Children of Eden... (and there is a LOT of choral work)
We hereby officially dedicate today at haineshisway.com to the memory of Cully.
We hereby officially dedicate today at haineshisway.com to the memory of Cully.
Mary J. Blige singing "What I Did For Love"? Who the $%@# is she and what is she doing on the Tony show?
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
sung is gnus backwards
I did as you asked, but I am suspicious - is this a Democrat site?
DR Panni--you're not Steve Newport in drag, are you? :) (Inside joke for RATM-ites).
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.
Thanks DRPANNI....does anyone know where a printable ballot can be located on the web?
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)!
Here's something we could do in honor of Cully...I'll take you up on this, Panni, and go one step further. I'm adding it to my list of bookmarked pages, so I'll remember to click in the future as well.
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
I think they need to start a Best Ensemble category. It only seems fair. The cast of AVENUE Q would win it hands-down.
My complete Tony List (some of this is pure guesswork):I'm not picking on you here, Panni, nor on any of the others who have singled out Plummer or Klein as Leading Actor in a Play. My prediction for Leading Actor is Jefferson Mays, for I Am My Own Wife. He manages to clearly delineate between the three major, and countless minor, characters that he plays in this one-man show, and to make each character interesting. In many ways, the performance and the play itself are a seamless entity. And it is hopefully a star-making role; I know I would now go to see a play on the basis of Mays being in the cast.
Best Play - I Am My Own Wife...Leading Actor in a Play - Christopher Plummer, King Lear...
Thanks DRPANNI....does anyone know where a printable ballot can be located on the web?
DRJAY thanks for the preview of DELOVELY....interesting. Since it was a preview, do you think they will be doing any more editing on it?
...but Dantheman...is the Tom Wopat era a good thing or a bad thing??? (asks the biggest Tom Wopat fan on HHW)!
DR Panni--you're not Steve Newport in drag, are you? :) (Inside joke for RATM-ites).
Well, I would say that it was a bad thing during the early 80s when, to my knowledge, Wolpat could only number his appearance as a replacement in I Love My Wife as a Broadway replacement, and yet was recruited year after year as a presenter/performer on the Tonys. It was something that just jerked my snobby, elitist chain.
I don’t know why we should complain about any tactic by the suits that keeps the Tony Awards broadcast on network television year after year. It is no secret that CBS does not do well, financially, with the broadcast; and I believe the only thing keeping the broadcast on live, as opposed to selling it to syndication, is that very snob factor we have been talking about. If a performance by Mary J. Blige, or the presentation of an award by Rudy from “Survivor” attracts enough extra viewers to make the show viable enough to bring back next year, then I'm all for it.
LOL non-magic.....it's an epidemic!
Three spellers left! And Indiana is still in!
But now that he has substantial Broadway experience (I saw him it City of Angels), Tom Wopat can star in the musical version of this year's Tony-winning play:
I Love My Own Wife
Thank you Dear Readers Ben and Dan-in-Toronto for not letting me forget, and thank you Dear Reader Elmore for your, umm, subtle reminder. I am now drinking my cold, but not frozen and/or exploded, Cherry Coke.
DRJAY - I see by the soundtrack listing (release date 6/15) that BLOW GABRIEL BLOW is listed....is that a BIG number (I hope).
Jane, it is a tea set and it belonged to my grandmother. One of the chairs also belonged to her. She got it from a schoolhouse in New York. And the rockingchair belonged to my great great grandmother Lucy.
Re Blige: I'm of two minds here. On the one hand, this smacks of nervous suits at the network, bringing in stars with the right demographics to draw in viewers who otherwise wouldn't view.
What doesn't match, in this case, is that the "stars" are usually relegated to presenting. Blige is performing. This suggests that she, herself, is interested in the Tonys. I'll be interested in hearing her perform.
Did I mention that I started KRITZER TIME last night? Well, I did. I'm about 25 pages into it right now... I'll probably knock out another 25 tonight.
A Nose for New York[/size]
Just ran an errand and, since it's too lovely a day to head right back, I walked past the Kosuth and Tilden statues and then it hit me: the smell of tall grass. A particularly summery smell, and it was here in my own neighborhood. The last time I sensed such a thing was on Ward's Island, a part of New York that Nobody Ever Visits (which is probably why I like it so much).
It got me thinking back to DR Danise's description of her trip. I wish I'd done a better job of convincing her:
1) Ride the subways
2) Spend as much time outside the theatre district as possible
3) Don't pick the Milford Plaza - your cheaper choice couldn't have been worse
but the smells. Ah, the smells.
Did you get to Park Avenue? No part of Park Avenue smells bad; the residents wouldn't stand for it. There are flower beds in the middle of every block from the fifties to the nineties, and so, often, it smells of these flowers.
I know you'd a plan to go to Joe's Pub. And there's plenty of interest nearby, including St. Mark's Place. I've not smelled garbage there, but I've smelled incense, and pot, and it's a feast of all sorts of Youth Culture sensations. One place that DOES smell awful is the little street behind the Ukranian church near McSorley's, the oldest pub in continuous use in New York. 135 years ago (I think), it was there. 35 years ago (I think), it was there, but you wouldn't have been allowed in because it didn't admit women.
Many a time I'm walking in a random neighborhood in New York, and suddenly fumes from a bakery will wash over me. As they say "smells are free." (And do nothing to your waistline.) On my block, we've a Thai restaurant, and Indian restaurant and an American place with some Cajun items - and that's just my side of the street. Actually, I'm kind of tired of those smells.
And that's to say nothing of interior smells. Saks has its own smell. Does Lord & Taylor? I don't like Bloomingdales' smell, lament the long-gone Bonwit Teller scent, and was surprised to find Barney's has none. Macy's stinks, as far as I'm concerned.
The Fulton Market, mentioned in Wonderful Town, is still in operation, and, while that's not a good aroma, I find it fun to be connected to a musical set in the thirties and written in the fifties. And wander north from there, and you're lost in Chinatown, as I was on my wedding day, taking in scents that are exotic and undefinable to the occidental nose.
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.
"Featured Actress in a Play: Margo Martindale (Audra could win, but she has so many Tonys already)..."
That actually may help her. If she wins this year, she will be one of only a few women to have won four Tony Awards, and she's so young that she will probably win a few more...watch out for her.
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.
Coming soon to DVD:
The Munsters: Season # 1
The Night Gallery: Season # 1
Alf: Season # 1
If those don't appeal to you, then:
Punky Brewster: Season #1
"Featured Actress in a Play: Margo Martindale (Audra could win, but she has so many Tonys already)..."
That actually may help her. If she wins this year, she will be one of only a few women to have won four Tony Awards, and she's so young that she will probably win a few more...watch out for her.
I actually do hope she wins it...I love me some Audra. How cool would it be to have FOUR Tony's when you're not even 40, half for musicals and half for straight plays??
I have some reservations about the Animal Rescue Site.
I went to imdb.com and listed as in "Post Production" was a documentary called Broadway: The Next Generation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408595/) to be released in 2005! Does anyone know anything about this??
Hal Prince has won 20 Tonys.
This will be an extra included on the DVD of Broadway: The Golden Age, a documentry that opens in NYC next week. Here's a link (http://staging.playbill.com/features/article/86324.html) to a story on Playbill-online.
If that's indeed the case, sorry that I recommended it! I usually ignore these things, but the URL was sent to me by a documentary filmmaker friend who usually researches everything to death - so I assumed it was legit.
All is well in cell phoneland. And to prove it, here's a photo of our very own Tammy Minoff with her very own large dessert.
I think the Emmy Awaqrd must be the only major award that hasn't changed size or design in its history.
Didn't someone once wisely say that you shouldn't eat anything bigger than your head?
I am the proud owner of an ACTRA Award (Association of Canadian Television & Radio Artists) which, I believe, no longer exists -- the award, that is. It's my favorite of any award I've ever seen - a somewhat overweight naked lady -- rumored to have been modelled after the late Canadian actress, Barbara Hamilton, who was a great lady of great size. The hefty naked lady seems to be running or leaping, a smile on her face, her hair flying, her arms joyfully waving on either side of her. I have no memory of winning it -- I went into shock when my name was announced -- but somewhere I have a photo of me waving the naked lady above my head.
Good evening Mr and Mrs America and all the ships at sea...this is Walter Winchell:
Smarty Jones ate a cicada!
McNally looked the award up and down and said "I've never seen anything like this. Except the dress: I've one just like it in my closet.";D ;D
And now, I have a date with an elliptical machine...Does it make elliptical billiard balls? (A Gilbert and Sullivan reference, of course.)
Yeow! Didn't someone once wisely say that you shouldn't eat anything bigger than your head?Or fluffier?
Watching Clint in Coogan's Bluff.
And isn't four the record...for an acting category? I know Tommy Tune has won nine in several different categories and Hal Prince has won a gazillion. Does anyone know (or know where to find) these stats?Not even 40?? She's not even 34!! Her birthday is July 3, 1970. I went to imdb.com and listed as in "Post Production" was a documentary called Broadway: The Next Generation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408595/) to be released in 2005! Does anyone know anything about this??
And I've no desire to hear about Jon Secada or Shirley Jones.
Not tonight, anyway
You've got to ask yourself a question: do I feel lucky? ...Well, do ya, punk?
Wrong movie, but good quote.