So I was looking through a few today and I thought Idina Menzel for the 2004 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical was filled with heart and very emotional.
Who do you think had a beautiful touching speech that made you get all choked up? Please provide the link showing everyone, as I have done below:
"I could make some snarky-esc remark about this but I will be strait foward. I am pretty sure there was a thread about this. Next time use the search tool, to make sure your not posting something that has already been posted."
If you are so straight forward about it, how come you didn't post a link with your response?
I thought Karen Olivo's speech for West Side Story was emotional as well; you could tell she was really happy about her award.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
i agree, alice ripleys was really emotional. that woman is full of passion and i love her for it
"Art matters. You make it happen, and it becomes a priority, not on the periphery, absolutely essential to life." -Alice Ripley
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"The sitting together of notes, the sitting together of words has by their very nature a puzzle aspect. It's the creation of form out of chaos." - Stephen Sondheim
Karen Olivo and Alice Ripley (more exuberance than "emotion") are the most recent I -- and obviously others -- can think of... Updated On: 10/5/09 at 01:12 PM
I also concur with Michael Jeter's speech. was it taken off of youtube, though?
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
Michael Bennett's win over Hal Prince and Bob Fosse in 1976, while only slightly coked out, was truly touching. "All I ever wanted to do was direct a Broadway show...".
Speaking of coked-out Tony acceptance speeches, my absolute FAV is when Liza won for THE ACT and Steve Rubbell literally falls out of his seat next to her he is so ebulliently excited! Even the chair he sat on was numb! Oh, to be in that limo that night...
Cherry Jones' acceptance speech or Doubt, when she actually told people to go see Kathleen Turner in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was pretty emotional.
And I'll second the David Hyde Pierce one (though yeah, Raul should have won...but that's not DHP's fault...)
"Are you calling me a procrastibator?" Hunter, [title of show]
"Guess who's gonna get blamed for the war in Europe?" Eugene, Brighton Beach Memoirs