Obsessedsportsnut's Blog

Yes this is a sports blog, but I will take the time here to talk about my other biggest passion in life: the theater. Last night was the biggest night in all of theater…The Tony Awards!!!

Here are some of my favorite performances from throughout the night (in order of what I enjoyed most).

1. La Cage aux Folles, with Kelsey Grammar and Douglas Hodges. After seeing this last month, it cracked my list of top 5 favorite shows. In this clip, Douglas Hodges has a hilarious encounter with Matthew Morrison.

2. Christiane Noll, a Carnegie Mellon alumni, singing “Back to Before” from Ragtime. If I had the opportunity to go back in time and see ANY show ever, it would have been Ragtime. Absolutely beautiful score. Noll is such an amazing singer.

3. The Cast of American Idiot singing the titled track

4. Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele’s performance.

5. Green Day with the cast of American Idiot

6. Million Dollar Quartet, about the famed impromptu recording jam session between Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.

7. Memphis, which won the Best Musical Award last night. Kind of really sad that I wasn’t able to see this in NYC.

8. Promises Promises, which starred Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes. Great choreography.

9. “Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music sung by Catherine Zeta Jones, who won best Leading Actress for her performance. This performance was actually quite bad, and was nothing like I saw when I saw her perform last month.