***OFFICIAL THREAD: THE 74TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS***

I love Andie Macdowell

Jesus, why did they put MJW in that tight little dress?

I thought Paul Hilton was going to win it

Congrats, Antoine.

Guess it's not going to be a Slave Play sweep.

Did Aaron Tveit bring a "date"?

Yay! for Lois.

Ruthie Ann Miles is gorgeous.

"What I Did for Love" always chokes me up a little.

Who won Featured Actor in a Play?

Why does R6 have date in quotation marks? Aaron isn't gay, despite your wishful thinking.

What is the eligibility period of this years’ nominees?

Since Jake Gyllenhaal is attending tonight, I’m willing to bet he already won.

News flash to OP: It's EDT, not EST.

These special Tony Awards are so pointless.

14 posts 40 minutes in proves how much even the gays don’t care

Or that some of us, despite signing up for Paramount+ today, can’t figure out how to access it!

I had to search Tony Awards - that was the only way I could find it.

[quote] "What I Did for Love" always chokes me up a little.

Me too--it always makes me think of heterosexual girls consenting to do anal.

That is me, r16. I was trying to access from an Amazon prime channel of Paramount plus, and I cannot find it.

It looks like a sweep in the making for Moulin Rouge.

Revision, even the OLD gays don’t care

r16 r19 Go to paramountplus.com, create an account name and password, and then sign in.

[quote]I was trying to access from an Amazon prime channel of Paramount plus, and I cannot find it.

I clicked on channels on Prime Video -- Paramount came up and the Tonys were the first option listed.

I wonder how Karen Olivo feels about all the Moulin Rouge clips showing her. No pee break

I tried to sleep with that Justin Townsend - but I couldn't turn him! :*(

R17, same here -- I signed up for Paramount+ today just for this, but when I went onto the opening page, it was nowhere to be found (because the front page is covered in all of CBS's shows). I finally had to put "Tonys" into the search box in order to get it to come up.

Damn, "Christmas Carol" is doing great tonight.

Christmas Carol is going to wind up with the most awards.

Was A Christmas Carol a British import? Is that why none of the creatives could be bothered to attend?

I am reading that the cast of jagged little pill has quit and will not perform on the broadcast. It is all over twitter

Oh god I sense Datalounge COMING FOR Jennifer Nettles.

I love that A Christmas Carol is winning all the awards - it's about as unwoke as you can get.

Jennifer Nettles has just agreed to perform ALL the roles in the Jagged performance

R29 Yes, opened at the Old Vic

Two winners on stage at a time? Let's hope Jagged Little Pill doesn't win best musical -- it has 42 producers.

Seeing this masked audience makes me realize how tough it must be for performers right now not seeing the crowds’ facial expressions.

What I did for love .... I now do for $60 ...

Isn't that cute? Isn't that true?

Why didn’t they do this at an outside venue?

[Quote] Two winners on stage at a time? Let's hope Jagged Little Pill doesn't win best musical -- it has 42 producers.

There are many many Many other reasons to hope Jagged doesn’t win, including it sucks

Oh, for fuck's sake

[quote]Why didn’t they do this at an outside venue?

Because that would signal that being inside a theatre is not safe at a time when Broadway is welcoming back audiences.

"As a brown, queer, Arab-American woman I didn't always feel welcome." Blergh. I wish people would stop painting the American (or British, for that matter) as a closed door as if the past 25 years haven't happened. They have got to stop this go-to line, as if there is a monolithic group keeping out minority voices and marginalized cultures. It's just not real.

The trans activists are so tiresome.

^^American. . . theater^^, that is.

Now, "an industry that wasn't built for us." Do I need to stop watching this ridiculous parody of being socially aware? I wish they had the nerve to speak to people in a hostile environment.

Did he just use “vision” as a verb?

How did Lauren Patten manage to win a Tony when she's personally responsible for the deaths of hundreds of trans people? You'd think the voters would hold that against her.

And WHOOGHSOWHSOHWOOOO as a noun

Daldry!!! Yay, and well-deserved.

You know DLers aren't watching when nobody's yet attacked Debra Messing.

Stephen Daldry wins for direction of a play. I hope that means "The Inheritance" will also win for best play.

Kenny Leon looked PISSED when the white guy won.

I'm torn between two lovers.

The Tony Awards or Packers v. 49ers?

I know! I'll jump in bed with both!

Sheryl Lee Ralph’s comment about never missing a performance. Hmmm….

Good Lord, could this woman chew the scenery any harder?

Maybe it was a diss on JH, who missed quite a few, including the one I saw.

I never liked this song.

Did that lead actor who was the only nomination win, or was he cancelled?

That guy must be terrified as scary-skinned Jennifer touches his face. It’s like the vampire zombies attacking on AHS.

[quote]I never liked this song.

Conversely, it gives me (good) chills every time I see her perform it.

R53 I think she meant she never didn’t watch Jennifer do the song, not that she never missed a performance

I saw her in the original run of DREAMGIRLS - it really was a million dollar moment.

^^^ Well, it should. She has been practising for 40 years.

R61, you're so lucky. I am seeing Jennifer in concert in a couple of weeks.

Andrew Burnap for best actor. Shock of the year!

Thank goodness, I would have felt so bad for Aaron if he didn't the trophy.

I'm sure Aaron would have jumped out a window if he didn't win..I would have

Quite a nose job on that Burnap gurl.

There’s one bitch in the audience who keeps pulling her mask forward to scream

How long before #TonysSoWhite?

R69 It's already in JOH's drafts. But can't help but feel they're teasing an Inheritance win only to snatch it away at the last minute.

So Slave Play has won nothing yet?

I never though I would live to see the day when a winner could stay onstage as long as they want, babble as long as they want and not get the musical cue to leave. Too much information, guys.

Burnap deserved it.

An awards show ending 10 minutes early?

An awards show that finished ahead of time? Astounding!

Not as horrible as I was expecting, but I still rolled my eyes more than a few times.

Well thank fuck Olivo didn't win

Did you like the shortened show or now that you've seen it, do you miss the bloated, though often fun, mess that it was?

It’s not shortened, it went from 3 hours to 4. 2 and 2

But all the major winners are in that two hours, instead of spread out over a longer time.

10 minutes early. I guess if the Christmas Carol folks had shown up, they would have been on mark.

No wonder they let those winning actors blather on & on.

Can’t wait to see the crowd welcome Ben Platt to the stage

For all of Celia Rose Gooding's outrage about harm to the non-binary community, she sure had her tits on display.

Have we all switched over to CBS and Bernie’s bosoms?

David Byrne was great and this Moulin Rouge number is pretty fun.

MR is loud and tedious.

Hmmmm......Lea Salonga wearing an old Ann Sothern outfit.

It may very well be, R86, but that number worked on TV.

Broadway is just Las Vegas. Sad.

How many people did Burnap blow?

First the pink sweater, now a pink suit. It looks good on Jake.

Hated the Moulin Rouge number which was nothing more than a lot of noise and gyrations and no focus all wrapped up in pretty costumes.

R90 = Jake Gyllenhaal

Just saw handsome guy with beard standing in the wings. Who is he?

The inheritance wins…..

HAHAHAHAHAHA

I can’t believe this thread is so slow. Is DL in subscriber-only mode?

Ho ho ho

So all the winners are BIPOC and yet white American theatre is racist

Tina, bring me the axe!!

OMG! Annaleigh and Jake are in the building and they give this song to Ben Platt??!!

R94 here. Now know it's Ben Platt.

Us West Coast folk have to wait another two hours to see the 2nd half. I thought I could see it on streaming, but guess not.

Anika Noni Rose was pretty amazing. Ben sounded good but wasn’t in her class

[quote]I am reading that the cast of jagged little pill has quit and will not perform on the broadcast. It is all over twitter

Guess Twitter was wrong. Shocking!

Where's all the DL snark tonight??

R46 Splain' Lucy

Bernadette’s TITS

R106 I guess most of the witty posters aren't paying members.

Now this is the way to an In Memoriam segment.

The show is just reminding me that Bway pushes out alot of crap and makes you pay $500 for a center orchestra seat

Oh well, I guess no one’s buying tickets to Jagged Little Pill after that lackluster performance

Yes, Anika Noni Rose is stunning in everything she does. What a voice!

The show got off to a good pace until the black woke shit took over.

So, let me get this straight: Broadway is devoid of any non-black minorities.

No awards for "Slave Play"!

LITERAL VIOLENCE!

They completely stiffed the wokesters’ choice of play, R114.

R115, yes it is

Except Matthew LOPEZ just won the Tony

R115, And non-Black majorities, either.

It only took 74 years

It’s weird that every song from nominated musical is a cover song of a hit pop song

Condolences to R86.

"Slave Play is a three-act play by Jeremy O. Harris. The play is about race, sex, power relations, trauma, and interracial relationships. It follows three interracial couples undergoing "Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy" because the black partners no longer feel sexual attraction to their white partners."

This is really what it's about? Did anyone see it, and if so, was it good?

Chita really looks her age.

Slave Play was SHIT.

Chita is actually 527. She looks amazing

I was thinking that, r122, during John Legend singing the Temptations. I just saw them in concert last Friday, and even the old Original Temp was better than the Broadway ones.

And the winner is: Moulin Rouge.

What crap

And they say Beanie isn’t funny … but look at that dress.

Don't feel sorry for me, r123. I would have voted for none of the nominees.

Wow, Andrew Rannells' double chin has a double chin.

SLAVE PLAY could have been so much better if it had a better writer.

Wow, Titus lost a lot of weight!

Now he’s not so much fun

Titus shrieks too much

#TonysSoGay

Slave Play would have been better if they cut the second act (of 3) and then cut about 20 minutes more.

Madonna Madame X concerns commercial!!

Now can we forget the 2020 Bway season.

It was terrible

Tonys ended 10 minutes early!! So filling up with duets

They still have Audra in Ragtime and Cheno/Menzel in Wicked and Freesytle Love Supreme

I love these duets.

Loved Groban and Odom Jr - and yes, I know that’s cheesy.

Well, Covid didn’t hurt Brian Stokes Mitchell’s voice any.

It was nice to KristinC and Adele Nadeem sing that sing again

Mitchell is incredible. I remember hearing him sing that song during Man of La Mancha and believed every word of it. That’s how great he sings it

I wonder if the tea about them hating each other are untrue

Audra is incredible. PERIOD

[Quote] I wonder if the tea about them hating each other are untrue

Which two?

Is that what FREESTYLE is like? No. Just no.

The Simpsons has a theatrical bent to it tonight.

Horrible! What a bad way to go out...

I'm sorry for those who didn't see the first 2 hours on Paramount Plus (and I'm canceling my subscription tomorrow). It really was like an old-fashioned Tony Awards show from the 1960s/70s with only genuine Broadway talent performing and presenting. Excellent pacing and lots of great emotional (and short) acceptance speeches.

Kristin and Idina

Jennifer Holliday is the only thing I want to see ever again

After seeing Andrew Rannells, I know where at least SOME of Titus’ extra weight went.

Has anyone ever seen Tituss Burgess and Jennifer Holliday in the same room at the same time? just asking.

Both Cheno and Adele have old lady hands.

So many current shows not represented here – Chicago, waitress, Mormon, the Disney shows, Company, Diana, come from away, why? (And cameos By ensemble people in the opening number doesn’t count)

R 158, because they are not woke wnough.

^enough.

I didn’t watch the speech but Andrew Burnap is cute. He was the best thing about The Inheritance, though even his character became tiresome.

His acceptance speech was tiresome, too. But that's OK, they were trying to fill 10 minutes. (still came up short)

Your Best Leading Actor in a Play and his acceptance speech have become TIRESOME!

Now is the time on "Sprockets" when we DANCE!

R152 Is Paramount Plus gonna have the show available for a limited time? I might have to temporarily subscribe if it's like an old-fashioned Tonys broadcast.

I just watched the last half hour of CBS's Broadway's Back, and that Freestyle Love Supreme was a trainwreck.

Aaron's acceptance speech, including a shout out to his date "Erica".

R164, They should have ended the show with Audra and BSM singing "Wheels of a Dream".

Leave Aaron alone.

R167, Sorry, but his shout out to Erica had a definite Kevin Spacey feel to it.

r168, sorry, but Ericka is a year older than Aaron.

Hiding in plain sight . . .

Ohhhh...[italic]that[/italic] kind of Kevin Spacey feel. Thanks, r170.

So many racial justice speeches, some were powerful and/or eloquent but in total was it overkill--especially in a year with so many Black winners? Who was the most obnoxious?

R172, Kenny Leon

I think I agree and didn't like that he didn't include Miller, Williams, or any American playwrights

[quote] “No diss to Shakespeare, no diss to Ibsen, to Chekhov, to Shaw. They’re all at the table. But the table got to be bigger.”

Kevin and I made hot love during Aaron's acceptance speech.

R175, You got Kevin Spacey to climax in 2:11?

Imagine all the cancellations Paramount+ will be receiving after the free one week trial period ends.

I canceled my subscription already. I never could find the Tony Awards on Paramount+. It was not featured on the app within Amazon Prime. After 5 minutes of looking for it last night, I gave up and went to bed.

[Quote] Jennifer Holliday is the only thing I want to see ever again

As someone tweeted, Holliday is Broadway's cicada, appearing on the Tonys every 20 years or so to sing the same song.

Audra is just luminous. Her voice is so full of emotion. No wonder she's a Bway superstar. It's so sad Bway stardom doesn't always translate into international notoriety as it used to in the old days.

Is this the saddest DL Tony thread in history?

The ATC threads aren't that great either

I never quite think of Audra as being notorious, r180.

I would normally jump to the conclusion Rannells and Burgess are fucking, but how does that work with two bottoms?

The Notorious Audra Mac

All of you thinking you're going to drop Paramount +, Madonna's Madame X Concert will be streamed there in a month

I sat through that commercial, what, five times, r185, and all I could think of was "HTF can people love that awful bleat of a voice?"

I was so irritated when I went to the Madame X concerts that she started 2 hours late. I couldn't really enjoy it because of that.

I didn't think there were interesting moments, so I'm happy it was filmed so I can revisit it. Not getting another channel to do it--so will have to wait until it shows up somewhere else.

[quote]Is this the saddest DL Tony thread in history?

OP here. I don't know if this happened to any other paying members but I got cut off last night when the site went to prime time (about an hour after I created this thread). I thought perhaps my paid year was up, so I checked my subscription status and it expires a week from now, so that wasn't the reason (I was going to renew it had it been). I emailed Muriel to ask WTF but have received no response.

The trannies are trying to ruin B'way.

But they don't understand -- some people got it and make it pay

Some people can't even give it away

And THAT's Show Business!

R155, Andrew's no longer getting those horizontal workouts with Tuc.

r188 - Your OP is grayed out for me.

Did Andrew and Tuc break up?

Actually, this was the first time I though Andrew had a great voice. The heft has helped him.

R175/“Diane”, do you always spell your name wrong in posts? It’s Dianne.

Nice try, thanks for playing, though.

R191, it is? Hmm, that's interesting. It's not for me but maybe that's because I'm the OP?

TV Ratings: CBS’ "Broadway’s Back" Tony Awards Special Struggles:

They should incorporate the Tony Awards into the Superbowl. Make a big to do of it. Get football fans of all ages and theatre people of all ages (the producers, presenters, nominees etc can bring their families/loved ones to the game with them,) together at the biggest football game of the year.

The individual winners would be announced during short intervals between plays, or downs? idk. The presenters would be announced and quickly driven onto the field in one or two spiffy golf carts to a small platform that a team of stagehands (fieldhands?) run onto the field. No banter- just say the nominees then open the envelope. The winners jog out onto the field, get their trophy, say thanks, and blow kisses at the cheering crowds as they join the presenters on the golf cart sped off the field. (Elderly winners would be driven in a spiffy golf-cart onto the field to the platform as well as off.) The winners could then give proper acceptance speeches to a camera backstage or in the locker room, and then talk to the press.

The musical numbers can frame the game, one to open the broadcast, three for halftime, and then after the game ends the last one or two could perform. Then Best Musical would be announced. And THEN you have the typical halftime show, but to close out the whole evening.

I think it'd bring America together in a way.

Uh huh.

Tonys Analysis: A Ceremony Better Late Than Never, But Still Too Late:

They should do a Broadway half-time show though, that would be good.

Did Rannells and Tuc Watkins break up? Must be hard on the kids.

Andrew and Tuc was a “showmance” that extended (on fumes, it seems).

I bet Tuc is used to much hotter sex partners than Rannells, who’s just creepiness personified.

wtf with Kenny Leon mentioning Kobe Bryant and Gigi? How is that part of the SJW/BLM crusade?

Gigi the musical?

I'm still reeling from the utter banality of that Moulin Rouge number. Besides the gorgeous costumes and sets, all I saw were a lot of grimacing chorus girls posing and flouncing. That was the choreography and direction that won the Tonys? They were lucky there was so little competition and I really hope the show dies soon. It must cost a fortune to run it.

It did look all flash and trash, r206.

because it is r207 but at least not aggressively bad like JLP