Results tagged “bestplay”

Although the mass media informs us that our nation was monolithically united around last night's final Sopranos episode, we believe a small pocket of dissenters were tuned into CBS, where the 61st Annual Tony Awards were broadcast over the span of three hours. We know from The Playgoer’s pithy live-blogging that there were big musical numbers by each of the nominated musicals, a (“thankfully”) drunk Eddie Izzard and an appearance by American Idol sensation Fantasia Barrino belting out a song from The Color Purple.

VALENTINE PICK: Let Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio) and Scary Mansion serenade you and your valentine tonight. Glasslands is advertising the night as a Valentine's Dinner. The venue was opened last year by artist Brooke Baxter and commercial real estate broker Rolyn Hu, who have created the perfect art-centric space/venue.

Broadway's big night celebrated two hit shows, both with word "Boys" in the title. "Jersey Boys," the musical about singing group, The Four Seasons, won Best Musical and two actors won Best Actor (John Lloyd Young) and Best Featured Actor (Christian Hoff), and "The History Boys," a play about British education, won Best Play, Best Direction and Best Actor (Richard Griffiths). The speeches were all very heartfelt, touching and classy - Frances de la Tour, who won as Best Featured Actress in The History Boys, graciously thanked the crew and said she felt at home in "New York, New York." LaChanze won Best Actress in a Musical for The Color Purple, and thanked Oprah Winfrey at the very end. And Cynthia Nixon won Best Actress in a Play for The Rabbit Hole, and called herself a theater geek. The team behind The Drowsy Chaperone, the throwback to the 1920s musical, won a bunch of big awards, including Best Book and Best Score, with its Canadian creators thanking America.

David Lehrer, Producer of The Lieutenant of Inishmore

The American Theater Wing announced the 2006 Tony award nominees, and there are a lot of notables:

Much as we love and support theatre, we can see past our enthusiasm to grasp the fact that few people are going to go to a show tonight for their Valentine’s Day dates (and those who are surely already have tickets). Today is interesting from a theatrical perspective for another reason, though, which is that it’s the deadline for entries to the 2006 Fringe Festival. Hard to believe it’s only six months away now; even with snowdrifts outside our window, it seems like we only just finished racing from theater to theater in the heat. Thinking of those snowdrifts and the forty icy puddles we’ve sloshed through today, we can only hope that the cold and the next six months will pass as quickly. So, with an eye toward summer and away from February and valentines, here are some decidedly unromantic picks for the week.

It’s hardly suited for popular tastes aside from that celebrity presence, at least as far as subject matter goes, but the strength of the production otherwise largely makes up for that.

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