Anyone else watching?
I’m in tears… ok. Just saw the Parkland kids sing.
Up until then, I was just loving it. I love Carousel and the revival looked so good. I really miss seeing good theatre.
Yes, very emotional.
My niece is there as part of a volunteer group so I turned it on. I am SO glad that I did.
It’s not the best year for new work. I’m still enjoying it.
I do think Tina Fey was robbed 
I couldn’t find my niece but she was one of the people sitting on the stage for Once on this Island. Three organizations that provided disaster relief were invited to be special guests.
I was surprised by the win of Once On This Island.
Loved Bruce and so nice to see his proud family with him.
I, too, was surprised by Once on This Island. They did this when D was in HS drama club and I didn’t like it. I could barely understand a word they were singing and I watch TV with closed captioning on! The excerpt from My Fair Lady was much stronger, IMHO.
I didn’t care for the music from Mean Girls and the song from The Band’s Visit went on a tad too long. However, I loved Omar Sharif… He was the only non-blonde I ever thought was handsome until young George Clooney came along.
Mean girls looked like a poor mans High School Musical minus the dancing. Omar sharif :x need to see the bands visit. And the dancing in carousel was sublime. But the kids made me cry. So did Bruce.
It was hard for me to get excited over this years Tony’s. I thought all the new musicals were kind of blah, and I wouldn’t chose to see any of them, but I did enjoy the award show and I too was in tears over the Parkland Students performance.
Every time I watch the Tony awards - I then go back and re-watch Neil Patrick Harris’s Opener for the 2013 Awards show (best ever!), and then I re-watch the Carpool Karaoke with Lin Manuel Miranda, Audra McDonald, Jessie Tyler Ferguson, and Jane Krakowski.
Bliss.
I enjoyed The Band’s Visit but it was a small musical, almost not a musical IMHO, in contrast to the big, flashy commercial ones playing now.
The son of friends won the best lighting for a musical Tony for The Band’s Visit! Very exciting. CC-related note: he’s a Bowdoin grad. 
(And his mother used to be a GC at our HS.)
I will be particularly careful not to express a political view,
Since you asked, jonri, no I don’t watch because I don’t want to watch politics -of any point of view- expressed at an awards show. I like the celebs, the awards, the fashion.
There we go! Fair, unbiased, and not expressing a political view.
Did you see Once on This Island on Broadway @jonri and @techmom99 ? The show is actually a strong cultural piece that is often lost in translation during school and community shows. I’ve seen multiple versions of it locally and have never like any of them. However, having recently seen it on Broadway, it restored my love for the actual story. The music, costumes, style of singing, etc all speak to that cultural story and literally transform you to a completely different place for an action packed 90 minutes… no intermission.
@bookworm As lovely as the Carousel piece was, it was somehow more beautiful in person. Josh Henry’s Soliloquy took me to an emotional place and I didn’t realize until after the song I had been holding my breathe. I know they needed to highlight the whole cast, but I sure wish that could have been shared somehow.
I didn’t watch last night, as I had a ton of work to do, but omgg Katrina Lenk is a goddess. It think given this season’s nominees, it was impossible for The Band’s Visit NOT to sweep, there was hardly any competition. Can we talk about how beautiful Andrew Garfield’s speech was though?
DIdn’t see it, can you tell me the gist of it?
• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and The Band’s Visit were the big winners
• Parkland students performed "Seasons of Love”
• Springsteen performed “My Hometown”
• Robert De Niro dropped the f-bomb
I was really disappointed in the Carousel segment. Rather than doing a medley of hits, like My Fair Lady, or a key song that reflected the essence of the show, like most of the others, they chose a mediocre song that pretty much scrapes the bottom of the Rogers & Hammerstein barrel and exists only to accompany a throwaway dance number. I dodn’t think the choreography was sublime at all – it looked really uninteresting to me, at least until the last bit with the squiggly line. Before that, it was mostly a bunch of men doing very conventional steps all equidistant from one another.
The Once On This Island segment was really exciting. I wasn’t surprised at all that it won Best Revival. It won Best Tony Segment of a Revival by a mile. Not that the score/book even comes close to being in My Fair Lady and Carousel’s league. But those productions came across as stodgy and no-risk, while Once On This Island looked like a complete hoot.