No but I did recently watch a very bad Kiefer Sutherland movie he was in.
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Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
ooo, Zach Braff. He cut his hair, boo.
Now I really want to see Spring Awankening!
I'm watching Young Frankenstein
"You made a yummy sound!"
ooo, so glad David Hyde Pierce won! Well deserved.
Me, too!
"You made a yummy sound!"
"Blucher!"
Basketball game was awful so I got to watch the Tonys! It was the plan to watch during ballgame breaks. But pretty much watched the whole thing. Nice.
It was nice. I gotta go. g'night all.
why the hell did they just have him on stage, singing "Being Alive"?
Because they are showing him off for the Best Actor award he was expected to win.
It actually is staged almost exactly like that in the show. The only difference being that the other cast members are playing the music on stage, but they're not really lit and you certainly aren't looking at them. The finale is all Raul Esparza, if not in practice than in feeling. This way made much more sense for a one-off performance.
I really loved this production of Company, and thought that Raul's performance was spectacular. I couldn't take my eyes off of him for the entire show. It was a truly perfect performance of a role that is considered among the most difficult musical theater roles out there - Bobby is a very conflicted character, and bringing it together into one believable person is not easily done. Raul manages it, somehow.
All this is to say that I nearly cried out of sadness and anger when David Hyde Pierce won. I haven't seen Curtains, despite several attempts to catch standing room, but nobody I know who has seen both it and Company thought he had a chance. Esparza was the pick of every single pre-Tony review i've read. The general consensus of Broadway forums, after-the-fact, is that some people voted for Pierce because it's the last Kander and Ebb, and Curtains would've been shut out otherwise, others voted for him because they don't like Sondheim or Doyle's productions of Sondheim, and of the rest, some voted for Jonathan Groff as part of the Spring Awakening near-sweep, taking away votes from Esparza.
Overall, still happy. Spring Awakening won 8 awards! At least two of those were pretty big surprises, so that was really nice.