Coming back from the break, the Mayor of New York does a funny bit promoting Broadway - as well he should.
It's 8:53pm as we come back. The next award: best choreography. The winner: Bill T. Jones for "Spring Awakening." He dances down the aisle (which seems appropriate) and virtually mugs David Hyde Pierce. Again, I think we have a definite winning trend going here. He takes a moment for the people not here - "Some above and probably some below," he jokes.
On to the next award - you gotta like the Tonys, they keep things moving. Next: best performance by a featured actress in a (non-musical) play. The winner: Jennifer Ehle for "The Coast of Utopia." She gives an emotional and classy acceptance.
The next performance is from "Mary Poppins" - it's "Chim Chim Cherie," though I'll bet it goes into the awesome "Steppin' Time" (my favorite number from the movie, I should add). Yep! Let's see if they recreate the amazing stunt in the song, where Burt dances up the side of the stage. Nope, but they do have a dancing (virtually) naked statue out there. Yikes! Looks like they went with a montage of songs instead. Still mighty impressive.
Commercial time - no clever toss this time.
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2 comments:
I can't believe they didn't do Supercalifragilis.....
I'm surprised, too. I prefer complete songs over montages, but that's just me. And "Super" is an amazing song - even better than the movie, amazingly enough.
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