Live Tweeting the 2014 Tony Awards

June 10, 2014 Leave a comment

Tony FinaleOn Sunday, June 8, Broadway recognized the high achievers of the year with its Tony Awards. As is my custom, I “live tweeted: the show and posted the results below. Like most Twitter streams, it is posted in reverse chronological order, so get to the full entry and start reading from the bottom up.

  • Fitting end to the Tony Awards, On Broadway! Live tweeting the Tonys will return June 2015 cia
  • Best Musical winner A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love & Murder! Yes!
  • Oh, a coming attraction #Neverland
  • Best performance by an Actress in a musical Jessie Mueller who’s performance has floored critics and fans alike
  • Glad Hedwig won for best revival. Never saw the original but had the pleasure of attending a one night only performance 5 yrs ago…
  • Wow, a rare public appearance by @Carole_King
  • And, as expected, a great acceptance speech by Neil Patrick Harris @ActuallyNPH
  • In all truth, any of the nominees in this category were good enough to win.
  • Leading Actor in a Musical winner Neil Patrick Harris! @ActuallyNPH And well deserved, too!
  • I saw Wicked 10 yrs ago and from that night onward my life “theme song” has been ‘Defying Gravity’ @WICKED_Musical
  • Best Revival of a Play winner A Raisin in the Sun. Great story, great director, great cast and Denzel too
  • Sutton Foster @sfosternyc is a true Broadway Baby. I’d pay to see her in any musical, anytime
  • Best Play All the Way About LBJ with Bryan Cray (OK, Cranston) but also a large cast of great actors
  • I absolutely LOVED Hedwig and Neil Patrick Harris @ActuallyNPH is amazing in it!Tony NPH
  • Lead Actor Play Winner – Bryan Cranston Never in doubt, way to go Mr White/Heisenberg
  • Best Lead Actress Play goes to Audra McDonald who wins Tony #6! Saw her this season in ltd Sweeney Todd run as the crazy woman
  • Jefferson Mays was a-Mays-ing in his Tony winner role in I Am My Own Wife, and hilarious in A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love & Murder
  • Featured Actress in a Play – Sophie Okonedo for Raisin in the Sun. A self-described Jewish Nigerian Brit#notthattheresanythingwrongwiththat
  • For Cabaret, the entire cast is beautiful
  • The great @allencumming is the ultimate Cabaret MC – Have tix for July
  • Hah! Great “praise shout” by James Monroe Igelhart
  • Featured Actor Musical Winner – James Monroe Igelhart (Aladdin) (told ya so)
  • The buzz around Rocky the Musical has been uniformly positive
  • Best Director of Play winner Kenny Leon – Raisin In the Sun
  • Gentlemen’s Guide to Love & Murder wins best director, the first of many tonight? This show is a delightful night at the theater
  • Alladin You’re also looking at the winner (trust me) of Best Actor in Featured Role in a Musical– James Monroe Iglehart (Genie)
  • Featured actress in a musical goes to Lena Hall! She is *brilliant* in Hedwig and the Angry Inch! #happyhugh jackman
  • Confession: I am in love with @emmyrossumoh, and I loved this revival of LesMiz
  • Mark Rylance the night’s first winner for his role in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
  • Nice #WTF joke from @RealHughJackmantowards @ActuallyNPH
  • After Midnight seems more like Smokey Joe’s Cafe part deux
  • Hugh Jumping-Jackman leads off the 2014 Tony Awards

 

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Live Tweeting the 67th Annual Tony Awards

June 11, 2013 Leave a comment

See July 11, 2013 update at the bottom

OK! Blog break over, and as a way back into the blogging groove let’s take a break from social media and get to one of the real treats of living in the New York city area – Broadway. And what better way to write about NY Theater than by live tweeting the 67th Annual Tony Awards.

NPH Tony OpenLast night, the annual award party that celebrates the actors, producers, directors and others behind the scenes on Broadway took place at Radio City Music Hall  with host extraordinaire Neil Patrick Harris, or just NPH as we call him. Some may know him from “Doogie Howser, MD” and others from the current  CBS hit ‘How I Met Your Mother“. But I first realized his musical theater talent when I saw him sing “What You Own” from ‘RENT’ when he was in the L.A. production. Since then I’ve seen him as the MC in ‘Cabaret’ and as Lee Harvey Oswald in ‘Assassins’. But he really shines as host of the Toy Awards. This year was his fourth time hosting– do let’s get to it.

Jun 09, 8:07pm @ActuallyNPH killed the #tonyawards opening – as usual! Bravo!

Jun 09, 8:10pm Featured Actor in a Play up first include the ones I saw: Billy Magnussen and Courtney B Vance #tonyawards

Jun 09, 8:11pm And the winner Courtney B. Vance! Loved him in “Lucky Guy”  #tonyawards

Jun 09, 8:14pm “Matilda” has four young actresses who rotate playing the lead role. Had to get a waiver to be nominated as a group  #tonyawards

Jun 09, 8:15pm ‘Matilda’ reminds me of ‘Spring Awakening’ for the grammar school set  #tonyawards  Read more of this post

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New Broadway Hotline – 1-855-SEE-BWAY

February 1, 2012 Leave a comment

Broadway producer Ken Davenport

Broadway impresario Ken Davenport

Bravo to Broadway producer Ken Davenport (“Godspell” and others) and team for staffing the free Broadway hotline 1-855-SEE-BWAY. Want to know what’s opening or closing? Need to see what shows have performances on Mondays, or curtain times as early as 7:00PM? Curious as to who the leads currently are in a long-running show, or how long a TV or movie star will be in a current show?

Just ask Ken and his team from Davenport Productions who are staffing the line as a service for Broadway lovers (and more importantly, potential Broadway lovers).

Kudos, Ken.

Here’s a link to Ken’s blog entry: http://ow.ly/8OWYq

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My New York: Live Tweeting The 2011 Tony Awards

June 13, 2011 Leave a comment

 I love Broadway, so for me the best entertainment awards show is the Tony Awards for excellence in American theater. The 65th annual awards were held June 12 at New York’s Beacon Theater with the ultra-talented Neil Patrick Harris as host — and he killed (as they say). From an opening number that spoofed Broadway’s reputation as being less than manly to a closing rap that  recapped the highlights of the  night, NPH showed why he is today’s best awards show host (highlight video –>).

And, of course, Broadway fans nationwide were tweeting their comments as the awards were announced. Here are mine plus additional comments.

  • roncasalotti: Nice @ActuallyNPH killed the Tony Award opening. FTW 8:05 pm
    Neil Patrick Harris can do it all. I saw him on Broadway as the MC in ‘Cabaret’ and Lee Harvey Oswald in ‘Assassins’. But my first “Aha!” moment of his post Doogie Howser career, when he sang on a Broadway TV special from ‘Rent’ (he was in the L.A. production) Who knew?!?!
  • roncasalotti: Ellen Barkin wins Featured Actress in a Play for ‘The Normal Heart’ Well deserved, she rocked that role. 8:09 pm
  • roncasalotti: The Normal Heart is a great play; very moving; great performances; and I think more impactful than likely when it first ran in 1985…. 8:13 pm
  • roncasalotti: General consensus holds than Daniel Radcliffe was greatly deserving of a Tony nom (but overlooked) 8:14 pm
  • roncasalotti: Nice ‘Equus’ reference by @ActuallyNPH re: Daniel Radcliffe poking out ‘War Horse’s” eyes. 8:23 pm
  • roncasalotti: Best Performance by Featured Actor in a Play goes to John Benjamin Hickey of ‘The Normal Heart’ 8:28 pm
  • roncasalotti: John Benjamin Hickey’s performance in ‘The Normal Heart’ brings both cheers and tears. Well deserved award. 8:29 pm
  • roncasalotti: Performance by the cast of ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ mainly for the road tour (as it closed in December after a short run) 8:53 pm
  • roncasalotti: Best Actress in Featured Role in a Musical goes to Nikki M. James for ‘The Book of Mormon’ She rocked that role 9:00 pm
  • roncasalotti: The song ‘I Believe” from ‘The Book of Mormon’ is great, but I think its opening number ‘Hello’ should’ve opened the show 9:04 pm
  • roncasalotti: Hah,, funny “Host-Off” between @RealHughJackman and @ActuallyNPH 9:16 pm
    Clever bit, and it shows that both Hugh and Neil are consummate entertainers. Loved Hugh in ‘The Boy From Oz’
  • roncasalotti: Best Featured Actor in a Musical to John Laroquette for ‘How to Succeed…’ He’s hilarious in it – much better than expected.9:20 pm
  • roncasalotti: Jennifer Damiano (‘Spider-Man’) is the 2nd ex-cast member of ‘Next to Normal’ on tonight with Aaron Tveit (‘Catch Me If You Can)  9:27 pm
  • roncasalotti: Whoopi Goldberg, who starred in the movie ‘The Sister Act’ is the producer of the B’way musical of the same name  9:41 pm
  • roncasalotti: Best Revival of a Play goes to the touching, moving, disturbing, powerful and simply great ‘The Normal Heart’ 9:51 pm
  • roncasalotti: Best Play goes to ‘War Horse’ (the safe, expected choice)  10:04 pm
  • roncasalotti: Best Revival of a Musical goes to ‘Anything Goes’. A nod to old-time Broadway. 10:27 pm
  • roncasalotti: Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Play to Frances McDormand for ‘Good People’ 10:37 pm
    Who apparently stayed in Southie character when she decided to wear a denim jacket to the show.
  • roncasalotti: Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical goes to Sutton Foster ‘Anything Goes.’ Saw her in a cabaret last year – big talent; nice person 10:41 pm
  • roncasalotti: Best Actor in a Play goes to Mark Rylance for ‘Jerusalem’. Loved in him ‘Boeing Boeing’ & ‘La Bete’. He’s certainly, umm quirky 10:53 pm
  • roncasalotti: Best Actor in a Musical goes to Norbert Leo Butz for ‘Catch Me If You Can’ loved him in ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 10:55 pm
  • roncasalotti: Quelle surprise, ‘The Book of Mormon’ takes Best Musical. My review: Often offensive; frequently obscene; always hilarious. 11:03 pm
 Finally, here's NPH's great ending rap of a Tony Awards presentation that was well hosted, and well done.                                                                                                                                                    See you at the theater!
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