Tony Lowlights

Posted: 6/7/04 at 12:31am

1. Mary J. Blige (go HOME)
2. Philicia Rasahd best LEAD actress in a supporting role. Claudia McNeil must be spinning in her grave.
3. Jimmy Fallon (NOT FUNNY)
4. the puppets
5. Sean Combs (yuk)

[billyweeds]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 12:43am

Most of your "lowlights" are your own opinion, but just because Claudia McNeil was wrongly placed in the supporting category for the role of the mother in "A Raisin in the Sun" doesn't make the role any less of a lead. The mother is the leading female role in the play, and arguably THE LEAD, ahead even of Walter. Rashad was nominated in the correct category, McNeil in the incorrect one, and if Claudia is spinning in her grave, it's more likely because of the injustice of her own supporting placement rather than Phylicia's starring one.

Posted: 6/7/04 at 12:50am

yap yap

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 12:53am

don't talk back

[Plum]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 1:06am

I agree with billyweeds. And I liked the puppets. But why be so negative? I think this ceremony went really well.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 1:07am

Pssst, Plum, it's a newbie, they come and go very quickly this time of year.

[Plum]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 1:11am

Ah, right Namo. Shoulda looked before I posted.

[billyweeds]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 6:15am

Guess I should have too. But I'm glad for what I said. I've always been annoyed that McNeil got placed wrong.

[Albin]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 9:47am

Carol Channing rapping. My God woman. You are one of the great ladies of Broadway. Why would you lower yourself by participating in this crap? And shame on Jerry Herman for allowing one of the all time great theater songs to be part of the embarrassment.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 10:01am

Don't you think that was really Elaine Stritch DOING Carol Channing? Or no -- maybe Martin Short (he had time to change). No, not the real Carol.

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 10:18am

MJ Blige was THE lowlight of the Tony awards

Posted: 6/7/04 at 10:26am

AMEN..... she was totally AWFUL......

[Zola Q. LaPlaya]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 10:27am

Billyweeds: are you serious when you say that what someone posts here is an OPINION? Are you crazy? Of course, these things are not opinions; they are poorly punctuated, ungrammatical, illogical statements of FACT.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 10:37am

Namo said her performance was bug-eyed like a bad silent movie stars (I'm paraphrasing) but I thought she was fine. I think of WICKED as a juicy melodrama anyway, so it all fit.

I thought her acceptance speech was very heartfelt and honest. She kept it all together in the end.

Rashad's speech was grand, but it also felt real. Though I really wanted to see Tovah FINALLY win it.

[chauvelin128]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 10:48am

Actually, I thought Mary J. Blige turned in one of the finer performances of the evening. Granted, I think Marvin Hamlisch was turning in his grave when she crossed the line from riffing to rewriting the melody, but I thought her performance was more solid than many of our Tony-nominated Broadway stars. Not to be too critical, because they did have a show earlier and I'm sure they were all nerves...but I think, for the most part, Mary J. was right on.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 10:55am

Poor Marvin. That's so cruel.

[kec]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 10:55am

"Granted, I think Marvin Hamlisch was turning in his grave when she crossed the line from riffing to rewriting the melody..."

Has Marvin Hamlisch passed on?

[chauvelin128]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 11:00am

He hasn't? Hmm...well, don't I feel like an ass. LOL. Sorry, Marv...

[HotTicket]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 11:08am

Marvin isn't all that old. Why think of him as dead?

[Madame X]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 11:10am

How about Billy Joel and Puffy (1st 2 presenters) butchering the nominees names...I mean come'on!

Although the lowlight was definitely Mary J. I enjoy her music but she did not belong there...

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 7:48pm

Marvin Hamlisch dead?! Not unless a ghost is the conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Pops Orchestra!

[cvapb]

Posted: 6/7/04 at 9:02pm

All I am hearing it blah blah blah.