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THE TONY AWARDS CRASH
« on: June 09, 2025, 12:06:00 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes won no Tony Awards, and now it is time for you to post until the award-winning cows come home.
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« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2025, 12:07:31 AM »

And the word of the day is: CARILLON!
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« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2025, 12:09:22 AM »

Notes catalyzed. Converted.
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« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2025, 12:18:16 AM »

Pirates won no awards.
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« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2025, 12:19:16 AM »

I'm halfway through Drat! Permanent smile on my face.
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« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2025, 01:10:28 AM »

It is raining.

I fell asleep and missed the whole darn thing.
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« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2025, 01:10:41 AM »

Flesh is fine if it's fresh.
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« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2025, 01:11:45 AM »

TOD: Just speaking for myself Tony & Oscar wise.....there are just too many movies, musicals, and shows and PERFORMERS that I don't like.....
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« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2025, 01:23:25 AM »

Just finished Drat! Act one has better songs. Act two moves along quicker. Sydney was superb. Alex sang very well. Fine farceurs in the supporting cast. Pacing and focus excellent. Who was the director again? He showed skill at keeping everything moving.
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« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2025, 01:23:49 AM »

Good night, all.
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« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2025, 01:52:24 AM »

Right about act one having better songs, although act two does have one of my favorites, I Like Him.
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« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2025, 03:36:23 AM »

Good morning, friends.
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« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2025, 03:36:31 AM »

And others.
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« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2025, 03:36:49 AM »

Sorry I wasn't more of a contributor to the Tony bash.
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« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2025, 04:15:23 AM »

Good morning, all!
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« Reply #15 on: June 09, 2025, 04:19:54 AM »

 I slept surprisingly well, given that most of yesterday was a mediocre to lousy day. The tendonitis in my right arm and hand was at an all-time high yesterday, so - while I'm dependent on the computer for many things - I decided it was time to cut back my time on it and hope the plague goes away sooner than later..
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« Reply #16 on: June 09, 2025, 04:22:48 AM »

I didn't get to Act Two of Drat! The Cat!, as I wanted to, so I'll try again this morning after kitty cleanup.
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« Reply #17 on: June 09, 2025, 04:24:24 AM »

Nor did I get to the Tony Awards. By 8:15 I was ready for bed, and there I went.
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« Reply #18 on: June 09, 2025, 04:55:38 AM »

TOD: 
For the Oscars, it could be the specialness has gone away.  My guess about that has been that everything about the feel of movies vs. TV has changed with so many of the movies on TV very quickly now. 

And I think having up to ten Best Picture nominees takes away something for the viewer, even though it's valuable for the filmmakers and studios.
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« Reply #19 on: June 09, 2025, 04:57:12 AM »

For the Tonys, somehow everything felt off with the Pluto TV pre-show being hard to find and navigate; then on our TV the sound and the picture were so out of sync. 

When the CBS TV portion of the show started at 8 pm Eastern, it felt like coming into a show that had already started an hour and a half or so earlier - which of course was exactly what was happening - but the TV show was pretending to be just starting.


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« Reply #20 on: June 09, 2025, 04:57:32 AM »

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« Reply #21 on: June 09, 2025, 04:58:21 AM »

For people who care about hearing the speeches for awards like book, score and choreography and the technical awards, and the Lifetime Achievement award (this year given to Harvey Fierstein) and the Isabelle Stephenson Award (this year given to Celia Keenan-Bolger) - the problems with Pluto TV maybe could've mattered to enjoyment of the whole event.

I was grateful that KevinH was reporting the early winners to us last night.
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« Reply #22 on: June 09, 2025, 05:06:21 AM »

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« Reply #23 on: June 09, 2025, 06:57:31 AM »

Good morning, all.
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« Reply #24 on: June 09, 2025, 07:05:09 AM »

Background to the Jonathan Groff - Keanu Reeves Tonys moment:
They apparently enjoyed working together in "The Matrix Resurrections." 

(at 1:58 into this video) on rehearsing on the movie with a sweaty Mr. Reeves

Jonathan Groff Spills Details on Training with Sweaty Keanu Reeves for The Matrix Resurrections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buoiioDrgIE
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« Reply #25 on: June 09, 2025, 07:21:19 AM »

Last night was a wipeout for me. I'd expected to be done with some things and then settle into the awards broadcast, but even before it started we had other things come up that needed to be attended to, so I got to it late.

I already knew that some of the awards I would have cared about had already taken place. Was it Pluto TV? I don't even know what that is. A cable channel? Something on a Firestick? Online? Free? Do you have to subscribe? I'm really tired of having to figure that out about so many things I'd watch if it weren't for our now-abominably-fragmented media world. And lifetime achievement awards, of all things, can't even be on the main program? What utter bullshit. So already I'm pissed at the damned Tonys.

Anyhoo, in the midst of tending to various things, I saw a couple of minutes here and there, nothing too thrilling. I briefly checked here a couple of times and it looked like almost no one was watching it live, or was here posting about it, so I went about my business. Suddenly I thought I heard our cat, Mikey, meow -- like, from some great distance, or from behind a closed door. So I go looking to make sure of where he is and that he's all right. About FORTY MINUTES later, having looked in what I thought was every nook and cranny of the house, I shine a flashlight into a very hard to see corner of my bedroom where things are kind of piled up, and there's his fat ASS (it's not really fat), sound asleep. It wasn't his meow I'd heard after all. If it had been, he's very vocal and he would have kept yelling for us. So some sound, somewhere, maybe even on the damned TV, had sounded like his meow to me, setting off a wild goose chase.

So it was just a crazy distracted evening, and I just wasn't much in the mood for this particular Tony awards show anyway.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. :)
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« Reply #26 on: June 09, 2025, 07:29:54 AM »

I missed seeing Audra, I saw part of the song from Maybe Happy Ending which looked interesting, I saw the In Memoriam, I saw the award go to the woman in Sunset Boulevard who gave a two-hour thank you speech... I know I'm forgetting a few things... I saw the ten-year anniversary Hamilton put-together which was excellent and which, for my taste, could have included bits from a couple more of the songs (I'd watched the show a few times on Disney+ and grew to appreciate it)... oh, I don't know what else, but it was just fragments here and there.
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« Reply #27 on: June 09, 2025, 07:32:10 AM »

ChasSmith, so glad everything was OK with Mikey!
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« Reply #28 on: June 09, 2025, 07:34:21 AM »

I wonder if the very recent renaming of "MAX" back to "HBO MAX" had anything to do with this news being in the works, about HBO's parent company Warner Brothers Discovery.

Warner Bros. Discovery to Split Into Two Companies
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warner-bros-discovery-split-two-companies-streaming-tv-1236423250/
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« Reply #29 on: June 09, 2025, 07:41:20 AM »

As to the TOD -- what others have said -- the magic has gone from these shows in recent years.

They used to be an Event for those watching at home, and I don't mean just for us here who could be online chatting at the same time. No, they've lost their Event status for most people I know, whether their interest was Oscars or Tonys, and even less for the other two. I could count on one hand the number of friends who know an awards show is coming up and make definite plans to be watching it. Life isn't like that anymore, and we've lost something there.
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