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2008 Tony Awards Announced
With no big name shows to take all the glory, the Tony awards have arrived this year with all the usual red-carpet excitement and fanfare. The winner of the Best Musical was “In the Heights”, a story, or a collection of stories, about life, love and lottery winnings in Upper Manhattan Latino families. With its high-energy rap numbers, and energetic dancers and music, the show has been a hit amongst theater goers and critics alike.
Created by 28 year old Lin-Manuel Miranda while he was a student at Connecticut's Wesleyan University, the show features Miranda taking center stage, bounding around dynamically and forcefully delivering the rap-dialogue in a style many musical goers may be unaccustomed. And when taking the stage to accept his award he continued the style telling the audience “I used to dream about this moment, now I’m in it,” “Tell the conductor to hold the baton a minute.” And with a nod to Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim, Miranda raps: “Look, Mr. Sondheim, I made a hat where there never was a hat and it’s a Latin hat at that.”
Miranda’s show is a window into modern Latino culture, perhaps with some gloss on it, but a window nonetheless. A relative newcomer to the theater, Miranda wrote the score and all of the songs, as well as playing the lead role. He simply lights up the stage with a dazzling display and draws the viewer in. “In the Heights” played off-Broadway for a season. The orchestration of the show is bright and vibrant and very modern. “In the Heights” also won awards for the score, orchestrations and choreography.
With no major blockbuster show taking all the awards this year, the prizes were shared around. Winners in the recent past such as Jersey Boys and Wicked are still playing to packed houses around Broadway. The revival musical “South Pacific” picked up seven wins including best revival and best actor — for the lead, Paulo Szot — in addition to four design awards and an award for best director, Bartlett Sher.
Other winners were:
Best play: August: Osage County
Best revival of a musical: South Pacific
Best performance by a leading actor in a musical: Paulo Szot, South Pacific
Best performance by a leading actress in a musical: Patti LuPone, Gypsy
The 62nd annual Tony Awards was hosted by com0edian and talk show host Whoopi Goldberg. Around 790 people from the theater industry -- from actors, to directors to journalists -- vote for the Tony Awards. The Tony Awards were established in 1947 and are named after Atoinette Perry, whose nickname was Toni. Perry, who died in 1946, was an actress, stage director and philanthropist.
Touring Broadway Shows
There are a number of Broadway plays and shows that people love to watch over and over again. Some of these notable plays include Les Miserables, Cats, and Miss Saigon. However, not all shows last forever on Broadway because the theaters need to make way for new shows and give others the opportunity to show their plays on Broadway.
If you find yourself as a fan of the shows that have been mentioned, do not fret because it does not mean that you will no longer be able to watch these shows. Most of the shows that are no longer being shown on Broadway go around and tour the country so that they can reach wider audiences.
Looking for Your Favorite Show
To find out where your favorite show is being shown, you can easily go to the Internet and type in your query. There are a number of sites that provide information on these touring Broadway shows. These sites show you the schedules of these shows, including where they are currently being shown and where they will go next. Some websites go a step further and even provide you with information on where you can buy tickets, and some websites even sell the tickets themselves.
Just because a show or a play is no longer shown on Broadway does not mean that the show is gone. People who may wish to see these plays can still catch them while these shows go on a national tour. These shows travel to various cities across the United States, and people can go to the cities where they are shown. For schedules of these shows, people can go to the Internet and find that the information they need is just a click away.
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