5 June
I had rehearsal last night, which was only to be expected.
Why? Well, because it was Tony night last night, and I always have a performance or a rehearsal ever time there's an awards show on! Unless it's a stupid-ass one, like the Blockbuster Awards or something that no-one but a shut-in who has lost the remote would watch.
Anyway, unlike the Oscars the Tonys are rigidly time controlled, so it ended at 11p and I started watching my tape at 11.05p. And the following are my thoughts.
I love this having the first hour on PBS thing, in recent years, before they started doing that, it was awful the way they would careen through the show, trying desperately to end before the news. Now they can take their time. It's the Tonys, people want to see backstage stuff and lots of production numbers!
Nathan rather than Rosie hosting, great! O wait, here she comes. Damn. I shouldn't be rude, she's the only reason we're getting this extra hour.
I really want to see Contact, I love Boyd Gaines. I saw him in She Loves Me a few years ago, and he just knocked me out.
I really love the first hour on PBS because they all act so silly, like nobody is watching. Which they probably aren't, only the hardcore drama geeks watch the Tonys, let alone the bit where they are giving out awards like "Best Orchestrations"!
A Snoop Doggy Dog joke? O Nathan, you're just so cutting edge.
The scenic designer for Kiss Me Kate said:
This is really selling me on Kiss Me Kate, a show that I haven't been dying to see. I want to now, though!
Dame Edna really is terribly funny. Even though she fired my friends, the waiters at Barrymore's and replaced them with the waiters at Sardi's before I could get to see them in it!
The Best Costume designer thinks that they are laughing at Dame Edna behind him, and not because he is covered in lipstick from when she kissed him! He looks like a little boy who was just attacked by a visiting aunt. Won't he be surprised when he watches the video at home!
Nathan said:
Ann Reinking is looking more and more like she is wearing a mask as the years go by. Her legs still look fantastic, though. That camera should stay far back enough to see them and not the strange, stretched skin and eyes that no longer blink.
Al's facelift, on the other hand, is worth every penny he paid. Great speech as well, honoring theatre directing. As a director, I feel proud to be part of that group that Al Pacino admires so very much, even though I'm not working on Broadway.
It's funny, I never feel more like an actor when I'm watching the Tonys, but right now, watching this, I feel like a director. I suppose if Al was talking about lighting designers, I'd feel like one of those, even though I can't remember with is a Leko and which is a Fresnel. Wait, Fresnels are Fat, Lekos are Long.
Okay, praise me, Al!
I love the way that on the CBS part of the show, they show everyone arriving, as though nobody bothered to be there for that first hour, just because it wasn't on the Big Network.
I liked Nathan's opening song much more than Rosie's. First of all, he can sing and all. Useful in an opening number.
Where have I been that I didn't know that the guy on Law and Order was the guy from Rent? I will have my theatre geek credentials revoked.
Go Roy Dotrice! Shame Dixie Carter didn't pronounce your name right. Nobody else stood a chance against him, he was astounding. Maybe she did pronounce it right, as the announcer said it the same was, "Doh-TREESS" rather than "DOH-triss", but I thought that he made a face when she said it.
That number from Kiss Me Kate made me not interested in seeing it again. Maybe I'm getting sleepy.
I cannot believe that that girl from Uncle Vanya is nominated! She'd better not win...ah good, Blair Brown. I saw her in Cabaret and she was trif.
Susan Lucci in Annie Get Your Gun, eh? Continuing the tradition that nobody under the age of 50 will ever play the role of the 16-year-old Little Sure Shot.
Go Boyd! What must it be like to have three Tonys? Do they get to seem like prizes in the bottom of cereal boxes or is it still exciting? Let me find out for myself and I'll report back to you.
Superstar! I dig me some Superstar. Why did they choose that number, though? That Jesus has a mouth like a cavern. Heavenly day, that's the crucifixion scene? I know it's supposed to be all Rent-y, but it reminds me more of Tommy.
Did Carol Burnett get a new nose again? Honestly, she's looking less and less like herself every time I see her. I swear, I'm usually not this fixated on plastic surgery.
I hope they don't close Superstar just because it didn't win Best Revival, like they did with Charlie Brown last year. At least not until I see it, which won't be soon.
Why is Kathie Lee Gifford in her nightie?
Toni Collette sure can sing! But why is she making such odd faces? It's as though her lips are trying to escape her face. Wow, this is a great salesjob for The Wild Party, as it's supposed to completely suck out loud. Maybe it works better in a three to five minute excerpt than for a whole evening.
Eartha Kitt is like something from outer space. She won't ever die, she'll just go back to her home planet someday.
They just said Macbeth twice, and then quoted from it. I wonder how many superstitious actors turned around three times and spat and shot themselves in the temple or whatever moronic thing they feel the need to do. As you can see, I have no patience for it. Although I would never have peacock feathers onstage with me, because they are such dreadful bad luck. That's just being sensible, though. There's a difference.
How could True West be eligible for Best Play? Because it only ever appeared Off-Broadway? But so did Charlie Brown last year and they put it in the Revival category.
Am I the only one who thinks that Christopher Walken is looking more and more like the Heat Miser every day?
Rosie and Nathan are pretty great together. They should do the cruise ship circuit together.
Man, I wouldn't be seen dead at Swing.
How much did Walken suck when they didn't pick a number with him in it for the show? And I love him and all!
Toni Collette's had a good year, what with nominations for an Oscar and a Tony! Of course, she lost them both, so maybe it wasn't so good. She's the anti-Judi Dench.
Did you watch the Tonys? What did you think? Are you a theatre geek? Bet Melissa answers that one.
Also, we're still talking about movies we can't stop watching, songs that make us busta move, and what we do so fine as to make you bow down before us, dogs. And there's still the occasional word about my new title.
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