After 42 years of watching, I have noted that The Tony Awards are very GAY. I did before the broadcast, & now I love him even more after his excellent job of hosting the Tony Awards last night, but NEIL PATRICK HARRIS has a birthday this month & will get his own Post Apocalyptic Bohemian birthday blog post. But I need to say it- he was handsome, charming, funny & a natural for being the host of the Tonys.
I have been watching the Tony Awards since the first national broadcast in 1967. That evening was hosted by Mary Martin & Robert Preston. The nominees for Musical were The Apple Tree, Walking Happy, I Do! I DO!, & Cabaret. This was the only way a young musical comedy queen in Spokane Washington could see numbers from the big Broadway musicals & I found each broadcast thrilling. During the day of the airing of the Tony Award show, I would listen to my Original Cast albums of that season's shows & practice accepting my award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical (I was too humble to see myself nominated for Best Actor) in the mirror, using a large brass candlestick as my Tony award. I would reserve the new color TV for just me & my parents would allow me to stay up for the show.
Last night's broadcast had some highlights for me: seeing Liza acting so very Liza, hearing the sound of Bret Michael's head hitting a lowering set piece, the numbers from West Side Story & Hair (the Hair selections raised the roof all the way to Portland Oregon), Gavin Creel looking yummy, the 3 Billy Elliots accepting their joint award for Best Actor in a Musical, my good close personal friend- Angela Lansbury winning her 5th Tony, seeing Nicole Kidman , Marcia Gay Harden, Stockard Channing, & Anne Hathaway looking stunning, but most of all I loved me some Neil Patrick Harris, especially doing the musical wrap up of the awards at the end of the evening. How did he memorize lines about things that had just happened a few minutes earlier? I am more impressed than ever by this bright, funny, talented & super sexy man.
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