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Jun 8
2009
03:20 AM ET
2009 Tony Awards: We live-blogged it!
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Favorite of The Tony Awards: Neil Patrick hosting and the parody of the song “Tonight” from “West Side Story.” Loved the line about “Tonys being more gay-er if Liza was may-or and Elton took flight.” This parody was a hoot! Thanks, Tony Awards, for saving the best for last!!! Can’t wait for my hometown’s performing arts center to get “Billy Elliot,” “Next To Normal,” and “God of Carnage” when these plays touring companies hit the road. All look delicious and deserved their Tonys tonight!
How would you rate the Tony Awards hosting job by Neil Patrick Harris? Take the poll here:
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The Tonys have almost become the Grammys – they give a lot of the awards before the live show so they can air lots of musical numbers — thinking this is what the tv audience wants to see
Loved NPH. Kind of blah about everything else.
Can we get NPH to host the SAG and Oscars?
And the closest call of the eve goes to Brett Michaels http://scarlett-tv.com/?p=131 Close call!!
Why do the Tonys frequently come off like amateur night? The sound ruined the it for me. It looked like a great opening, but it sounded like we were getting the feed from a mic over the audience–coughs included. Why hire all that talent, then not hire an A-team crew? I watched about 15 min in, but had such a hard time with the sound, I turned it off. I’ll keep it on the DVR and see if I have more patience later this week.
Nice photo gallery of the Tonys’ best and worst fashion moments, here:
http://www.bravotv.com/tony-awards-fashion
OH THEY SHOULD HAVE DEFINITELY MENTIONED TOM O’HORGAN, THE BRILLIANT DIRECTOR OF THE EARLY VERSION
OF HAIR. I PLAYED A SHOW OF MINE FOR TOM, MET HIM AT HIS LOFT TWICE. HE HAS INSPIRED ME THROUGH THE YEARS.
Welcome to “Amateur Night at RCMH.” I can almost forgive the sloppy camera work since its not a theater “thing”, but surely these guys do sound and lights every day, so there is no excuse for the low standards. Many of the musical numbers were poorly representative of their shows, and performances were frequently low energy (thank goodness that the cast of “Hair” demonstrated the meaning of the word “vitality”). I questioned NPH as host, but he was purely entertaining and probably the most cohesive element in the show. In spite of the effective use of “What I did for love,” “In Memorium” was mainly memorable for being so easily forgettable, which happens when a written list is displayed in which the words are illegible. And why were the musical numbers given two or three minutes while scenes from plays languished with only a few seconds? Thanks, CBS, for making this important show available to the public; I can only hope that next year it will be worth the time we invest in watching it
Hello Aaron Tveit. Nice to meet you. Hope to see a lot of more of you.
To the refrain: “Save” Broadway? Your call might start with the box office of these theaters. Broadway box office (s) have ***HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE***
Try gifting tickets via the online Telecharge for HAIR! at the Al Hirschfeld, for example, and you’ll be sadly disappointed if you want to include those tickets with a birthday card.
The theater has a policy that they DON’T release tickets (even with two forms of i.d., a birthday card, and a frustrated customer on the phone) until five minutes before the show. So, forget giving tickets as gifts: all these shows have zero interest in customer service.
Calls and letters to the theater’s producers (the Public, Hair! Productions) will go unanswered. They’re fine with morons staffing their box office and lost ticket revenue: those 4 sets of tickets I was planning to buy? Forget it, I can spend my money elsewhere.
I say, SAVE YOUR MONEY and forget Broadway. The shows might be better but the experience of buying tickets: worse than eve
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