***OFFICIAL THREAD: THE 73RD ANNUAL TONY AWARDS***

What You Need to Know Before the Tony Awards:

How to watch (or stream) the Tony Awards:

Can’t wait! This is probably my favorite awards show of the year. Singing, dancing, gays!

Can't watch the fat slob. Hard pass.

[quote]James Corden

Nope, I'm out.

Is Colbert jealous he wasn’t asked to host?

James Corden fucking ruins everything. Did they run out of Americans to host? So sick of this fat, childish cunt.

Donglicity, thy name is Tom Glynn-Carney.

James fucking Corden? Seriously?!

r9 He's a Tony winner and hosted in 2016, so why not? Did you want them to bring back the 2017 host?

Yay. looking forward to the big show. Also looking forward to the cringey red carpet interviews from Moron Stage.

Corden's rather funny. I'm watching.

I like Corden. Did you want Neil Patrick, or Hugh Jackman? Really? James is fun!

[quote] Did you want Neil Patrick

Yes, yes, a million times yes!

Remember when the lead singer of Poison suffered a head injury onstage after finishing the Rock of Ages number and NPH just laughed and laughed? Ugh.

To be fair it was pretty damn funny.

We were close enough to see it from the audience. Most of us laughed our asses off, too.

Lissen. There is NOTHING to compare with Hugh Jackman & Neil Patrick Harris's duet where they sing "You're the Top."...with the memorable closing, "But if Buddy, I'm the bottom, you're the top!!!!!"

I predict Hadestown will be the BIG winner tonight. No doubt in my mind.

2019 Tony ballot:

The million dollar question for tonight: pizza or KFC?

Actually, once John Mulaney threw his name out there as interested in hosting, I was hoping they’d ask him. However, instead of going with someone who’s relevant and might draw in viewers they went with boring Corden.

Remember when the talk show champion for Broadway was Rosie?

Corden has actually won AND he is currently employed as a nightly talk show host with a nationally available platform. He respects musicals, even though he is a comedy guy and he agreed to do it.

They could do a lot worse.

Hadestown will be the biggest loser tonight. Time and time again it will be snubbed. Tootsie, The Prom and even Ain’t Too Proud will win awards over it.

Please tell me movie stars aren’t going to win the top acting awards.

Elaine May is going to win tonight. She's the most sure thing of the evening.

And Bryan Cranston, R26.

I'd like to go back to the days when stars like Mary Martin, Robert Preston and Angela Lansbury hosted the Tonys and didn't feel obligated to perform in "funny" musical skits with awful Rob Ashford "choreography" making a mockery of Broadway.

Of course, that's not gonna happen but couldn't we get Bernadette, Patti or even Nathan to host? Or all of them together?

Bob Mackie, Bob Mackie, Bob Mackie.

Although he tried to grab my BF at L'Orangerie.

I don't think I could ever sit through this year's program without the support of this live feed.

I hope all our wittiest and bitchiest posters are on board later on tonight.

I hope Stephanie Block of The Cher Show wins.

I’m hoping there are some upsets. I saw Gary last night and thought Kristine Neilsen was phenomenal. She’s far more deserving than Celia Keenan-Bolger whom I really like.

Do you mean Stephanie Janine Block, r31?

R33. Actually, it's Stephanie Janette Block.

I read somewhere that Chenowith will be a presenter tonight.

They could have asked me to host. My fan base would love it. Plus, I’m free tonight. Maybe they’ll do a revival of WOMAN OF THE YEAR for me. Fingers crossed, kids!!!

I know there's been a separate Corden thread. But man, he gets to do everything. Success breeds success, I guess.

An old friend of mine is a bigshot producer up for awards tonight. Hope he wins!

They should have asked 3-time winner Glennie to host, she might have snagged a 4th Emmy.

It would be great if Chenoweth presented for Best Actress in a musical.

Why would that be great, R39????

HEADS UP: Rosie O'Donnell's "10,000 Pyramid" episode airs tonight on ABC. She goes head-to-head with Leslie Jones. You may want to DVR this since it's on at the same time as the Tiny Awards.

Any big names presenting?

I hate james corden. that's all. bring on the show!

[quote]Of course, that's not gonna happen but couldn't we get Bernadette, Patti or even Nathan to host? Or all of them together?

Actually, I must say I am surprised that Nathan has not been a go-to host for the Tonys over the years. I think he did it only once with Matthew that year of "The Producers" but that was it. Do they ask him but he always turns them down?

Will be watching in the suburbs while my rich friend in the city goes with his two kids.

How gay is Jeremy Pope?

Any way I can stream this from the west coast so that it's live with the east coast? Otherwise I can't hang out with you guys.

I think you can do it on CBS All Access, but it'll cost you.

Not really into it, but I hope Elaine May gets it. Wonder if she'd mention Donen.

Nathan hosted, solo I believe, in 1996.

Did anyone see Cranston in Network?

Are they doing a Mazzie tribute or is she getting a special Tony?

I think Jeremy Pope is adorable.

yum-oooooooooooooo

Laura Linney looks fab in Ciriano

Interesting outfit Brandon U is wearing.

Ephraim Sykes is hot.

Cheno barely makes it up to the pride portion of the backdrop.

By all accounts Bill Damaschke is an idiot

NY1 is doing a great preshow. Frank Dilella is doing a great job. Very charming.

What an asshole Schumacher is

The Gay Superbowl in a few minutes.

Whoever those people are doing the red carpet for ET are so horrific I had to turn it off.

Free worldwide streaming link if anyone needs it.

"A wall of Chers" is in store for us tonight!!

Squeeeee!!!!

If you're going to wear a tux, put on socks!

R64 Thanks!!!

The show starts in 30 mins, no?

THANK YOU R64. I don't have cable, and could not find any way of streaming it.

Yes, R68, at 8 p.m. eastern/7 p.m. central.

Where's Patrick Pacheco?? I miss him.

I miss Theatre Talk :[.

Did anyone from Boys In the Band walk the red carpet? Zachary Q and Jim P are New Yorkers so they could hop on over to the show tonight, right?

Starts at 8 but they hand out some of the technical awards eg lighting ahead of time, I think. At least the Tonys twitter is already announcing winners.

The Tonys celebrating Gay Pride month is redundant. On the red carpet did anyone see the outfit on Jesse Fergusons's husband?- Or the outfit on Billy Porter? (it was made from the Kinky Boots curtain) and with high heels. And he has the nerve to complain that Hollywood doesnt hire gay actors for straight parts!!!!!! That is part of the reason they hate us. James Corden and the Tonys are a good match-over enthusiastic about anything show bizzy. I havent seen too much this season but I will watch. Cross dressers will cheer when Tootsie wins. Harvey Fierstein will stand.

Have they ever asked Patti Lupone to host? They've had Angela and Bernadette host. Patti would be great with the zingers and they could get her sing a nominated song from each of the muscials.

R25=Cuddles

Get rid of those frau publicists on the red carpet.

First nine awards given out. Five for musicals, and Hadestown has won four and Bob Macklemore won the fifth. I was not expecting that much support for Hadestown.

However, I noticed several of the male publicists there are quite hot.

Watching it on dvr time delay, I absolutely loathe Corden and will ff through him and commercials.

Thanks R64!

Just saw Brandon Uranowitz’s outfit and I think I’m nauseous

Four play design awards. Two for Ferryman, one for Ink, and one for Choir Boy. Happy to see Choir Boy will not go home empty handed.

Is it impressive that Brandon Uranowitz has managed to rack up three Tony nominations in the last four years? That's impressive, no?

R21 - Chinese Food. Award ceremonies plus DL always require Chinese take out.

Okay, so the live link at R64 isn't playing the Tony Awards for me... anyone else got another link?

R73, Andrew Rannells.

Sorry try this one!

Yikes. That horrible trophy hunting woman is getting more fame when all I wanted was to see the Tony Awards.

It was a nice try 'though, r64.

THANKS r89!!!!

Is it me or is Corden waaaay out of tune here?

Why is that fat fuck Corden still singing?

Alas, that link doesnt work. Thee is some show on about hunting instead of the Tonys. If anyone else has a link, feel free to share. Thank you

Yeah, he's flat and winded.

Is Bryan Cranston really gonna be a two time Tony Award winner?

So just checking, Bob Mackie won already for Cher and Tootsie's book won but was considered too obscure for TV?

That's a shame. They aired book last year reportedly because they all thought Tina Fey would win.

Not a fan of James' shtick, but maybe it's just me.

Christ this is obnoxious

CHARLIE WILLIAMS!!!!!

Not just you, R98.

This song is just awful

R98 it's not just you

This opening number is just going on way too long.

Worst opening in years.

There's a song in this mess?

They could have cut five minutes off that number

Wonder how many sets turned to the NHL game.

A standing ovation for that?

They must be drunk already.

That little whore Charlie Williams front and center. Anyone notice the black dancer could barely lift Corden? haha.

R108 or the Downton Abbey movie special on PBS

I only watched Charlie the entire time.

I'll probably be in the minority, but I liked the song. James was REALLY winded.

I didn't see it -- but I suspect it is still better than any other openeing for an awards show. Nothing will top NPH 'bigger' 'though. That was absolutely great.

That’s the worst singing I’ve ever heard.

Celia finally has a Tony!

Fiona Flanagan looked pissed she just lost to a SJW

Damn - CKB grabbed that award from Tina Fey so fast and was like, "bye bitch!"

Glad she mentioned Harper Lee.

I'm not spending money to watch a jukebox musical.

Wow - these Temptations are... Not the Temptations.

R110, Charlie is a DL icon. They know their audience.

Fionnula was pissed you called her Fiona, r117.

"The Temptations" looks dreadful.

What a shitshow

The real Temptations were never this dull.

Are the Tempations lip synching?

This looks so cheap.

This like one of those bad "Legends: Live!" tribute bands coming to a casino near you.

Jack Noseworthy!!

I don't think they were lip synching... you could hear the labor in their performacnes.

The Temptations and Cher songs will still be better than any of the original shit that is inflicted upon audiences tonight.

I didn't know who Charlie Williams was before. But then I got DATALOUNGE.

Now a Truvada commercial.

It’s kinda embarrassing that the CBS execs know only gays watch this shit and so the ads reflect that

Looks Cheap. I agree. The CGI sets for theater always do. Lazy. Best was the singer that held the long high note. 👏

R134 know your audience

To be fair, I see them all the time on all networks

R134, Rather I think the Truvada folks know who watches, and so booked the ad space

Anyone remember when William Ivey Long had those sexual allegations come up last year and fuck all happened?

Cheno wearing Trump makeup.

Kristin looks even more like an alien. A very tan one.

Are pink lapels thought to be slimming?

Is there a rogue mic on backstage? Anyone else hear that ambient chatter?

How is James Cordon not a TOTAl bottom?

Wait. Who are these gals?

I keep looking, but can’t tell, did they create a ramp so Ali Stroker can get on stage should she win?

Va Va Va Boomers.

Wow that green gown is divoon. Love it

The Boys In The Band are all there.

Benjamin Walker was robbed!

Bertie!!

I wish Robin had won.

Featured Actor had 3 our nominees and all three lost to the straight Brit.

Broadway is just like Hollywood

I was secretly rooting for Robin too. Oh well.

After Samuel Jackson gave zero fucks about expressing his distaste for Trump, he can do no wrong.

And the Marvel fanboys had to eat it.

Damn, poor Laurie.

Calpernia done got fat.

Robin had the strongest response of the featured actor nominees.

A certain someone walked Ms. May up to the stage.

I hate how in the opening they highlighted Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles even though it’s been years since their shows were nominated just because middle America might recognize them. You don’t see Cyndi Lauper showing up every year presenting herself as a Broadway stalwart.

Cheno has been that color for a while now. I don't think it is make-up. She just thinks being tan hides her forehead vein. Ot maybe she is turning into Eartha Kitt?

Still pissed off that Glenda wasn't at least nominated. And the play Elaine was in put me to sleep so I left at intermission.

"I've never won an acting award"

Neither have I.

That's because Robin is 'diverse'

Miss Elaine May looks flummoxed.

R157 I didn’t see it, was it Lucas ala TC and James Ivory at the Oscars?

Is there a melody in the Tootsie song?

This sucks.

Will they do a looking ahead number at the end and do a song from Rouge? I remember one year they did something like that before, but it might have been because it was piss poor year for musicals.

Unstoppable unstoppable unstoppable unstoppable.........

Not to be unkind but that "Tootsie" song sucked.

What a shitshow

Unbearable, unbearable............

Please STOP singing!

R167 Ooh! I saw Aaron there, maybe he’ll be singing Rouge for that preview?

Who wants to fuck a crippled Ado Annie?

Ok, Josh Groban

Gay? Straight? Bi? Furry? Animal, mineral or vegetable?

Or Festive?

^^^And there it is. Someone finally said it.

Brandin Uranowitz is married to a woman. So only 2 gays lost to Bertie.

Wait, Santino turns into a woman named Dorothy Michaels? Who the fuck is "Tootsie"?

That red dress really needed some built-in hips and ass.

No temptation to see AINT TOO PROUD.

R174 The elephant in the room. R178 Tootsie is a nickname the male chauvinist director calls Dorothy.

Remember when George Hearn refused to perform in drag for La Cage? Glad Santino didn’t go that route.

R164 - Scott R.

r180 should write for the New Yorker.

You have to win if you are in a wheelchair.

Unstoppable was unwatchable.

Were the wrinkles in the red sequined dress intentional?

So there are going to be ZERO surprises tonight. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Are the Boys In The Band starring in The Ferrymen?

Unstoppable was a really bad choice. The show is hilarious but that song is “inspirational” and not funny. And the song doesn’t give Santino a good chance to differentiate the Michael Dorsey singing from the Dorothy Michaels singing. I don’t think that number sold too many tickets.

R162, Robin gave a terrific performance in "Boys" plus maybe he's just really liked a lot by his peers in the business.

But of course, a bigot like yourself could never entertain such possibilities where it comes to someone who's "diverse."

So many damn Brits

R179 It DEFINITELY did. Haha.

(174) She's just a girl who can't stand up.

Temptations: embarrassingly bad. Uranowitz's outfit, ditto. Corden, also ditto.

I'm pleased about Elaine May, though.

Bruins -1

Blues-0

1st period

Yay! Rachel Maddow won for scenic design for Hadestown

Darren Christ he's so gay.

Jesus Christ he has 30 seconds to promote his play and he chose that?

Did he, r191?

ANDRE DE SHIELDS!!

ABOUT FUCKING TIME!

It’s lovely that all the writers of the Best Play nominees have been invited to give speeches.

OK, so far Elaine May is the epitome of classy. I love her. The Temptations cast were horrible. They writhed and jumped around in a way the Temptations never wood and they sounded awful. Go to You Tube and watch the real ones. I like Celia Keenan Bolger, from the Kill A Mockingbird. Glad she won. Andrew Rannells, Matt Bomer, look dreamy. Sienna Miller & Darren Criss . Yaaay, Andre De Shields!!!!!

Agreed r201

LOved Elaine May's speech! Hilarious and so heartfelt that she named all those colleagues....not easy at her age I'm sure.

Is Raul there?

Why did Jez Butterworth do that? He’s the overwhelming favorite to win Best Play and The Ferryman has won twice today already so the love is there. Shouldn’t he have done that during the Best Play acceptance speech? I’m betting he thought it would come across differently than it did.

Huh, Bertie Carvel finally publicly acknowledged that his wife exists. Maybe he'll stop taking his wedding ring off whenever photographers (or other women) are around.

I thought Shirley died a couple of years ago!

R201 YES!!! 💙✊

SHIRLEY! Love her.

Why she married Mary Engels, I'll never know.

She did.

Shirley Jones!

Is she gonna talk about how big her dead stepson's dick was?

De Shields' speech was wonderful!

Andre De Sheilds played Felicia Gallant lover on "Another World"

Shirley Jones! Yay!

Agree r207. Will be interesting to see what the other writers use their speeches for. James Graham is famously humble and exceptionally generous to peers.

Ado Annie is in a wheelchair?

That shrieking thing is up for a Tony??

R177, that may come as a shock to Brandon's boyfriend, Zach, who he talked about on the red carpet tonight with Frank DiLella.

Does everyone in the audience get a bowl of chili??

She cain't say no, because she is getting zero offers.

What did Jez say? I missed it.

How to take the most rousing song in Broadway history and stand around during it.

test

Brandon Uranowitz is openly gay, has a boyfriend and is not married to a woman, R177.

Laurie Metcalf seemed confused by the delightful screeching gal in the wheelchair

I know this isn’t the place for gossip but Carvel caused the Ink producers a real headache because almost right up to previews he wouldn’t tell them if he was going to drop out of the production to return to England to be with his mother or not.

Guess the chance of a Tony is worth not seeing your dying mother for six months.

You think?

R198 So gay. R205 R209 #metoo R214 It was.

Why did they song the joyful "Oklahoma!" in such an angry fashion?

The Tony will be around longer than his mother.

I enjoyed that Oklahoma number!

I wish they would stop saying that there is not a word changed in OKLAHOMA! It ain't true.

"Ado Annie is in a wheelchair?"

Only after she couldn't say "No" to John Hamm.

Say what you will, I think the Oklahoma number will really boost their ticket sales (and I'm not even a fan of the show).

Butterworth literally used his speech just to talk about his wife's uterus.

Yeah, angrily shrieking ‘Oklahoma” was...strange.

Omg!!!!

The song " Oklahoms" sold that segment, not the performance. But, it has been the only truly theatrical song so far.

Does Scott Rudin accompany all the actors in his shows onto the stage?

R223 , Jez was supposed to talk about the play but he said in the beginning that he was going off script and spent the whole time thanking his wife, Laura Donnelly, for her work in the show while she was pregnant. It was heartfelt but not the right place to say that. It came off as really weird.

I love the Tony’s, I’m so crying right now!

Oh, Danai, why did you dress as Prissy going to the ball?

Now I have to watch Big Little Lies later not live.

Lena Dunham won director of Musical

So many yellow teeth on nominees and their dates.

Whitestrips, people, Whitestrips.

R242, thank you.

They should have let Will perform “Kansas City”

[quote]Now I have to watch Big Little Lies later not live.

Same here. It's a good night for gays!

Catherine O'Hara = GODDESS!

Catherine O'Hara! She looks great!

YAAAASSSSSS CATHERINE!!!

This Hadestown woman was wagging her finger at me, so I muted.

Did she say anything notable?

Has Catherine ever been on Broadway?

Bringing in Catherine O'Hara to introduce the Beetlejuice cast was truly inspired.

God, I loved her in that movie.

Shame the musical looks like absolute shit.

omg, please stop this shit

I think Alex Brightman is really good.

I could have bought a ticket for the Tony's for $600. From all of your comments, I am glad I didn't.

You'll want to kill yourself at Beatlejuice - A show about death!

That was God Awful

Jesus. Is that number representative of Beetlejuice?

May not be saying much but Beetlejuice was far more impressive than Tootsie and Ain't Too Proud.

Well it was nice that they referenced Danny Elfman's original score for the film. Definitely one of his best compositions.

I actually thought the "Beetlejuice" number was pretty good. Not enough to make me buy a ticket but it came off a lot better than many of the other musicals that preceded it tonight.

I don’t think the Oklahoma setup was very good. They didn’t really explain why everyone was snarling during the title number.

It's mind boggling to me that people actually pay to see the shows they've featured so far

The "Boys" looked great all lined up in a row!

[266] Too much chili?

I love how they get presenters who have little or no connection to Broadway. I understand they’re trying to get people to watch, but it smacks as so phony. Get last years winners to present plus some Broadway legends.

Are you kidding? Beetlejuice reminded me of cruise ship entertainment

Why wasn't Tuc Watkins with The Boys?

I loved that Catherine O’Hara’s dress had black and white stripes like the show logo.

r269=Cuddles

This is just alarming. I thought everyone was exaggerating about how lousy the season has been.

Remind me, what were Lucy Liu's Broadway triumphs again?

Lucy Lui is on the Tony board? What has she done on stage?

How is Lucy Lui a trustee of the American Theatre Wing?

Damn, Lucy Liu looks gorgeous.

That gown and color is stunning.

Lucy Liu is wearing Christian Siriano.

R266 That's just how this version is. Beetle juice is just trash. I loved Jeff Daniels' reaction. haha.

Lucy Liu was a replacement in God of Carnage.

Oklahoma: this time its confusing and scary!

R275 and at the end of her speech they cut to an Asian guy applauding

How is Laura Benanti's hair so perfectly blunt? Did they just shear it off before she walked on stage? Looks like a wig, even though it isn't.

Of course the wheelchair girl was gonna win

They stand for a paraplegic? How offensive.

They were DETERMINED to give wheelchair that damn Tony. Fuck a ramp.

Anthony Ramos is just so damn sexy - ‘‘tis a pity he is straight.

I’m the one to asked about the ramp, so I guess there is handicap seating backstage, is this standard in NYC theaters?

Wheelchair girl is creepy and tiresome.

How fun for Ali Stroker to win an acting award when she doesn’t bother to get bogged down with any acting in conjunction with Oklahoma.

How was she in oklahoma?

Kristin Chenoweth looks like a Martian from Mars Attacks

Here on the west and I FINALLY got why Corden is considered a big deal. That opening number was PHENOMENAL.

She was backstage R289.

Did Kristin get played off during her introduction?

The Tonys are in competition with the Oscars for the SJW Awards.

Can someone explain Chenoweth's hair to me?

Who was the woman with straight brown hair they cut to after Ali Stroker’s speech? They showed her before as well.

WHY IS THERE A CRIP ON THE STAGE!! Why didn't her parents leave her on a mountain ledge .

Is it wrong to giggle at what r286 posted?

Who was the forgotten deaf girl who won for something some years before? And the fellow with the artificial arm who won for THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES?

Sorry, I'm too tired to Google. Physical challenges = awards.

"Uncle Barry", dear God. Not since Big Gay Al in "South Park".

Seriously, r294? Maybe you should check your tv channel.

R297 is right.

R294 James fat ass Corden

It’s not even 9:30 and this is the fourth Best Musical no,knee.

Every number seems so overwrought and overdone.

I still don’t understand how Chenowith reconciles gays with her fundie Christianity background?

R290 EXACTLY. I swear me and my boyfriend just said the same thing. A phony weirdo too. R292 She was fine but nothing special at all. The wheelchair didn't work for me either.

The Prom looks like a fun show.

I wish they televised more awards and fewer songs and such.

i love this!

“Ain’t too proud to beg” numbers were way over sung.

The Prom looks like a high school musical . The song, too.

R302 Marlee Matlin and Harold Russell

prom is a fun show

Of "The Prom" chorus boys, I want the one in the backward baseball cap. Sweet Jesus, the things I would do to him.

I see the teen in "The Prom" took her 45 year old mother to the dance in the end. Oh, wait....

My live stream just stopped :[

R304 Maybe they autotunned it for the west coast broadcast?

The audience looks orange.

R279, Kelli O'Hara is also wearing an outfit by Christian.

R323 how can you guys tell?

Live stream stopped for me but refreshing the page worked.

The girl in yellow had the most enormous tits.

Awards can often be about alot of other things besides talent

R302 don't forget all the mentally challenged who have won awards throughout the years...

I think that the hero of the Prom was the Mom in the show who didn't want the Prom to happen.

I’m sorry, r320...that sucks! My WiFi has been acting up too.

R324 Twitter.

R318 That is Teddy Toye.

The Tonys are an indication of how things have changed fairly quickly. Years ago, George Hearn was forbidden to perform "I Am What I Am" in drag for "La Cage" by CBS -- for fear that it would shock Middle America. Just now we saw 'The Prom' performance end in a teenage lesbian kiss.

It's all good the stream came back right as people were applauding the end of Prom's musical number. Maybe I'll watch it later if it's uploaded to YouTube.

That guy is hot!

The choreography of most of these musicals has been poor. I am very disappointed.

Thank you, r316 (and r327)!

The Prom has had the most energy by far.

Teddy Toye caught my eye during the show also. He’s a great dancer.

THE BOYS IN THE BAND!!!

Kneel before Zod

I love this old queen.

Now Ryan Murphy has a Tony. Becoming even more insufferable.

A clusterfuck of gays on the stage!

Can someone get the speaker a lozenge?

How lovely!

... and their careers are now officially ovah .....

He said “Negro.”

Ryan Murphy blocked me on Twitter and I still cannot figure out why. I went through five years of tweets and never mentioned him once.

The Prom and Tootsie were both fun shows.

So happy to see The Boys in the Band take the revival award. Well deserved.

The movie version of BITB is being filmed next month.

I live in nyc and never got my act together to see Boys in the Band or Choir Boy. It’s nights like this where I want to kick my own ass.

[quote]Ryan Murphy blocked me on Twitter and I still cannot figure out why. I went through five years of tweets and never mentioned him once.

You must have done [italic]something[/italic].

R349 with the same cast?

This is boring

Or said no.

Natalie Wood paid for Crowley's therapy and got him on a job on Hart to Hart.

I want to like this, but.....

Bruins 1 Blues 0

10:13 2nd

R347 Maybe he didn’t like the cut of your jib?

I must have nodded off. What is this nonsense we're watching now?

Not to be mean, but are any of these guys professional singers?

Seems that Ryan Murphy cut you a bitch.

If the Broadway Musical "Choir Boy" closed how did they manage to get the cast back together to perform a number on the Tony Awards?

i actually look forward to the commercials.

They need The Cher Show to do a number to shake things up a bit.

What a shitshow

Damn they really couldn’t get one A lister could they?

I wish I had seen Choir Boy. That was a powerful number.

Classy of David Stone to let Mart Crowley use all the time for Boys in the Band. Stone has never won before.

Choir Boy is the best number so far.

I wonder what Jeremy Pope looks like naked.

[quote] Ryan Murphy blocked me on Twitter and I still cannot figure out why. I went through five years of tweets and never mentioned him once.

Some people get blocked by default because you follow a person who is actually the one that is blocked. If that makes sense.

Oh, what a beautiful morning!

So glad Boys in the Band won revival. Well deserved.

And loved the number from Choir Boy.

Glad to see Crowley get another moment in the sun. I have been defending that play and movie against detractors almost my whole life. Loved it when i was a boy, love it now. Anger and all.

Choir Boy was the 2nd best 2 minutes of the night

R271, Tuc Watkins was onstage with the other "Boys" when they won the Best Revival award.

Boys in the Band is a culture I just don't know. Who has a party where everyone is so mean to each other? Maybe it's a 60s thing.

Loved Choir Boy, I wanted to cry.

I think DL ruined James Corden for me. All those stories about what a dick he is and now that's all see. Gotta watch those "America's Sweetheart" types, they are always assholes.

How is he a dick?

Yeah, that Choir Boy number was great.

I'm surprised we haven't had a carpool karaoke bit yet.

[quote]Remember when George Hearn refused to perform in drag for La Cage? Glad Santino didn’t go that route.

He never did. What the Hell are you talking about? During I Am What I Am he dragged up into full glamor and stopped the show. You have no idea what you are talking about.

Has Darren Criss come out yet?

The entire Tonys just went down the toilet...

R352 BITB movie will have the same cast and director as the play.

R362 - "Choir Boy" is a play not a musical.

Is this a Be More Chill spoof?

James is reading DL, apparently

R[381] that poster did know what he was talking about. Hearn did the number in a tuxedo on Tony night not in drag.

I'm gonna bet Choir Boy will now return to Broadway for a limited run.

R381 No, here is his performance in a tux.

Josh is adorable. He and Sara were really great last year so glad to see them back.

Those are the actual men's rooms at Radio City.

Why do I feel like NPH is a hot lay? Am I alone here?

Groban's hot.

That was the best part of the show so far...is that song from a show?

So does Mendes have this in the bag?

A nod to Be More Chill.

I dunno. Maybe we should rethink calling Cordon a dick and consider that he might just be appropriately bitchy at times?

(He is a comedian first and they are always kind of assholish. Even the English ones.)

R391 No, just because they each did a show does not make them Broadway royalty, it’s just that they are just known by flyovers so they get a prominent place on the broadcast.

When did Rachel Brosnahan become Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores?

Good God, Andre De Shields is repulsive looking.

Jesus, Alison Janney aged. I didn't know she was in A Waverly Place. Did she really have to beat Laurie Metcalf at this award show too?

Here ya go...

Who is Orpheus? He (and his ass) are damn hot. Love the kerchief around his neck too.

Is Tumblr currently losing their shit?

Who is the tall slice of heaven who was swinging the lights?

[quote]Who is Orpheus? He (and his ass) are damn hot. Love the kerchief around his neck too.

Reeve Carney. He was Spider-Man in Turn Off the Dark. Patrick Page was also in that.

This presentation will not get tickets sold for Hadestown.

THATS the best musical this season? Yikes

Based on these snippets of the show Hadestown seems the front runner.

The number from Hadestown wasn't bad at all.

I disagree, r407. I'm intrigued.

Where was Sam Mendes? An absent Tony winner is kind of rare.

Nothing I have seen tonight would get me to pay $25 to see any of them let alone $250.

I thought the music was great. Way more compelling than the traditional Broadway sound heard in Prom and Tootsie.

I also don't think that number will sell many tickets but it was a good number nonetheless. And Reeve Carney is gorgeous.

Mended is working on a WWI epic movie to be released ar Xmas called1917.

James Corden Comes Off as a Real Jerk in His Reddit 'Ask Me Anything'

From the linked article:

James Corden recently participated in an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on reddit and it went about as well as Woody Harrelson's. Actually, that's a lie — Corden's was arguably worse.

What we really hate, is a hypocrite. For example, this "family-friendly" comedian.

But those who have been watching his career for quite some time has noticed that he's got a bit of a mean streak. Sure, some of the best comedians are massive jerks, but they don't pretend that they're not. James, however, fully embraces his big-nice-softie persona.

As it stands right now, one of the top-voted comments accuses James of showing up to a Writers Guild Association meeting to advocate for lower pay for starting writers. So low, according to the comment thread, it equated to a wage that's barely livable in Los Angeles.

The Late Late Show host visited Reddit along with five other members of the Carpool Karaoke team to interact with fans, and the entire thing just ended up turning into a spitfire session. People shared stories about how egotistical and self-centered the comedian is. And that was just the tip of the iceberg.

I thought the Hadestown number was good. I want to see it. Andre deShields is great. So far it is the best of the night. The generic sound of all the other musicals (especially Tootsie) are not the least bit appealing. They all sound alike.

I thought it was a pretty good number, and lord knows better than these other pedestrian shows.

R405 Was It Timothy Hughes, one of the hottest chorus boys featured in this article?

Ah, yes, thanks R406. I lusted after him the last time he was on the Tonys too. Wonder why he hasn't translated to film? That's some face and build.

The poster I was responding to said that Hearn refused to go full drag in La Cage aux Folles, which is the opposite of the truth. I don't care what Hearn wore during the Tony broadcast.

That number in HADESTOWN is much more effective and magical in the theater. That performance doesn't even come close. Reeve looks better here too. He's cute though. HADESTOWN is just an ok show though. R405 A nelly bottom my roommate fucked years ago.

Reeve is one of the sweetest guys in the world R406. I spent a lot of time with him lately. The tall guy is Timothy Hughes another sweetie and openly gay.

HADESTOWN has been the only interesting musical seen on the show so far.

The Hadestown number is really beautiful in the actual show. The swinging lanterns are simple but really effective. I thought it was a good choice for showing what the show is actually like.

[quote] Good God, Andre De Shields is repulsive looking.

He played Linda Dano lover on Another World

R420 - thank you. That was him.

The Ink writer looked so nervous it was almost painful but gave a great speech, to the point, funny, and SHORT.

Some Hughes eye candy

There goes James again, ginning up the tedium.

Timothy Hughes is the guy who snatched the Trump banner from the rude audience member who tried to disrupt a curtain call at Frozen.

He was the hot Grandpabbie.

Ben Platt looked good. Nice and thin. And what in the hell is Anna Wintour doing there and wearing her stupid sunglasses?

I can't take anymore Corden. He. Is. Terrible. It's painful to me.

They are making another movie version of BITB?

I'm such an eldergay that I saw André de Shields in the original The Wiz on Broadway as The Wizard. He was FABULOUS. So nice he is still around.

R435 Middle America loves him like that.

Darren Criss with the white nails.

R420...I noticed him, nice body!

I'm in middle America, and we hate him, you arrogant twat.

Did the rest of the "Boys" depart? I didn't see them near Rannells

If the producers would dispense with these stupid skits they could do all the awards onstage.

Yeah, R439. It looked horrible.

Raul Esparza, R206?? Why would he be there? They're not celebrating has beens.

The Audra/Laura bit was great.

Darren Criss. Ugh. What a joke. Love that Laura Linney and Audra were the ones to get ratchet. haha.

Bring back NPH, puh-leeze.

Miss Porter is speaking!

This is really badly timed. You'd think people who perform live would know how to keep a show rolling.

Thanks for posting all the T Hughes pix. He, along with Page and DeShields, kept my attention during the show when I saw it.

R436 BITB movie starts filming in LA next month with the Broadway cast and director.

Did anyone else hear the guy say, "Broadway needs to become less white, less cis, and less male." 👀

So BITB could win an Oscar too. (Not likely, though.)

^^^ It’s going direct to Netflix and not having a theatrical release right?

R454 who the fuck said that? And they wonder why the right thinks the left hates whites.

I did, r454. Really? Apparently women are sorely underrepresented on Broadway. Not.

I did, R454. Jesus. So fucking obnoxious. My eyes rolled to the back of my head.

Googled him and cool to see Reeve has already done some good nudity (man on man, no less). Have never seen "Penny Dreadful". Guess he is doing just fine, Broadway and TV both. Damn cute and very talented.

Corbin Bleu was great in this and in Holiday Inn a couple of years ago.

Since that guy that spoke was a white male Bway should never hire him again.

Was this Kiss Me Kate revival beloved? Who played the Tony nominated Michael Berresse role this time around?

The choreography on Too Damn Hot is not.

Laura Linney and Audra McDonald should host next year. Breaths of fresh air.

Thank God for "Too Darn Hot." Some energy in this snooze show.

Awww, good old "Kiss Me Kate". Cher Show coming.

Andrew Rennells (sp?--who the fuck cares?) is really working it.

I loved the dark haired cutie who smiled when he said, "Too darn hot!" My eye went right to him.

R460, Reeve was very good in Penny Dreadful, and his scene with Josh Hartnett was hot as hell.

I would have been happier with more singing and less dancing. You can't beat a good Cole Porter lyric

I saw Corbin Bleu in In The Heights and he was great. I think his stupid name and the Disney connection has held him back.

Thank God they didn’t have that strange bitch backstage barking at the winners before the commercial breaks this year.

Today is Cole Porter's birthday.

"Since that guy that spoke was a white male Bway should never hire him again."

Fuck him, the little queen. He wouldn't dare say that Broadway musicals should be more hetero. Talk about diversity.

R468 He was on CBS This Morning shilling his book and has had multiple NYT pieces in the last few years, I’m a bit tired of him too.

I’d love to suck face with Todd Sickafoose. Woof.

There’s no reason this show should be 3 hours any longer.

Rannells always looks like he's holding in a fart

R479 do you suppose he farts?

THRILLED for "The Boys in the Band" win! A gem amidst all this DRECK!

Sutton. Gross.

Well Heidi definitely wins best performance from a writer do so far.

Who made the remark about "less cis, less male"? I tried a search but came up empty. Thanks!

It was the winner of one of the earlier in the evening tech categories.

Ugh that queen with the loud suit on stage for Oklahoma just screams “LOOK AT ME!!!!”

Will this Oklahoma woman never stop talking?

R484 He won for Hadestown. Scenic design something.

Is that Jesse Tyler Ferguson's husband in the loud suit up on stage for Oklahoma?

Thanks, guys. Love watching this show with you all on this thread. I never worry about missing a thing. :)

Damn, "Cher Show" looks fun already.

This first Cher is not good.

At least we get one number with bare-chested men.

Is that Celine Dion playing Cher?

I am horrified that there are video monitors mounted on the beautiful gold leafed proscenium of Radio City Music Hall. It was landmarked years ago wasn’t that enough to protect it from things like this from happening?

The Chit Show.

R486 and said queen wasn’t gonna budge an inch away from the camera. I always wonder about those types at award shows who would stab their grandparent in order to get the camera time. Do they get the cold shoulder from the company at the after parties? I would HATE that person. And talk endless shit about him.

First Cher doesn't sing that great, but she talks very much like Cher.

Low energy

What is this horror I'm seeing now? This Cher thing? What IS that?

Stephanie J Block is 46 and has had a kid, and can still wear that every night. You go, girl!

Lighting design Bradley King for Hadestown r484

That was Cher-ible.

Cher Show was not just bad, but boring. Avoid.

@R463 . Corbin Bleu played Bill Calhoun and while enjoyable he was no match for the excellent and athletic Michael Berresse, but to be fair, that version was an exceptional show all around. There is a lot to like in the present show. Kelly O'Hara really lets her hair down in the marital fight scenes in a really enjoyable way.

MARY r494!!!

Poor Ali couldn’t make it on stage with her cast mates, I guess that backstage handicapped seating was temporary.

So Stephanie Block is going to win her Tony for doing a bad Cher drag show? Le sigh

Stephanie J Block (the first Cher) typically sings very well. Is she trying to sound like the real Cher by singing badly?

The guy with the loud suit is Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s husband. Now it all makes sense how the two of the, stay together.

Cher’s singing voice sounds nothing like her speaking voice. That was really bad.

The Cher “Ru-sical” was better than that shit.

Those autotune bits were pretty gnarly.

The Cher choreography was painful to watch. Those boys look like they're performing at a dinner theatre show in Tustin, California.

I am so glad I got to see that slightly flawed but overall great late 1990s revival of Kiss Me Kate with Stokes Mitchell, Mazzie and Berresse . I have no interest in this latest inept thing.

That summer stock Oklahoma was embarrassing.

Are they going to have the dead people reel?

That Cher Show performance hurt my feelings.

Shouldn't Curly actually be able to sing?

I'm bored. I'm gonna see how Meryl is stirring up shit on BLL.

Yes, memoriam crooned by DL Scourge Cynthia Orivo.

Bradley King. Thanks his wife and two girls, dear God, this guy is straight? And complaining about too many cis men on Broadway? Strange world.

Jack Noseworthy's husband won a Tony for Best Choreography.

The whole show is dead, R 514

[quote]MARY [R494]!!!

You didn’t notice that? It was horrendous!

Yeah, I take it back, that Cher show looked pure Vegas free buffet with every ticket.

R514 Couldn’t they just of flashed it in the background of the Beetlejuice performance since it was about dead people anyways?

No shit, Jack Noseworthy is gay? Always found him so hot.

No way is this thing over by 11

SJB as Cher is a laugh riot. Cruise Ship! She had the talking voice down though.

Aaron Tveit is so effing hot.

Bruins 3 Blues 0

8:07 3rd

God this show is interminable.

Hunty, r522, only concerned you noticed.

Interesting commercials in Baltimore. Truvada and ocean cruises.

Her Cher impersonation reminded me of when Jack met the real Cher and tried to teach her how to act more like Cher. She must have studied Jack to see how to be Cher.

Cher is a living, breathing theatrical event.

A show based upon her life and songs is redundant and of course would be lesser thing.

Sometimes restraint is needed.

The best quality of the "Cher" segment was its brevity.

Televising Lifetime Achievement is so much more important than Corden failed "comedy" bits.

[quote] At least we get one number with bare-chested men.

So happy to see DL fave Christopher Vo in front

I love Cher, but this impersonations show looks, and sounds, really bad.

Jeff Daniels wasn’t happy

Good for Brian.

Paddy Considine looked hot as fuck.

R525 Noseworthy has been with his now husband since 1990 when he was 20.

Yes! Bryan Cranston! Yes, I’m gloating. He ALWAYS had this. Jeff Daniels never stood a chance.

R539, Jeff Daniels was carrying over a joke from earlier in the show.

Poor Terrence McNally. Doesn't look like we'll have him around much longer.

Cranston, no big surprise but so well deserved.

Sorry about Jeff Daniels, though.

Oh fuck bradley king and his virtue signaling. Give back your award then, you sanctimonious fuck.

Cranston's got 6 Emmys and 2 Tonys.

This is the worse Tony show ever! I can't remember so many bad musicals in one season. Most of them remind me of dinner theater shows.

Suck it, Adam Driver.

TOO WHITE TOO MALE TOO CIS.

Is Brian wearing his tux inside out?

It took a while to get going but I did appreciate Network and it's updated political message.

Cranston has such a distinctive voice you'd think he could easily win a Grammy for audio book recording or some other weird category. He's likely to complete EGOT imo.

Judith Light could play old Madonna in a jukebox musical

Bruins 3 Blues 1

6:43 3rd

R542 Noseworthy should do a biopic of Michael York, he would be perfect and he’s just the right age to do him young and old.

I love Bryan Cranston's opening remark about old white men--hilarious FU to that dweeb.

R549 I thought the previous two Tony telecasts were as bad or even worse than this year's. We haven't had a really good season in a few years.

How many people on stage? It looks like a soup kitchen line.

Judith Light lives at the damn Tonys, doesn't she?

This is such a boring thank you speech

R558 what did Cranston say?

4-1 now, R556!!

Game 7, Boston. YAAAAS.

Good. Marin's getting a nod.

Saw Cranston in Network. He was astonishing - really made that iconic part his own. A well deserved win.

Cranston praising journalists for their brave pursuits of truth is hilarious. As stupid as Nicole Kidman trying to make her bad soapy show "important" for taking on domestic abuse (since, of course, that had never happened before).

Cranston was the reader on audio for his memoir A Life in Parts R554. He won audio’s Audie award for best narrator in 2017.

R542 why on earth would anyone want to see that?

R548 You never would have predicted that from Malcom in the Middle.

A song about lions fucking for in memorium? Really?

just hit that MUTE button.

If you are going to do a song from Lion King for this shouldn’t it be Circle of Life?

Wow, it really is a shitty year for musicals. All the excerpts are embarrassingly bad

I thoroughly enjoyed The Cher Show but they picked the wrong number to perform.. The show truly shines when the various Cher's are dealing with the upheavals in her life.

Part of the Tonys is being an advertisement for Broadway...well no favors this year...

CBS basically giving free advertising for Disney's Lion King remake.

OMG, couldn't they have gotten a better singer? She's pitchy!

Mandy Patinkin should really have sung for the In Memoriam.

Erivo performs as though we should individually thank her for her performance. PS What a dog!

In Memoriam shouldn't be an occasion for a performer to do a concert. How insulting.

What a year of loss. The contributions of those in memoriam so greatly exceeded the scant pleasures of this season.

Jane Kazmerick sp? must be bitter.

Should have had her sing "Be Prepared!"

LOL

Show's almost over. Everyone, go take that Truvada. Here's another commercial to remind you. In case you're out playing football in the dark and it slips your mind.

I thought it was lovely. And unlike the Olivier Awards this year where Beverley Knight was wailing away (I forget what the song was) at least you could see all the dead people.

Only gays and teen girls watch the Tonys,so the Macy's Parade is a better Broadway commercial. It reaches more people.

Very true R582

what did cranston say as a fuck you to the white cis male who lamented white cis males on broadway?

They couldn't even bring in this mess on time.

Marin Mazzie was Tony nominated for Ragtime, which lost the Tony for Best Musical to The Lion King despite winning Best Book and Best Score. So let’s sing a song from The Lion King in tribute to Marin!

R555 and R561 - do not speak ill of the goddess that is Miss Judith Light.

Is Cher there?

Cranston

R589 Some snarky comment about finally an old white guy gets a break.

Don't do another thread for the last five minutes; just switch to the main thread (#359).

OMG, there were so many in The Memoriam I hadn't heard had passed.

R591, your mouth to God's ears.

Link to Part 2:

Good for Santino. This was a fun show with a lot of laughs. I hope it wins for Best Musical.

Stephanie!

boys from Oklahoma hot as fuk

Cranston and Timoney have an ABC soap connection.

The choreography as performed by the cast of Kiss Me Kate was sensational!