Trey Parker and “Book of Mormon” Cleaning Up at Tonys

So far, Best Score, Direction, Choreography, Orchestrations and Featured Actress.

And now, Best Book.

Sound Design. Scenic Design.

Oh, and Best Musical.

Hard to believe it all started here, sort of:

[UPDATE:] Here’s Andrew Rannells singing “I Believe:”

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 06/12/11 at 09:07 PM • Permalink

Categories: I Don't Know Much About Art, But I Know What I Like • Music • Music News • New York City • Manhattan •

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Book of Mormon’s cleaning up! Trey’s sparkly Nehru-thing makes me happy. He’s a living Blingee!

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 06/12/11 at 09:56 PM

Annnnddddd, now we have a Meet Mormon Singles ad over there in the adchoice box….

Comment by StringonaStick on 06/12/11 at 11:04 PM

Strange, I didn’t know you were gay!

Comment by Oblomova on 06/12/11 at 11:12 PM

Fuck, no. I just wanted an excuse to post Orgazmo. ;->

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 06/12/11 at 11:14 PM

I know very few “civilian” straight men who follow the Tonys voluntarily. Forgive me. Also—Norbert Leo Butz is fabulous. I have loved him since A) he rocked the touring production of Sam Mendes’ Cabaret as the emcee and B) he opened his Tony acceptance speech for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels by saying “I was SO happy when they said my name just now—because I finally got the joke!”

Neil Patrick Harris was a terrific host and should host the Oscars, too. On the downside: so many artists relegated to the off-broadcast awards, including the freaking BEST SCORE and the regional theater award (which this year went to the wholly-deserving Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago).

Comment by Oblomova on 06/12/11 at 11:22 PM

Goodness, O—no apologies required. We’re all gay around here to some degree. It’s true I probably wouldn’t have watched had Parker and Stone not had a hit in the running, even though I pay attention to theater and I’m a fan of good musical scores. But that’s only because awards shows usually suck, which this one miraculously didn’t.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 06/12/11 at 11:36 PM

But that’s only because awards shows usually suck, which this one miraculously didn’t.

Except for the Spidey ballad, of course.

Comment by Oblomova on 06/13/11 at 10:18 AM

Except for the Spidey ballad

Even that was lightened by the tension of waiting for one of them to fall off the platform.

Bono and that other guy were the most shame-faced introducers of their own work I’ve ever seen. All that humanitarian work countered in one fell show!

And Norbert Leo Butz is just the living end. So to speak.

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 06/13/11 at 10:30 AM

Except for the Spidey ballad, of course.

That show could not be any worse if Andrew Lloyd Webber had written it. Not a hook to be heard, not even a grating, awful recital piece like “Memory” or “Music of the Night.”

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 06/13/11 at 10:31 AM

I am so dying to see “Book of Mormon”! Apparently the touring show is kicking off in Denver late in 2012. kc and I may not be able to wait until then - may have to make an emergency trip to NYC this fall!