For the final "Memoirs of a Theatre Kid' of 2019, I examine the last ten years of "Best Musical" Tony winners, and where the shows and it's cast and creative are now.
My 2019 Tony's thought dump...
How in the everloving fuck is Amy Schumer now a Tony nominee and Aaron Tveit still isn’t?
THE TELEPROMPTER DURING BETTE MIDLER’S CENTURY-LONG SPEECH
NEW YORK (AP) — Audra McDonald has become the Tony Awards’ most decorated actress.
Audra McDonald makes Broadway history winning her sixth Tony award as ‘Best Leading Actress in a Play’ as Billie Holiday in Lady Day
Les Miserables cast all excited about thee Tony rehearsal!
Alright y’all, we’re a week out from the Tonys and I get it. You have your favorite. I have my favorite too! We all have our favorites and sometimes we’re gonna agree and sometimes we’re not and that is okay! You may not like the woman I like and that’s okay! We cool! Like the song goes…
But what’s not okay is posting negativity in someone’s tag to express your displeasure. On this coming Sunday, fans of one woman - and we don’t know who and they’re all extraordinary! What an amazing group of women! - are going to be very, very happy. Fans of the others won’t be as happy, and I understand disappointment like that, I do. Just, c’mon. Don’t be a dick, okay? Would it be possible to get through an awards season without the mean backlash and name-calling and ugliness of years prior? The five women nominated for Best Leading Actress in a Musical have been the epitome of grace, class, and kindness towards each other. Lets follow their example. So just remember, on June 8th… be mighty. Be kind.
can we just pull a mean girls at the tonys and break the best actress award into a bunch of pieces and throw it into the audience at all the nominees?
This year’s tonys is so hard because I’m rooting for everyone in the best actress in a musical category
THANK YOU IT'S NOT JUST ME
And now I'm obsessed with Beautiful: A Carole King Story and Jessie Mueller.
Which means that no matter what the outcome is at the Tony's, it is going to be painful and full of feels on this end.