Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#1Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/11/12 at 8:37pmI don't recall seeing any of them. Do they even go to the Tonys nowadays? I miss them as presenters.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/11/12 at 8:38pmYes. Where was they?
#2Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/11/12 at 8:38pmDoesn't Stritch refuse to go to the Tonys after they cut her off?
#3Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/11/12 at 8:43pmPlaying drinking games at Bacall's apartment.
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CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#4Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/11/12 at 8:52pm
The producers obviously thought that the Theatre loving audience would rather see B-listed movie stars and people I've never heard of, than Legends of the Broadway Stage.
Who the hell was that woman who introduced EVITA???
And Tyler Perry???
#5Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/11/12 at 9:00pm
Who the hell was that woman who introduced EVITA???
The poor woman's Sofia Vergara.
#6Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/11/12 at 9:04pm
I didn't know who she was. Still don't.
Tyler's rich. Potential investor. Nuff said.
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#7Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/11/12 at 9:06pm
Thank god Patti was in the opening number to 'represent'. It did seem like the Broadway stars were ignored.
"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
Updated On: 6/11/12 at 09:06 PM
#8Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/12/12 at 12:05amTo be fair, we did get Bernadette (and Patti). Sure I want to see the legends of yesterday, and a better mix would probably have been more interesting, but with few exceptions, these are the stars of today and tomorrow, and it is all about ratings, right?
#9Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/12/12 at 12:11am
Patti made a surprise entrance and sung with a lawnmower!!
Bernadette gave a speech in a commercial break, clapped awkwardly to Godspell and introduced Danny when she (or Jan) should have been the ones being introduced to perform. I don't think it counts :P.
"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
#10Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/12/12 at 12:15am
Where was Merman? Where was Verdon? Where was Martin?
Oh they did???
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Oh.
#11Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/12/12 at 1:14amWell if than can bring a dead rapper back!
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
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#12Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/12/12 at 3:11amWell their current strategy for getting ratings really seems to be paying off- oh wait...
#13Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/12/12 at 3:46amLiza is playing London this week so maybe she is already over here.
#14Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/12/12 at 7:29am
Where was style? Where was skill? Where was forethought?
Where was discretion of the heart. Where was passion for the art? Where was craft?
Where was I Where was I?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#15Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/12/12 at 9:44amAt the palace of the Duke of Ferrara.
#16Tony Awards - where was Channing, Chita, Tune, Liza, Stritch, etc.
Posted: 6/12/12 at 10:18am
Stockard was there, Carol was not. Please be clear when asking where was Channing?
Bernadette seemed like she was on pills-I enjoyed her half clap during Godspell.
I have no idea who that woman was who intro'd Evita.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#17Legends at the Tony Awards
Posted: 6/14/12 at 11:21pm
qolbinau wrote: Bernadette... introduced Danny when she (or Jan) should have been the ones being introduced to perform. I don't think it counts. :.
There's just no way that Bernadette Peters was going to be performing the FOLLIES presentation, not without the nomination and not having left the show - and given the context, I don't think it's reasonable to have expected her to. Watching her introduce the FOLLIES clip was awkward enough, especially when she started to get teary. I felt bad for her in those few moments.
Mark_E wrote: Liza is playing London this week so maybe she is already over here.
Also, hasn't Liza Minnelli made it clear that she's not going anywhere near END OF THE RAINBOW, which everyone knew would be featured to some extent at the ceremony?
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#18Legends at the Tony Awards
Posted: 6/15/12 at 12:19pmCarol Channing now lives in CA. I think it's unrealistic to think a 91 year old woman should fly across the continent to make a cameo appearance on an awards show.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#19Legends at the Tony Awards
Posted: 6/15/12 at 4:53pm
Who the hell was that woman who introduced EVITA???
The woman who presented is Cote de Pablo, one of the stars of NCIS.
It's a big hit for CBS and most weeks, the number one show on TV. Which doesn't mean she has anything to do with Broadway.
But per Wiki, Senorita de Pablo was in The Fantasticks at Carnegie-Mellon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cote_de_Pablo
Updated On: 6/15/12 at 04:53 PM
