Musicals represented: Ragtime, The Sound of Music, 1776, The Lion King, Cabaret, Side Show, The Scarlet Pimpernel. The PBS pre-show ceremony begins at 1:30:45
I miss Tony Awards like this: scenes from plays, explanations of the passion behind the costumes and the art. Tony night used to be the one night of the year Broadway was accessible to all. Bring it back, please!
So many great names were just starting off their careers here. Young lea Michele, young Sutton foster, young Anna Kendrick and more. So great to see this!!
THANK YOU for uploading this!!! This was watched on VHS repeatedly when I was eleven. I fell in love with Cabaret and so many other shows because of this Tony's. ❤️ And Alan Cumming, too 😍
These pre 9/11 Tony Awards were filled with innovations and naïveté and we long for all that talent to be shown simultaneously once again. Since 9/11 and now with Covid, the live theatre is injured and suffering. A revival is required. I hope it does.🙏👏♥️👍🎭
rosworms my first memory was for Chenoweth's My New Philosophy. But I saw Aaron Paul as a Chauvelin alternate in that show. The song into the fire is amazing. But I vaguely miss that Terrence Mann wasn't on the stage. Hehe
“Starting out as a featured actress in a musical can be a real stepping stone to the big time…who knows how many of tonight’s nominees will be tomorrow’s superstars? Our first nominee is ANNA KENDRICK.”
I was there! Last row of the balcony. Still remember Rosie joking (and swearing) during the commercial breaks, Alan and Natasha winning, and Lion King winning best musical. (which was an upset at the time.)
Jennifer Holliday in that opening number was like a parody of herself. She sounded great, but I could not stop laughing. It's like she took her iconic Tony performance and over exaggerated everything lol She was a meme of herself long before they existed.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I didn't get a chance to see The Lion King win a Tony for Best Musical. This makes me feel better about Mary Poppins, Newsies, & Aladdin didn't win for Best Musical.
What's funny is that Nathan Lane presented the Tony Award for Best Musical to The Lion King knowing that he was the voice of Timon from the original film.
When choosing actors to play the voices of comic characters in the original (1994) animated film of "The Lion King," the casting director was inspired by the hit 1992 Broadway revival of "Guys & Dolls" which starred Nathan Lane as "Nathan Detroit." On stage, Lane had great comic chemistry with the character actor Ernie Sabella, who played the supporting role of gangster "Harry the Horse" in that production. So, when looking for voice actors for "The Lion King," they first cast Lane as "Timon"... and then, because he & Sabella interacted so well together - including some hilarious on-stage improv - they decided to reunite the stage duo with Lane as the tiny meercat "Timon" & Sabella as his sidekick, the flatulent warthog "Pumbaa."
@@laughfrodisiac2400 That revival was a great production! The cast recording is still my favorite recording of Guys & Dolls. I was only a child but it made a BIG impression on me. Then, when The Lion King movie was being released, I was so excited to hear that "Nathan Detroit" & "Harry the Horse" were in the movie... I nagged my parents until they agreed to bring our whole family to see The Lion King the weekend it opened.
@@iHeartsNostalgiaPit I wonder who the actors are who almost (but didn't) get those parts! Where did you find out that fun factoid? Now I have to look up "Bottom." Ernie Sabella played the TV role "Mr Twinkacetti" (the cousins' landlord and employer) on "Perfect Strangers."
@@maryannnicole3999 Ragtime starts at about 17:09. Lea is with the third group to be introduced (the song starts with a group of actors in white playing white Christians, then comes a group of African Americans, and last they bring in a group of Eastern-European Jewish immigrants.) Lea is the little girl standing at the front of the group playing Jewish people. She's on camera a lot.
@@maryannnicole3999 Lea was in 4 Bway shows long before she was cast in Glee. First she was a replacement "Young Cosette"/understudy Gavroche in "Les Mis"; then she was "The Little Girl" in this production of Ragtime; next she played the youngest - mostly silent - daughters ("Shprintze"/ understudy "Chava") in a truly awful revival of "Fiddler"; and then she starred opposite Jon Groff in the OBC of the musical "Spring Awakening," which is where Ryan Murphy saw her & cast her in "Glee" (Jenna Ushkowitz was also in that production).
Joel Grey IS the only authentic Cabaret Master of Ceremonies. Everybody else after him pales in comparison. [ua-cam.com/video/hBlB8RAJEEc/v-deo.html] Best new musical of the year at 1:28:50. Well deserved Tony win.
Different actors resonate with different generations. 😊 I love Joel Grey and I think he is the epitome of Master of Ceremonies. But I came to know Cabaret through Alan Cumming who is also amazing. So I choose both! 2 stunning interpretations instead of one! 😎
I miss Tony Awards like this: scenes from plays, explanations of the passion behind the costumes and the art. Tony night used to be the one night of the year Broadway was accessible to all. Bring it back, please!
16:55 Ragtime
18:40 Sound of Music
36:23 1776
44:54 Lion King
57:45 Cabaret
1:05:44 Side Show
1:21:57 The Scarlet Pimpernel
Sound of music is actually 28:40
Damnit why didn’t I see this comment before searching the whole damn thing for cabaret haha
Alan cumming is such a gem
Cabaret at about 57:00
AlmostMyself thx
saw this Cabaret production on Broadway. It was special.
Alan Cumming is phenomenal.
So many great names were just starting off their careers here. Young lea Michele, young Sutton foster, young Anna Kendrick and more. So great to see this!!
THANK YOU for uploading this!!! This was watched on VHS repeatedly when I was eleven. I fell in love with Cabaret and so many other shows because of this Tony's. ❤️ And Alan Cumming, too 😍
I look at Marin Mazzie and Natasha Richardson, and my heart breaks. Two GREAT ladies of the theater - gone WAY too soon!
so many people from this ceremony are gone most recently Angela Lansbury
Natasha Richardson, miss you so much ..
These pre 9/11 Tony Awards were filled with innovations and naïveté and we long for all that talent to be shown simultaneously once again. Since 9/11 and now with Covid, the live theatre is injured and suffering. A revival is required. I hope it does.🙏👏♥️👍🎭
yeah it feels like there is a certain era of innocence of watching pre 9/11 Tony Awards
57:48 Alan Cumming/Cabaret
sidney armstrong thx
One of the best openings ever!
*sigh* the scarlet pimpernel. this tony performance was the first time i remember getting goosebumps from music as a kid.
rosworms my first memory was for Chenoweth's My New Philosophy. But I saw Aaron Paul as a Chauvelin alternate in that show. The song into the fire is amazing. But I vaguely miss that Terrence Mann wasn't on the stage. Hehe
My favorite show!Douglas Sills...the best!
Thanks for including the PBS presentation of the technical awards as well!
This program won 2 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for a Variety or Music Program and Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special.
Wow
Crazy seeing young Anna Kendrick 26:43 and ensemble Sutton Foster 1:26:19 !
gillianembers and at 18:46 is a young Lea Michelle
gillianemb wow
“Starting out as a featured actress in a musical can be a real stepping stone to the big time…who knows how many of tonight’s nominees will be tomorrow’s superstars? Our first nominee is ANNA KENDRICK.”
I was there! Last row of the balcony. Still remember Rosie joking (and swearing) during the commercial breaks, Alan and Natasha winning, and Lion King winning best musical. (which was an upset at the time.)
Jennifer Holliday in that opening number was like a parody of herself. She sounded great, but I could not stop laughing. It's like she took her iconic Tony performance and over exaggerated everything lol She was a meme of herself long before they existed.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I didn't get a chance to see The Lion King win a Tony for Best Musical. This makes me feel better about Mary Poppins, Newsies, & Aladdin didn't win for Best Musical.
or Beauty and the Beast, or Frozen
Once the elephant walked in for "The Lion King", it was a wrap for "Best New Musical". RIP, Sam Wright and Jason Raize. (12/13/2021)
And Broadway was ruined forever.
Betty Buckley as glorious as always! The voice of butter!
What's funny is that Nathan Lane presented the Tony Award for Best Musical to The Lion King knowing that he was the voice of Timon from the original film.
When choosing actors to play the voices of comic characters in the original (1994) animated film of "The Lion King," the casting director was inspired by the hit 1992 Broadway revival of "Guys & Dolls" which starred Nathan Lane as "Nathan Detroit." On stage, Lane had great comic chemistry with the character actor Ernie Sabella, who played the supporting role of gangster "Harry the Horse" in that production. So, when looking for voice actors for "The Lion King," they first cast Lane as "Timon"... and then, because he & Sabella interacted so well together - including some hilarious on-stage improv - they decided to reunite the stage duo with Lane as the tiny meercat "Timon" & Sabella as his sidekick, the flatulent warthog "Pumbaa."
@@jeffblack8457 now THAT'S interesting!!! I love that
@@laughfrodisiac2400 That revival was a great production! The cast recording is still my favorite recording of Guys & Dolls. I was only a child but it made a BIG impression on me. Then, when The Lion King movie was being released, I was so excited to hear that "Nathan Detroit" & "Harry the Horse" were in the movie... I nagged my parents until they agreed to bring our whole family to see The Lion King the weekend it opened.
@@jeffblack8457 and to think it almost went to two cast members from the tv series Bottom (i have never heard of it either)
@@iHeartsNostalgiaPit I wonder who the actors are who almost (but didn't) get those parts! Where did you find out that fun factoid? Now I have to look up "Bottom." Ernie Sabella played the TV role "Mr Twinkacetti" (the cousins' landlord and employer) on "Perfect Strangers."
I see a young little Lea Michele performing with Ragtime!!!
Long before she became famous as Rachel Berry on Glee!
WHERE!? pls give me the exact spot
@@maryannnicole3999 Ragtime starts at about 17:09. Lea is with the third group to be introduced (the song starts with a group of actors in white playing white Christians, then comes a group of African Americans, and last they bring in a group of Eastern-European Jewish immigrants.) Lea is the little girl standing at the front of the group playing Jewish people. She's on camera a lot.
@@maryannnicole3999 Lea was in 4 Bway shows long before she was cast in Glee. First she was a replacement "Young Cosette"/understudy Gavroche in "Les Mis"; then she was "The Little Girl" in this production of Ragtime; next she played the youngest - mostly silent - daughters ("Shprintze"/ understudy "Chava") in a truly awful revival of "Fiddler"; and then she starred opposite Jon Groff in the OBC of the musical "Spring Awakening," which is where Ryan Murphy saw her & cast her in "Glee" (Jenna Ushkowitz was also in that production).
@@jeffblack8457 oh I know she was in bway before glee I fell in love with her in spring awakening I just wanted to know where she was in the video
Whoo 1998 was the Year of The Lion King!
Broadway superstar indeed, Miss Audra McDonald!
Anna Kendrick and Lea Michelle - so cute!
20 years later.....
LOL seeing 1776 clip now that Hamilton's out.
Thats Lea Michele (the little girl) from Glee @18:46 in Ragtime!
57:00 why is the choreo lackluster
the original is so umph
this was ok comparatively
And the Tony Award for Best Musical goes to...
49:54 - “HAAAAYYYY NUMBSKULLLLLLLL, FASTEN YOURRRRR SEATBELLLLLLT!”
ROFLMAO!!!
Ragtime 😍😍
Is there a full show Tony awards 2020 ☺️?
awesome diva singing!!!
Hey I have lots of awards shows on VHS that I can't find a home for. Where do you get your shows? Maybe I can just trash them?
Oh Ms. Holiday 😭
Rosy is queen
Sorry to say, but I was born in 98
who here thought the cabaret performance was kinda akward? it didn’t really show what the show was
I wish they included more from the song
@@hb-so6vb I wish they'd perform a different song at the Tony's whenever they are up for the Revival trophy
26:41
AWWWWW! BABY ANNA!
They have Sean Connery on stage and they do this? 1:21:26
Umm how about that PATTI MOMENT!!
Jonah Kost She just totally pulled a Merman at 8:24...
Yeah. Thank God for fast forward.
1:32:39 What's the Music for this
Anna, Woo. Rifkin, yay.
i would love to see this on broadway!!!
Whatever became of Tom Murphy???
*one google later* oh bummer he died from lymphatic cancer in 2007
44:57
1:28:55
1:40:51
2:02:18
2:05:13
2:07:52
2:17:46
sad cabaret number
Beauty Queen of Leenane must have recycled the Death of a Salesman score.......:P
that usually played when a play wins
Who is singing the evita song
Her name is Patti LuPone.
@@HarringtonTribal oh wait she is
Lea Michelle has a kid on Broadway!❤️
Ragtime not winning Best Musical is :(
maybe in some other year it would have had a chance
1:05:09 XD
Teeny Anna Kendrick and Lea Michele!
Jane Seymour didn't win a Tony for Amadeus.
True, in fact she wasn't even nominated. (Amadeus did however win best play in 1981, and Ian McKellan won Best Actor.)
Based on the opening, Rosie ODonald is very very untalented. Amazingly untalented. I guess marketing everthing.
Sideshow? Sorry....rofl...
As a kid not has a kid LOL
Broadway.com
As
Joel Grey IS the only authentic Cabaret Master of Ceremonies. Everybody else after him pales in comparison. [ua-cam.com/video/hBlB8RAJEEc/v-deo.html]
Best new musical of the year at 1:28:50. Well deserved Tony win.
Different actors resonate with different generations. 😊 I love Joel Grey and I think he is the epitome of Master of Ceremonies. But I came to know Cabaret through Alan Cumming who is also amazing. So I choose both! 2 stunning interpretations instead of one! 😎
And Natasha richardson was the ultimate sally bowles. Miss her presence in this world.
Both were great, but I disagree. I like Alan’s version more.
@@mrbungeealwaysrhymes9023 agree, Alan Cumming took it to a completely different level.
our university production was better, sadly
Overall Not a great tony show
What a cr..ppy play The Lion King is!
Marcelo Benitez you mean the best artistic musical ever made
Ok boomer
Had Marcelo made that comment now, I'd recommend he get tested for COVID
14:05