Favorite Tony Performances - 2020 Thread
Favorite Tony Performances - 2020 Thread
macbeth
Broadway Star Joined: 5/7/03
#1Favorite Tony Performances - 2020 Thread
Posted: 6/5/20 at 8:35am
With everyone performing celebrations of the Tonys this year - I thought we could have our own here.
I'll start with the two that I always go back to...
#2Favorite Tony Performances - 2020 Thread
Posted: 6/5/20 at 8:39am
So many! I'm sure there are some I'm forgetting, but these are the two that come to mind now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEYV5bNMZVo
2007, original production of Spring Awakening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A06-8IWjFSE
2013, Matilda
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#3Favorite Tony Performances - 2020 Thread
Posted: 6/5/20 at 8:56am
Bernadette Peters - Rose's Turn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCU2Wd4crr0
"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
#4Favorite Tony Performances - 2020 Thread
Posted: 6/5/20 at 9:10am
Boy From Oz back in 2004. I still remember how amazed I was by Hugh's improv with Sarah Jessica Parker and how all of this was live!
Updated On: 6/5/20 at 09:10 AM
Broadway61004
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/11
#5Favorite Tony Performances - 2020 Thread
Posted: 6/5/20 at 9:16am
I second Grand Hotel--Michael Jeter was so incredible.....
Also, I still get chills every time I watch the Prologue to Ragtime:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=228R4jSDejU
#6Favorite Tony Performances - 2020 Thread
Posted: 6/5/20 at 10:56am
Gershwin....Tommy....Twiggy....and a puddle of water. Pure joy.
1983
Non sibi sed patriae
Updated On: 6/5/20 at 10:56 AM
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#7Favorite Tony Performances - 2020 Thread
Posted: 6/5/20 at 12:23pm
I am focusing specifically on numbers from the nominated shows. If not, I would include Lansbury and Arthur singing Bosom Buddies and a couple of opening numbers, which were spectacular.
Top 6:
Jennifer Holiday -- And I Am Telling You -- Dreamgirls
Bernadette Peters -- Rose's Turn -- Gypsy
Cast -- All That Jazz / Sweet Honey Rag -- Chicago (Revival)
Cast -- Battle of Yorktown -- Hamilton
Cast -- A New Argentina -- Evita (Original)
Cast -- One Day More -- Les Miserables
GrantGrant
Chorus Member Joined: 12/14/16
#8Favorite Tony Performances - 2020 Thread
Posted: 6/5/20 at 3:13pm
I found a higher quality video of the Ragtime performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv0sXQITtkQ
etimer13
Swing Joined: 1/31/20
#9Favorite Tony Performances - 2020 Thread
Posted: 6/5/20 at 3:50pm
Not great quality, but back in 1987 I was mesmerized by this Starlight Express performance at the Tony's:
https://youtu.be/EghnAdXjTkA
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#10Favorite Tony Performances - 2020 Thread
Posted: 6/5/20 at 4:27pm
I mean, has there ever been anything else like this on the Tony Awards before or since?
Updated On: 6/5/20 at 04:27 PM
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#11Favorite Tony Performances - 2020 Thread
Posted: 6/5/20 at 4:31pm
But, seriously, my favorites are (and these performances all said to me: I need to get a ticket to that show):
Dreamgirls
Contact
Grand Hotel
Applause (first Tony Award show I recall seeing)
A Chorus Line
Promises Promises
Catch Me If You Can
Anything Goes (LuPone and Foster)
Big Deal
Apple Tree
bwayobsessed
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/13
#12Favorite Tony Performances - 2020 Thread
Posted: 6/5/20 at 9:47pm(Showing my youth) Patti Lupone singing Everything’s Coming Up Roses is the first Tony’s performance I remember watching live. And it’s still rather brilliant.
Oxblood
Swing Joined: 5/30/20
#13Favorite Tony Performances - 2020 Thread
Posted: 6/6/20 at 2:06am
You’ve got my 2 as well. Jennifer holiday stopped the show. That happens so rarely.
