Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s irreverent, yet surprisingly traditional musical comedy, The Book of Mormon, went into this morning’s announcement of Tony Award nominations as the prohibitive favorite to win the all-important Best Musical award. It emerged with 14 nominations, making it even more of a lock to clean up at the Tonys ceremony on Sunday, June 12, and -- at least … [Read more...]
Tony Awards show was as lame as Broadway’s season
When you consider what a mediocre season it was on Broadway, did anyone really think the Tony Awards show would be any good? Sunday night’s ceremony was, as expected, just like the season for musicals – loud, punk and uninspired. As I previously reported, however, it was a terrific year for plays, but CBS and the people who assemble the Tonys show have no patience for … [Read more...]
Here’s our Tony Awards quiz: Do better than Hap and win a prize
You read Palm Beach ArtsPaper, so chances are you are a theatergoer and you actually care who wins the Tony Awards this Sunday evening. You realize this puts you in a very small minority of the population, don’t you? Well, theater writer Hap Erstein considers himself in that group, too, and he hereby challenges you to a Tony Awards predictions duel. All you have to do is guess … [Read more...]
A very Tony day with Chita and Faith
For fans of Tony Award-winning musical theater stars, Palm Beach County was a great place to be Tuesday. At 2 p.m., at the Kravis Center, I caught the tireless Chita Rivera and her one-woman concert, My Broadway. That evening, still on a high from her performance, I headed to the Colony Hotel’s Royal Room and saw Faith Prince’s tour de force cabaret act, which she is recording … [Read more...]