Peculiar Acceptance Speech, Even For the Tonys
Posted by Maggie
June 17th, 2008 at 11:24am
In Awards Special Events
I regularly watch the Tonys. Go ahead and laugh. I know it’s silly and a giant advertisement to go see a play and the awards are very predictable, but I have affection for the usual musicals and plays.
Last Sunday’s show featured the usual singing and dancing and Sondheim and Brits. It also featured the strangest acceptance speech I’ve ever seen. I did not understand what was going on.
According to youtube, he’s quoting from “The Back Country” by Louis Jenkins. Okay then, Mark Rylance!
The only other thing I know about Mark Rylance is that he doesn’t believe Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare (thanks, New Yorker). I’m with Stephen Greenblatt on that one, though.
Anyway, the Tonys! Into the Heights and South Pacific and August: Osage County won, and I really want to see Passing Strange.
I really want to see In the Heights now. And my parents are getting me tickets to The Lion King as a graduation present, since I really wanted to see it when it had just opened (when I graduated from high school). God, how cute was Lin-Manuel Miranda?
Was that Maria Bello? In any case, that reaction shot was fantastic.
I think that was actually Mary McCormick (In Plain Sight), apparently she’s a Broadway vet (at least that’s what my friend told me)
That was def. a ‘different’ acceptance speech, but hey, at least it was more entertaining than your typical run-of-the-mill ones.