Tony Awards 2018: Best, Worst And Weirdest Moments
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BEST REMINDER THAT IT'S GOOD TO HAVE OTHER INTERESTS
What Roseanne cancellation?
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BEST SELF-DEPRECATION
Lite FM standbys Bareilles and Groban joked that viewers might know their music from Starbucks, your mom's Rav4 "or on a mix CD from college you labeled 'emotional.'"
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BEST MANTRA TO REPEAT WHEN FEELING LOW
"My name is Regina George, and I am a massive deal."
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BEST ADVICE
While accepting the Tony for Lead Actor in a Play for his performance as Angels in America's Prior Walter — a gay man suffering from AIDS in the 1980s — Andrew Garfield offered up a simple piece of guidance/sly commentary on current events: "Let's just bake a cake for everyone who wants a cake to be baked."
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BEST BOSS EVER
We just wanted to say that.
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BEST REMINDER THAT LIZ LEMON HAS NOT LEFT THE BUILDING
The Mean Girls scribe/30 Rock creator and star hadn't been on stage for more than a few moments before she dropped one of the night's most memorable lines. "All four of tonight's best musical nominees are based on movies," Fey said, "but only one of these movies paid for my boat."
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BEST REACTION (PART I)
Girls star and The Boys in the Band cast member Andrew Rannells looked perpetually delighted out in the crowd. (If we were Andrew Rannells, we'd probably be perpetually delighted, as well.)
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WORST COSTUMES (BUT THAT'S KINDA THE POINT)
We loved hearing Groban and Bareilles lament the grueling, eight-shows-a-week schedule that most Broadway performers endure, and we adored that the bit was set to the tune of Sia's "Chandelier." But those shiny suits were oof.
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WORST REMINDER THAT ORPHAN BLACK IS NO LONGER
Tatiana Maslany, we miss you!
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BEST ASIDES
Featured Actor in a Play winner Nathan Lane made sure to thank his Angels in America dresser, Ken Brown, by name, and offered this pithy assessment of playwright Tony Kushner: "Even his emails are Pulitzer-worthy."
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WORST GUILT BY ASSOCIATION
Love Mikhail Baryshnikov. Still not over what Aleksandr did to Carrie.
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BEST REACTION (PART II)
And we weren't the only ones who thought so.
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BEST GENUINE SURPRISE OF THE EVENING
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor Kali Clougherty stopped the show with an insanely poised and powerful solo during her choir's performance of "Seasons of Love" from Rent.
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WORST CHILL
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star/musical theater enthusiast Rachel Bloom was having such a good time backstage with the cast of Frozen after its live performance, she lost her place on the Teleprompter and blew the commercial break. (We don't know if she was elated or gassy, but probably somewhere in the zone?)
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BEST COORDINATION AMONG PRESENTERS
We're not the least bit surprised that Andrew Rannells, Matt Bomer, Zachary Quinto and Jim Parsons — all currently starring in Broadway's The Boys in the Band — coordinated their looks for the Tony Awards. We just wish we could have watched them bicker about who got to wear which color.
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EASIEST MISTAKE
Frantic production assistant on headset during Once On This Island's performance: "I said, 'That Nathan Lane, he's the G.O.A.T., not 'Nathan Lane should feed the goat!'"
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BEST WAY TO FORGET THAT MEDLEY SHOWS ARE USUALLY A HOT MESS
"Last Dance," the performance by the cast of Summer: The Donna Summer musical, was pretty damn great.
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WORST TIME FOR THE CENSOR TO BE ON IT
We're pretty sure we know what presenter Robert De Niro said — and about whom he said it — before introducing Bruce Springsteen's live performance, but man, it would've been interesting to hear the moment with the actual audio.
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BEST SIGHT GAG
Bareilles and Groban dressed as each other's Broadway characters (from Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 and Waitress) was a silly throwaway joke, and we ate it up like sugar... butter... flour...