Another Openin' , Another Show...

Wow what an amazing Tony Awards, I must admit that since I have moved out to LA I haven't known as many of the shows on the Tony's, but they never cease to amaze me year after year. I remember watching the Tony's all throughout my youth, loving every last musical number and trying to learn each and every one of them. No thanks to my drug adelled memory I can't remember which was my first Tony Awards, but some of my favorite Tony memories are of one of my favorite musicals, one of my baby's Titanic, Rent rocking out La Vie Boheme (ah my young naive little queer ass shaking) and the most recent moment, was watching last year when a REAL Latin musical, written by a real Latin man, won over the night with “In The Heights” I was crying like a little girl to no end, with such pride in my fellow Latin people.

This year did not disappoint AT ALL! I have to say something up front that may insult my fellow Sondheim loving, Side Show lypsinching friends out there...I LOVED the “Rock of Ages” performance, I have to admit I love the hair rock era and the fact that they made a musical out of it, AND kept the tacky/FIERCE hair and clothes of that era just rocks me out to no end! I also gotta admit that I don't have that much of an interest in seeing Billy Elliot, I know I know heresy, I'm sure I would love it if I saw it, but the performances tonight and in other shows does not attract me to see it at all. Next to Normal in the other hand looks fucking BRILLIANT!! I am so glad that Alice Ripley finally got her Tony (though did someone forget to take her meds before accepting her award tonight!? WOW she went a bit off the deep end if you ask me). One number that totally surprised the HELL out of me was Shrek, I was expecting to roll my eyes just like I did when they performed on The View, but WOW did that gorgeous Christopher Sieber impress the shit out of me...that number was HILARIOUS!

Let's see from the revivals of musicals, Hair was great, Guys and Dolls got fast forwarded, Pal Joey...ZZZZZZZZZZ I love Ms. Stockard Channing, but yeah ZZZZZZZZZZ is all I gotta say, and finally my beloved West Side Story, could someone do me a god damn favor and cast a REAL fucking Latina in the role of Maria already!!?? I could sort of forgive it for the movie since it was the 60s, and minorities were a lot more “minority”-y then...but COME ON it's fucking 2009 get me a dark skinned Maria already! SHEESH!

And I usually TiVo through all the play stuff (sorry, but I am a showtune queen after all) but seeing Ms. Angela Lansbury up there getting her FIFTH Tony was just breath taking and heart warming to say the least. I was quite pleased with Neil's hosting job and not just cause I know what that boy gets into in the bedroom...OINK OINK! So another Tony night where my inner fire was lit yet again, I hope to someday get one, but in order to do so I gotta get off my ass and do something about it, so I'm hoping that writing it out on the internet will help light that fire under me.

I would like to leave you with one of my favorite moments in Tony history, I didn't watch it live as I was too young, but watching this acceptance speech, especially when I was high as a kite really inspired me to get sober and to follow my dreams back to a drug free existence. Here is Michael Jeter at the 1990 Tony Awards where he won for his performance in Grand Hotel, A-MAZING!