Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theatre
Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theatre
#1Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theatre
Posted: 6/9/11 at 6:27pm
Updated On: 6/9/11 at 06:27 PM
tommyboy
Broadway Star Joined: 12/21/06
#2Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theater
Posted: 6/9/11 at 7:16pmWhere is the Beacon? And more importantly, where are they gonna put everybody?
#2Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theater
Posted: 6/9/11 at 7:20pm
It's on Broadway at 74th Street. Not exactly Times Square.
What happened to Radio City? Who dumped who?
#3Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theater
Posted: 6/9/11 at 7:25pmRadio City dumped the Tony Awards..sad.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#4Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theater
Posted: 6/9/11 at 7:37pmRadio City also dumped everything else they could potentially book during that period. But when you have a producer who is offering 5 solid months of rent . . . that's a hard deal to turn down.
#5Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theater
Posted: 6/9/11 at 8:57pm
it was dumped in favor of this:
Cirque du Soleil: Zarkana
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
musicalperson17
Understudy Joined: 9/2/10
#6Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theater
Posted: 6/9/11 at 9:08pmyoud think that a theatre that is twice the size of many broadway theatres would have a bigger general marquee
Boq101
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/20/06
#7Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theater
Posted: 6/9/11 at 9:15pmThat just looks sad.
#8Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theater
Posted: 6/9/11 at 9:51pmIs there any chance the Tony Awards could be moved back to Times Square? I just had a thought, what if they did it at Lincoln Center?! That's neither here nor there, but just a thought.
#9Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theater
Posted: 6/9/11 at 10:43pm
Also Beacon's marquee changes every 10 seconds or so. It always shows coming attractions.
Other than a Broadway house, where else the show could be held? BestBuy Theatre?
#10Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theater
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:34pmAre you serious Best Buy formerly Nokia......the stench of pot lingers from 10 years ago......and the folding chairs would surely be welcomed.
#11Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theater
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:48pmSort of sad looking.
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth!
Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming
You'll live forever here on earth.
#12Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theater
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:53pm
And just thought of another idea (obviously not for this year, lol. I just think it's better than the Beacon). What about the Metropolitan Opera House. If I'm not mistaken it is MUCH larger than the Beacon (let me look those numbers up) and is also in a better location.
I know for a fact that I think MTV had maybe their music awards their at one point, I was actually living very close to the opera house and remember it vividly, so it can be done.
Any thoughts?
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth!
Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming
You'll live forever here on earth.
#13Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theater
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:55pm
Tommyboy - to answer your question, most of the people who have been invited when it's been at Radio City Music Hall who are not up for nominations won't be invited. Most producers, etc. won't be there. They also aren't selling seats to the general public and I'm assuming will use few if any seat fillers.
Sort of sad.
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth!
Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming
You'll live forever here on earth.
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#14Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theater
Posted: 6/10/11 at 12:28am
I love the Beacon Theatre - absolutely gorgeous.
In my opinion, it will be a wonderful theatre for the Awards, bringing back a more intimate feel.
Radio City is cavernous, and I never liked having it there.
I'm looking forward to it!
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Ryan4
Stand-by Joined: 4/13/08
#15Up on the marquee...The TONY AWARDS @ The Beacon Theater
Posted: 6/10/11 at 2:36am
The MET Opera House has the American Ballet Theater there this time of year, and has for years and years and years - that's not going to change for the Tony Awards.
The Beacon is like, at most, a ten minute walk up Broadway from the Opera. Same neighborhood. Upscale residential. Really nice area of the City to live. Not a bad location.
