Here Are Your 2009 Tony Award Winners
Were we the only ones feeling ill having missed the Tony Awards and therefore a performance by the cast of Hair? Regardless, here are the winners.
Best Play- God of Carnage
Best Musical- Billy Elliot, The Musical
Best Revival of a Play- The Norman Conquests
Best Revival of a Musical- Hair
Best Actor in a Play- Geoffrey Rush, Exit the King
Best Actress in a Play- Marcia Gay Harden, God of Carnage
Best Actor in a Musical- David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik, Kiril Kulish (Three actors all playing the same character) Billy Elliot, The Musical
Best Actress in a Musical- Stockard Channing, Pal Joey
Best Featured Actor in a Play- Roger Robinson, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Best Featured Actress in a Play- Angela Lansbury, Blithe Spirit
Best Featured Actor in a Musical- Gregory Jbara, Billy Elliot, The Musical
Best Featured Actress in a Musical- Karen Olivo, West Side Story
Best Director of a Play- Matthew Marchus, God of Carnage
Best Director of a Musical- Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot, The Musical
Best Choreography- Peter Darling, Billy Elliot The Musical
Best Book of a Musical- Billy Elliot, The Musical
Best Original Score- Next to Normal
The above are the winners of the major categories. For the complete list of all the winners at the 2009 Tony Awards, visit the LA Times blog “The Envelope.”
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Darn it... Sorry about the italics. I'll just add that Doogie Howser's closing number was actually pretty funny.
As a non-New Yorker who hasn't seen any Broadway plays in the past year, this broadcast left me fully convinced that I haven't missed anything.
Also, that Shrek is just Hair with slightly nicer costumes. ("Let your freak flag fly?" Really?)
Although it was funny to see the Hair "tribe" of former drama students in obvious wigs go into the audience to give all the 65-year-old actual former hippies a thrill.
Goose egg for Rock of Ages. Could crap rock finally be getting it's just recognition?
onebadclam
@woolfman: Hmmm...I swear that The Envelope listed Channing as the winner, but I may have flubbed that one. I missed that award being presented personally. Thanks for pointing out the error.
@woolfman: True. Stockard Channing won Best Recovery After Witnessing a Heavy Metal Beheading by a Leading Actress in a Ballgown.
The Times' website says Alice Ripley won Best Actress in a Musical, not Stockard Channing.
woolfman
Is it just me, or should we expect a better produced awards show from people who put on live shows 7 days a week? Seriously, terrible audio, bad orchestration, amateurish direction. I wanted to love it but did not.
classicfantastic
I'm going risk it and say that you are in a tiny percentile that felt ill having to choose.
And I'm in a small percentile that would have felt ill if forced to watch either.
The Laker game was great.
belltolls
I thought it was a really good show for a change.
Also, what the hell is up with Alice Ripley? Is she bi-polar offstage as well or just a huge egotistical bitch?
amiableamy
@Pope John Peeps II: Yeah, I found myself pulling pretty hard against "reasons to be pretty."
I'm pretty happy Neil Labute didn't win anything.
@The Cajun Boy: Actually the envelope said Marisa Tomei, but awards shows have been running drills at rehearsal for years in case that happens.
The Tonys were on? I was too busy crying over Courtney Lee's over-shot layup. Us Floridians can't catch a break!
quickqueenof
@Maya Twocents: He's always awesome! So good to see him all suited-up.
@TedSez: Most of those kids are using their own hair, actually. The notable exception is Claude, but since he has to enter at the end with a military-short cut it's necessary.
cmd
True, the audio was terrible - seemed like there was a particularly hot mic that would pick up just one voice, and not often the best one...you could hear Maria warming up backstage before the West Side Story entrance in the opening number, and it did the poor girl from the touring co. of "Mamma Mia" no favors. Stoopid mic!
However: Neil Patrick Harris was awesome.
@SaraRueful: Did you catch the sushi joke? NPH stood there eating sushi and was like, "Wow, this is so good and nutritious...I feel great after eating this. Like, if I just ate this every single day I could do show after show after show..."
The missed a golden opportunity. I cant believe no one thought to cut to a shot of Gandolfini when Rock of Ages was doing Don't Stop Believing.
crackblind
Aw, no love for Piven? Best Actor Faking a Malady to Get Out of Working 8 Shows a Week and Instead Hang Out Doing Blow With Model Wannabes?
SaraRueful