tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post7769243956452987422..comments2024-03-25T03:20:57.659-04:00Comments on My Daily Struggles: Watch List!My Daily Struggleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-64161444122301609842011-10-17T10:14:29.821-04:002011-10-17T10:14:29.821-04:00The 50th Annual Tony Awards was broadcast by CBS f...The <b>50th Annual Tony Awards</b> was broadcast by CBS from the Majestic Theatre on June 2, 1996. Nathan Lane was the host.<br /><br />The opening number was "The Show Must Go On" performed by Liza Minnelli and Bernadette Peters, with Tony Award Alumni.<br /><br />Presenters included: Bea Arthur, Edward Albee, Christine Baranski, Harry Belafonte, Matthew Broderick, Diahann Carroll, Hume Cronyn, Nanette Fabray, Robert Goulet, Gregory Hines, Uta Hagen, James Earl Jones, John Lithgow, Liza Minnelli, Patricia Neal, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bernadette Peters, John Rubinstein, Jane Seymour, Ron Silver, Lily Tomlin, Ben Vereen, Eli Wallach, Ray Walston, Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber.<br /><br />Musicals represented:<br /><br /> * A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ("Comedy Tonight" - Nathan Lane and Company);<br /> * The King and I ("Shall We Dance?" - Lou Diamond Phillips, Donna Murphy, and children);<br /> * Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk ("Taxi"/"Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk" - Savion Glover and Company);<br /> * Big ("Fun" - Daniel Jenkins and Company);<br /> * State Fair ("All I Owe I-Oh-Way"-John Davidson, Andrea McArdle, and Company);<br /> * Rent ("Seasons of Love"/"La Vie Boheme" - Anthony Rapp, Taye Diggs, Adam Pascal, Idina Menzel and Company);<br /> * Chronicle of a Death Foretold;<br /> * Swinging on a Star ("Swinging on a Star" - Company)My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-18032378570096154222011-10-17T10:07:59.080-04:002011-10-17T10:07:59.080-04:00It's all for show, people!<i>It's all for show, people!</i>My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-85393882768203860382011-10-17T10:05:29.711-04:002011-10-17T10:05:29.711-04:00The letter to Beth Smith is actually a parody of t...The letter to Beth Smith is actually a parody of the following section of Lord Byron's dramatic poem <i>Manfred:</i><br /><br />Hear me, hear me— <br />Astarte! my belovèd! speak to me: <br />I have so much endured, so much endure— <br />Look on me! the grave hath not changed thee more <br />Than I am changed for thee. Thou lovedst me <br />Too much, as I loved thee: we were not made <br />To torture thus each other, though it were <br />The deadliest sin to love as we have loved. <br />Say that thou loath’st me not, that I do bear <br />This punishment for both, that thou wilt be <br />One of the blessèd, and that I shall die; <br />For hitherto all hateful things conspire <br />To bind me in existence—in a life <br />Which makes me shrink from immortality— <br />A future like the past. I cannot rest. <br />I know not what I ask, nor what I seek; <br />I feel but what thou art—and what I am; <br />And I would hear yet once before I perish <br />The voice which was my music—Speak to me! <br />For I have call’d on thee in the still night, <br />Startled the slumbering birds from the hush’d boughs, <br />And woke the mountain wolves, and made the caves <br />Acquainted with thy vainly echo’d name. <br />Which answer’d me—many things answer’d me— <br />Spirits and men—but thou wert silent all. <br />Yet speak to me! I have outwatch’d the stars, <br />And gazed o’er heaven in vain in search of thee, <br />Speak to me! I have wander’d o’er the earth, <br />And never found thy likeness—Speak to me! <br />Look on the fiends around—they feel for me: <br />I fear them not, and feel for thee alone. <br />Speak to me! though it be in wrath;—but say— <br />I reck not what—but let me hear thee once— <br />This once—once more!My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-44676253912047638982011-10-17T10:04:09.521-04:002011-10-17T10:04:09.521-04:00"And the Oscar for Best Actor goes to . . .&q..."And the Oscar for Best Actor goes to . . ."My Daily Struggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.com