Are you Tony’d out? We didn’t think so! Well in one last sweep of Tony celebration, we are featuring a few Tony moments from the past in celebration of the present. Here are a few Thank You Moments to bring you back to some glorious acceptance speeches. And don’t forget to Watch our exclusive mobile footage of the Thank You Cam series now available for free on the iBroadway app.
A Flip Cam Can Be a Beautiful Thing
iBroadway partnered with the Tony Awards last night to bring to you the Thank You Cam video series. Watch exclusive coverage of the Tony winners on their way to the press room. Download our free app to watch www.iBroadway.net
This is The Moment
If you don’t have plans yet for Sunday’s Tony Awards, there are lots of great options, including watching exclusive video footage of the winners using the iBroadway app on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. We will feature the winners saying Thank You to those they may have forgotten during their acceptance speech.
Don’t have one of those apparatus, feel free to check out the content on our partners web page at www.tonyawards.com. It’s going to be amazing!
To download our new FREE app, go to http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibroadway/id349362702?mt=8
Win 2 Tony Award Rehearsal Tickets for Sunday
CONTEST – Win 2 Tony Awards Rehearsal Tickets for Sunday, June 13.
To enter, join the iBroadway Facebook Fan Page and write “iBroadway Tony Contest” on our wall before midnight EST Thursday, June 10.
Winner will be announced on Facebook at 10am EST Friday, June 11. Winner will receive two (2) Tony Awards Rehearsal tickets for Sunday, June 13, 8:30AM at Radio City Music Hall. Entrants must be New York residents, and be able to receive tickets via messenger between 11am and 5pm on Friday, June 11.
See official sweepstakes rules here.
Welcome to iBroadway – Broadway Goes Mobile!
We are excited to announce the release of the app you’ve all been waiting for. iBroadway is finally here! It’s the easiest, most savvy way to access all things Broadway, all via you iPhone and iPod touch. Watch exclusive videos, read from Theater’s top bloggers (more on that to come), get show listings, and be able to buy tickets all from your phone. To download the app, visit http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibroadway/id349362702?mt=8. It’s fast and free!
Video of the Week
This week we selected one from the vaults of YouTube. This video goes back a long ways away, back to 2008. A certain group of Broadway veterans put together a satirical video series based called Legally Brown based on the short lived MTV reality show Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods. The web series focused on replacing The Piragua Guy from the Tony Award Winning In The Heights. This particular video features Golden Globe and Tony Nominee Matthew Morrison. You may know him from a tiny show called Glee.
We’re Just Saying
A Look at Broadway’s Ups and Downs during the week
A Little Night Music will be closing its doors after June 20th and therefore, won’t be recasting its lead women. It’s too bad. We were having so much fun at surmising the possibilities. We know we were rooting for Betty White as Madame Armfeldt.
The Drama League and Drama Desk honored very different performances this year. We all know what this is leading up to, a massive battle of who will win the coveted MTV Movie Award (Best Kiss) this year?
Rumors were confirmed that Sutton Foster would appear as the new Reno Sweeney in an upcoming revival of Anything Goes, following in the footsteps of Ethel Merman and Patti Lupone. To which we wonder if soon Foster will soon be venting, half of America loves me, and half hates me.
Beyonce, Jay-Z, and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith attended an after party thrown by 11-time Tony Nominee FELA! at the Palm last week. To which, Memphis replied, we got the guy from…Bon Jovi.
The guest appearances on Glee grew even more Broadway-ier with Neil Patrick Harris singing Aerosmith’s Dream On with Matthew Morrison. We really can’t wait to hear Boyd Gaines and Jonathan Groff’s duet of Love in an Elevator.
Finally, Pee Wee Herman comes to Broadway. Nah, too easy.
Videos of the Week
iBroadway is a huge fan of video content, both professional and amateur. Once we launch, expect a whole bunch of fun footage to get you acquainted with shows you might not know of, and showcase ones you know quite well. Also, we would love for all you Broadway fans out there to submit your own YouTube videos for us to feature so we can highlight you!
In the meantime, here are three recent videos that we really like:
Katie Finneran and Sean Hayes in Promises Promises
Sahr Ngaujah in FELA!
La Cage Aux Folles – Sneak Peak
We’re Just Saying
It’s been a crazy week for the Broadway community since the Tony nominations were announced. While we are super excited about the June 13th ceremony (Watch on CBS at 8pm Eastern Standard Time), there are so many other thrilling occasions that you may have missed out on. Here are several events that have occurred since the Antoinette Perry Awards nominations.
Sondheim on Sondheim had to cancel a matinee due to lack of a 2nd understudy. Vanessa Williams and Erin Mackey were reported as both being ill, but we hear that they were both secretly out at another 80th Birthday Party for Stephen Sondheim.
Judith Light joins Dan Luria in the fall production of Lombardi at Circle in the Square. In other news, Fred Savage and Alyssa Milano are slated to appear in the revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” at the Lyceum.
Off-Broadway production The Irish Curse, “a new comedy about guys with one tiny problem” closes its doors on May 1st. Did anyone else predict a “short” run?
Betty White successfully hosted SNL based on a Facebook campaign. Recently several more campaigns have sprung up including ones for Oprah and Rue McClannahan. Where is the Angela Lansbury love people?
Million Dollar Quartet performed on Late Night with David Letterman. Regarding their performance, Letterman proclaimed, “If it’s not great, I’m gonna eat my tie.” To which we wonder, what would Conan eat if they weren’t good?
Tony Nominations – Everybody say Yeah Yeah
It’s that time… Tony Nominations! Here is the list courtesy of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing
Best Play
In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play
Next Fall
Red
Time Stands Still
Best Musical
American Idiot
Fela!
Memphis
Million Dollar Quartet
Best Book of a Musical
Everyday Rapture – Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott
Fela! – Jim Lewis & Bill T. Jones
Memphis – Joe DiPietro
Million Dollar Quartet – Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
The Addams Family
Music & Lyrics: Andrew Lippa
Enron
Music: Adam Cork
Lyrics: Lucy Prebble
Fences
Music: Branford Marsalis
Memphis
Music: David Bryan
Lyrics: Joe DiPietro, David Bryan
Best Revival of a Play
Fences
Lend Me a Tenor
The Royal Family
A View from the Bridge
Best Revival of a Musical
Finian’s Rainbow
La Cage aux Folles
A Little Night Music
Ragtime
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
Jude Law, Hamlet
Alfred Molina, Red
Liev Schreiber, A View from the Bridge
Christopher Walken, A Behanding in Spokane
Denzel Washington, Fences
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Viola Davis, Fences
Valerie Harper, Looped
Linda Lavin, Collected Stories
Laura Linney, Time Stands Still
Jan Maxwell, The Royal Family
Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
Kelsey Grammer, La Cage aux Folles
Sean Hayes, Promises, Promises
Douglas Hodge, La Cage aux Folles
Chad Kimball, Memphis
Sahr Ngaujah, Fela!
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Kate Baldwin, Finian’s Rainbow
Montego Glover, Memphis
Christiane Noll, Ragtime
Sherie Rene Scott, Everyday Rapture
Catherine Zeta-Jones, A Little Night Music
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
David Alan Grier, Race
Stephen McKinley Henderson, Fences
Jon Michael Hill, Superior Donuts
Stephen Kunken, Enron
Eddie Redmayne, Red
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Maria Dizzia, In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play
Rosemary Harris, The Royal Family
Jessica Hecht, A View from the Bridge
Scarlett Johansson, A View from the Bridge
Jan Maxwell, Lend Me a Tenor
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
Kevin Chamberlin, The Addams Family
Robin De Jesús, La Cage aux Folles
Christopher Fitzgerald, Finian’s Rainbow
Levi Kreis, Million Dollar Quartet
Bobby Steggert, Ragtime
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Barbara Cook, Sondheim on Sondheim
Katie Finneran, Promises, Promises
Angela Lansbury, A Little Night Music
Karine Plantadit, Come Fly Away
Lillias White, Fela!
Best Scenic Design of a Play
John Lee Beatty, The Royal Family
Alexander Dodge, Present Laughter
Santo Loquasto, Fences
Christopher Oram, Red
Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Marina Draghici, Fela!
Christine Jones, American Idiot
Derek McLane, Ragtime
Tim Shortall, La Cage aux Folles
Best Costume Design of a Play
Martin Pakledinaz, Lend Me a Tenor
Constanza Romero, Fences
David Zinn, In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play
Catherine Zuber, The Royal Family
Best Costume Design of a Musical
Marina Draghici, Fela!
Santo Loquasto, Ragtime
Paul Tazewell, Memphis
Matthew Wright, La Cage aux Folles
Best Lighting Design of a Play
Neil Austin, Hamlet
Neil Austin, Red
Mark Henderson, Enron
Brian MacDevitt, Fences
Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Kevin Adams, American Idiot
Donald Holder, Ragtime
Nick Richings, La Cage aux Folles
Robert Wierzel, Fela!
Best Sound Design of a Play
Acme Sound Partners, Fences
Adam Cork, Enron
Adam Cork, Red
Scott Lehrer, A View from the Bridge
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Jonathan Deans, La Cage aux Folles
Robert Kaplowitz, Fela!
Dan Moses Schreier and Gareth Owen, A Little Night Music
Dan Moses Schreier, Sondheim on Sondheim
Best Direction of a Play
Michael Grandage, Red
Sheryl Kaller, Next Fall
Kenny Leon, Fences
Gregory Mosher, A View from the Bridge
Best Direction of a Musical
Christopher Ashley, Memphis
Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Ragtime
Terry Johnson, La Cage aux Folles
Bill T. Jones, Fela!
Best Choreography
Rob Ashford, Promises, Promises
Bill T. Jones, Fela!
Lynne Page, La Cage aux Folles
Twyla Tharp, Come Fly Away
Best Orchestrations
Jason Carr, La Cage aux Folles
Aaron Johnson, Fela!
Jonathan Tunick, Promises, Promises
Daryl Waters & David Bryan, Memphis
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Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Alan Ayckbourn
Marian Seldes
Regional Theatre Tony Award
The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, Connecticut
Isabelle Stevenson Award
David Hyde Pierce
Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre
Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York
B.H. Barry
Tom Viola
Tony Nominations by Production
Fela! – 11
La Cage aux Folles – 11
Fences – 10
Memphis – 8
Ragtime – 7
Red – 7
A View from the Bridge – 6
The Royal Family – 5
Enron – 4
A Little Night Music – 4
Promises, Promises – 4
American Idiot – 3
Finian’s Rainbow – 3
In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play – 3
Lend Me a Tenor – 3
Million Dollar Quartet – 3
The Addams Family – 2
Come Fly Away – 2
Everyday Rapture – 2
Hamlet – 2
Next Fall – 2
Sondheim on Sondheim – 2
Time Stands Still – 2
A Behanding in Spokane – 1
Collected Stories – 1
Looped – 1
Present Laughter – 1
Race – 1
Superior Donuts – 1