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  • Memorable Moments From 2017 Tony Awards

    Memorable Moments From 2017 Tony Awards

    Kevin Spacey was the host of the Tony Awards event, held at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The show included the stunning appearance from various celebrities including Stephen Colbert, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tina Fey and Whoopi Goldberg. Spacey who is a former Tony winner carried an opening number that directed each nominee for the Best Musical.

    The show had both best and worst memorable moments including:

    Kevin Spacey: it is not a secret that Spacey was not the first option to host Tony Awards show. He pretended to struggle over what he could do to be the best host for the day. The right host should confidently be in charge of the event and ready to save any embarrassing moment. Spacey decided to become the host after a long thought over how best to make a great host. He guided the dancing chorus on a higher note dressed in Astaire-like attire.

    Spacey is not good in singing and dancing and tried his best by cracking self-deprecating jokes during his opening remarks to clarify the point. While he had some great memories from the show, Spacey his top role as a host for the event didn’t earn him good marks.

    Ben Platt: at only 23 years, Platt had already won the Best Actor in music. He stunned the audience by leading his cast when performing the ‘Waving Through a Window’. Platt’s behavior during his speech mirrored those seen in his previous plays. The most memorable part of his speech came when he highlighted the main theme from the music that says, ‘don’t waste time trying to become other people but you.’

    Rebecca Taichman: she won the Tony Award for her work on the Indecent play. Her speech was so encouraging especially to other women of every race.

    Benj Pasek and Justin Paul: the two songwriters won the best award for their Dear Evan Hansen. They had earlier won an Academy Award their song La La Land.

    Alex Lacamoire: he won the Best Orchestrations for the second time in a year now. He also won his first Tony award in 2008 for In the Height.

  • Kevin Spacey Gets Rough Night As Tony’s Host

    Kevin Spacey Gets Rough Night As Tony’s Host

    Kevin Spacey opened the Tony Awards show with a boring and not-so-entertaining musical collage that left the audience wondering who ill-advised Spacey as the host to focus on strange music that people are not familiar with. The Sunday night show of Broadway’s annual festivals started on a low key note that the event organizers had difficult figuring out what to do with Spacey.

    Spacey is recognized for his achievements in theater and films including The Usual Suspects, American Beauty and House of Cards on television. He once won a 1991 Tony Award for his concert in the Lost in Yonkers and his 1999 Broadway performance in The Iceman Cometh became one of the most important shows of the year.

    Spacey’s recent performance in the Tony Award show was slammed by some uncomfortable and strange show. However, he saved his evening towards the end of the show when Frank and Claire Underwood made their appearance on the stage to perform the Best Musical award to the Dear Evan Hansen. Their performance uplifted the spirits of the whole show making things to look a bit impressive.

    For years, The Tonys have had problems guessing which audience to target for their events. For instance, the Sunday’s incidence focused on the theater insiders found in the Radio City Music Hall but not for the uninitiated TV watchers. Apart from the celebration turning out to be unimpressive, the three-hour show was also unwelcoming and cold.

    Some suggestions from the participants were that the opening number should have been towards the end of the broadcast. The audience would then have seen a few of the reference from the musical collection performed during the evening. Spacey instead did his own things without thinking out-of-the-box during the evening show.

    Another challenge is that Spacey is not familiar with the music and dance genre of the newest hosts such as the Hugh Jackman and Patrick Harris. The opening ceremony was full of the Spacey’s batch of jokes concerning his insecurity at being the event host. The event should normally start on the right note to set the good mood for the audience.