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May 20, 2006
60th Annual Tony Awards . BroadwayTube
CBS will air The 60th Annual Tony Awards Sunday, June 11th and many can expect the night to be Oprah-tastic. With her most recent endevor, The Color Purple: A New Musical, gathering up 11 nominations we can all look forward to Oprah bringing this award show to the next level. She'll most likely feature at least one show devoted to the Tony's and that show could very welll be quite similiar to the Oprah Oscar's special. For fans with "Purple" love can now look forward to a NBC Dateline special featuring the broadway musical on Sunday May 21st. Don't miss it!
And as we discuss broadway it's important to check out some YouTube performances that maybe deserve a nomination of sorts for their personal tributes to the stage art that is... [que the lighted letters one by one] B R O A D W A Y.
For those wondering, the 1st video featured here is "And I Am Tellin You" by Jennifer Holliday from the play Dreamgirls. The young gent in the video is flawlessly lip synced by the talented YouTube's Madanna. Recently the foreign press has been raving about Dreamwork's Dreamgirls at Cannes. The reason is detailed by The Hollywood Reporter...
CANNES -- "Dreamgirls" became the first major movie of 2006 to stake a serious claim for Academy Award consideration, as DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures previewed 20 minutes of the film Friday before a sampling of the world press assembled at the Cannes Film Festival. Four individual musical sequences from writer/director Bill Condon's screen adaptation of the 1981 Broadway musical, which chronicles the rise of a singing girl group inspired by the Supremes, were previewed, with each one triggering spontaneous applause.
Although the $75 million film will not debut until Dec. 21 stateside -- fittingly, that also happens to be the 25th anniversary of the Broadway musical's premiere at New York's Imperial Theater -- Terry Press, who is overseeing the movie's marketing, took the calculated risk of bringing the footage to Cannes to expose it to the international market. That the stakes were high was evidence by the Paramount and DreamWorks brass in attendance at the reception and screening at the Martinez Hotel: Viacom president and CEO Tom Freston; Paramount chairman Brad Grey and president Gail Berman; DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg and DreamWorks co-founded David Geffen, who closely held the play's movie rights for years until agreeing to entrust them to Condon and producer Laurence Mark. (Gregg Kilday) -The Hollywood Reporter
If The Tony Awards show is smarter than the average bear they'll jump on this promotional bandwagon and keep the buzz going.
Posted by guytvblog at May 20, 2006 1:23 PM
Comments
what is the name of the song the guy on the elevator is singing?
Posted by: Daniel at May 20, 2006 2:48 AM
That would be "Defying gravity" from the musical kick ass stage play of Wicked. If you YouTube "defying gravity wicked idina" you'll find many videos [featuring potential spoilers] showcasing the song through live performances with better audio. You can also find the track on iTunes.
The best live performance is the Tony's clip found at
youtube.com/watch?v=uJTqoB2iY4g&search=defying%20gravity%20wicked%20idina
Posted by: Mr. GuyTVBlog at May 20, 2006 10:22 AM
