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Aaron Tveit: on The Today Show (6/5/2013)
Aaron Tveit | Dropping the “F” word
another thing about this moment that i think is wonderful is that aaron tveit is a fairly well known broadway actor and he’s using a platform like the today show/the grease live promotional tour to mention this, and as far as i know that’s something no other major broadway actors have done. in fact, a lot of the big names in broadway are adamantly against bootlegs (cough andy mientus cough) and a lot of times the live tv musicals are kinda made fun of or not taken very seriously, even though like with the wiz they can be very good. a lot of people don’t really recognize how accessibility plays into why people see shows in ways besides physically coming to a theater or want to resist the move towards professionally recording shows (because the pretentious artsy types think the only real way to experience The Theatre is in a literal theater), but a bigger name in broadway like aaron tveit supporting this is fantastic especially since he’s also mentioning how expensive it is to see broadway shows in new york city (and i agree that aaron also always mentions how thankful and lucky he is to be successful and recognizes the privilege he has)
TODAY: Aaron Tveit goes from ‘Graceland’ to ‘Grease’ (x)
“I think that that’s what’s great about these live musicals on television is…you know, I mean, we have the luxury of living in New York City and we can go see Broadway shows but…unless, you know, when people live all over the country, unless you travel here, and then when you do it’s expensive, so I think it’s a great way for families to sit down together and get to share this - especially with Grease, that I’m sure a lot of the parents are very familiar with it, their kids might not be, so they can sit down and kinda share the story with their kids.” “…First visit to the principal’s office?” “Oh, I said the F-word in kindergarten. And my friend told me, and he said that I said the f-word - and we both got sent. Yeah.”
Ripped from the site and edited to exclude anything without new footage or soundbytes. The one where he talks about preparing for Grease: Live, the good thing about broadcasting live musicals, and briefly recounts being shown Police Academy much too young and saying the F-word in kindergarten.
but can we talk about what kind of bitch-ass 5-year-old teaches their friend the f-word, gets them to repeat it, and then runs and tells the teacher they said it
like calm down, tiny Lannister
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I’ll add to this more as things become known! If you know of anything not on here please let me know
Aaron’s surprise message from Olivia Newton-John - The Today Show, Sept 3, 2015 (x)
(and i gotta say: his hair is just perfect this way *-* so please stop criticising it, it’s beautiful. thank you ^-^)
TODAY: Aaron Tveit on ‘Graceland’ and ‘Grease: Live’ (x)
“Oh - God! Get outta here. Look at this! Oh my - thanks, you guys!”
Ripped from the site and edited to exclude the Graceland preview clip. The one where he talks a bit about Graceland, a little bit about Grease: Live, and then spends the rest of the airtime reacting cutely to surprise ‘gifts’.
Aaron Tveit & Daniel Sunjata The Today Show, 25 June 2015 (screenshots by me) (original video here)
Aaron Tveit & Daniel Sunjata will appear on The Today Show on NBC June 25th 0900-1000 ET
can you tell me what happened with aaron and the buzzfeed article? i didn't hear about it :o
Hey anon! So there’s this Buzzfeed article that was posted that’s like ‘30 Reasons You Should Be in Love With Aaron Tveit’ or something along those lines (I’m on mobile so I can’t link it I’m sorry) but anyway when he was on the Today Show this past summer to promote Graceland, the interviewers brought it up and you could tell he got really uncomfortable, after all he was there to talk about his show, not his hair ( http://foolishtothink.tumblr.com/post/94697595094/beaucoupdechangement-aaron-tveit-listening-to I hope that link works…it’s to a post I reblogged of screencaps from that interview when they brought up the articleand you can tell from those screencaps just how uncomfortable he was) Anyway all you have to do is watch or read one interview that Aaron has done to know that he loves to talk about his work and the characters he has portrayed so it’s understandable that he’d be annoyed with that article being brought up (this goes for the social media questions too). Also I think I remember seeing something where he said that the article kinda freaked him out or something along those lines? If any of my followers know what I’m talking about and could link me for anon that would be great.I hope I answered your question!
Poor Aaron in that interview! The second they bring up that list, his face falls and he’s all strained smiles and sighs and restless leg… he could not look more uncomfortable! And yet they go on with it. He’s a good sport, even letting them touch his hair (a privilege they didn’t earn, haha), but they keep going back to that list and it’s painful. Kathie Lee was especially horrible in this— telling him he’d aged since the GL clip, trying to cut off his interview a minute early, “joking” that she’s not gonna watch his show (like that’s not already clear), ugh I just wanted one of those old-timey giant hooks to pull her off the stage. Anyway you can watch it here. :)
I watched this live, and it was physically uncomfortable to witness. Never before in my LIFE have I wanted so badly to leap into my TV and rescue a NONFICTIONAL 30-year-old man I’ve never met.
I wasn’t only offended as a Tveit stan fan, but as a former journalism major with four years of interview experience. Even hosts of the most fluffy, inane morning shows are still supposed to behave as journalists, with class and with professionalism. If these “professionals” were underling reporters at a daily, instead of major TV personalities, I can promise you, they probably would have been fired. Or at least harshly reprimanded. You don’t pull this shit. You never touch an interview subject—or ask to—and you sure as hell don’t say shit like "You’ve aged since that clip" or "I’m not going to watch your show." For fuck’s sake, what kind of joke was this “interview?”
Here’s a pro tip: unless he shows up, shouldering a boom box and wearing tearaway pants, and asks which one of you degenerate hobbits is the birthday girl, DO NOT treat him like your own personal eye candy. He is a professional actor who is there to promote and discuss a project. Do not touch him. Do not ogle him. Do not keep directing the goddamn conversation away from his work and back to your frivolous bullshit.
If some douchey male “journalist” did this to an acTRESS, every viewer would be fucking infuriated. (As they absofuckinglutely should be.) So why was the TS viewership at large completely okay with this? Feminism goes both ways. This shit needs to stop for EVERYONE.
And by the way, you saggy hacks: your shitty “journalism” was showing TWICE, because that Buzzfeed article you treated like the Hottest New Info? Was almost a year old when you referenced it. Thanks for reinforcing that you seriously couldn’t be bothered with even a LITTLE bit of effort for this interview.
Yes, I know they’re never going to read this. I’m lecturing anyway
