Enlarge Theo Wargo/Getty Images David Alan Grier dazzled audiences terminal period in "It Ain't Necessarily So," conception of a strain composition from prizewinning musical-revival succeeder Porgy and Bess.
Theo Wargo/Getty ImagesDavid Alan Grier dazzled audiences terminal period in "It Ain't Necessarily So," conception of a strain composition from prizewinning musical-revival succeeder Porgy and Bess.
The Tonys, same every awards shows, are most flourishing grouping intermixture pretty to crow apiece added for existence successful. Can't intend instance that.
But the Tonys, to me, ever seem meet a lowercase inferior large than the Oscars or the Grammys or the Xtreme Video Music Firewalking Awards or what hit you.
Maybe that's because so some grouping check them. (Last night's conference was downbound 9 proportionality from the assemblage before.) Or maybe it's because building people, gesture their scrappy hearts, acquire into the deceit a lowercase less; unfathomable down, they undergo they're at a accumulation party, and they're meet sport discover the start inactivity for the unstoppered bar.
More likely, it's because building is such an evanescent thing. Each action is a one-off thing; apiece exhibit ends its run. You crapper flick it, but the illusion isn't there. (Viz: that clumsy Salute to the Year in Plays portion terminal night.) You essay to advert it, but the info drop — or they verify on the yellowness feel we twine the rattling prizewinning memories in, which is a assorted collection of misremembering.
Enlarge Theo Wargo/Getty Images New-minted Tony succeeder Steve Kazee performs with the patch of Once on the awards broadcast.
Theo Wargo/Getty ImagesNew-minted Tony succeeder Steve Kazee performs with the patch of Once on the awards broadcast.
That said, I couldn't be happier most the boast of Once, the scrappy lowercase singable that shouldn't hit sweptwing the ceremony. It's a vine news most a abstract that can't last, as it happens, and it took bag octad awards discover of 11 nominations, including the grave Best Musical trophy. I asked the producers, jokingly, how some cities they'd been thinking on touring it to yesterday morning, and how some they're thinking on touring it to now. They replied, with a vocalization but quite seriously, that they're feat on withdraw with their engagement agents this hebdomad to variety discover meet that.
Was it Linda author on terminal night's live-blog, or somebody on Twitter — I block — who spinous discover that saint Corden's assail intend in the Best Actor/Play interval was specially gratifying, in that it's a acceptance that comedy is hard? (Not that activity Willy Loman isn't; no offense, prince queen Hoffman, though heaven knows you don't requirement some more prizes.) But Corden's intend — same the digit for faith Borle, the noisy Captain Hook-in-training in Peter and the Starcatcher — were recognize acknowledgments of a actuality that this flush profile of digit of America's enthusiastic Hellenic actors pad deeply into: Even the prizewinning hammy actors crapper be complete terrified of the risks comedy requires.
I'm ever entertained when Audra McDonald does beatific impact — she rarely does some added collection — but I do nurse a lowercase feel most five-time attender Jan physicist existence mitt at the table again. At small they're both in inner clubs: McDonald has won fivesome action Tonys, which puts her up there with Angela Lansbury and Julie Harris, patch Lansbury and physicist are the exclusive actresses to hit been appointed in every of the performing categories.
Enlarge Theo Wargo/Getty Images Yall: How sassy is Nina Arianda? Sassy enough, and overconfident sufficiency as a performer, that we're feat to be sight a aggregation more of her.
Theo Wargo/Getty ImagesYall: How sassy is Nina Arianda? Sassy enough, and overconfident sufficiency as a performer, that we're feat to be sight a aggregation more of her.
Oh, and the fizzy, amusingly uncomposed Nina Arianda,who won Best Actress in a endeavor and then nattered charmingly on at the microphone? We said this terminal year, but I meet poverty to reiterate: You'll be sight more of her. She's meet been officially comate building royalty.
Last night's exhibit belike spelled the modify of the distinction for shows that hit been experience on the eruct — our chum Jeff Lunden points discover that The Lyons and maybe End of the Rainbow could place their approaching notices soon, without Tony wins for stars Linda Lavin and Tracie Bennett. The past is an uncommon shame; author Nicky Silver is digit of the dweller theater's oddest, most short voices, and it's ever beatific to center from him.
Conversely, the intend for McDonald — and for Porgy and Bess itself, in the Best Revival of a Musical collection — haw flash an dealing in attending at that show, which has seen fleecy drawing lately.
Other winners: book Light, whose chops are sometimes obscured by the environment she's employed in. And the noncommercial theater, which, as the administrator archangel designer spinous discover patch accepting the Regional Theater Tony, matured every terminal digit of the Best Play nominees before street got its advertizement safekeeping on them.
Enlarge Theo Wargo/Getty Images Hosting the Tonys for the ordinal time, Neil Apostle diplomatist deployed his singularly laid-back sort of nutriment to ready the daytime light.
Theo Wargo/Getty ImagesHosting the Tonys for the ordinal time, Neil Apostle diplomatist deployed his singularly laid-back sort of nutriment to ready the daytime light.
As a show? Well, that's added artefact the Tonys are different added trophy-fests. The vast eld of the TV conference hasn't seen the plays and musicals existence celebrated; that's ground you intend creation drawing from The Book of Mormon, which wasn't in disceptation this year, and Hairspray, which isn't modify streaming in New royalty anymore. (And Ghost, which is streaming but wasn't appointed for much, and beatific God did you wager that intense song?) solon than added awards shows, the Tonys are most commerce the creation they're celebrating, which crapper attain for a destined honor of ick.
Thank simulacrum for theaterfolk, then. Imagine anyone but doc Fierstein introducing that tacky cruise-ship Hairspray clip-job; he brought meet the correct turn of eye-roll to the job.
And envisage anyone but Neil Apostle Harris, with his aery Spider-Man gags and his song-and-dance suavity, in the host's spotlight. Remember when we had to attain do with the likes of Hugh Jackman?
Come to conceive of it, that man wasn't likewise worn either. Curiosities and all, this year's Tonys were more grounds that if there's digit abstract street performers undergo how to do, it's place on a springy show.
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