POISON'S BRETT MICHAELS ALMOST BEHEADED
BY A SET PIECE WHICH DESCENDED AFTER HIS POORFORMANCE ON THE TONY'S. I DON'T WATCH THE TONY'S BUT WHAT ON EARTH IS BRETT'S CONNECTION TO BROADWAY? IS IT SO DUMBED DOWN THAT WE THEY ARE NOW DOING HARD ROCK LITE-BASED BROADWAY SHOWS? SOUNDS LIKE BOX OFFICE POISON TO ME! AND WHY DID THEY MOVE THE TONY'S TO A SUMMER SLOT? SO THAT PEOPLE ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE OUTSIDE ENJOYING THE WEATHER AND LESS LIKELY TO BE INDOORS WATCHING A SHOW WITH SERIOUSLY DWINDLING RATINGS AND STANDARDS? ADD SERIOUSLY OVER-PRICED TICKETS TO THE EQUATION AND YOU'VE GOT A REAL SHOW-STOPPER! LITERALLY!
FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S REPORTAGE:
When the opening number of your awards show features Bret Michaels, Liza Minnelli and what looked like a dancing gnome, you may be grabbing for one too many target audiences. But the 63rd annual Tony Awards, desperate to snare viewers and make Broadway seem cool, isn’t about to turn people away.
First, of course, there was the assault on Mr. Michaels by a descending piece of scenery. The “Rock of Love’s” spokesman Jo Mignano said the performer, who suffered a sore back and a cut lip, planned to go to the hospital. “He was a trouper,” she said. “When he exited the stage, he didn’t throw any hissy fits.”
It wasn’t much safer in the press room after the show as Elton John, who wrote the music for “Billy Elliot,” talked about the show’s win for best musical. While straining to hear a question, the bejeweled singer in spiky hair and blue-tinted glasses stumbled off the dais. The room gasped. “It’s the first time I’ve fallen off the stage in years,” he said, trying for a joke.
MORE: WSJ
FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL'S REPORTAGE:
When the opening number of your awards show features Bret Michaels, Liza Minnelli and what looked like a dancing gnome, you may be grabbing for one too many target audiences. But the 63rd annual Tony Awards, desperate to snare viewers and make Broadway seem cool, isn’t about to turn people away.
First, of course, there was the assault on Mr. Michaels by a descending piece of scenery. The “Rock of Love’s” spokesman Jo Mignano said the performer, who suffered a sore back and a cut lip, planned to go to the hospital. “He was a trouper,” she said. “When he exited the stage, he didn’t throw any hissy fits.”
It wasn’t much safer in the press room after the show as Elton John, who wrote the music for “Billy Elliot,” talked about the show’s win for best musical. While straining to hear a question, the bejeweled singer in spiky hair and blue-tinted glasses stumbled off the dais. The room gasped. “It’s the first time I’ve fallen off the stage in years,” he said, trying for a joke.
MORE: WSJ
posted by Lady Bunny at Monday, June 08, 2009
2 Comments:
While I'm sure you're being satirical, the Tonys are ALWAYS the first Sunday in June.
And yes, there is a show that panders to mainstream/non-typical-Broadway audiences with hair metal from the 80s (in much the same fashion as the use of the Abba songs in "Mamma Mia"). The Broadway stage has gotten that horrible lately.
Not satirical, just ignorant! I was confusing the Tony's with another awards show I hate which comes before the Oscars--I think it's the Golden Globes? There are two many awards shows!
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