Ariana DeBose hosted this year's Tony Awards, for the third year in a row. CBS has made videos available — and I’ve been enjoying them. I hope you will, too. If you watched the actual awards, please do comment and tell us what you thought.
“This Party’s For You”
She’s great, isn’t she?
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Tribute to Chita Rivera
She was amazing.
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Merrily We Roll Along, “Old Friends”
Tony Wins: Best Revival of a Musical; Best Leading Actor in a Musical (Jonathan Groff); Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Daniel Radcliffe); Best Orchestrations
Lindsay Mendez got a nomination for Featured Actress, but didn’t get the win.
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Suffs, “Keep Marching”
Tony Wins: Best Original Score; Best Book of a Musical
I was hoping this musical about the suffrage movement would do better than it did. Oh well.
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Water For Elephants
Tony Nominations: Best Musical; Best Direction of a Musical; Best Book of a Musical; Best Costume Design of a Musical; Best Scenic Design of a Musical; Best Choreography; Best Lighting Design of a Musical;
It’s a real circus, heh. I don’t know why the video is unavailable.
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Cabaret, “Willkommen”
Tony Win: Best Scenic Design of a Musical
It’s a different take on the Emcee, but I don’t think Redmayne quite makes it.
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Illinoise
Tony Win: Best Choreography
It looks beautiful.
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The Outsiders
Tony Wins: Best Musical; Best Direction of a Musical; Best Lighting Design of a Musical; Best Sound Design of a Musical
I always liked S. E. Hinton’s classic The Outsiders. Hated Holden Caufield, that entitled little snot, but the Outsider kids, they were okay.
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The Who’s Tommy, "Pinball Wizard”
Tony Nomination: Best Revival of a Musical
Talk about the musical nobody needed.
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Hell’s Kitchen, Medley, feat. Alicia Keyes and Jay Z
Tony Wins: Best Leading Actress in a Musical (Maleah Joi Moon); Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Kecia Lewis)
A jukebox musical based on Alicia Keyes.
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Stereophonic
Tony Wins: Best Play; Best Featured Actor in a Play (Will Brill); Best Direction of a Play; Best Scenic Design of a Play; Best Sound Design of a Play
This is a play about the making of a record in the 1970s.
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Have a lovely day!