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smofbabeI know you can't judge an entire Broadway show just on a number seen on the Tony Awards show but frankly, I was pretty shocked at the poor quality of this year's entries by and large. The Spamalot Grail number was fun but Christina Applegate in Sweet Charity was not -- I know she's gotten good reviews but I am not exaggerating when I say that she did not do one dance step in the "If My Friends Could See Me Now" number that I couldn't do myself. The number from the The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee did not really answer our question as to how you could do an entire play based on a spelling bee (and win Best Book over Eric Idle) -- the joke lines were lame at best. Ditto the number from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which seemed to have no melody at all.
As for the fashion parade (see this photo album), I liked Laura Linney's interesting embroidered Vera Wang. I'm not sure how Spamalot winner Sara Ramirez managed to squeeze into her dress and still breathe. Joan Allen desperately need a jewelry consultant to get rid of the hanging jet beads that weighed down her neck and obscured an otherwise nice outfit. Someone also should have told Keri Russell that strapless dresses with small bodices don't work if you have no boobs. And heaven only knows who Eric Idle paid to put gold paint squiggles on a black tux jacket but it actually worked fairly well in a "look at me" sort of way. Tragic fashion error of the evening belonged to Anne Hathaway -- what could she have been thinking? Unfortunately, Leslie Uggams was a close second in a way too busy and shiny purple number.
As for the fashion parade (see this photo album), I liked Laura Linney's interesting embroidered Vera Wang. I'm not sure how Spamalot winner Sara Ramirez managed to squeeze into her dress and still breathe. Joan Allen desperately need a jewelry consultant to get rid of the hanging jet beads that weighed down her neck and obscured an otherwise nice outfit. Someone also should have told Keri Russell that strapless dresses with small bodices don't work if you have no boobs. And heaven only knows who Eric Idle paid to put gold paint squiggles on a black tux jacket but it actually worked fairly well in a "look at me" sort of way. Tragic fashion error of the evening belonged to Anne Hathaway -- what could she have been thinking? Unfortunately, Leslie Uggams was a close second in a way too busy and shiny purple number.
