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BWW Rewind: HAMILTON Takes Over the Tonys with an Ode from Randy Rainbow
May 17, 2024
Today, the countdown continues as we rewind to May 2016, when the show was nominated for a record-breaking sixteen Tony Awards. Watch as Randy Rainbow sings what everyone was thinking that spring!
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You got a desperate waitress character based on an indie film starring Keri Russell stuck
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with a deadbeat husband selling dozens of tiny pies at intermission. She does her hot physician
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The competition, a rock and roll collaborator and manipulator who decides to educate Sir
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Andrew Lloyd is the creator with lyrics by Glenn Slater. It's on later at the Winter Garden Theater
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And over at the court you got a show with lots of heart and lots of really pretty music
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by that legend Steve Martin set in North Carolina. Wait, I probably shouldn't spoil it
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Don't worry though. It's not about their laws about the toilet. Then a show about a show and how it got up on its legs
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Days of the Depression with lots of jazzy segues and full of Tony winning and beloved
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Broadway regs. The show is so hot it got Audra McDonald preg
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Well the Tonys announced that because these shows are swell they're all nominated this
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year and everyone's like hell yeah I gotta write a speech and buy a dress and I'm like
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well there's actually something that I should probably tell you. Sorry you're not Hamilton
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Sucks that you're not Hamilton. Guess there's a million Tonys you could win
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But you won't win. You're not Hamilton. So I called up the nominees and this is what I told them
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Just stay home unless you're Lin-Manuel or Leslie Odom. Frank Langella said but wait I'm nominated for a play
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I said Frank shut up you're gonna lose to Hamilton anyway. Don't wanna dishearten you Steve Martin and Edie Brickell
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Your score is gorgeous but you're unfortunately no Lin-Manuel. Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber your show is so much fun and listen Sara Bareilles don't be jealous
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you're just not Hamilton. No Tony award for Jessica Lange who was brilliant in Long Day's Journey
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None for Megan Michelle or Jane How-to-Shell or Meredith Baxter-Bernie. None for Rita or Tom or for me or your mom because your mother's not in Hamilton
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Your mother's not in Hamilton. So I'll do on the 12th unless you're Jonathan Groff because they've got 16 nominations
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but 16 is not enough so if you won a Tony last year you know what you should do
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Give it back so that Hamilton can have those Tonys too. Give it back so that Hamilton can have your Tony too
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Michael Cervas. Give it back so that Hamilton can have your Tony too
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Give it back so that Hamilton can have your Tony too. Give it back
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Hashtag give it back for ham. Let's make it a thing. They picked up every accolade and honor in their path and got so many nominations
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that it's hard for me to fathom. And there's lots of Tonys to be won but no one else can have them
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Hamilton Best Musical. Hamilton Best Play. Hamilton Best Revival. Have a musical and a play
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Write in Hamilton when you vote. Oh and hey Angela Lansbury give your Tonys to Hamilton
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There's so many Tonys you can win. Oh but hey. Sorry you're not Hamilton
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Hashtag give it back for ham
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