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Sunday, June 15, 2008

The Tony Awards Live! (#5)

My tally will have to wait until I've sorted out the stack of awards they zipped through in the last segment. They handed out:

Best Book of a Musical - Passing Strange

Best Revival of a Play - Boeing-Boeing

Best Choreography - In the Heights

Best Orchestration - In the Heights

Whew!

Glad to see an ad for the Clay Center's upcoming season of shows during the commercial break!

Back to the show - Kentucky's Laura Bell Bundy offers a salute to the costume folks. Then Whoopi flies in dressed as Mary Poppins. Funny bit. "I can watch the kids, but I'm not cleaning your house."

Kristin Chenoweth (dang, she's so cute) gives the award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical - the winner: Laura Benanti, Gypsy. She's so happy, she almost knocked the cameraman over. Will she cry? Almost, but not quite!

Barry Bostwick (a former Danny Zuko, and yes, he mentions his Tony nomination) introduces a performance from Grease. Pretty good, but I still feel burned out on this show from the "You're the One That I Want" TV show.

Break!

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