I Love The World

[ladysprite]

There may be things in this world more fun than the Tonys, but at this very moment I can't think of any. I started watching this show years ago, when I randomly turned on my television and saw Hugh Jackman prancing around in gold lame pants and a sheer purple leopard-print top, and I have been waiting for something as good every year since then.

Sometimes it's less than awesome. This year? Everything I have been waiting for and more.

Live theater beats everything. There's Brooke Shields, utterly flubbing her "impromptu" verse in the opening song. There's Daniel Radcliffe singing 'Brotherhood of Men' and prancing around with jazz hands. There's an entire number from a musical about the Book of Mormon. There's Bono, promising that Spiderman will open next week. And there's Hugh Jackman and Neil Patrick Harris having a dance-off while singing 'Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better.'

That last bit on its own would be enough to make my day. All of this together? Priceless.

I am so happy to live in a world where this happens, and is free and available to everyone.

Now, to see if anyone dies during the Spiderman performance.....

Edited to add: No death. But Peter Parker looks like Discount Robert Pattinson, and the girl playing MJ has all the acting and emoting skills of a coffee table. I am amused, if not in the way they want....

Comments

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

You know what would have been even better than that dance number? "Puttin' On the Ritz". Jackman as the Frankenstein monster.

[jducoeur]

Not to mention NPH's opening number. Pretty much from that point on, I was primed for a good evening...

[mamatiger.livejournal.com]

Hugh Jackman, gold lamè, zomg, priceless. I have re- watched that on YouTube more than once, let me tell you. The part where he coaxes Sarah Jessica Parker on stage is BEYOND priceless.

I SO wished I could have made my DVR record this, but gosh darn it, there were new episodes of The Glades and Game of Thrones, and I can only record two things at once, not three! I'm hoping it will turn up online, I will watch it then. (@actuallyNPH's twitter: "I only have 2 1/2 hours of Spider-man material, I more jokes!")

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

So sad I missed this!! :(

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't know. I feel pretty confident in saying that the stars of Spider-Man pretty much died up there. It was the exact opposite of the Book of Mormon number, which had us glued to our seats (which is good, since we would have otherwise fallen out of them laughing); instead, my wife said, "Well, this looks like a good point for a break."

[ladymacgregor.livejournal.com]

I LOVED the opening number! And I am totally going to see The Book of Mormon when it comes to Boston.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who was completely and utterly underwhelmed by the Spiderman song. So many people have been making fun of that musical that I wanted to like it - I really did. I wanted it to be The Lion King or Les Mis all over again - big and fabulous and artistic and Worth The Wait, with great, great music. And that number, at least, just . . . wasn't. Wasn't anything.

And Daniel Radcliffe was very carefully taught, but he's no Robert Morse - or Matthew Broderick, for that matter . . . both of whom showed up to introduce him - how cool was that?

And when I'm 80, I want to be JUST like Angela Lansbury.