Monday, June 07, 2004
Thoughts on the Tonys
- Avenue Q WON! Not just for book, not just for score -- for BEST MUSICAL! This just may be a sign of the apocalypse, but if so, it'll be the happiest apocalypse ever! i only wish that one of them had thanked the Children Television Workshop for not suing them. ;-)
- I was very glad to see my boy Hugh win, even if it meant that John Tartaglia didn't get a Tony of his very own.
- Raul, you're still number one in my book. and man, you were looking sharp. plus, Michael Cerveris gets points for singling you out as someone to watch for.
- Victor (Garber), you also were looking as sharp as usual, even with the mustache, which i gotta say, gots to go. and tho you completely hid it, i just know you were thinking that if your production of Assassins had made it to Broadway, you could have won for John Wilkes Booth as well. and i do believe you're right.
- Rockettes sharing the stage with a passel of Russian Jews (from Fiddler) was completely surreal -- wonderful, but mindboggling.
- Speaking of the Rockettes -- i do believe that Hugh kicked higher than they did. be still my beating heart!
- And speaking of my beating heart -- thanks go out to the folks who kept the camera on Hugh's gold lame pants. Mmmmm.....
- We shall never mention the LLCoolJ/animatronic Carol Channing interactions again. [shudder]
- Mary J. Blige was uninspiring. but Tony Bennett still has it.
- I'm soooooooo envious of Rod. he got to smooch Hugh! how much did that scene rock?!
- During the performance of "It Sucks To Be Me", the John Tartaglia's handoff from Rod to Princeton was PERFECTION. just wow.
- Sarah Jessica just slipped down yet another notch in my estimation -- how hard is it to shake your booty? please, girl -- learn to have some fun. As Thicky said, Hugh should have dragged Frank Langella up on stage with him -- that man would have run with it and not killed the momentum of the moment.
- Idina Menzel & Taye Diggs are gonna have some beautiful children someday. and way to go girl with thanking all the techies who make you green & help you fly!
- Did i mention -- Avenue Q won!!!! Puppets rule!
sorry for the overload of exclamation points; the Tonys bring that out in me
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