Live (well, the West Coast version of live, which is actually three hours NOT live, but hey, we’re on the West Coast) 63rd Annual Tony Awards blogging! Please comment and join the conversation! Hit refresh for anything new. P.S. Comments will be shared (with your permission) in the main part of the post as they [...]
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Tony, Tony, Tony!
Archived in the category: Angela Lansbury, Broadway, Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, Jerry Herman, Neil Patrick Harris, Next to Normal, Tony Awards, musicals, plays
Posted by Chad Jones on 07 Jun 09 - 18 Comments
Hail to the Broadway chief!
Posted by Chad Jones on 30 May 09 - 0 Comments
Not to get too political here, but isn’t it refreshing, theater fans, to have a First Family that enjoys and advocates the arts – and specifically theater? President and Mrs. Obama are scheduled to attend a Broadway show tonight: August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Here’s from the New York Times report: Set in [...]
Dolly Awar, er, Tony Awards nominations
Archived in the category: Alison Janney, Angela Lansbury, Broadway, Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, Raul Esparza, Tony Awards, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 05 May 09 - 0 Comments
Tony nominations came out today, and there are a couple of things that make me happy. Dolly Parton is a Tony nominee! [title of show] was not completely shout out! Some favorite actors – Jessica Hynes, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury, Janet McTeer, Raul Esparza, Harriet Walter, Gavin Creel, Allison Janney, Alice Ripley – were recognized. [...]
Onion video: High School Tonys
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Posted by Chad Jones on 17 Jun 08 - 0 Comments
This is just too funny not to share. Those good, warped kids at The Onion have put together this news item about the High School Tony Awards. High School Tony Awards Honor Nation’s Biggest Drama Club Nerds
Tony ratings up!(sort of)
Archived in the category: In the Heights, Tony Awards
Posted by Chad Jones on 17 Jun 08 - 0 Comments
Before we get to the news, here’s a clip from the Tony Awards broadcast featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning best musical In the Heights. OK. Now the news. Like gas prices, the Tony Awards broadcast ratings were higher this year. Official word from CBS is that “The 62nd Annual Tony Awards” was up 5 percent [...]
Missing the Tonys
Archived in the category: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, In the Heights, Passing Strange, Patti LuPone, Rodgers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, Stephen Sondheim, Steppenwolf Theatre, Stew, Tony Awards, Tracy Letts, Uncategorized, musicals, plays, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 16 Jun 08 - 1 Comment
For the last four days I’ve been in Ashland, Ore., reviewing shows at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the San Francisco Chronicle (more on that later), and while the Tonys were on Sunday night, I was at the opening of a new musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Of course I’ll watch the [...]
Ramping up to the Tony Awards
Archived in the category: A Chorus Line, Broadway, Disney, In the Heights, Laurie Metcalf, Mario Lopez, Mel Brooks, Passing Strange, Patrick Stewart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Little Mermaid, The View, Tony Awards, Tracy Letts, Whoopi Goldberg, Xanadu, Young Frankenstein, awards, musicals, plays, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 11 Jun 08 - 1 Comment
This Sunday, the Tony Awards will be handed out. Here’s what you need to know (and get busy organizing your Tony party — we’ve got to get those dismal ratings out of the basement so CBS will continue broadcasting the darn things). For the first time, there will be pre-ceremony Tony Concert chock full of [...]
Bay Area Tony connections
Archived in the category: American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Passing Strange, TheatreWorks, Tom Stoppard, Tony Awards
Posted by Chad Jones on 15 May 08 - 0 Comments
It’s all about us, right? Sure the Tony Awards celebrate NEW YORK theater and Broadway and all that jazz, but what about US? Not a problem. We can even make the Tonys Bay Area-centric. It’s a little harder this year because we’re not getting as many pre-Broadway tryouts as we have in past years, and [...]
Tony, Tony, Tony!
Archived in the category: Broadway, In the Heights, Passing Strange, Stephen Sondheim, Tom Stoppard, Tony Awards, Tracy Letts, Xanadu, awards, musicals, plays
Posted by Chad Jones on 13 May 08 - 1 Comment
Tony Award nominations are out today. Here’s how it shook out: BEST PLAY: August: Osage County by Tracy Letts Rock ‘n’ Roll by Tom Stoppard The Seafarer by Conor McPherson The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow BEST MUSICAL: Cry-Baby In The Heights Passing Strange Xanadu BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL: Cry-Baby by Mark O’Donnell and [...]
Sorry, no `Passing Strange’ `Sex’
Archived in the category: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Broadway, Passing Strange, Tony Awards, musicals
Posted by Chad Jones on 12 May 08 - 0 Comments
The Tony Awards are less than a month away, and it seems sex is already tripping them up. The wonderful musical Passing Strange, which played Berkeley Repertory Theatre before heading to the Public Theater in New York and then to Broadway, is stirring up some controversy. It seems the Tony Awards (to be hosted by [...]
