<p>I really enjoyed the telecast too. The opening medley of the current musicals on Broadway was entertaining and a nice array to showcase what is showing right now this season in terms of musicals. </p>
<p>I also could have done away with excerpts from the touring productions as it was unusual to showcase three musicals that are not new this current season, let alone to use the touring casts and not the Bdway casts. I realize it may help with ticket sales. But the time allotted for this when they barely showed excerpts of the current plays on Bdway was not balanced. They did not show live excerpts of the plays up for nomination and then the film clips were VERY short to boot. I did like that the current musicals got a lot of air time as they had excerpts in the opening medley as well as their own numbers. I was sorta surprised at the number they chose for the Billy Elliot single excerpt (not the one in the opening medley) having seen the show. It was good of course but I would have assumed one of the very entertaining group numbers may have been showcased over the one chosen. </p>
<p>Angela Lansbury was very inspiring. To think she not only has won five Tonys but that she is performing nightly at her age and really, it was all quite awesome. </p>
<p>I was happy for the three Billy’s and thought their acceptance speech was just very cute and age appropriate…they were in shock it seemed. </p>
<p>I was surprised at the sound glitch in Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat but thought that he did great even so, though it must have limited his acting of the song in the way he normally would do the number, to have to hold a mic. </p>
<p>I thought Neil Patrick Harris did a very good job and his ending song was fun! </p>
<p>I had some tears to see Karen Olivo’s speech as it is always quite something when a young person gets this level of achievement! </p>
<p>Lots of actors thanked their parents…aww…behind every great actor is a lot of support. :D</p>