Circle of Life to open Tonys
Circle of Life to open Tonys
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/19/05
#1Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:18pm
The Lion King to Open the 2008 Tonys with 'Circle of Life'
Updated On: 5/29/08 at 06:18 PM
#2re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:19pm
Sources?
EDIT: Wow. That's awful.
Updated On: 5/29/08 at 06:19 PM
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:21pmI cannot help thinking of the Forbidden Broadway send up of this. I would love to see that performed.
Poster Emeritus
#3re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:23pm
been there! done that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh0n0rtNqBs
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#4re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:23pmEek! Worst choice for an opening EVER.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#5re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:30pmSo I would imagine that Seasons of Love will end the show?
#6re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:33pmWow, I was hoping for something a little more....exciting for the opener this year.
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
#7re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:38pm
Really? Again?
I guess, in the most positive view, it would be "hearkening back to the days when Richard Kiley would do an encore performance of The Impossible Dream on the Tonycast."
But seriously? They couldn't have done anything else?
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#8re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:45pmBlah. Not that the number isn't impressive, but does it have to be the opening number? I'd really prefer to see Whoopi do something.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#9re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:55pmI suspect Whoopi will be involved in some way.
"Why, I make more money than... than... than Calvin Coolidge! PUT TOGETHER!"
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
musicandtemiror
Leading Actor Joined: 11/14/07
#10re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:58pm
The Circle of Life with both original and today's cast will be amazing!
Thats what is happening right?
#11re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 6:58pm
Maybe she'll do the random African chanting.
:)
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#12re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:00pmShe should be the giraffe.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
gonepishing
Understudy Joined: 5/17/08
#14re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:02pm
it must take someone really special to put on a lame awards show year after year after year after year...
you gotta admire consistency
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#15re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:03pmWhat better way to make a dramatic entrance than by riding in on an elephant's back?
"Why, I make more money than... than... than Calvin Coolidge! PUT TOGETHER!"
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
#16re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:09pm
it must take someone really special to put on a lame awards show year after year after year after year...
you gotta admire consistency
Hey look on the bright side we could just watch another showing of the Deskies.
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#17re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:11pm
They should do this but incorporate everyone else...
make Lupone a giraffe. and hold up Cubby Bernstein, at the end, instead of a puppet.
also a CRY-BABY cast member told me they're probably performing the Prison song from Act Two, as their song. just thought I'd share that..
#18re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:13pmGood. It and Alli Mauzey are the only good things about that show.
#19re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:14pmBetter Circle of Life than a repeat of what they did for this 60th Tony Awards.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#20re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:28pmI understand they want to keep ratings up, but this is sad. I'd rather see the slots that Rent and Lion King are filling up filled by some of the other shows such as Young Frankenstein, Little Mermaid, and A Catered Affair.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#21re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:28pmZzzzzzzzz...
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#22re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:39pmYou guys give jaded show queens a bad name.
#23re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:52pmRichard Kiley did an encore of "The Impossible Dream" in the old Tony telecast which was a song from MAN OF LA MANCHA which starred Brian Stokes Mitchell in the latest revival who performed in the benefit concert CHILDREN AND ART in 2005 in which Whoopi Goldberg was also a participant who was the voice of Shenzi the Hyena in the film version of THE LION KING hence the Broadway production of THE LION KING opening the Tony Awards. It goes full circle. Circle of Life.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#24re: Circle of Life to open Tonys
Posted: 5/29/08 at 7:52pm
It doesn't say anything about the originak cast of THE LION KING.
DISNEY is greasing somebody's palm.
They have said they will feature other shows besides the nominees, let's see what happens.
