martin is married?
Well... I'm still always amazed that Michael Riedel has a girlfriend.
:P
Is/was THREEPENNY OPERA recorded? I'm not a fan of this production, but I would like to hear a clean recording of Cyndi Lauper's numbers.
There are also reports that the Kurt Weill Estate is not happy with the production and the new translation, and, thus, they are not allowing it to be recorded.
And now, back to the Tonys...
I was sort of surprised there was not some kind of "reaction" to Julia Roberts' comment, "You guys are insanely talented..." -That was definitely a place where some uncomfortable laughter could have come into play.
Reaction to ANYTHING Julia Roberts says (or memorizes) is best left to Entertainment Hollywood Access Extra People Report. :P
For someone who has seen JERSEY BOYS - I'm assuming it has a good book. Is that true? I'm not a big fan of jukebox musicals and wasn't planning to try to see it, but if the songs fit into the story of the Four Seasons and it's got a good book, I may just have to give it a chance
Whew! Finally caught up. I guess I was the only one that didn't know Hal Prince always wore his glasses on his head, but I stand by my earlier opinion it looked darn silly...IMHO
Dear Reader Jose - You look quite comfortable in that tux, as if you were born to it.
It seemed to me that The Drowsy Chaperone number was compressed to fit the small screen and the masked Radio City Music Hall stage (at least I think it was performed in RCMH). Which bodes the question...
Question for Jose: Were the musical numbers pre-filmed or were they performed live on the Radio City Music Hall stage?
Is it just me, or...
...does it seem a tad pitiful to trot out stars as if to say "Look who's still alive!" at these ceremonies?
I have been dismayed in the past by final appearances...like the last time Bette Davis was at the Oscars (and seemed to have been unable to remember from moment to moment why she was there)...or when Deborah Kerr (whom I believe is still among the living) walked out to receive a Lifetime Achievement Oscar (about 20 years late, IMO) and seemed to have just walked onstage from a nursing home...
I LOVE these performers...so please don't wrongly interpret my comments. I just don't think it serves them or our perceptions of them very well to trot them out like curiousity pieces.
I'd rather have seen Patricia Neal sitting in the audience and acknowledging recognition than to have seen her so frail in a presentation.
But...again...maybe it's just me.
I thought it interesting that THE COLOR PURPLE was almost a shut out. But now it can be touted everywhere as 'The Tony Award Winning Show".
I think the show to "watch" will be The Wedding Singer. It was a smart move to perform that number on The Tony's - fun, funny and nostalgic (in an 1980's way). Just the right hook to attract the casual theatre-goer.
And if that Bette Davis doc on TCM can be completely believed, Bette Davis was as sharp as a tack to the very end.
Okay, DR ELMORE....I didn't say I didn't like him....just thought his speech was put down....as explained by DR DtM....but of course you are correct...Toronto has seen more than its share of US Damaged Goods.
It may well be....but on that Oscarcast, she seemd in a fog.
I didn't care THE WEDDING SINGER number either. The conceit of that number was that this character's band is so popular at weddings because of the song he wrote, which is essentially about how his band's music really makes a wedding. What kind of logic is that?
Now if they had utilized actual 80s music (like the film), they might have had something. That opening sequence could have used Billy Idol's "White Wedding" and then intertwined "It's Your Wedding Day" within. That would have almost worked for me, except I don't think that "Wedding Day" was interesting to begin with.
And another reminder about the season premiere of THE CLOSER tonight on TNT. 9 p.m. EDT.
DRJRand55, I know you didn't say that and I'm not calling you on that! I just meant that for me, his comment was funny and quirky. In essence he said "I'm grateful to Broadway because there are at least 60 years of musicals I can write parodies of." I didn't find it offensive but rather true. However, I doubt beyond THE BOYFRIEND and LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE, and possibly DAMES AT SEA which owes more to 30s movies than Broadway, he's seen any other spoofs. Most of them flop.
Is/was THREEPENNY OPERA recorded? I'm not a fan of this production, but I would like to hear a clean recording of Cyndi Lauper's numbers.
Is it just me, or...
...does it seem a tad pitiful to trot out stars as if to say "Look who's still alive!" at these ceremonies?
I have been dismayed in the past by final appearances...like the last time Bette Davis was at the Oscars (and seemed to have been unable to remember from moment to moment why she was there)...or when Deborah Kerr (whom I believe is still among the living) walked out to receive a Lifetime Achievement Oscar (about 20 years late, IMO) and seemed to have just walked onstage from a nursing home...
I LOVE these performers...so please don't wrongly interpret my comments. I just don't think it serves them or our perceptions of them very well to trot them out like curiousity pieces.
I'd rather have seen Patricia Neal sitting in the audience and acknowledging recognition than to have seen her so frail in a presentation.
But...again...maybe it's just me.
I think the show to "watch" will be The Wedding Singer. It was a smart move to perform that number on The Tony's - fun, funny and nostalgic (in an 1980's way). Just the right hook to attract the casual theatre-goer.
Looks like my friend Kevin Kilner is guest starring.
Looks like my friend Kevin Kilner is guest starring.
I just had three slices of rare roastbeast and two slices of monster cheese on a fresh crosisant accompanied by 1/4 lb of German potato salad... alas.... eaten at my desk not the beach
Monster cheese? Gorgon-zolla?
Oh, Vixmom, Kevin Kilner is even better! He was in some short lived sitcome some years back that I really liked him in.
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I liked it. The conceit was expositional, IMO...and no less logical than songs in many Broadway musicals of years gone by.
How much sense is there in seeing a scene inside the Sleeptite Pajama factory where all the workers are singing, "The Pajama Game is the game I'm in..." Etc.
Everyone there knows what kind of game they're in...they're letting the audience know...and that's exactly what "The Wedding Singer" number was doing.
Not one whit different in concept/execution, to my way of thinking. And it was original, rather than "juke box"...even better.
Surely you meant gorgonzilla! ;D
Monster cheese is the "family" name for Muenster :D
I will be in Roanoke, VA on Sunday, June 18th seeing Anthony's show for the third time. I'm seeing it Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. I will not be able to go to Joe's Pub unless I can pull a Hermione from Harry Potter.
And I thought I had noticed "this" last night, but here's the proof:
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Oops!
hmmm...no picture!
You didn't tell me you knew Kevin Kilner? I adore him. Please set me up on a date with him.
His girlfriend would hate you.
A girlfriend my Aunt Fanny!
After watching the Tony awards last night I am convinced that there are no straight men on Broadway.
I believe Mr Brian D'Arcy James is straight, DR MBarnum.
I respect your opinions regarding The Wedding Singer, but I beg to differ.
I don't know from ego or opening numbers as I haven't seen the show (I never saw the film either because I think Adam Sandler is unfunny). I only know it was the best musical number on the Tony show broadcast.
IMO it was one of the few things that generated any EXCITEMENT through the "tube." Unbelievably, you could UNDERSTAND EVERY WORD the singer was singing, which is saying something for rock songs. The choreography IMO was TERRIFIC! Having the dancers in those prom-type dresses doing front and side splits in the air and on the ground, the high knee lifts, the intricate dance patterns and the general ENERGY of the dancers was downright EXHILERATING! For this viewer, the number definitely perked up an otherwise sad-sack awards presentation...AND made me want to see the actual show.
Or ice skating!
But there are lots of them in the world of cooking!
Elmore, you're shattering the poor boy's illuisions!
Well as Dr Pangloss says, the uneducated say a great deal of foolish things.
Of course we haven't discussed the person who made the biggest fool of himself....a great category.....
Was that Bob Crewe up on the stage with the JERSEY BOYS crowd? He dated June Kenney, you know, DR MBARNUM.
I still haven't gotten the Doris Day set yet. I do remember them making my hair very curly.
I, too, like Virgil's, although I haven't eaten there in years.
I guess my vote goes to Mr. Paul "I need Lasik" Rudd.
Not a fool, but Mr. Hal Holbrook's story kind of kept Miss Kristen Bell off camera for too long a period. It struck me as ungentlemanly.
Reuters believes that Julia Roberts (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060612/people_nm/leisure_tonys_roberts_dc) may have won some fans after last night's appearance at the Tony Awards.
I don't dislike her, but I don't get the frenzy about her
Oh please, she didn't do anything.
Ditto. I remember when the critics were all jumping all over themselves over her performance in STEEL MAGNOLIAS. When I saw the movie, I just didn't see what all the hubbub was about. Likewise, PRETTY WOMAN or ERIN BIRKINSTOCK (or whatever it's called.)
There's no there there for me.
I don't dislike her, but I don't get the frenzy about her
Ditto. I find her work enjoyable for the most part, but she does not thrill me.
Of course she did.
She walked out on stage and with charm and grace did her job as a presenter. She was well-spoken and offered sincere praise to the Broadway community.
She did it knowing full-well there would be countless comments about her appearance, her dress, what she said and how she said it. She did it despite all the cattiness that ensues in "theater-related circles" when a Hollywood performer goes to Broadway...and despite all the negative reviews she got for trying to do a role and attempting to improve her craft.
She did it despite all the people who don't like anything she's ever done and will never like anything she'll ever do...few though they may be.
It took guts and she pulled it off extremely well!
I spent part of the afternoon fiddling with the recording of the Tonys. My first go-round with eliminating the commercials came in at 2 hours, 7 minutes, a bit too long to squeeze the show onto one DVD-R. Ordinarily, I would cut the PSA about the good that the American Theater Wing does (the segment the late Isabelle Stevenson used to do every year), but this year with the funny SPAMALOT fellows there, I wanted to save that. And I wanted to save the DREAMGIRLS TV commercial, so that meant some of the lengthier and less interesting speeches had to go. But I did finally get it boiled down to an hour and 56 minutes.
She's a woman...she's not supposed to thrill YOU!
;D
What do you mean, Angelina Jolie sure does! :o
It has been quite a busy afternoon on the hotline.
I hope not too depressing!
Why do Broadway people not like Hollywood people to act on Broadway?
I wonder how Broadway felt when Ms. Anne Kimbell, star of MONSTER FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR and GIRLS AT SEA played roles on Broadway?
And it truly was a star-filled evening...
In my section alone - which happened to be a very good seat when all was said and done - I was seated in the midst of the casts of The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Jersey Boys, The Color Purple...
As for me in my new tux...
Awwwww... <blush>
*And I have to admit that it was fun dressing up again for the first time in a long time. I think the last time I wore a tuxedo was for the Helen Hayes Awards about five or six years ago.
**And I even thought I looked quite spiffy. :)
Why haven't we seen any photos of James all dressed up? Granted, you looked stunning last night, Jose, but fair is fair.
As another DR mentioned, the numbers are restaged for Radio City Music and for the TV cameras. Sweeney Todd was "expanded", and they even had Alex Gemignani facing downstage as he played the piano/keyboard - at the O'Neill he faces upstage and keeps an eye on things via a mirror in the set. And it looked like The Color Purple went ahead and let their understudies be a part of the number.
What I wonder, DR MAtH, is how many times will you watch that DVD-R?
And a P.S. (before I fall off of my high horse) having met quite a lot of old time actors and actresses, some who seemed like they were on their last leg, they absolutely loved any attention they could still get...it is just the performer in them I guess.
Really?
I find Angelina extremely RESISTible.
She's right up there with Sharon Stone in the "I don't get it" department.
But...different strokes....
Why haven't we seen any photos of James all dressed up? Granted, you looked stunning last night, Jose, but fair is fair.
I don't want to sound bitchy, because I truly enjoyed the Tony Awards last night; but did anyone else get the impression that the producers might have been expecting more of a sweeping victory for THE COLOR PURPLE? Oprah's speech and where it came in the braodcast, seemed to indicate the start of a coronation that never occured. Perhaps they expected PURPLE to win Best Musical. I haven't seen the show, but based on the number(s) done during the broadcast, I would have felt cheated had THE COLOR PURPLE taken the top prize.
Of course, I was hoping that THE DROWSY CHAPERONE would win, based on the two numbers I had seen from the show. I love the "As We Stumble Along" number.
Who is James?
Count me in as a Julia Roberts fan - she has screen charm and magic . (and No I did not like "Pretty Woman" and very much not "Steel Magnolias") I do not care for the screen presence of Ms Jolie or Ms Stone.
Ms Roberts is DP Colin's favourite (or favorite)Tinkerbelle.
Is James not the gentleman youdumped me forstood me upcancelled our dinner plans for when I was in New York last year?
If not, then what happend to that guy?
My car is now back to it's original shape and after work I can get rid of this horrible Ford Escort rental car.
My car is now back to it's original shape and after work I can get rid of this horrible Ford Escort rental car.
LOL DR Ron. I think it is marginally better than "Beaches".
Patti Lupone, Bette Midler and Wayne Newton together in concert would come close DR Ron.
Oh...I never thought it would come to this -- no Bette Midler?
Well....she's gonna be headlining in heaven...so you might set your sights a little lower....
;D
I like my Escort. :-[
;)
No offense of course! LOL! This one was such a bare bones car...and I am spoiled now by having automatic stuff in my current car...for the first time.
Ok, I know that some of you know how to copy from your DVR (Tivo) to a dvd recorder...I have spent a good chunk of the evening trying to figure it out...but blasted I can't seem to do it. Maybe I am just too tired tonight to figure out what kind of cord should go where.
I found instructions on the internet but I couldn't make sense out of the guys technical jargon...I need a "dummies" type instruction I guess.
I tried the cable companies instructions but just got a disc full of snow.
Did you turn it on first?
;)
I have to take Callie in to the vet tomorrow. She had some blood tests today and not good news. Her blood calcium levels are way too high. She had this problem about a year and a half ago and recovered after treatment. So I'm hoping that will happen again. Sheesh! I can't believe that I'm having such cat health trouble.
Ok, I know that some of you know how to copy from your DVR (Tivo) to a dvd recorder...I have spent a good chunk of the evening trying to figure it out...but blasted I can't seem to do it. Maybe I am just too tired tonight to figure out what kind of cord should go where.
I found instructions on the internet but I couldn't make sense out of the guys technical jargon...I need a "dummies" type instruction I guess.
I tried the cable companies instructions but just got a disc full of snow.
Ok, I know that some of you know how to copy from your DVR (Tivo) to a dvd recorder...I have spent a good chunk of the evening trying to figure it out...but blasted I can't seem to do it. Maybe I am just too tired tonight to figure out what kind of cord should go where.
I found instructions on the internet but I couldn't make sense out of the guys technical jargon...I need a "dummies" type instruction I guess.
I tried the cable companies instructions but just got a disc full of snow.