How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
#1How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 12:24pm
For those of us NOT going to Radio City Music Hall tonight, how are YOU watching the Tonys?
Party?
Alone?
Drinking Games?
Ballot/Betting?
DVR it for later?
#2re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 12:25pm
Alone in my pjs with some wine 
Updated On: 6/7/09 at 12:25 PM
JudasIscariot
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/05
#4re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 12:33pmBunch of Astoria gays with voting-ballots and sangria Updated On: 6/7/09 at 12:33 PM
heo1128
Broadway Star Joined: 7/9/08
#5re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 12:41pmSitting on my couch, probably with a pint of Ben and Jerry's.
#6re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 12:44pm
I've downloaded TVU Player, and it seems to be working, so should everything go according to plan, I'll be watching them on my PC with a three hour delay, slowly going more and more crackers as I get sleepier and sleepier and sleepier. I've never liked the timezone difference between the UK and NY...
broadwayjim42
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/03
#7re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 12:51pmDVRing it at my apartment and watching it at my partner's house...and probably monitoring the early awards on the Tony website.
#8re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 12:51pm
I am not watching them. 
Tonight's MY big theatre awards gala, and my family doesn't have a VHS player that can record videos. Maybe I'll end up seeing clips online or something...
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
PitPro2004
Broadway Star Joined: 2/15/04
#9re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 12:59pmAlone...home...close to the computer with some liquid refreshment and good friends online. Although I must admit; the Astoria gay party sounds quite interesting...(big smile).
"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium!"
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#10re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 1:06pm
I am still on the fence about where to watch them. For the past couple of years I would sit and watch them on my own with a nice cold beer fighting my brother for control over the good TV in my house.
Truth be told, I have always wanted to go to some sort of Tony party but I don't even know where to go look first. I have friends that are into theatre but VERY casually. I don't think that they would get pleasure out of watching the Tonys. But, I have often thought that at Tony party is a good way to meet people etc etc. So who knows. Anyone got any suggestions?
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
#11re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 1:06pm
Since I'm in Vegas, I will spend the later part of my day avoiding the internet like a plague since I don't want to read spoilers. But for the actual ceremony, I have to pick up my stupid friend from the airport around 7, so I will be rushing home, turning on my DVR, and banishing my (straight) friend to the living room for the entirety of the show. I'm psyched!
Oooh, and Sangria - prepared it a couple days ago with all sorts of delicious fruit (bananas, strawberries, peaches, pears, apples, oranges, kiwis...YUM) in this Blackberry Merlot. CAN'T WAIT!
Updated On: 6/7/09 at 01:06 PM
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#13re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 1:45pmAt home, in sweats, while chatting online.
Your latest 7in sounds obscene unless you spin it at a 45.
#14re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 2:05pmAlone. It is my birthday and I had planned to actualy go to the awards but couldn't swing it. So it is me and a bottle of wine!
Just give the world Love.
#15re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 2:21pmRunning the thread party on the off topic board
Attend the tale of Bovine Boy
His party threads we all enjoy
But does he have Mad Cow Disease?
He doesn't eat beef - but cows skating? - oh please!!!
With cocoa!?!
And lemonade!?!
The heifer-mad poster of Broadway
(World)
#16re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 2:23pmarg, I forgot to print a ballot! Updated On: 6/7/09 at 02:23 PM
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#17re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 2:23pmOn my bed with my laptop next to me, running to get food at every commercial break.
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5
May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot
Jewtopia
Understudy Joined: 11/2/08
#19re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 2:31pmOn my sofa, with my computer nearby, and calling my Texas friend every 10 minutes to talk about what's happening
#20re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 2:56pmIn sweats at home.
I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&.
"Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."
Song4EveryKiss
Chorus Member Joined: 3/25/07
#21re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 3:10pmIm thinking of going to the lawn chairs of Times Square. I am wondering if it will be a fun experience or not.
#22re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 3:15pmOn my couch in the living room with a bowl of ice cream and a cat.
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
kooky
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/05
#23re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 3:20pm
OMG, YES...... I'll be sitting up in bed ( big TV in the bedroom) with plenty of pillows and the phone to call friends
on the commercials..... I will also get some frozen yogurt .... love this kind of
evening...... GOOD LUCK to all involved!
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#24re: How Are YOU Watching the Tonys?
Posted: 6/7/09 at 3:24pm
At home.....but in a chat room with my theater friends all over the country!
If I was IN Manhattan, I think I'd try the lawn chairs. (Can't tell you how strange Times Square looks with them scattered around. I suppose if it is deemed "successful" and therefore, permanent, different chairs will be purchased.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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