Whoopi Tony mistake
Whoopi Tony mistake
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#1Whoopi Tony mistake
Posted: 7/3/08 at 3:37pmI would have made this earlier but I forgot. If there has already been a thread about this please tell me. Did anyone notice when Whoopi was presenting Best musical she said In the Heightsing strange instead of Passing Strange.
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#2re: Whoopi Tony mistake
Posted: 7/3/08 at 3:38pmYes, there has been a thread about it.
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
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#2re: Whoopi Tony mistake
Posted: 7/3/08 at 4:17pm
I didn't read the other thread, but to me it sounded like she was just reading the nominees underneath the voiceover.
But if she accidently did announce the winner early, it wasn't a mistake. It's not like she said the wrong show. And when she actually announced it, the reactions showed that if there was a premature mistake, no one at Radio City really heard it.
#3re: Whoopi Tony mistake
Posted: 7/3/08 at 5:06pmI think when they read the nominees it is prerecorded. I don't know why they would do that, but the sound is different from when they read the nominees. So with that, I think the sound mixer overlapped her saying Passing Strange and In the Heights.
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#4re: Whoopi Tony mistake
Posted: 7/3/08 at 6:40pmI was at the Tonys this year and the presenters read the nominees to the people in the audience but the people on tv heard a pre-recorded version on the nominees. So it just may not have been synced properly.
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#6re: Whoopi Tony mistake
Posted: 7/3/08 at 8:55pmIn The Heights.
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