Topic: A TONY AWARDS PARTY FOR ONE (Read 5237 times)

bk · « **on:** June 13, 2022, 12:58:20 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were a party for one, and now it is time for you to post until the party for one cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** June 13, 2022, 12:59:29 AM »

And the word of the day is: PANACEA!

Michael · « **Reply #2 on:** June 13, 2022, 02:46:35 AM »

Morning to everyone

Michael · « **Reply #3 on:** June 13, 2022, 02:48:17 AM »

I taped it and watched it by fast forwarding for all the stuff I didn’t want to see. The tribute to Sondheim was disappointing. I wish they had a tribute to a Angela Lansbury on the main broadcast.

vixmom · « **Reply #4 on:** June 13, 2022, 03:46:23 AM »

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vixmom · « **Reply #5 on:** June 13, 2022, 03:46:43 AM »

I didn’t see the Tony awards last night

vixmom · « **Reply #6 on:** June 13, 2022, 03:47:40 AM »

Yesterday I went to see The Orchard, a reimagined version of The Cherry Orchard

vixmom · « **Reply #7 on:** June 13, 2022, 03:47:56 AM »

It was at the Baryshnikov Arts Center

vixmom · « **Reply #8 on:** June 13, 2022, 03:48:25 AM »

And Mikhail Baryshnikov played the part of the elderly servant

vixmom · « **Reply #9 on:** June 13, 2022, 03:48:41 AM »

Afterwards I was able to briefly meet him

vixmom · « **Reply #10 on:** June 13, 2022, 03:49:32 AM »

Did I already tell you this yesterday?

vixmom · « **Reply #11 on:** June 13, 2022, 03:49:54 AM »

I’ve had very little sleep so my brain is addled

vixmom · « **Reply #12 on:** June 13, 2022, 03:50:15 AM »

I kept waking up all night, sure someone was calling my name

vixmom · « **Reply #13 on:** June 13, 2022, 03:51:03 AM »

I’ve been lying awake since a little past 5 am trying to fall back asleep but finally gave up

elmore3003 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 13, 2022, 04:07:24 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #15 on:** June 13, 2022, 04:10:19 AM »

I did not get to bed until after 11:00, so I've lost two hours of sleep last night, and I feel it. I had a very strage dream that I was performing my cabaret act, and Steve Sondheim was also performing his after me. Then I learned I had to go on again after him with my old cabaret act. The problem was, I could rememebr no lyrics.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #16 on:** June 13, 2022, 04:11:23 AM »

My biggest complaint? Too many shots of Billy Porter instead of the people "in memoriam." What idiot decided that?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #17 on:** June 13, 2022, 04:15:48 AM »

After seeing the Strange Loop bit, I think I'd like to see it. I feel the same about Paradise Square. I wish I'd seen The Skin of our Teeth, which remains one of my favorite plays, and I would kill to see Take Me Out. The original production was wonderful, but I've always liked Jessie Tyler Ferguson, and I think he might be wonderful in the Dennis O'Hare role.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #18 on:** June 13, 2022, 04:18:13 AM »

The actor playing Michael Jackson impressed me in the excerpt but much less so in his award speech. I kept thinking, well, he's very young.

Before the pandemic, I was going to do a new show with Christopher Wheeldon. No word since March 2020.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #19 on:** June 13, 2022, 04:19:17 AM »

My fri4nd Chuck Cooper was up for best supporting actor in a play. I was rooting for him.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #20 on:** June 13, 2022, 04:20:28 AM »

I would like to hear the Girl from the North Country CD for the Dylan songs and the best orchestrations.

Jrand73 · « **Reply #21 on:** June 13, 2022, 05:11:59 AM »

The Tony Awards - it was on, and I was in the same room as the television.

I didn't see anything that would motivate me to see a show or buy a CD - and usually I at least see ONE thing I like.

Oh well. I shall be back.....

ChasSmith · « **Reply #22 on:** June 13, 2022, 06:13:38 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #23 on:** June 13, 2022, 06:18:43 AM »

I saw a portion of the Tonys at someone else's house, and caught the end of the program at home. I didn't even think to set the DVR, but I think the highlights I've seen and/or read about will be sufficient. Man, I know nothing about these newer shows.

John G. · « **Reply #24 on:** June 13, 2022, 06:19:11 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #25 on:** June 13, 2022, 06:28:26 AM »

The Music Man excerpt (their curtain calls??) is all I ever have to see of that production.

No, that's not quite true. I would watch a few snippets from the actual show out of simple curiosity. I'd specifically be interested to see the "My White Knight" scene, for the unearthed musical version of the number and to get some sense of how Sutton Foster actually portrays Marian. Again, only to satisfy the curiosity.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #26 on:** June 13, 2022, 06:29:47 AM »

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Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #27 on:** June 13, 2022, 06:32:09 AM »

TOD: I may have watched an hour or so of the Tonys. Nothing amazed me. Many of the acceptance speeches were way over-the-top.

I did admire Phylicia Rashad's speech, though. I hated the speech by the featured actor in a musical. Dear Lord! You'd think he had won the Kentucky Derby, the Olympic Gold Medal and the Best Actor Oscar all rolled into one. I appreciate that he was excited, but...

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #28 on:** June 13, 2022, 06:35:24 AM »

I did not care for the number from "Company" at all.

And where is it engraved in stone that Bernadette Peters is the ONLY singer who should ever be in a Sondheim tribute? At least she was singing a song from "Into the Woods" instead of the one she usually sings over and over and over again on any show about Sondheim. I love "Not A Day Goes By", but out of the many times I have heard her perform it, it was only special once.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #29 on:** June 13, 2022, 06:35:31 AM »

The In Memoriam sequence was maybe one step above the fiasco we now routinely expect from the Oscars, but that's not saying much. Why must these things feature a performer AT ALL? Am I wrong in thinking that that occasion is not about them? And boy, were those slides rushed. Oh, the hell with it. What a waste.

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