Saturday Matinee

From the Best Musical winner, In the Heights. From the NY Times.

Katrina reminded me that I should blog about the Tony’s (thanks K!) – The Tony Awards were on last night! I missed it again this year, stranded at the airport on a 3 hour layover – I was planted inside the business class lounge in Phoenix, and I couldn’t interrupt the businessmen’s golf tournament on TV to watch Broadway musicals, I’m afraid. I missed it last year too because I was traveling, but one of these days, I’ll be able to watch it from start to finish…

I didn’t see any shows on Broadway this year, but I’m still keeping an eye on what’s going on over there on the East Coast. Best Play August: Osage County will be coming to SF next year. I was also interested in some of the actors who have been nominated for several years but haven’t won yet – I was pulling for Raul Esparza since he got overlooked last year for his role in Company, but this wasn’t his year either. I’ve also been hearing amazing things about the 28 year old Lin-Manuel Miranda and was hoping he’d win best actor, but he got lots of other awards instead, including Best Musical. Another Tony goes to Boyd Gaines (who should have gotten a Tony last year for his work in Journey’s End, in a quietly stunning performance), and another one for Patti Lupone for her work in Gypsy.

My sources of information:

NY Times Coverage

Matt Murphy with Playbill podcast: it gave a great overview of the year with some insightful comments – Matt, you were awesome and so well spoken! Check out his blog, Ranting Details.

Any thoughts?