1984 Tony Awards ~ COMPLETE

[@sebastiankinnunen5549]

❤I saw Chita and Gwen in Chicago year 1975 on Broadway original show. I was only 15 yo.What a memories❤love from Finland❤

[@knutini]

Sunday in the Park was WAAAY ahead of its time! It could be staged exactly as is in any time period and be completely fresh and innovative.

[@scottyminnefabulous]

This is really one of the best award shows I've ever seen! It's also incredibly fast-paced! The musical tributes are amazing and dig deep into the songs of Kander and Ebb, Sondheim, and Jerry Herman. The performances are amazing!

[@Pdjohnners]

Never heard of Dorothy Louden before you uploaded the various Tony shows. Im very glad to have been introducec to such a vivacious talent. Thank you

[@georgialerangis2123]

Pdjohnners Me too!

[@richardbullis6263]

Introduce

[@beaellie9766]

She is the original Miss Hannigan on Broadway in "ANNIE" -- Tony Award.

[@victoriaindigo]

This is the best youtube channel ever!

[@emilionassarantonio7868]

Excelente presentación de espectáculo..Tony....1984😊saludos.

[@musicdestroyer]

Misspoochsmooch, thank you posting these. Truly amazing!

[@quizmaster85]

No mistaking the brilliance of Al Hirschfeld's iconic penmanship on his caricatures.

[@garydeblasio8810]

Thanks so much for posting this. 1984 as well as 1979 maybe my two favorite Tony years.

[@MiriamLasCondes]

Thank you for posting this. It has brought back memories of people I loved whom I went to the theatre with some thirty years ago.

[@georgialerangis2123]

New York Theater in the 1980s, paradise!

[@georgialerangis2123]

God bless Jerry !

[@richardbullis6263]

I agree. The 1970s thru 1990s were also good. The production's and telecast were superior and more talented than the other awards show. Nowadays the Tony awards are commercial and crass like all the others. I stopped watching it myself.

[@garydeblasio8810]

@@richardbullis6263 the Tony Awards mean nothing to me today.

[@tashmivyas]

Wow is Dame Julie Andrews for real...how can someone look so beautiful.. just amazing and i loved her rendition of "Send In the clowns"... It is high time the Tony's honour with a Lifetime Achievement Award to the legend of Broadway #PollyBrown #ElizaDolittle #Guinviere #VictorVictoria 🙌.

[@mervyngreene6687]

Julie Andrews showed us what a confident, talented singer she is. "Send in the Clowns" is a simple melody. Too many singers "over sing" it. She didn't.

[@CatherineZhang-kq2cm]

​@@mervyngreene6687Couldn't agree more✨…

[@CatherineZhang-kq2cm]

She deserves at least one Tony Award… One of the most deserved in fact😢…

[@joeburinskas8672]

George Hearn was always a bridesmaid until tonight. You can tell the audience really wanted him to win

[@HeresWhatJonathanSaid]

One of the best productions of the Tony show among all those in the 1980's, but do yourself a favor: Skip to 57:45 and watch the great Dorothy Loudon give the quintessential two minute course in how to perform musical comedy.

[@georgialerangis2123]

Jonathan Broder Go girl Dorothy!

[@johnsax1445]

She was Spectacular, a rendition only she could ever do!

[@luckydude4506]

A fine night was had by all.

[@tommytimp]

All except the producers of Sunday in the Park With George.

[@kennethdesmondmosley1075]

I saw George Hearn in Sweeney Todd and he was AMAZING!!! I actually wept for Sweeney at the end he made me feel so sorry for him.

[@irenakaczmarek]

Dzięki za ten film. Fajnie by było, jakby był w jakości HD. pozdrawiam:-)

[@tejaswoman]

First Tonys ceremony I remember seeing. was so blown away by SITPWG.

[@richardbullis6263]

Mike Nichols was so versatile directing films and the theater. Will we see another like him.

[@joselgarlitos6368]

so far we have Martin Mcdonagh, Rob Marshall, Sam Mendes, Julie Taymor

[@Dianaemanuel]

I think any other year Sunday in the Park with George would have swept the awards. It was unfortunate that it was up against the marvellous La Cage aux Folles. Two great scores by two giants of the musical theatre.

[@pumbaaj]

I read that the AIDS crisis had an impact on the La Cage phenomenon.

[@georgialerangis2123]

Saw them. both , amazing each in its own way.

[@eduardoborja228]

I don't think that even mattered. Sunday in the Park with George should have won Best Musical regardless of the competition. In my opinion, it was robbed.

[@eduardoborja228]

Bernadette Peters was also robbed. Her performance was ridiculously amazing

[@mervyngreene6687]

I think that the problem is that it looks like she was born to perform Sondheim. Her performance as the Witch in "Into the Woods" was spectacular.

[@emilionassar4782]

Hola...Excelente vídeo y muchas gracias y muchas felicidades por presentar este momento musical,de premiacion a,lo mejor del Espectáculo Mundial/Broadwey..Y a la espectacular por siempre.. Liza Minnelli.

[@ChrisKorman-nr2uc]

Nancy dussault"s rendition of im not getting.married today from follies is my.fav.of.all.time.

[@georgialerangis2123]

1984 what a year, Jeremy Irons0

[@tylervenkersammy2365]

00:17 The Tap Dance Kid!!!

[@donhailer4994]

I remember watching this live and thinking Herman was rude to Sondheim in his acceptance speech. But nowadays, I understand Herman's perspective a bit more. He's referring to not just Sondheim, but to the many composers of the 1970s who found success while Herman became "old hat". Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Schwartz, and other composers of the rock opera era were enjoying critical/popular success and Herman, who had been the toast of Broadway a mere 10 years earlier, found himself regarded as a dinosaur. The success of "La Cage" must have been exhilarating and life-affirming to him, and therefore his self-congratulatory speech. And Herman was right about the beauty of his score: as much as I love Sondheim and the "Sunday" OBC recording, it's "La Cage" that has more plays on my iPod.

[@marcevan1141]

Sorry man, I saw La Cage and hated it...Sunday in the Park is flawed but often beautiful and Sondheim's score is miles above Herman's

[@Kiltdon]

La Cage is a horribly offensive musical about pretending to be something you're not to please others, with a feeble to attempt to make the whole thing palatable by throwing in I Am What I Am. I absolutely hated the idea and execution of this musical then and I still do. Sunday was transcendant art by artists in full flight. La Cage was ... popular.

[@rockysocky]

Geez you Sondheim fanboys are rude

[@HaunaMyKiki]

@@Kiltdon If _that's_ what you got out of La Cage, then idk what to say. Yes, that's the _conflict_ of the show, but it's poised as something that is ultimately wrong to do. It's a happy ending about pushing past the bs of the people around you to unapologetically be your own person. I agree that Sunday is the more important of the two shows, but I like them both!

[@tylervenkersammy2365]

1:30:48 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in the Musical!!

[@johnsax1445]

Omg Dorothy Loudon killed it as only she can get away with!

[@juanmonge8]

I bet Dorothy Loudon would have made a great “ Mama Rose”.

[@johnyzero2000]

Lila Kedrova gave the best speech and Anita Morris is a goddess!

[@corgisrule21]

Julie Andrews is a goddess Also, I wonder how many kids would be shocked to learn that Blind Al is also a broadway star😂

[@dadodydo]

The Tony Awards put the Academy Awards to shame. These shows are excellent entertaining quality.

[@tommytimp]

Would love to have seen a five minute stretch of that original cast of Noises Off, even on tape from the theater.

[@tomshea8382]

Agreed.

[@mervyngreene6687]

I always feel sorry for the shows that were the "other nominees." "Noises Off," is a charming play.

[@tomshea8382]

Noises Off is like a Master's thesis in quantum physics.

[@mervyngreene6687]

@@tomshea8382 I think it is more like a PhD dissertation when it is done well. I saw it the first time it came to San Francisco. The cast was brilliant! I think that American theater goers do not give farces the respect that they deserve. "Death is easy. Comedy is hard."

[@Ourfriendvirch]

Julie Andrews

[@KIKAALEGRIA]

Awesome post

[@BelindaWoodson-uc5is]

I love that (Character Board Back Drop). The back drop doesn't show anyone ethic back grown !

[@jandreidrn]

Nancy Dussault was the only performer here to sung for all three tributes.

[@pmoneywest8099]

Liza dripping in HALSTON 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@garydeblasio8810]

What a great voice Leslie Uggums has!!

[@tylervenkersammy2365]

1:00:38 Tony Award for Best Choreography!!

[@holliedevine7565]

Love how Liza gets so excited when Chita wins

[@flaggerify]

Someone who can sing singing Send in the Clowns.

[@mysticoversoul]

OMG, do not miss 1:23:23 .

[@musicalnerd6014]

the fact that Sunday in the park with George didn't win I-

[@jayburken3270]

I mean, La Cage is such an amazing musical, and extremely relevant at that specific time, but even still now. Sunday is amazing, but just came across a juggernaut that night.

[@musicalnerd6014]

@@jayburken3270 totally agree!!!

[@MondoMiami]

Overrated dreck

[@ILJ68]

@@jayburken3270yes, but considering the furore over Trans rights, La Cage still holds its own today too.

[@richardbullis6263]

My favorite Sondheim musical is Evening Primrose which is lesser than his well known works. The music, songs, and premise of the story are brilliant.

[@edisonthethird]

Come on Alfonso Ribeiro!! The Tap Dance Kid!!!! Had no idea he was a Broadway baby!

[@mervyngreene6687]

I know. A lot of people don't realize what a talented performer he is.

[@briandoolittlegonzalez]

wait did they build the entire set??? or is this a clip from the pro shot??? i’m so confused

[@briandoolittlegonzalez]

for sunday in the oark

[@cserannie80]

did I miss Carol Burnett somewhere? I cannot see her anywhere...

[@tylervenkersammy2365]

1:01:06 Danny Daniels!!!

[@arunyan22]

Go directly to 1:26:05 to see Dorothy Loudon own the stage.

[@tylervenkersammy2365]

1:31:09 Hinton Battle!!!

[@MissPerriwinkle]

weird year for bway........

[@emmamurphy530]

2:24 tap dance break

[@iHeartsNostalgiaPit]

I thought I was looking at a Jogging musical when I always hovered over the 1984 Tony Awards but it's actually the tap dance kid nice to get some context man a few days after this show Meredith Wilson would be dead No disrespect for Hirschfeld but those look so creepy man I hate when a composer bites it we can never get a new one of their stuff again unless someone went through their trash oh wow a young Christine Baranski Baby was quite exciting but how would would this work in this day and age as of this posting Merrily We Roll Along is getting a revival

[@tommytimp]

Funny how there's never an Equity railing on the steps up to the stage at the Tonys. Also: Anita Morris. Unbelievable.

[@MikeA15206]

La Cage beat Sunday in the Park? The only word of that is ridiculous. Jerry is there with his mother LOL.

[@michaell.walton7076]

+Mike Anderson If Soundheim had maybe stopped with Act I he might have won. The Chromalume/Act II modern day story didn't deliver.

[@evans54]

jerry's mother wasnt living ; she did when he was young. I love the second act of Sunday.

[@joeburinskas8672]

As it should have

[@dadodydo]

Yes, ridiculous, you’re right. Nothing spectacular about it. But then Baby is also ridiculous. You just cannot turn any stupidity into a musical.

[@Alex-nf1jy]

wow the front audience at 31:32 dont applause

[@CatherineZhang-kq2cm]

Julie Andrews… Hope she could sing the whole score✨…

[@gataca1976]

WHY DOES DUSTIN HOFFMAN GETS SUCH A STANDING OVATION....???

[@msomers24]

Because he gave one of the best performances of the year but wasn't nominated. One of those HUGE Tony gaffes, acknowledged by the audience.

[@steveb1164]

Sondheim, Lapine, and "Sunday in the Park" were ROBBED

[@lucasr621]

I want a Carol DOLL!

[@georgialerangis2123]

lucasr621 Me too!

[@flaggerify]

Didn't know Raquel Welch could sing.

[@mervyngreene6687]

Anita Morris.

[@marcuspd7502]

1984 was much like 1991 where you had incredible scores (Sunday in the Park with George in 84 and Miss Saigon in 91) which were overlooked because other shows (La Cage and Will Rogers Follies) had messages which were more timely. In 1984, the gay community was front and center because the AIDS crisis was in critical mode, and in 1991, we had just won the Gulf War and patriotism was very high. I don’t think it was about competition. I think it was the climate of our culture which caused losses for Sunday in the Park and Miss Saigon. Also, Jerry Herman was quite rude in his acceptance speech for best score. It was clear he was taking a shot at Sondheim. Sondheim went on to debut 5 more Broadway shows following this night and won Tonys for 2 of those shows. Herman never wrote a show again. As of writing this, both men are in their late 80’s and have less than a year of age between them. Sondheim has 8 Tonys and Herman has 6.

[@kennethdesmondmosley1075]

Marcus PD I too felt his speech was unnecessarily pointed at Sondheim I

[@jandreidrn]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZfGemyQaZqAia8 actually Jerry Herman never took a shot at Sondheim and even said he liked Sunday in the Park with George

[@marcuspd7502]

@@jandreidrn All he did in that clip you shared was attempt to walk back what he clearly states at 33:08 in this broadcast of the 1984 Tonys. If you don’t think he was taking a shot at SITPWG and Sondheim here, you are extremely gullible. It’s nice that he tried to white wash this comment many, many, many years later, but the fact still stands that he said it, and La Cage was his last original work on Broadway while Sondheim continued to thrive.

[@jandreidrn]

@@marcuspd7502 you can see Jerry Herman clapping enthusiastically after the performance of SITPWG... now I don't know about you but I would have thought if Jerry were clearly making shots at Sondheim at that time, he would have shown his distaste of his musical instead of showing positive support, no?

[@marcuspd7502]

@@jandreidrn You have zero clue how to throw shade.

[@antonspivack1436]

How come George Hearn didn't perform in drag? Would that have been too controversial for prime time?

[@rocantenrocanten4150]

джереми сексяшка ммммм

[@johnwhiting5747]

Would it have killed Hearn to dress in drag for this famous song!? Homophobia 1984!

[@johnwhiting5747]

George Hearn shouted the lyrics, Keene Curtis in 1987 was much better. Too bad.

[@rayyanez3527]

I TOTALLY!!.! Agree !!! He was Like!!!!!🤔 He Is SWEENEY TODD 😵😵😵 DEMON BARBER OF CHRISTOPHER ST ?????Does DRAG!!??????!!!; He had no Vulnerability!! Nor Pathos. In his Performance !. Of I.am what I am!!;... He is ANGR😵😵😵Y !!!! During the WHOLE SONG !!!!!!!;

[@MondoMiami]

37:11 Aside from her always-Rottweileresque face, what’s with the fake British accent?

[@wookinooki9023]

women's fashions were awful that year, same goes for hairdos, makeup & accessories.