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Sunday, June 07, 2009

Tony Awards #4

We're back! About an hour into the show, and so far it's been pretty solid - lots of performances, minimal speeches.

Susan Sarandon is here to present Best Direction of a Play. The winner: Matthew Marchus for God of Carnage (he was nominated for two shows) - it's his first win! Nice speech. He also credits the cast of The Norman Conquest (his other show). Good on him.

Now she presents the Best Direction of a Musical. The winner: Stephen Daldry for Billy Elliot, the Musical.

Now we bust into another song from Rock of Ages. Constantine rocks the house. Looks like a great shop for fans of '80s rock!

Commercial!

2 comments:

Angela Henderson-Bentley said...

Minus that rather uncomfortable thing with Liza Minelli, "Rock of Ages" definitely had the crowd pleaser of the night. Good call to go with "Don't Stop Believin'" I think Constantine deserves the Tony just for that dramatic kiss. Could he have milked that any more?

But he rocked it, and that's the important thing...

We need some more NPH!

Chuck Minsker said...

I agree, NPH has been criminally underused. But I thought Constantine was great.