WTF TONYS

[tzikeh]

1) Why is it that any time I hear the two words "Tom Stoppard" I get a smile on my face? It's totally involuntary, I swear!

2) Hello, Gabriel Byrne. Please come to my house so I can lick you. The fact that your tie is loosened enough that it is obvious just makes you more delectable.

3) Once again - Chicago, represent!

4) This show would be two hours long instead of three hours long if Whoopi Goldberg would just. stop. it.

3) Seeing Mamma Mia! featured just makes me giddy that the Meryl Streep / Pierce Brosnan movie is coming up.

4) Mary Louise Parker! Show Brad Whitford show Brad Whitford show Brad Whitford....

5) I would have loved to have seen Patrick Stewart win for Macbeth, but I saw Mark Rylance play Olivia in his theater company's all-male production of Twelfth Night. I've never seen an actor give a performance that came anything like close to that. (To give you a sense of just how fucking awesome he was, I've seen Ian McKellen as Edgar and Helen Mirren as Alice in Dance of Death, Derek Jacobi in as Alan Turing in Breaking the Code, Johnny Murphy as Estragon in the most riveting production of Waiting for Godot you can imagine, Emma Thompson as The Fool in King Lear, Brian Dennehy as Willy and Elizabeth Franz as Linda in Death of a Salesman, and more.) I'd watch Rylance in anything. Also? SPECTACULAR acceptance speech.

6) Oh, Richard Griffiths. And we nearly got through the show without a reference to Harry Potter.

7) Yeeeaaaah, boy. Tracy Letts. "Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jerry Frankel. They did an amazing thing. They decided to produce an American play on Broadway with theater actors."

8) WTF Sondheim isn't THERE to accept his Lifetime Achievement Award? I... don't know what to make of that. Is he ill?

9) Holy SHIT, the special effects in the revival of Sunday in the Park with George actually contribute to, rather than detract from, the artistry. Oh my God I just got chills. And "Move On" is still freaking gorgeous.

10) OMG. Xanadu What. No, really. What. I can't tell if this is... no, okay, clearly this is meant to be hilarious. Thank God, because, um, it succeeds. These people are nuts. I think this is kind of awesome. OMG TONY ROBERTS FTW. I really want to see this. OMG. Have I said OMG yet? Or, as Lily Tomlin said as she introduced it, she saw it and she "L... M... AO."

Comments

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

I've seen Ian McKellen as Edgar and Helen Mirren as Alice in Dance of Death, Derek Jacobi in as Alan Turing in Breaking the Code, Johnny Murphy as Estragon in the most riveting production of Waiting for Godot you can imagine, Emma Thompson as The Fool in King Lear, Brian Dennehy as Willy and Elizabeth Franz as Linda in Death of a Salesman, and more.

Must pre-order that device where one has a USB port put into one's skull to download and install others' experiences...

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Must pre-order that device where one has a USB port put into one's skull to download and install others' experiences...

Or just move to Chicago or New York, which are the two cities where I saw these. In fact, I saw more of these in Chicago than in NYC. Huh.

[illogicalvulcan.livejournal.com]

9) I almost never ever say this about Broadway, because I am old school, but the special effects in Sunday are incredible! Even when the focus in on the foreground, and George is in the corner sketching, the background changes. It's fantastic.

Also, Daniel Evans pwns Mandy Patinkin's ass. Sorry. :)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I'm not big on flashy effects in shows, but holy shit that was pure unadulterated genius.

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

I saw the trailer for Mamma Mia last night, and Meryl Streep looks like she was having a FABULOUS time.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I've been pushing the trailers for months. You don't read my lj. I disown you.

:D

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

I rarely go to links-- just because of time.

Pierce Brosnan HOW YOU SO HOT? Just sayin'.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

In the movie, he and Meryl duet on "S.O.S." And then I will die of dying.

[emyrys.livejournal.com]

Yes to everything, and I am (for the first time) looking forward to the Mama Mia movie.

And, the kid & I did watch the Xanadu/SGA vid after the Tonys. :-D