Tony Awards This Year = Meh

I know I said I wouldn't watch cuz All Shook Up didn't get nominated, but what the hell else was I going to do after work tonight? heh

This year's show was so much worse than last year's. The winners were so predictable and both the performances I saw (Spelling Bee and Spamalot) were just so-so.

The only highlights were appearances by Nathan Lane, Harvey Fierstein, Bernadette Peters, and Norbert Leo Butz's speech. Everything else I saw just wasn't that exciting.

And I am *upset* that Spamalot won Best Musical. Even though I like the song "Find Your Grail" (well, obviously) it was nowhere near as well-performed as I thought it could be. Honestly, almost ANY number from All Shook Up was better than what Spamalot did tonight. I've also heard a lot of good things about the Putnam County 25th Annual Spelling Bee, and I must admit that the premise is original but it seems like a full-length show of it would be annoying. The only show I am slightly MORE interested now is Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. I may have to go download some stuff from it. . .

Light in the Piazza won a ton of awards, but having heard some music from it and reading a synopsis of the plot, it doesn't seem like my cup of tea. ::shrug::

And I'm also a tiny bit more intrigued in The Pillowman. A play, not a musical.

Well, that's about it. At least I no longer feel bad about never getting Spamalot tickets. It's funny cuz a lot of people on the Bway boards are saying the same thing. It's definitely not like last year, when half the people were ecstatic cuz Avenue Q had won and the other half were all upset cuz Wicked had lost. At least the better show won THAT year. ;p