LIZA?!?!

A-greed D, on the tony post...they were really BEYOND ridiculous this year. not only did mics not work, and camera continually cut to the wrong person/wrong shot, but brett michaels (of poison...slightly unclear why he was performing, one of their songs is in "rock of ages" but HE isn't actually in it...) actually broke his nose walking into a set piece:


also, liza literally kept popping up left and right, being only vaguely coherent, but as several of my blogs noted, it doesn't really matter if you can understand her, IT'S LIZA

some highlights though:
"rock of ages" -- seems like it's just SO MUCH FUN, and doesn't take itself to seriously, equally important if you're going to be singing 80s classics (note the liza appearance in this one) also, the "narrator" character in this, is supposed to be one of the funniest parts of the show, described in the NYTimes (and i just LOVE this description) as

"Sporting a spiked mullet and a series of tacky T-shirts, he zips around the stage merrily, adding comic commentary or plugging a hole in the plot. It’s as if a perky, wise-cracking woodland animal from a Disney cartoon had leaped off the screen, become human and acquired a taste for both illicit drugs and ballet."



and then from "next to normal"
a VERY different show, much more serious, about a woman battling bipolar disorder and the effect it has on her family. but it's supposed to be simply AMAZING and really powerful. the performance was fantastic.



and i know d's going to KILL me for this, but given the material, and the fact that the show's basically just fluff, i thought the hair cast did an amazing job...
just saying



also, anne hathaway was inexplicably featured over and over....