I Love The World
Jun. 12th, 2011 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteThere 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....
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....
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Date: 2011-06-14 05:23 pm (UTC)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.