Tony Awards and other goodies
(cross-posting my FB notes here, for easier access)
["Hedwig" & "Fun Home" each get their own note, which is why you won't find them here...]
Some of these clips showed up in Playbill's "Screening Room" on November 6th (MC's birthday)
The Who's "Tommy" montage from the 47th Tony Awards broadcast (1993)
Won: Best Original Score (Pete Townshend), Best Scenic Design, Best Lighting Design, Best Choreography, Best Direction of a Musical.
Also nominated for: Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Featured Actor in a Musical (MC as Tommy; Paul Kandel as Uncle Ernie), Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Marcia Mitzman as Mrs. Walker), Best Costume Design.
"See Me, Feel Me", with the younger Tommy doing harmony, gave me chills; the same can be said of "Listening to You", which has given me goosebumps no matter which version of the story I'm listening to. Even before the movie, the original concept album was just as moving.
"Pinball Wizard" on the Today show
(when Bryant Gumbel was still hosting... he was always my favorite... :)
Here's another tv appearance: "I'm Free" / "Pinball Wizard"
with "state of the art" graphics, and the added bonus of hearing yet one more tv host fail miserably at the pronunciation of "Cerveris"... :D
(stressing the wrong SyLLAble... )
"Assassins" performance at the 58th Tony Awards (2004) -
Won: Best Revival of a Musical, Best Featured Actor in a Musical (MC as John Wilkes Booth), Best Lighting Design, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Orchestrations.
Also nominated for: Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Denis O'Hare as Charles Guiteau), Best Scenic Design.
The benefit concert reunion on December 3rd was sold out before I could get in... but there's always a possibility for additional performances in the future... *fingers crossed*
Sweeney Todd montage from the 60th Tony Awards (2006), this time without the silly interjection from Joanna Gleason...
Won: Best Direction of a Musical, Best Orchestrations.
Also nominated for: Best Revival of a Musical, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (MC), Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Patti LuPone as Mrs. Lovett), Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (Manoel Feliciano as Toby).
And last, but by no means least, that awesome opening number from "Passion".
Adding videos that show up here and there... #YouTubeStalking
"Titanic: The Musical" montage from the 51st Tony Awards (1997).
Won Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Musical Score, Best Scenic Design, Best Orchestrations.
The Blame
Mr. Andrews' Vision
Assassins (2004)
The Ballad of Booth (promo clip)
Various clips from the show - including "Everybody's Got the Right", "The Gun Song", "The Ballad of Booth", "How I Saved Roosevelt", "Unworthy of Your Love".
The Ballad of Booth (excerpt)
For comparison, Victor Garber and Patrick Cassidy of the Original Off-Broadway Cast (concert).
Another National Anthem
Assassins (full show)
Composing 'Assassins' - Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman
(I love Sondheim at the piano. It enthralls me to watch/listen to him.)
Part 1
Part 2
In the Next Room (2009 - 2010)
Nominated for Best Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Best Costume Design of a Play.
Excerpt 1
Excerpt 2
Montage
Evita (2012 - 2013)
And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) from the 66th Tony Awards (2012).
Nominated for: Best Revival of a Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (MC as Juan Perón--and having seen this show six times, I can tell you that he was, in fact, Juan Perón), Best Choreography.
I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You
You Must Love Me - written for the movie, added to the show. This is an early recording, the blocking is different than when I saw it.
Full show:
(March 15, 2012 - first week of previews)
Part 1 - from the opening "Requiem for Evita" to "The Art of the Possible" (Perón's entrance)
Part 2 - from "Charity Concert" through the end of Act 1 ("A New Argentina"); beginning of Act 2 ("On the Balcony of the Casa Rosada"/"Don't Cry for Me Argentina")
Part 3 - from "High Flying, Adored", to "Dice are Rolling"
Part 4 - "Dice are Rolling" (cont.), through the curtain call.
ETA:
(2013, Off-Broadway)
Nikolai & The Others - MC played Balanchine to John Glover's Stravinsky. Also, "Fringe" reunion! (Blair Brown played Vera Stravinsky, Igor's wife.)
(My meager attempts at reviews)
"[Nikolai and the Others] is a profound exploration of the things we do for friends, for home, for art." (via Twitter, April 27)
"Behind a story about a fascinating group of Russian émigrés, is a story about any of us on any given weekend... huddling together for comfort, mourning the loss of something familiar, trying to find a way back to a sense of home, trying to hold on for dear life." (via Facebook, May 30)
["Hedwig" & "Fun Home" each get their own note, which is why you won't find them here...]
Some of these clips showed up in Playbill's "Screening Room" on November 6th (MC's birthday)
The Who's "Tommy" montage from the 47th Tony Awards broadcast (1993)
Won: Best Original Score (Pete Townshend), Best Scenic Design, Best Lighting Design, Best Choreography, Best Direction of a Musical.
Also nominated for: Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Featured Actor in a Musical (MC as Tommy; Paul Kandel as Uncle Ernie), Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Marcia Mitzman as Mrs. Walker), Best Costume Design.
"See Me, Feel Me", with the younger Tommy doing harmony, gave me chills; the same can be said of "Listening to You", which has given me goosebumps no matter which version of the story I'm listening to. Even before the movie, the original concept album was just as moving.
"Pinball Wizard" on the Today show
(when Bryant Gumbel was still hosting... he was always my favorite... :)
Here's another tv appearance: "I'm Free" / "Pinball Wizard"
with "state of the art" graphics, and the added bonus of hearing yet one more tv host fail miserably at the pronunciation of "Cerveris"... :D
(stressing the wrong SyLLAble... )
"Assassins" performance at the 58th Tony Awards (2004) -
Won: Best Revival of a Musical, Best Featured Actor in a Musical (MC as John Wilkes Booth), Best Lighting Design, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Orchestrations.
Also nominated for: Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Denis O'Hare as Charles Guiteau), Best Scenic Design.
The benefit concert reunion on December 3rd was sold out before I could get in... but there's always a possibility for additional performances in the future... *fingers crossed*
Sweeney Todd montage from the 60th Tony Awards (2006), this time without the silly interjection from Joanna Gleason...
Won: Best Direction of a Musical, Best Orchestrations.
Also nominated for: Best Revival of a Musical, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (MC), Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Patti LuPone as Mrs. Lovett), Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (Manoel Feliciano as Toby).
And last, but by no means least, that awesome opening number from "Passion".
Adding videos that show up here and there... #YouTubeStalking
"Titanic: The Musical" montage from the 51st Tony Awards (1997).
Won Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Musical Score, Best Scenic Design, Best Orchestrations.
The Blame
Mr. Andrews' Vision
Assassins (2004)
The Ballad of Booth (promo clip)
Various clips from the show - including "Everybody's Got the Right", "The Gun Song", "The Ballad of Booth", "How I Saved Roosevelt", "Unworthy of Your Love".
The Ballad of Booth (excerpt)
For comparison, Victor Garber and Patrick Cassidy of the Original Off-Broadway Cast (concert).
Another National Anthem
Assassins (full show)
Composing 'Assassins' - Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman
(I love Sondheim at the piano. It enthralls me to watch/listen to him.)
Part 1
Part 2
In the Next Room (2009 - 2010)
Nominated for Best Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play, Best Costume Design of a Play.
Excerpt 1
Excerpt 2
Montage
Evita (2012 - 2013)
And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) from the 66th Tony Awards (2012).
Nominated for: Best Revival of a Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (MC as Juan Perón--and having seen this show six times, I can tell you that he was, in fact, Juan Perón), Best Choreography.
I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You
You Must Love Me - written for the movie, added to the show. This is an early recording, the blocking is different than when I saw it.
Full show:
(March 15, 2012 - first week of previews)
Part 1 - from the opening "Requiem for Evita" to "The Art of the Possible" (Perón's entrance)
Part 2 - from "Charity Concert" through the end of Act 1 ("A New Argentina"); beginning of Act 2 ("On the Balcony of the Casa Rosada"/"Don't Cry for Me Argentina")
Part 3 - from "High Flying, Adored", to "Dice are Rolling"
Part 4 - "Dice are Rolling" (cont.), through the curtain call.
ETA:
(2013, Off-Broadway)
Nikolai & The Others - MC played Balanchine to John Glover's Stravinsky. Also, "Fringe" reunion! (Blair Brown played Vera Stravinsky, Igor's wife.)
(My meager attempts at reviews)
"[Nikolai and the Others] is a profound exploration of the things we do for friends, for home, for art." (via Twitter, April 27)
"Behind a story about a fascinating group of Russian émigrés, is a story about any of us on any given weekend... huddling together for comfort, mourning the loss of something familiar, trying to find a way back to a sense of home, trying to hold on for dear life." (via Facebook, May 30)