Favorite acceptance speech
Favorite acceptance speech
buddharich
Featured Actor Joined: 3/23/07
#1Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:29pm
Mine was definitely Lin-Manuel Miranda's!! (: I'm completely in love with him!! (:
I loved all but one of the televised acceptance speeches - I thought Tracy Letts was really obnoxious! (Loved the play, he deserved it, but...)
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#2re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:31pmLaura's. Lin's was a close second.
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#3re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:32pmPatti's was pretty funny, but my favorites were Anna D. Shapiro and Bartlett Sher.
#4re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:34pmPatti and Lin-Manuel Miranda hands down!
"Now the best way to learn the theater, always, is to be a stage manager" - Stephen Sondheim
#5re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:34pm
Favorite: Lin-Manuel Miranda's, Laura Benanti's, Patti LuPone's.
Worst: Andre Bishop's, might be the most boring acceptance speech I've ever heard.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
SNLMedia
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/6/05
#6re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:34pmWithout a doubt, Mark Rylance.
"The world is a better place because of hairspray." - Michael Ball
LouieLovesTheater
Leading Actor Joined: 3/30/04
#8re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:35pm
Anna Shapiro's speech was the best all around. Emotional without being over the top, funny, respectful, and really summed up how she got to where she was. Perfect speech.
Rylance's was notable for being so "him". A great, quirky man.
Miranda's was nice and exuberant.
#10re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:36pmi loved Tracy Letts' speech about having Broadway actors in a new American play. i thought that was amazing
yankees1253
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/07
#11re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:37pm
lins, and lauras!!!!
lin for popping out the flag
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#13re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:39pm
Rylance's speech can be found in my signature. It's a prose-poem called "the Back Country" by Louis Jenkins.
That said, Lin's was the most spontaneous, heartfelt, and striking. He looked like a deer in the headlights the entire time. That's what I like to see.
#15re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:42pmi loved Tracy Letts' speech about having Broadway actors in a new American play. i thought that was amazing
#16re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:48pm
folkyboy, small but important difference. It wasn't "Broadway actors" but "THEATRE actors" -- in this case a group of unknown regional theatre actors as opposed to famous TV, Film, or even Broadway actors.
My favorite? Mark Rylance -- so off the wall.
#17re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:49pmYou think Andre Bishop is bad? Let's just consider ourselves lucky they didn't let Bernie Gersten speak again this year. He comes off as a self-important, 184 year old troll.
"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)
zooxanthellae
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/07
#19re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:51pmDouble.
"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)
Updated On: 6/16/08 at 11:51 PM
-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)
#20re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:52pmLaura's and Mark Rylance's were both amazing. and Patti's would've been the best on its own, but what really killed me were the shots of her husband crying in the audience.
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
#21re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:53pm
Mark Rylance.
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Updated On: 6/15/08 at 11:53 PM
Cape Twirl of Doom
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#22re: Favorite acceptance speech
Posted: 6/15/08 at 11:56pmMark Rylance's was just so unique. Thanks yankeefan for the info on where that speech came from.
"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"
rubyslippersxo
Understudy Joined: 7/15/06
