Listen: The @TheTonyAwards pull off a great show with no surprises and lots of @HamiltonMusical wins.
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70th Annual Tony Awards (2016)
— Pre: Orlando
— Hamilton / James Corden (Just you wait…)
— James Corden childhood open (That could be me)
— Les Miz spoof
— Phantom
— Lion King
— Grease
— Sweeney Todd
— Jesus Christ Superstar
— Sound of Music
— Music Man
— Barbra
— Guys & Dolls
— WSS
— Annie
— CATS
— A Chorus Line
— Evita
— Fiddler
— Dreamgirls
— 42nd Street / We’re in the Money
— (kids)
— nominees
8:14: Jake Gillenhal – Actress Featured Play – Jane Houdyshell – The Humans
8:17: ALW – Intro School of Rock –
8:23: JC – Ham4Ham | L-MM/ALW/Steve Martin/Edie Brickell/Sara Bareilles
— commercial break —
8:28: H4H – Shuffle Along, Sit down you’re rockin the boat
8:29: Aaron Tveit / ??? Featured – Actress – Musical – Renée Elise Goldsberry, Hamilton (8:32)
8:32: Shuffle Along –
8:37: H4H: School of Rock — Phantom
— commercial break —
8:42: Costume Design (summary)
8:43: Patina Miller/Daniel Day Kim: Featured – Actor – Musical – Daveed Diggs, Hamilton (Broadway Debut)
8:45: Daveed Diggs, Hamilton 8:46
8:46: JC – Cheap Seats. Carole King Best Score – Hamilton
Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda
8:48: Lin-Manuel Miranda / Score – Sonet, no freestyling, too old 8:49
8:49: Meg Ryan (!) She Loves Me (tempos really fast!)
8:55: H4H: Fiddler – Annie Get Your Gun – No business like show business
— commercial break —
8:59: H4H: She Loves Me – Cabaret, Laura Benanti in PJ’s
9:00: Jesse Tyler Ferguson / Lucy Liu – Direction of a Play – Ivo Van Hove, Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge
9:01: Ivo Van Hove 9:02
9:02: Direction of a Musical – Thomas Kail, Hamilton
9:04: Thomas Kail, Hamilton
9:06: JC – Josh Groban, Fiddler from High School. Los Angeles County High School of the Arts (got danny’s last name wrong)
9:08: Fiddler presentation
9:12: H4H Bright Star / Damn Yankees
— commercial break —
9:17: Scenic Design
9:17: JC Grant Thornton / Accounting firm?
9:18: Andrew Rannels and Saoirse Ronan (WEIRD VOICE) – Featured – Actor – Play – Reed Birney, The Humans
9:19: Reed Birney, The Humans, actor for 42 years, last 8 great.
9:22: Bright Star / Steve Martin, Edie Brickell (Work hard, or already be famous)
9:26: H4H Color Purple – Lion King – Circle of Life
— commercial break —
9:32: Lighting Design (summary)
9:33: Claire Danes / Billy Porter / et al / Law & Order Segment
9:34: Oprah – The Color Purple
9:40: James Earl Jones / Angela Landsbury – 7 Decades with The Wing. Scholarships. $1.3 million from ALW.
9:42: Nathan Lane – Leading Actress in a Play (Trump joke) – Jessica Lange, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
9:44: Jessica Lange, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
9:46: Emilio Estefan – On Your Feet
9:49: H4H Spring Awakening – Hair
— commercial break —
9:53: JC/LMM in Carpool Karaoke (Why are they showing this?)
9:59: Kate Blanchette – Leading Actor Play – Frank Langella, The Father
10:01: Frank Langella, The Father (Astrologer, late in career: 30, losing his now, losing his reality, his brother andrew going through this, Orlando, when something bad happens, we habe three choices, we let it define us, we let it destroy us, we let it strengthen us.)
10:03: Marlee Matl[...]