***THE 73RD ANNUAL TONY AWARDS, PART 2***

Santino!

Scandalous that Rosemary Harris and Terrence McNally get booted in favor of that shitty sketch with King Kong

Santino! Why do you have to be straight?

Based on the performances tonight I was rooting for the Oklahoma actor.

Damn, he talked fast. Was he auditioning for Matinee Harold Hill?

Tootsie - The appropriation of the Trans community.

So they’re really rushing through the last couple of awards after dragging this shit out for the last 3 hours?

He was horrible, R4! He couldn't sing well enough.

Howard Beale, Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels, Scout, Beetlejuice-- a trip down Hollywood memory lane. No original ideas any more?

He's had some perky producer's mouth on his dick I'd imagine.

R2,King Kong got a Tony. The Corden sketches didn't. They should have been booted.

Ew she thanked God

So Tootsie and The Cher Show won lead actor Tonys. Wow.

Did Santino dis Crazy Ex-Girlfriend about not doing things that don’t feed you as an actor?

It kind of sucks that he won. I hope Tootsie at least doesn't also win.

Now that you can see everything online The Tony Award show just doesn't seem all that anymore.

Did Stephanie tell Idina to suck it?

awww, I like the Cher winner, she's sweet. So was the Anais book writer lady. Very classy but without shoving messages down our throats.

HOW THE FUCK DID SHE WIN??? Did you see her in the Cher number??

Why wasn't Cher there?

Damn that was so rehearsed, SJB.

She hated the show

Josh Groban on the way. And he actually has WHITE teeth, not yellow.

Wonder why Cher hasn't weighed in much on the show period? Or did I just miss it (unlikely since I am a fan).

R19 I know.

Oh, R22 answered my question. Why?

My fucking live stream cut out. What'd she say to her husband?

Sebastian is a cutie

SJB's hubbie Sebastian Arcelus is so hot!

I actually heard earlier this evening that Cher was supposed to be here tonight. Perhaps that was wrong or something came up and she couldn't make it.

I'd still say Elaine May gave the best speech of the night (by far).

If you ever leave me I’m going with you, or something close to that.

Bruins win!

Neither Cher nor Idina is there.

R26, she said “If you ever leave me, I’m going with you.”

Her husband is a regular on Madam Secretary.

R19 People don't always win Tonys because they are the best in that role in that particular show. She's paid her dues and done good performances over the years. Plus I don't think the competition in that category was that stiff.

[quote]Wonder why Cher hasn't weighed in much on the show period? Or did I just miss it (unlikely since I am a fan).

She performed with the cast on the Tonight Show. Isn't she a producer on the show as well?

im gonna go see Oklahoma cause them men is hot..

Josh Groban is sexy!

Honestly, R2, the King Kong puppet gave a much better performance than anything else tonight.

Sebastian is making ME stiff!

How long until The Prom closes?

What is this divine creature in the red??

Hadestown cleaned up.

How soon will The Prom post a closing notice?

Enough of Josh Groban, please go back to soft rock!

Big Red is the Dorothy Michaels of the night. She should be Fay Wray in "King Kong".

The Prom - 0

Who is Lurch with the long hair and red dress?

Hadestown really cleaned up tonight. Will be interested to see the final tally.

Tootsie - 2

The Cher Show - 2

Wow, everyone stood up quick. They must have been bored as we were.

[quote] “If you ever leave me, I’m going with you.”

I want royalties

R44 3-2-1

Casey Nicholaw's last musical took home 0 awards as well.

Big Red is Jordan Roth, son(?) of Daryl Roth, one of the biggest and richest producers in Broadway

The Award List

That was fun everybody. Thanks for the streaming link whoever sent it.

A tribute to Joe Bologna. Was he not in the In Memoriam segment?

^^Jordan is also a producer of Hadestown

Joe Iconis is cute. Gay or straight?

As always, this thread makes it worth watching. So many laughs with you guys. Take care. 💙

If you can't link to WaPo

I am living for the uptight Mary brigade having twitter tantrums about Cranston’s Me Too joke, which I loved

As always, it's been a pleasure posting with you all on this Tony Awards thread tonight.

He's straight R60

R58, he passed away in 2017.

Great posts everyone! Next year has got to be better than this!

Who's going off to watch Big Little Lies?

So many yellow teeth tonight.

People ,who have seen The Cher Show say she’s really good in it. This Just have been an off night for her.

[quote] A tribute to Joe Bologna. Was he not in the In Memoriam segment?

Joe died in 2017

what was cranston's me too joke??

Meanwhile, live from the West Coast.

The opening was stirring and memorable.

We laughed. We cried.

Thanks, R65.

R72 (paraphrasing) It's about time an old straight white man gets a break.

This is interesting, Mackie became the first person to win a Tony, while also appearing as a character in the same production!

SJBlock stole the line about going with her husband if he leaves her. Reneé (The Nanny) Taylor and her late husband, Joe Bologna, had a show with that title.

R69 I've noticed a lot of celebrities and rich people have terrible teeth. Yellow, fillings, missing some. If not, they have the big fake ones.

This should have been the closing number of the show.

Cher's current twitter status:

R77 An actor without an original thought in their head? Nooooo...

Any “egregious” omissions from the “In Memoriam”?

Is Twitter really having a meltdown over Cranston's comment?

Any “egregious” omissions from the “In Memoriam”?

The Tony Awards have died. What is in its place is crap.

Having a meltdown over Twitter's meltdowns is futile. Don't get in the dirt with them.

That being said, Cranston's straight white man bit was funny. The me too one was kind of unnecessary.

I love Terrence McNally and was sorry to see him looking so frail. It was moving to watch him determined to speak even with that oxygen apparatus. Does he have emphysema?

Twitter meltdown about Cranston appears to be a mix of positive and Trump related anger.

what was the me too one?

I would give a Tony to Reeve Carney's shoulders. Hot Cha Cha!!!

You know Cher done good by Block and Mackie and I’m glad they won. It interesting that both lead actress and actor in a musical got the award for doing drag!

Happy for Santino, feel bad for Brooks. Maybe another year.

R91 another year for what?

So did the King Kong people pay for that little scene? $100K? More?

It was nice to see David Henry Hwang looking well tonight. He was the victim of a random stabbing in 2015.

Or maybe it was a FLOWER DRUM SONG purist.

Apparently Cranston is the only person tonight to be winning his second Tony.

That is kind of amazing.

Have the Truvada Dancers danced?

I just got home. I really want to see the Truvada Dancers dance.

R92, I meant perhaps Brooks will still win at some point later in his career.

The shoulders are nice, R89, but for me it's all about dat ass.

Benjamin walker, what a dish.

R94 that's the guy they cut to after Lucy Liu's speech. I knew he looked familiar!

"This is a show about death!"

Really? Beetlejuice isn't a movie about death.

Is Beetlejuice the Musical as awful as it appears to be? Bummer.

[QUOTE]So did the King Kong people pay for that little scene? $100K? More?

WHAT??? So the producers of the shows have to PAY to have a musical number on the Tony?

Why were the other Cher's not nominated?

R102 I think so. I remember the producer for the Spring Awakening revival trying to raise money through fans so they could perform.

If your show is not nominated, you can buy a number.

Of course they have to pay. It's work not covered in the production contract. The costumes have to be moved to Radio City and back. A set for that one moment has to be manifested somehow. There is rehearsal time for the company and for the musicians. It goes on and on and on.

I think even the nominated shows have to cough up money to cover the cost of putting on their number. Manhattan Theater Club did Choir Boy, even though the show had closed, but that was pretty smart because it might increase future subscribers.

Shocked at how bad the Tootsie number was. There's no way I could sit through the whole show judging by that performance.

Also shocked at how bad The Prom performance was. Why is Ryan Murphy so taken with it? It looks so basic and amateurish.

Corden was a buffoon.

Did you hear Andrew Rannells call Darren Criss "Girl?"

The virtue signaling was so strong tonight.

I'm growing tired of James Corden. Every one of his grande performances is exactly the same. The same could be said of Neil Patrick Harris and Hugh Jackman. They all think they're way more talented and versatile than they really are.

I thought all the Trump bashing was a brave and bold choice in this particular setting.

Nothing really matched De Niro's FUCK TRUMP from last year. Remember when Springsteen performed for 20 mins?

I bet a lot of people didn’t clap at Cranston’s “enemy of the people” remark because he used the word “demagoguery” and a lot of people don’t know what that means.

Shirley Jones looks great.

Was that a dress Jordan Roth was wearing? I couldn't really tell. Does he consider himself non-binary?

I bet a lot of people didn’t clap at Cranston’s “enemy of the people” remark because he used the word “demagoguery” and a lot of people don’t know what that means.

They are unfamiliar with Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin?

R108 I take Ryan Murphy’s doing The Prom and BITB for Netflix as an easy way for him to meet the quota he has to reach for is contract without actually having to come up with something new himself.

Why was the maid from Gossip Girl sitting next to Rennels?

They’re best friends, R120. I forget what show they first met on.

I love that they're best friends. I always thought she might be a hag.

At age 87, Elaine May is the second oldest person to win a Tony.

The oldest is Cicely Tyson, who was 88 when she won for A TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL.

I didn't realize that May was married to lyricist Sheldon Harnick from 1962-1963.

87.

Damn. That is impressive.

It's a shame that Datalounge hates Ryan Murphy. I'm looking forward to BITB on Netflix and I'm glad that he dusted off this play for a new generation.

Loved Elaine May's acceptance speech. The rest of the show is frightening me.

I'm surprised that Alistair Crowley is still alive. Isn't he the only living person from the play and movie?

A lot to dish. I give the show a C. The writing stunk. Cordon is lame ....the opening number failed with his huffing and puffing. Sometimes less Is more. They tried too hard. Best laugh of the night was watching Billy Porter in his masculine outfit. That queen complained that he isn’t seen for straight roles?? Second laugh was seeing a mother (Of a woman winner)crying and losing her falseeyelash. Most hideous look- all the homos wearing drape patterns on their jackets. The Tootsie number looked like a production number from a flop show from the 60’s. Really awful. Biggest surprise - Charlotte St Martin sprung for a new wig. They won’t sell a ticket award goes to King Kong. That was a waste of 3 minutes. Stupidest direction.- closeups of the 🖨3 Cher’s. They looked nothing like her. Should have been all long shots. Beetlejuice’s Special lyrics sucked as did the number. Oklahoma was grim, Kate was good but we’ve seen it before. Hadestown was the only interesting thing about the show. I got real tired of looking at Andrew Rennels plastic face and listening to his whiny voice. The Prom will post notice. A lesbian kiss won’t sell tickets.

R86 Terrence McNally has had lung cancer since 2001. He’s had multiple surgeries and was in remission for awhile but apparently it’s not going well now. It was sad to see him gasping for air during his speech.

Billy Porter is such an attention whore. Of course he showed up in another obnoxious man-gown. He's so thirsty for next day headlines about what he was wearing.

Unlike his LOOK AT ME lewk at the Met Gala, Billy was smart to make sure that his face is recognizable in his TONY Awards show costume.

I'm shocked Jim Parsons was not asked to present anything (or perhaps he did and I missed it). He and all his boys looked great together.

Rosemary Harris is class incarnate and has the most beautiful voice. Long may she continue to enchant audiences in New York and London.

To the person above who said Cranston was the only prior winner, I think that’s only true for the actors. The winners for set, lighting, and costumes for a play have all won before. But I think all of the musical winners are first timers.

I wonder if Andre DeShields is hung??? Does anybody know??? Who’s had him???

I love how the Hadestown straight white male demanded LESS cis white males on Broadway (not more trans/POC/women, but LESS cis white males). I guess he got his so it's a win-win. He receives an award as what he just denounced, and gets to look like a woke warrior at the same time!

I'd give the show a C- to D+. Very little that was engaging or entertaining. All of the Corden bits were terrible. Musicals were boring and devoid of life. What happened to professional musicals? They looked like college productions or regional theater offerings. Hadestown was the only thing remotely creative. Three hours and they couldn't finish on time.

And the Tony Award for Best Arlene Golonka Hairstyle goes to........

cher looks good wanna see it

cordens happy go lucky fake image is creepy when u know what a grouch he is off stage, yep

Jordan is now a male client of women's Haute Couture. I don’t think Deeda Blair or Lauren Santo Domingo need to worry about him looking better in the clothes.

He doesn’t have the best taste if this is what he considers a good lewk!

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

I like Bryan Cranston (Network), but I am shocked Jeff Daniels didn't win for To Kill a Mockingbird.

why Santino weariing a wig when he accepted award, as himself? shved head??

The Cher Show is a shit show!

I hate it when musicals sweep. It sucks!

The Cher Show is, unfortunately, lame. Really awful. It's Vegas on Broadway, and in an effort to appear relevant, tries to really appeal to feminists and gays. But it's not nearly campy enough for the gays, and Cher's life story is, well, not that interesting and not that feminist.

And note: I love Cher. Just not this shit show. The costumes are the best part, and SJB is very, very good. Unworthy of a Tony, but her competition this year was weak.

PS. Charlie Williams is a god. Why wasn't he in the Cher dance number tonight? (Did see him in the opening number though.)

I didn’t get to see them but Rachel Chavkin’s speech for winning the Best Direction Tony is all over social media. Was she as insufferable as she sounds?

Considering the other nominees in the category were all white men, weren’t her comments rather insulting?

[quote]Terrence McNally has had lung cancer since 2001. He’s had multiple surgeries and was in remission for awhile but apparently it’s not going well now. It was sad to see him gasping for air during his speech.

Thanks for replying, r129. Damn.

I love Cher, but I did not like Stephanie's impersonation of Cher on stage tonight. The voice was weird.

Haven't you heard, r149? White men, yes even gay white men (cause they're cis, silly!) are fair game for condemnation and scorn, even if it means trivializing others in your category. Stay woke!!!!

The Cher Show received three nominations and won two. Only the Cher lighting nomination lost to Hadestown. Not bad for the Cher company.

Shocked Jeff Daniels didn't win.

Once again, Annette Bening was robbed.

I'm surprised Juul Haalmeyer didn't get a nod for his Cher choreography.

ms roth in her red mess at the tony.....ugh

from what I saw on the tonys, hadestown looked lame, how cum it win lots????

Jeff Daniels campaigned all over MSNBC so the Deplorables took note.

Hadestown was the only musical that looked different. Anyone know what number was performed tonight?

R149, Yes and yes! Cringeworthy.

R158. The deplorables don't know nothin' 'bout no Tony.

Who is the cute lead male in Hadestown?

I get that Cher is a kick ass old lady but I don't get the gay infatuation with someone so minimally talented and intellectually lazy.

Anyway, she's awake. Buy her Merch gays!

There was way too much James Corden. Who the hell does he think he is? You'd think he was the biggest singing/dancing star on Broadway by the amount of singing and dancing he's allowed to do. His opening number was truly awful. The bathroom skit was cute. But truly....enough.

[quote]Who is the cute lead male in Hadestown?

Reeve Carney from Spider-Man

How funny that Reeve Carney and Patrick Page went from playing the hero and villain in one of the Broadway's biggest blunders to doing the same in a Best Musical winner.

R116, She looked every one of her 85 years. Her voice was thin and quivery and that close cropped do showed scalp. She may be ill.

R167 with what?

^ With that death thing that goes around when you're over 85.

I love Cher, but have no desire to see the show.. Stephanie may have been better in other things, but I can spend $200 and see the real Cher- who still sounds great. I've seen better drag queens.

When they did the Jimmy Fallon takeover, the minute Cher joined the other 3 Chers singing they may as well just have disappeared.. Cher commands the stage.

R163. Cher is not minimally talented. She is extraordinarily talented. Apparently, you have missed her concerts, which are events, and her movies. Her voice is still as strong as ever.

I wouldn't be found dead at a Cher concert. But I know she lip syncs all her "concerts" and devotes her time to changing costumes and wigs and repeating the same script. Cher most certainly IS minimally talented no matter how much you wiggle your old white ass to her hits from the sixties all the way up to her atrocious ABBA covers!! She's a personality who has done very well for a woman who can't read or write. Her voice may be strong as ever, but she never was much of a singer. So there's that. I haven't missed her movies. Who does?

R172 is a pompous, self-righteous, sanctimonious blowhard who has no idea what she's talking about.

The Tony Awards are better than the Oscars, Emmys and Grammys.

My 3 highlights from the show...the Sounds of Silence/VW commercial, the PFLAG/Verizon commercial and the dance number from Kiss Me Kate. I would not spend a dime to see any of the shows after their horrible numbers last night.

At last the Tonys don;t even pretend to be geared to heteros anymore. However, the commercials should be adjusted to the viewer demographic. Instead of the Truvada commercials, there should be commercials for prune juice, caftans, and denture cream - the stuff that the ancient gays would need and like. After all, that's your audience.

I'm happy Anaïs Mitchell won, I loved her Hymns for the Exiled & Young Man in America records, and the original Hadestown album was pretty awesome too. Cosmic American is one of my all time favorite songs.

For those of you who have seen the shows that performed segments last night, what was your impression of how the show was presented? Was it a good representation? Was there another number that could have sold more tickets? Kong did a great job of selling its show, since it didn't feature any singing or female empowerment nonsense that has taken the show to ridiculousness.

Lose the diacritic if you’re not going to use it, Anais.

R159 The song was "WAIT FOR ME".

jeff daniels seems so smug, hence his sour look when he lost

Ha ha

from what I saw, I wont buy tix to any of them shows.....crumby season.

R181 Daniels reaction was tied to the bit Corden did at the beginning asking the nominees to practice their losing face

' Unstoppable' worked much better in the context of the show. Their was little set-up and the pacing seemed a bit off in the Tony's version. This is a quirkier show than you might imagine. 'Unstoppable' was one of the more conventional numbers. Andy Grotelueschen, Lilli Cooper, Sarah Stiles and especially mega-hunk John Behlmann added a lot to the show and we saw none of that on the Tony Awards show. Fans of musical comedy will not want to miss this show with this cast.

I'm also sad to see so many dissing 'The Prom'. Yes, it broke no new ground but it was a fun night at the theater and cast members Brooks Ashmanskas, Beth Leavel (who would have had my vote for the Tony for her Liza Minnelli meets Bette Davis take on her character) , Michael Potts and Caitlin Kinnunen, among others, were delightful.

cordens skit of show ur losing face was an awful waste of time. who ok'd such crap????? as was his goofy opening

Fat cat

I could not find the latest Theatre Gossip thread so am posting this here....was disappointed there was not a Marin tribute on the telecast but this was lovely.

Kelli O'Hara made me cry,

Andrew's sister's dress was my favorite outfit.

Glad we saw a glimpse of him.

He makes me moist!

Does r189 understudy Reeve Carney's part?

R189 his leaked jerk off video is one of the best

Did SJB not thank the other 2 Chers ?

[quote]I wonder if Andre DeShields is hung??? Does anybody know??? Who’s had him???

I would never kiss and tell.

R191 Whoa, you can't just say that and not share!

Brooks Ashmanskas

Say that 5 times fast

R191

***screeching wheel noise***

I'm sorry WHAT?

THR review:

R189 who is that?

[quote] "With over 50 percent of tickets priced below $101, the industry is achieving its goal of being more accessible to everyone," said League president Charlotte St. Martin

Can we all just stop for a second and realize how elitist and idiotic this statement is?

Ratings stumble:

That Marin Mazzie tribute is gorgeous beyond words.

He is Hades understudy and was the guy who snatched the Trump banner off a deplorable at Frozen.

His hotness was considered a major plot change from the Frozen movie. He is a big gorgeous guy.

Darren Criss' s "wife" has man hands... just sayin...

Who got the biggest cheers in the In Memoriam montage?

Elaine May.

Did I hear Andrew Rannells refer to Darren Criss as "gurl?"

A guy I’ve been seeing (an English guy working on one of the Broadway transfers from London) was there last night and told me most of the Brits conspicuously avoided Corden at the after parties.

R206 how come?

Broadway is insanely expensive. I go to the theatre two or three times a week here in London (when I don’t have a show on) and rarely pay for than £30. I’ve only bought expensive tickets twice, for Hamilton and Book of Mormon, and both were about £80 - cheap by Broadway standards!!

Can anyone help a clueless idiot translate the Tony ratings into actual audience numbers?

r207 (your reply came up as I was typing) - because everyone in Britain hates him. He was a complete cunt when he first made it big here.

Tonys blind item. Surprised there aren't more BIs from the Tonys (CDAN posts dozens after every other award ceremony), are the Tonys too boring or do people just not care?

Lol love that excuse - the Tonies and the Stanley Cup def draw the same audience

Tootsie? Beetlejuice? The Prom? The Cher Show?

The performances were just terrible in the Tonys. People will pay $300 for that shit?

[quote] Did I hear Andrew Rannells refer to Darren Criss as "gurl?"

Yes. And why did Criss have white nail polish on?

Because that's how you get roles inHollywood when you are straight and only willing to play straight men as a courtesy to those poor disadvantaged homosexuals he's been depriving of choice roles.

Once again, where is that Timothy Hughes jack off video?

In a word the show was BLAH can’t decide which was worse. The losing face skit, the fake fight skit, the King Kong skit, the opening number, the bit with Cordens parents, The Cher Show, Tootsie, Beetlejuice, Oklahoma..... everything looked cheap.

I felt bad for Danny Burstein having to ride atop King Kong... like... the man's lost 5 Tonys, he didn't deserve that.

With a 4.3/8 in metered markets, the 2019 Tony Awards are down just more than 10% from the 2018 Tony Awards of June 11 last year. In fact, at least in early numbers, the Tony Awards look to have fallen to a multi-year low.

That says it all. A dynamic host might help, but better shows would be a must.

I doubt it. All awards shows seem to decline every year. The Tonys biggest boost was when Rosie hosted and promoted it to death, back when she was "nice".

This is the first time since I was a young gayling that I haven’t seen any of the nominated shows. Just a boring season last year.

I can't stand the sight of that fat sow James Corden, whose Tony win was a complete abomination - anyone remember him in ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS? It should have gone to Philip Seymour Hoffman for DEATH OF A SALESMAN, or any one of the other worthy nominees - Frank Langella, James Earl Jones, or John Lithgow. Instead this porker has been foisted on us forever, dining out on one aberrant "win."

And Broadway can crow all it wants about its 90% attendance and the money they rake in, but the shows are complete SHIT. Bad jukebox musicals, mediocre "musicals" squeezed out of old films - TOOTSIE? KING KONG?? Now they're reduced to celebrating DEATH in song and dance! No name "stars" who come and go, with varying degrees of so so talent. The whole thing is nauseating.

But that fat pantload Corden should have been kicked out of Radio City on his FAT ASS!

[quote]Lol love that excuse - the Tonies and the Stanley Cup def draw the same audience

There [italic]was[/italic] some tool announcing something with Bruins in it throughout this thread. I thought it was a UCLA summer school function.

I don't want to start a new thread, but did anyone posting see Dear Evan Hansen? I watch the Tonys every year and somehow missed Ben Platt and the show. I'm playing catch up now and adore him.

[quote]But that fat pantload Corden

I've always liked "pantload." I never watch talk shows, so he didn't annoy me in particular. I just thought the writing was bad. But I always find it belabored, the way Tony writers struggle to create context among award nominees every June.

R222 I saw it, didn’t get the hype that went along with it. Same with Platt, don’t see why others worship him.

[quote]Who got the biggest cheers in the In Memoriam montage?

Ethel Merman

I don't worship Platt, just enjoy what I've seen. And it took 2 people to replace him? That's impressive if true.

The Cher Show looks like a horror show! Just like Summer and One Your Feet. Yikes!

Well, it's still running and opening in London. Obviously the less sophisticated theatergoers like The Cher Show.

Has Charlie Williams ever starred in anything? He's so fucking adorable, I'd watch him in something where he does more than dance.

Ben Platt looks like he's been on a diet when he left EH he was, "pudgy".

Charlie needs to be Magic Mike if that ever gets off the ground

Award show viewership has especially declined over the last three years, as the SJWs have to get in their political statements, cheapening the show and the experience of the audience who wants to get away from all of the PC shit for a couple hours.

The trannies are PISSED that Santino won!

How many will post closing notices this week?

Are Best Actress and Best Costume enough to save Cher Show from closing?

BTW not surprised the Diana Summer musical wasn’t recognized. That thing was a DUD.

Cher isn't closing, you dumb cunt.

^^^Donna, not Diana

Is it wrong that I want Damon Daunno to fuck me? Anybody know if he’s gay? I’m a sucker for a tall, slightly goofy guy with his type of hair.

Even Bob Mackie's costumes looked cheap and crummy in that Tony number, particularly the unflattering outfit on SJB.

Awkward!

Can we please stop trying to make Marin Mazzie happen? A third-tier Broadway performer at best. Sad though.

"Ben Platt looks like he's been on a diet when he left EH he was, "pudgy"."

Getting ready to shoot the movie, maybe? (I hope. He HAS to do it, right?)

Well, he wasn't gay during Evan Hansen. Now he's gay, so he has to look good.

Marin's special Tony acceptance speech

I've known Shirl Jones since our ABC days back in the 70s, R167. When Shirl goes, she'll go with a drink in her hand and a cock in her ass and mouth, so don't you worry none about that old gal.

Platt has slimmed down to make himself look more fuckable. There won't be a DEAR EVAN HANSEN movie for quite some time and he'll be too old for it. He's too old now, actually.

I thought the movie was already announced.

[quote] Can we please stop trying to make Marin Mazzie happen? A third-tier Broadway performer at best. Sad though.

You sound like a real asshole. No one is trying to "make Marin Mazzie happen." People are just honoring the life of a very talented performer who died way too young.

I watched the musical numbers and knew immediately that I didn't want to see Tootsie, Cher, or Beetlejuice. EVER

I remember when Tootsie and Cher were at the same awards show. Jessica Lange beat Cher for her great performance in Silkwood.

[quote] Platt has slimmed down to make himself look more fuckable

Every time I see him on the streets of Manhattan, Platt is with a new boy. I'm sure he's getting fucked alot

R249 that was 1982 and 1983. Linda Hunt beat Cher.

R251, you’re right! I hang my head in DL shame.

Well the James Corden reviews are in. He sucked. What a surprise!

The best thing about The Prom was watching the fat guys dance.

What happened to Bob Mackie's design sense? He's supposed to be designing for Cher--and for the great unwashed masses to see Cher. However, Stephanie J. Block looked ridiuclous. If the one thing Mackie did for Cher it's that he made her clothes fit like they were part of her. Block's Cher outfit on the Tonys was an embarrassment. Not to mention--but to mention, Block also sounded awful too. Block's Cher accent was dumb.

It's time to bring back Hugh Jackman to host. James Corden sounds like he's winded and about to have a heart attack. He's too much, too loud, too in your face, in your space and needs to go away for a while.

That "beef" thing was dumb and a waste of time.

Just watched the performances today. Not even close, Hadestown was the only great performance. Original, great song and staging.

I'm sure you're all looking forward to the MRS. DOUBTFIRE musical next season.

If any good is to come out of this low-rated telecast is that James Corden is done as its host. Maybe CBS should hand this over to PBS.

I thought Neil Patrick Harris was a great host. Corden was good the first time he did it, but last night was a major embarrassment, along with the worse list of musicals I can remember. Hadestown I might want to see but the rest of that schlock was plain awful. If this was a great season for Broadway, a lot of people must have been tone deaf. Of course there are non-musicals and I am sure some of them might be good but we don't see scenes from them. There is no more creativity and originality on Broadway; everything seems to be based on a movie, TV show or comic book.

Everyone of these shows should have closed based on last nights performance, just awful

Kiss Me Kate dancers and Cynthia Erivo were watchable. That CHER shit was shittier than CHER!!

[quote]Of course there are non-musicals and I am sure some of them might be good but we don't see scenes from them.

I would much rather have seen two characters from The Ferryman interact than the douchescence we watched last night from the playwright.

What is likely to stay open other than Hadestown? Even Hadestown will have a rather limited run. It doesn't seem to have " universal appeal".

Not every year will produce something lasting and the deadline article's stupid assertion that "there was no Hamilton this year" is just oblivious stanning. There was no Hamilton last year and likely won't be one next year. Hamilton was a once in a generation if not once in a life time convergence.

[quote] Hamilton was a once in a generation if not once in a life time convergence.

MARY!!!

I don’t understand how Corden can still so obese. With his money, he could go the natural route and have a slew of trainers and personal chefs. Or, go the surgical route and have the lap band or sleeve or whatever the current thing is.

I wonder if he’d be better looking if he was thin?

The 73rd Tony Awards hit an all-time low in Sunday's ratings, falling below 6 million viewers for the first time.

Aren't there more than 6 million gay men in America?

It looks like there’s a sweet story on Ali Stoker coming up soon on NBC Nightly News.

Imagine the shock some NY show queen will have when she realizes a large portion of the gay community has no interest in "the legitimate theater". In fact, many view it as a decadent, self-indulgent, vapid exercise in snobbery, barely more meaningful than romance novels and super-hero movies at ten times the price.

R269 and on David Muir too. If they can coordinate commercial breaks, why not keep from reporting the same feel-good end story which is the only way to distinguish one network news show from another

Reviews of the show.

People are sick f the SJW nonsense infiltrating awards shows. They should be neutral territory, but the self-righteous SJWs just want to lecture everyone.

Who wants to see a crip "dancing" in a wheelchair? Hard pass.

Where's Timothy Hughes' jack off video?!

I guess if I looked like him I'd be naked all the time too, but the narcissism is beyond

R274

Mmmm. Yeah. All that gay stuff and shows where middle aged women power belt about ambition is such a turn off to the theatre community. And shows with black people dancing and singing and acting and stuff. I'm sure all the Tony fans out there are just as outraged as the comic book fans about 'SJW' stuff infiltrating the theater.

Seriously do you even know what 'SJW' is all about? Maybe you need to go back to reddit to complain about Brie Larson in your super-hero movie and prepare your furious manifesto about disney failing to shut down the SJWs once and for all by making Elsa a heteronormative princess who in deeply interested in finding a nice white nordic prince.

People aren't watching TV any more. And as much as the actors are terrified that the more lucrative promise of a cushy TV job is clearly evaporating there is the weird reality that theater is doing better than many professional sports right now. Actors don't stand a chance of getting super rich off Broadway -- but producers sure as hell do. No one really knows what to make of that. Especially this year when all the new shows are so very bad!

"...there is the weird reality that theater is doing better than many professional sports right now. "

Well, bless your gay heart.

R279 yeah, that makes no sense/

R278 people are getting sick and tired of being lectured to -- be it at awards shows or TV/movies and Broadway shows. Every goddamn script has to have a heavy-handed message about diversity or female empowerment or the trans experience. They're fine in small doses and when done right, but not for everything and every situation.

[R278] Broadway should less white and less male, I hear ya sistah.

R278 is completely ridiculous, starting with his ludicrous comment that "people aren't watching TV any more." Massive FAIL, r278!

So Hadestown basically won all the awards The Great Comet should have 2 years ago?

It is unfortunate that Stoker is the first gimp to win a Tony. I hope it means she can go away now. Are people afraid to tell her she's annoying?

Hadestown lost the best book to fucking Pooptsie though. It's a tremendously weak year for musical so I doubt Hadestown would win that much awards in any other time.

The biggest losers of last night were the musicals which had a chance to introduce themselves to the country. Why? Tours, which bring in large sums of cash. People can't afford to come to Broadway, so Broadway comes to them. Based on what was shown, would anyone want to see the touring company of Beetlejuice? Ain't Too Proud? Cher? Even Oklahoma is not going to do well on the road.

Ali for Evita!

Yeah, I'm gay and even I am getting tired of all these self-appointed Life Coaches. Preaching to the choir. And loudly.

[quote]Hadestown lost the best book to fucking Pooptsie though.

As well it should have. Hadestown has by far the best score, but Tootsie has by far the better book.

[quote]Ali for Evita!

Can't wait to see her rolling around the stage in "Buenos Aires"!

The Cher Show looked like a nightmare !!!

[Quote] would anyone want to see the touring company of Beetlejuice? Ain't Too Proud? Cher? Even Oklahoma is not going to do well on the road.

Yes.

Saw it and it was FAB!

Hell NO! If last night performance is what we get. Horrible!

Yes.

[R289] Shut up and sit down, you cis old white man. You are just mad about losing your privilege.

"Can't wait to see her rolling around the stage in "Buenos Aires"!"

They could change the lyric from," And the money kept rolling in" to " And Evita kept rolling in..."

"Broadway attendance in the 2017 – 2018 season topped those of the ten professional New York and New Jersey sports teams combined. Broadway surpassed the combined sports teams by over 3.5 million in attendance."

Obviously taking The Yankees out of the picture makes a big difference but minor sports and losing teams are having trouble. The reality IS that theatre is apparently doing well right now while network TV constantly losing viewers to other devices and options.

[quote]Broadway should less white and less male, I hear ya sistah.

And, don't forget, also less cis!

[quote]Obviously taking The Yankees out of the picture makes a big difference

Did the Yankees move?

Stephanie's tits were hanging below the top of the costume. Nasty, and Cher still has a better body at 73. Fuck her.

Cher PAID for that better body, R299. It's not exactly an accomplishment.

It must have been an incredibly weak year for lead women in a musical for that shit to win.

And Stephanie is working for free?

R245, R250 - LOL, I thought you meant Oliver.

Both Stephanie and Santino were incredibly underwhelming in their Tony performances. Santino's win in particular seemed like an embarrassment after having seen Alex and Brooks perform. Tootsie, Prom, and Beetlejuice are all mediocre shows but at least Alex and Brooks appeared to be capable of making the most out of the material.

What was the name of that musical which was nominated about 3 years ago with the fat lead actress?

After years, I'm through with this show. Seeing a girl sing in a wheelchair is the final straw.

Done, not through.

[quote] Seeing a girl sing in a wheelchair is the final straw.

That's the final straw for you? Not all the shitty shows currently on Broadway?

The whole thing is gross. Black and white, disabled. A freak show.

Expect many more SJW shows. If they want to produce them, that's fine. Just don't fuck with the classics!

Exactly, Oklahoma is ruined for me now. That woman should have been drowned at birth.

She's just using that wheelchair as a crutch!

I loved the Oklahoma number and was happy she won. Some of you are miserable cunts.

r311 should have been drowned at birth.

[quote]Who wants to see a crip "dancing" in a wheelchair? Hard pass.

I'd like to think that's grampa's crystal meth and appletini binge talking, but I'm not so sure.

At any rate, here's wishing you all the misery you deserve in life, you pathetic fruit.

It was like a musical number from the Special Olympics. No one wants to see that.

You had to call him a "fruit," r315, you pathetic cunt? You were right—oh, so right—up to that point, and then you threw it away to show us your homophobia.

Your father should have drowned you at birth. Maybe if we ask him nicely, he still would.

So -- Come on, DL. You're all thinking it. Which show will close first?

R285, Watching her acceptance speech in HD, stretch marks along her breasts were on full display.

[quote]You had to call him a "fruit," [R315], you pathetic cunt? You were right—oh, so right—up to that point, and then you threw it away to show us your homophobia.

Oh honey, eat a cookie. You'll feel better.

Or maybe take a moment to think about your internalized misogyny and why "cunt" is a more acceptable word than "fruit".

And old white fag is a fruit right? I'm gay but I don't call people crips. A monster gay is being complimented if he is only called a fruit. R311 and plenty of other ancient white men on DL are monsters. Deal with yourselves. And calling everyone a CunT shows your deep misogyny and discomfort with yourselves. Rageaholics, deeply unhappy old celibates by attrition. Your kind of racist, misogynist, hateful old fruits can't die soon enough.

Cunt.

The kids are here.

R222, DEH is definitely worth seeing. It's a very good show. I didn't see Ben Platt, but I saw Benjamin Levi Ross in the national tour and he, and the show, were both fantastic. He sang the role much better than Ben Platt from what I have seen. The music is good and the show is very touching.

I mean these theatre threads always sound like Appletini and Crystal Meth night at Assisted Living to me. But there's 2-3 trolls on this thread taking drug-fueled mean to another level.

Sad.

What were the impressions of the In Memoriam section? It's my belief that the focus should be on the deceased, rather than the singer, who was performing as if she were in a nightclub.

We could have much less focus on the song and singer at the end, and given more time to see the pictures.

"Can You Feel the Love Tonight" was a suspicious choice. Perhaps that was Erivo pre-shading Beyonce. In Memoriam segments are usually better when there's a cellist on stage doing a rendition of some well known emotional song. I like it when they show clips of the deceased.

Better song choice - And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going!

A cellist would definitely be preferable. Putting aside the fact that it was Cynthia Erivo, in recent years there has been way too much focus on the singer. Relegating the pictures of the deceased to the background makes them seem like an afterthought.

The season sucked so all the queens watched Nicole, Reese & Meryl and taped the Tonys. They have been waiting a year for season 2. The ratings will rise with the On Demand and DVR numbers. They always do.

The Corden hate is boring. Yeah he's living your life but get over it. With all the talent on that stage last night the best part was him singing beautifully on a toilet.

He actually did have a nice voice on the toilet. I thought it was pre-taped for a minute.

Groban was such a hottie last night.

Horrible HORRIBLE season. An all time low. NOBODY deserved anything. SJB made me cringe. The bathroom song is from BE MORE CHILL. Used without them knowing and told no one. They are not happy. Especially after no nominations. $250,000 to promote your show with a performance there.

I guess I'm in the minority with JC. I love Carpool and the musical bits. I just zip past the opening and usually the guests. He was a scream with Celine.

Corden's counter tenor harmony here is first class. He can sing quite well indeed. You see Buble look surprised by him a few times. JHud had the same reaction to him. He's just not a song and dance man and doesn't posture as one the way NPH does. Corden actually downplays his singing ability.

Anyone using the word "fruit" to describe a gay man is OLD. Really old!

What do you call a gay black man in the South?

Been racking my brain as to how I know the Striker girl from "Oklahoma" and it hit me late last night -- she was the "wheelchair girl: in the second season of the "Glee Project:"(!) Looks like that was her start and only in 2012. Pretty cool. Never watched a second of "Glee" but somehow loved "the Glee Project" (season one, especially, granted).

I really appreciated the show. I’m now able to save a lot of money not booking a trip to New York to see any of these awful plays.

The plays are worth it. The musicals, not so much.

Cynthia Erivo has one of those voices that is chronically off-key. It's not pleasant to listen to.

Here it is. Tribute or performer masturbation?

R341 It had to be said, and I don’t usually pick on people for their looks, but I find her very distracting.

Erivo thinks she's the queen of Bway. It's so bizarre. She was in a revival. Not the original. I watched her being interviewed and I thought she was going to break out her crown and scepter.

[quote]Erivo thinks she's the queen of Bway.

She and Billy Porter both!

Erivo and Idina Menzel have the most unpleasant voices on Broadway. They're both so pitchy when they sing.

I'd add new winner Ali to most annoying voice. I've heard better HS versions of that song.

^ Is that why you called her a "gimp" upthread R347?

Did anyone tell Cynthia Erivo that white men wrote that song she sang? Cultural appropriation!

[quote]What was the name of that musical which was nominated about 3 years ago with the fat lead actress?

Chrissy Metz as "Billy Rose's Jumbo"

What was up with Platt saying if you are watching the show you are gay? Wasn't he closeted until recently?

Watching the show made him realize he was gay.

[Quote] What was the name of that musical which was nominated about 3 years ago with the fat lead actress?

Go to 5:35 in the video. I think you talking about the girl in the red. I believe she won for this, "Dogfight." She is excellent! I think the girl who plays the whore also won a Tony but maybe not for this. They sing together beautifully.

Dogfight was off Broadway, so it wasn't nominated for any Tonys. The two actresses in that number are Lindsay Mendez, who won last season for Carousel, and Annaleigh Ashford, who won her Tony for You Can't Take It With You.

There were a couple hotties in that show like Derek Klena and Josh Segarra.

I'm all for giving people equal opportunities. It's only right. But when it comes from a place of pointedly excluding "white cis males" it is just as bad as explicitly excluding any other group. But that's not what the deranged "woke" folk want to hear. It's very 'in' to attack cis white males.

R167, older women's hair often becomes fine and thin. Maybe Shirley Jones just wanted to look like herself and not wear plaster on a wig. She's a dignified presence, and I hope she'll be around for many more years.

R356 = Susan Dey

I thought Elaine May looked fantastic for 87.

All this talk of diversity and inclusion is bullshit! Of the 40 people in the In Memoriam section, only 5 were black. We demand equal representation!

Yeah and I've been saying ever since his show that I don't get how Corden can be both so coked-up and so overweight - mb the answer is imagine how he'd look otherwise

I find myself agreeing with you more and more, R355. It’s accurate to talk about straight white males historically being privileged, but it’s far less straightforward when talking about a specific person, just as it is when anyone says something like, “the problem with women” or “black people”. To lump any responsibility onto a single stratum of society is what conflates the problem, isn’t it?

That’s why I’m so appalled by Rachel Chavkin’s acceptance speech. She dismissed the other nominees because they were white men, while acting like her winning was an acknowledgement of her innate superior talent. It’s aggressive, arrogant entitlement, but can’t be called out on it by me, because I’m a white male and therefore exempt.

A big screaming nancy of a white male, but a white male nevertheless.

Sorry, but this entire cis, entitlement, privilege crap is a product of liberals. It is up to liberals to call it out as pure shit, but, like Trumpsters, their ideology will triumph over truth.

Devote your life to it, don't quit, get good, listen to the pros, and be gracious when/if you're lucky enough to get a mentor. Or just blame your lack of success to "cis male privilege" instead.

[quote]She's a dignified presence

You've obviously never read her book.

Will somebody stop Billy Porter!!! He is fucking all over the place. What an annoying obnoxious queen he is. Why is the media so enamored with him? Is it the freak factor?

Yeh I used to like Billy Porter, I messaged him on FB after I saw him in Kinky Boots and he responded, so thought he was a down to earth guy. These shenanigans of his as of late have completely turned me off.

He does seem to play only one role.

He finally has some mainstream attention and he's going to milk it for all he can. Thankfully, it won't last

I also found Ali's rendition of that song grating, but Broadway goes for loudness over quality. You can add the appalling Leslie Mendez to the list for her screechy Carrie Pipperidge in the last CAROUSEL. Of course she won a Tony, for the same role which brought Audra McDonald her first Tony, but Audra sang beautifully.

Performers these days just keep trying way too hard.

Do Ali’s parents realize that that spelling of her name is the Muslim version?

Does she pronounce it “ahh-lee”?

Wouldn't Broadway attendance always beat out sports attendance? I guess sports stadiums can hold more people, but a Broadway theatre can be filled 8 times a week, whereas sports teams play less AND a Broadway theatre can be filled year round, while a a sports team takes a break. Sports teams also travel, so the Yankees have one home game this week. It seems like a very misleading statistic, no different than when they tout "we broke the grosses record" and omitting the fact that ticket prices are the highest they've ever been.

[quote]Leslie Mendez

Who?

[quote] The 73rd Tony Awards hit an all-time low in Sunday's ratings, falling below 6 million viewers for the first time.

Funny to read all the ATCers justify this embarrassing rating with It still beat other networks! I wish sports stopped showing opposite the Tonys! This was such a great season!

Michael Riedel writes that, after the Hadestown number, one of the investors texted him to say "I think our advance just went down."

Really? I thought the Hadestown number was one of the better ones.

Ditto, r374.

It was the best number of the night.

R376 Well, yes, but it made little sense to the casual observer, wtf is it about?

Hadestown is dreary but not god awful, the rest are simply heinously terrible.

I'll stick with Gluck, thank you all the same.

HADESTOWN wants $250 for a mezzanine seat. Unless Reeve Carney fucks me after the show, I ain't payin' $250!!!

[quote]It was the best number of the night.

I thought the "Kiss Me Kate" number was the best -- although why did they leave out 75% of the lyrics? Is that the way they do it in the actual performance?

The Aaron Tveit/Karen Olivo/Danny Burstein segment puzzled me. They did nothing to promote Moulin Rouge, which begins previews later this month.

STEPPING OUT!!!

Young performers insist on "screeching" because they're singing overly familiar songs from shows everyone has seen dozens of times.

They're attempting to try something fresh but, of course, they're just ruining the material.

[quote]They're attempting to try something fresh but, of course, they're just ruining the material.

Thank you for sharing, Ms. Merman.

Great, Jada/R359. We're definitely ready to have you show up in the In Memorium presentation at your earliest possible convenience. Cynthia Erivo too. And Billy Porter.

I was shocked to hear Danny Burstein introduced as SIX Time Tony Nominee. Is that record for an actor for losing?

R387, At least they did not say SIX Time Tony LOSER.

It's implied, r388.

Six nominations in the course of ten years (2006-2016). Three of them were back to back to back (2012, 2013, 2014).

Why do the ugly racist posters of DL need to invade even the Tony Awards thread? Cynthia Erivo is a talented woman who looked beautiful the other night. She isn't the director of the show. They choose what to feature in the Memoriam shots. Billy Porter is a Tony winner, Drama Desk and Grammy winner for Kinky Boots. He's a proud and flamboyant gay man. I don't like him either, but he can present an award. Some on this thread don't like him because he is proud, gay and BLACK.

Some others made pointed posts about the cast of the Temptations musical. It didn't look great, but those men could SING. The white performers were just as dull and in some cases more ponderous and ostentatious. Erivo is not Audra McDonald. Thank god. I've read a whole thread on DL calling Heather Headley names and she's a magnificent singer in any format. A wonderful star and sweet woman too. The innate pride of black men and women is what some of you dislike. Some y'all are just racist. DL is famous for being the most racist gay site on the internet.

Angela was nominated for an Emmy 18 times and never won until her 19th nomination for supporting in the PBS Little Women.

Costume Designer Jane Greenwood was nominated and lost 21 times (including twice in one year) and only won a couple of years ago for The Little Foxes at the age of 84. Now that's a record.

She must be a cunt.

R392 Angela Lansbury? She has never won an Emmy. Her last two nominations (17th and 18th) were in 2005 for two different LAW & ORDER spin-offs.

No, Jane Greenwood is not a cunt, just always second best.

Alas, you are right and I was very wrong, r395, and I stand very humbled and corrected.

My god, in all those years of Murder, She Wrote that woman never got a single Emmy?

She should have gotten an award, along with Law & Order, for keeping most of the Broadway acting community working.

[quote]My god, in all those years of Murder, She Wrote that woman never got a single Emmy?

She was nominated for all 12 seasons (twice in '87 and '90, when she hosted the Tonys) and she still went home empty-handed!

That's just astonishing.

R399, If it's any consolation, she has a shelf full of Golden Globe Awards.

She can also console herself with her five Tony Awards.

R401, 6 GGs.

She should have won a supporting Oscar for "The Manchurian Candidate." She was nominated.

And an honorary Oscar. I think her noms for Murder She Wrote were considered too lightweight. She always seemed to lose to actresses with more serious fare like Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly, Patricia Wettig, Dana Delaney etc.

R404, She lost to beloved DL fave Patty Duke.

^ This is just one poster talking to itself? Matt must be back with access. I see him on the Project Runway thread too. Insane OLD bitch. Who the fuck is Angela Lanesborough?

[quote]She lost to beloved DL fave Patty Duke.

That actually makes Angela's loss much easier to accept.

HAVING A MALE ACTOR CATEGORY IS LITERALLY KILLING WOMEN

Well, at least they didn't open with the national anthem......

[quote]Well, at least they didn't open with the national anthem......

The actual opening wasn't much better. At least the 1960 opening didn't go on forever.

To paraphrase Sandra Bernhard, "Let's give an Emmy to the woman who'll be giving the exact same performance in every episode for the next 12 years." Plus she demanded to be let to go home at 6 every day, no exceptions.

If y'all were alive to watch the 1960 Tony Awards, you should participate in one of those gay old men youtube videos where you talk about how times have changed, guess the names of current gay icons and reminisce about how hot Sal Mineo was in 1952. Jesus Christ.

If you ARE old please try to understand that you are OLD and that some of your objections (to everything) come from being SO old.

Otherwise the Tony Awards sucked. But y'all complained when Sutton Foster or Patti LuPone or Brian Stokes Mitchell or Jersey Boys and Les Miz were around too. Right?

R412 to whom are you referring?

I'm not R412, but I assume it was another reference to Angela Lansbury never winning an Emmy.

R413 loves using “y’all” in a sentence because it makes him feel folksy!

Broadway doesn't go for booze and drugs and sayin' "y'all" in the theatah, darlin'!

Broadway don't go for ancient white racist fags either R416 and R417. You're too old to go out anymore.

R418? You've become what you preach against.

R364, I haven't read her book, but plan to now! In the Merv Griffin years I enjoyed watching her and Marty Ingells (sp?) on the show. An odd couple, to put it mildly.

jus read fab bio of angela lansbury….what a great dame!!!!

ude think the emmy voters would have appreciated all the work she threw to old actors who needed the work, was fun to see thm on murder she wrote...

R418 doesn't get the joke, y'all. Do keep it, dear.

There is a black supremacist racist shitting up the thread.

as evidenced by whut?

anyone else watch cordens chat show now? mindy kaling is on, omg when did she become a fat sow??? and when she smiles big, she is missin a tooth. weird!!!! she is wearin a tight light colored dress that accentuates her sow ness.... wtf?

No shit, im watching it now, plus her lips are shot out so big she looks like a platypus

Am I missing something with Billy Porter’s performance? I’ve seen better amateur renditions of that song at Rose’s Turn in the Village.

Impossibly adorable Neil Haskell announced it was his final week in "Hamilton". He has been involved with the show for four years. Always wonder if someone's contract isn't renewed or they just want out but I can never understand anyone just leaving a paying job voluntarily. If there was a God, Neil would be in the incoming 'Take me Out", a boy can dream can't he?

"she demanded to be let to go home" r412? Where did you learn to write?

I can’t begin to imagine stomaching 4 years of Hamilton. Yuck.

Is #391 Whoopi Goldberg?

My impression is that Danny Burstein is well liked, and that’s why he has so many nominations in the first place. A different actor would not have gotten nominated for Golden Boy. He’s not a showy actor, and he hasn’t been in the right vehicle at the right time to win. Advance word is that Moulin Rouge is the right vehicle. He just has to hope that someone else doesn’t become the Elaine May of the season and make the other nominees irrelevant.

I think he is the actor who has lost the most times without ever winning.

At least someone in the Burstein household still gets work -

[quote]DL is famous for being the most racist gay site on the internet.

There are other gay sites on the internet?

Danny Burstein was especially wonderful as the original Aldolpho in The Drowsy Chaperone. I also loved him in Fiddler on the Roof. He deserves respect and hopefully will get a Tony soon.

@ R362.

It's true that "this cis, entitlement, privilege crap " is the product of liberals.

It's also true that all of it is constantly reinforced and blown out of proportion by conservative media as a calculated way to inflame and divide the electorate. Do you think that the New York Post and the Daily Mail are constantly running Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's photo because they think she's pretty ?

Hard to know if Moulin Rouge will really be the huge hit everyone is expecting. I know there was great excitement about it when it played Boston bu Broadway is a whole other deal, kind of like when Rocky tried out in Germany.

R438 a more recent example is BE MORE CHILL, which was supposed to be the hit of the season!

R438, Aaron Tveit's fan base alone will sell out Moulin Rouge for the first six months.

[quote] Aaron Tveit's fan base alone will sell out Moulin Rouge for the first six months.

And if they added a full-frontal nudity scene with Aaron, it will run longer than "Cats."

Lol Aaron Tveit's fan base alone would sell out Moulin Rouge for the first six minutes

R429 I’m more surprised to learn there’s a white guy in Hamilton

There is

R442 = Jeremy Jordan

I don't have an issue with Angela Lansbury wanting to be home from a show she largely carried at a reasonable time.

Also Aaron Tviet's fan base is being grossly exaggerated.

R444 oh, the bad guy? If it had been an all white cast and the villain a minority all of the SJWs would be losing their fucking minds.

"Also Aaron Tviet's fan base is being grossly exaggerated."

But Aaron Tveit's is not.

R447 extremists are often hypocritical. ,Look at the Trumpsters on the far right.

Trumpsters and SJWs cut from the same cloth, just have different ideologies.

R445 Was JJ up for the part in Rouge and beat out by AT?

R451 I don't think so. Tveit has been with the show since the workshop.

People who use the term "SJW" are really really angry that black people get to use the "n" word and they don't.

that's not it r453. SJW is for the people who endlessly and vehemently police all language, no matter how inoffensive. The people who insist that Tootsie is "literally killing trans people". The people who insult their fellow nominees by railing against cis white men being nominated. The people who demand you speak and think exactly as they do or you are a racist or showing your 'privilege'. The peope who insist a production of Evita or In the Heights be shut down if someone in the cast is Italian and not 'latinx'. It's become fascist and exhausting. And no, I never ever want to use the "n" word.

R454 Hear, hear!

Moulin Rouge will be a hit and steal whatever momentum Tootsie had at the BO. And Broadway needs another splashy musical other than The Cher Show.

[quote]Moulin Rouge will be a hit and steal whatever momentum Tootsie had at the BO

That's not likely. Tootsie got two major Tonys, and one of them, for Santino, is a marquee award.

Moulin Rouge may very well be the next monster hit (the first, really, since Hamilton), but it won't kill Tootsie, as much as you might like it to.

What's a marquee award?

One that goes on the marquee, like "Tony Award Winner Santino Fontana!!"

However Santino's performance simply isn't getting any buzz. When it was Erivo, or Katrina Lenk, or Faith Prince even, or some of the other performances who ended up winning, it was part of a trajectory becoming a must-see performance. Fontanta's doesn't feel like that. Yawn.

Tootsie isn't exactly selling like gangbusters. It's had discounts up the wazoo (and currently still does) and is frequently on TDF.

A Best Actor and Best Book aren't gonna move tickets.

Broadway is so Republican. Get this.

Is Danny Burstein hung? He looks to have a nice suckable cock.

I've seen bigger.

If Chad Michaels is the best Cher impersonator than why wasn't HE cast in The Cher Show?

IN YOUR FACE Chad Michaels!

Danny was a cutie when he was young. I knew him in the early 90s. And he was a sweetheart. Now he's got his head so far up his own ass and he's a massive name dropping bore.

Cindy Adams, of all people, gets it exactly right!

Nothing I'd rather see than actresses putting on their eyelashes, Cindy. No lectures about the greatness of old Broadway . We get enough lectures with current Broadway musicals. Maybe it's time you and your friends, the Trumps, sail off into oblivion.

Relax a little r468. She makes some good points - it would be wise for the Tonys to celebrate the magic of theater a little more and have fewer breathless, witless numbers defending it. No one who's watching needs to be convinced "theater is live, turn off your screens"; they already have some interest, build on that. She's not wrong.

No, she's not wrong. There have been Tony shows that captured the viewers' imagination and drew us into the magic of theater. Last Sunday's show offered nothing, and Corden, for all his professed love of theater, was a dud.

I wonder who wrote this for her? They are likely her views, but they're much better articulated than usual.

What's your problem, r468? What connection does this discussion possibly have to the Trumps?

Add to all the horrible things wrought by this administration the gift to people of no intellectual rigor the so's-your-old-man insult of "Trump Supporter!" to anyone with a different opinion.

I do like Adams' suggestion about returning the show to a Broadway theater as opposed to Radio City Music Hall.

Does anyone know how they did it in the old days? In the typical theater, here are not enough aisle seats to give all the nominees a seat on the aisle. Did they move nominees off the aisle once their categories had been awarded so upcoming nominees could sit on the aisle? Or did some poor winner have to make their way out of the middle of the row in order to get to the stage?

You can see how it was done in 1960, with winners having to make their way to the stage from crowded tables. That is, when the winners were there to accept, which seemed to have not been definitely established beforehand.

r473 you're going too far back for r472- what about in the 80s etc when it was at a theater?

[quote] I do like Adams' suggestion about returning the show to a Broadway theater as opposed to Radio City Music Hall. Does anyone know how they did it in the old days? In the typical theater, here are not enough aisle seats to give all the nominees a seat on the aisle. Did they move nominees off the aisle once their categories had been awarded so upcoming nominees could sit on the aisle? Or did some poor winner have to make their way out of the middle of the row in order to get to the stage?

They're not going to move them to a Broadway theater. The largest Broadway house, The Gershwin fits like 2,000 people. Radio City fits 6,000. That means that even if they could somehow displace Wicked to do this, they still have 4,000 less seats to sell. That's a BIG cut. Add in that back in the day of Broadway houses there were at most 2-3 producers per show. When Rent won three producers accepted. When Hadestown won there were dozens. A BIG part of the package offered to investors is going to the Tonys. Not to mention the logistics issues, the fact that Broadway theaters aren't designed to have cameras in the way that Radio City is. Broadway venues don't have the lobby areas and bathrooms and backstage amenities, it's just not gonna happen and I'm tired of people saying it.

[quote] Did they move nominees off the aisle once their categories had been awarded so upcoming nominees could sit on the aisle? Or did some poor winner have to make their way out of the middle of the row in order to get to the stage?

They didn't always show the nominees for the non major awards and most of the technical winners would make their way from the back or from the far sides. I don't think they resat people, they might have.

It doesn't matter what they do, television viewership drops for every awards show year after year.

The Tony Awards were held at the Beacon Theatre in 2011, 2012 and 2016. I'm not sure it made much of a difference in how the show was presented.

This is unreadable, is this how she always writes? Does she have dementia? Are there no editors left in journalism?

She must be in her 90s, r479. I've always assumed she dictated her copy to someone who translated it into English.

R471. Maybe do some research before you go around flinging accusations.

Oh, *I* get it now, r481--you were addressing Cindy Adams in your post. How edgy.

Why the fuck would I "research" your post at all, let alone on FB. And my comment stands.

And you are lazy. Everyone in the city knows that Cindy is a big Trumpster.

[quote] The Tony Awards were held at the Beacon Theatre in 2011, 2012 and 2016. I'm not sure it made much of a difference in how the show was presented.

The Beacon holds 1,000 more people than any of the Broadway theaters.

Oh, don't be silly, r483. "Everyone in the city" has never given a thought to Cindy Adams' political views.

I predict that, though the Best Tony winner, Hadestown will last two years max

[quote] Tootsie isn't exactly selling like gangbusters. It's had discounts up the wazoo (and currently still does) and is frequently on TDF.

Even tourists realize that this is just a money grub by producers

I'm certainly not excited to see yet another movie-to-stage transfer: Moulin Rouge.

We have the movie. We don't need a stage version.

I hope it's not THE PROM that's closing. It should at least outlast KING KONG and BE MORE CHILL.

Apparently it is "The Prom."

Oh, dear. And Be More Chill lives on....

Tootsie has Candy Spelling as a producer. Didn't realize she won a Tony for Color Purple and has shows up the ass.

Yes, it's THE PROM. Closing August 11 after 23 previews and 310 regular performances

It's a respectable run.

Another one bites the dust.

I never know whether to admire producers like The Prom's for their fortitude or lambast them for their folly. That show was never going to catch on, even if it had won some Tonys.

[quote]That show was never going to catch on,

When did you realize that? Many people predicted it would be the season's big hit!

nothing they did in advertising, public performances or any other attention or reviews or write-ups ever really seemed to affect their numbers

the chart is flat

Be Chill posted closing notice

Candy Spelling will EGOT before her day is done. Mark my words. You heard it here first!