{"id":48532,"date":"2022-06-13T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T11:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/billy-crystal-samuel-l-jackson-sing-more-moments\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T11:41:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T11:41:01","slug":"billy-crystal-samuel-l-jackson-sing-more-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/billy-crystal-samuel-l-jackson-sing-more-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Crystal, Samuel L. Jackson sing;  more moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Tony Awards highlights include Jennifer Hudson's EGOT win, Lea Michele and Patti LuPone\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">NEW YORK &#8211; Broadway&#8217;s biggest night returned with starry tributes, teary speeches and plenty of love to go around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After a scaled-down show last year due to COVID-19, the Tony Awards came home to Radio City Music Hall Sunday with a joyous ceremony hosted by theater veteran-turned-Oscar winner Ariana DeBose (\u201cWest Side Story\u201d).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Stephen Sondheim&#8217;s gender-swapped \u201cCompany\u201d and Stefano Massini&#8217;s financial epic \u201cThe Lehman Trilogy\u201d led the prizes with five Tonys apiece.  Meanwhile, Michael R. Jackson&#8217;s Pulitzer Prize-winning \u201cA Strange Loop,\u201d about a young Black gay playwright, picked up awards for best musical and best book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Jennifer Hudson is a producer on \u201cLoop\u201d and achieved EGOT status with the show&#8217;s best musical trophy, having now won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img gnt_em_img__inset\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Bernadette Peters brought viewers to tears with her moving performance honoring late composer Sondheim, singing his song &#8220;Children Will Listen&#8221; from &#8220;Into the Woods.&#8221;  And the original Broadway cast of \u201cSpring Awakening,\u201d which includes Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff, nearly stole the show with their stirring rendition of \u201cTouch Me\u201d from the provocative hit musical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Here are more highlights from the night:<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>2022 Tony Awards full list of winners:<\/strong> &#8216;A Strange Loop,&#8217; &#8216;The Lehman Trilogy&#8217; take Broadway&#8217;s top honors<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>Ariana DeBose on hosting the Tony Awards,<\/strong> why she won&#8217;t use her Oscar as a toilet paper holder<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:441px\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/13\/USAT\/08da3ca0-bc86-4e92-a1c2-1971da30f815-XXX_TONYS2022_20473894_dcb.jpg?ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/13\/USAT\/08da3ca0-bc86-4e92-a1c2-1971da30f815-XXX_TONYS2022_20473894_dcb.jpg?width=1320&amp;height=882&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Billy Crystal interacts with Samuel L. Jackson in the crowd as he performs songs from &quot;Mr. Saturday Night&quot; during the 75th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 12.\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Billy Crystal charms singing Yiddish with Samuel L. Jackson<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A number of musicals delivered standout performances that are guaranteed to sell tickets: Joaquina Kalukango, a newly crowned Tony winner for best actress in a musical, blew the roof off Radio City with her ferociously emotional &#8220;Let It Burn&#8221; from &#8220;Paradise Square,&#8221; which got an immediate standing ovation from the audience.  &#8220;MJ&#8221; and &#8220;Girl from the North Country&#8221; also wowed with reworked takes on popular Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan songs, respectively. <\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Crystal, too, made the most of his time onstage performing &#8220;A Little Joy&#8221; from his musical &#8220;Mr. Saturday Night,&#8221; in which he plays a washed-up standup comedian named Buddy Young Jr. At one point, Crystal called on the audience to jokingly scat-sing in Yiddish with him: walking over to Jackson and Lin-Manuel Miranda, both of whom gamely sang and laughed along. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;If you liked me, I&#8217;m Buddy Young Jr.&#8221;  Crystal said at the end of the performance.  &#8220;If you&#8217;re not so sure, I&#8217;m Hugh Jackman!&#8221; <\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:454px\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/13\/USAT\/58249238-9dca-4c8f-8eb2-5329f6daf783-AP_75th_Annual_Tony_Awards_-_Arrivals.jpg?ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/13\/USAT\/58249238-9dca-4c8f-8eb2-5329f6daf783-AP_75th_Annual_Tony_Awards_-_Arrivals.jpg?width=1320&amp;height=908&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sam Rockwell, from right, Laurence Fishburne and Delilah Fishburne arrive at the 75th annual Tony Awards.\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Laurence Fishburne stuns with random Daffy Duck impression <\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In between awards, DeBose wandered into the audience for some genuinely amusing banter with presenters and nominees: singing on Andrew Garfield&#8217;s lap while he hugged her, and doing the &#8220;Rich Man&#8217;s Frug&#8221; dance from the 1969 musical &#8220;Sweet Charity&#8221; with Sam Rockwell. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But most memorable of all was when she walked over to Fishburne, who stars in &#8220;American Buffalo&#8221; on Broadway and was seated with his teenage daughter, Delilah. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Laurence Fishburne, he does an incredible Daffy Duck,&#8221; DeBose said, putting a microphone up to the actor&#8217;s face. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Well, thank you and welcome to the Tony Awards,&#8221; Fishburne replied, doing a pitch-perfect voice of the Looney Tunes character as his horrified daughter looked on.  &#8220;And thank you for your contribution to the American theater.&#8221; <\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_tw\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadTwitter\" data-v-id=\"1536157493470052352\" aria-label=\"Twitter Embed\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>&#8216;We just want to be seen&#8217;:<\/strong> &#8216;Black-ish&#8217; creator Kenya Barris, Anthony Anderson reflect on show&#8217;s legacy<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">His daughter&#8217;s hilarious reaction was an instant hit on social media.  &#8220;Special award to Laurence Fishburne&#8217;s embarrassed daughter,&#8221; Twitter user <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulArtSmith\/status\/1536150455176335361\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@PaulArtSmith<\/a> joked.  &#8220;I need someone to do a post-show interview with (her),&#8221; <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jessemermell\/status\/1536150984556257283\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@jessemermell<\/a> added. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:441px\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/13\/USAT\/61d2b27b-ecad-4bd1-97a0-daea734f3a71-USP_Entertainment__2022_Tony_Awards_show_4.jpg?ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/13\/USAT\/61d2b27b-ecad-4bd1-97a0-daea734f3a71-USP_Entertainment__2022_Tony_Awards_show_4.jpg?width=1320&amp;height=882&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Myles Frost accepts the best actor in a musical award for Michael Jackson bio-musical &quot;MJ.&quot;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Myles Frost tearfully honors his mom and the late Michael Jackson<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Frost moon-walked away with the Tony for best leading actor in a musical, besting famous fellow nominees Hugh Jackman (&#8220;The Music Man&#8221;) and Billy Crystal (&#8220;Mr. Saturday Night&#8221;) for his spot-on portrayal of pop icon Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cMa, I made it,\u201d said the 22-year-old newcomer, who danced up to the stage and broke out singing Jackson 5&#8217;s \u201cBlame It On the Boogie\u201d midway through his speech.  \u201cI really gotta pee right now, so I&#8217;ll keep it quick: Mom, I love you so, so much.  Without you, there would be no me.  You taught and showed me what a strong Black woman is and what it means to raise a strong Black man.  I just pray I made you proud. &#8221; <\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He closed his speech with a tribute to Jackson himself, saying, &#8220;I love you all and as Michael would say: With love, heal the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">Digging deeper:<\/strong>We may never resolve our conflicted feelings about Michael Jackson<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Talking to journalists backstage, Frost reflected on Jackson&#8217;s impact on pop culture, saying, \u201cBlack music culture is music culture, period.  Michael has been one of the pioneers for that, if not the biggest pioneer. &#8221;  He was also asked what he&#8217;d say to Jackson if he had the chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI would ask him, &#8216;How&#8217;d I do?  And what can I do better? &#8216;  \u201cFrost said.  &#8220;I&#8217;m very hard on myself &#8211; that&#8217;s just how my mentality is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:441px\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/13\/USAT\/2beb9771-f5f1-48cc-9c06-5144cf09fb2c-XXX_TONYS2022_20121659_dcb.jpg?ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/13\/USAT\/2beb9771-f5f1-48cc-9c06-5144cf09fb2c-XXX_TONYS2022_20121659_dcb.jpg?width=1320&amp;height=882&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jesse Tyler Ferguson accepts the award for best performance by an actor in a featured role in a play for his role in &quot;Take Me Out.&quot;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Jesse Tyler Ferguson addresses co-star&#8217;s nude leak backstage <\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The &#8220;Modern Family&#8221; favorite earned his first Tony for best featured actor in a play for &#8220;Take Me Out,&#8221; which also won best play revival.  Ferguson, who plays the gay business manager of a newly out baseball player in the show, recalled his early days di lui working in a theater gift shop in Times Square while accepting the award. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_anc\" id=\"gnt_atomsnc\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadAnc\" aria-label=\"Newsletter signup form\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I would sit in there and I would be folding my &#8216;Phantom of the Opera&#8217; T-shirts, watching actors walk by the windows, and I thought, &#8216;Oh God, I hope that&#8217;s me someday,'&#8221; Ferguson said in his speech , before thanking his parents and husband, actor \/ producer Justin Mikita. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Backstage, Ferguson was asked whether he worries about having his privacy invaded by theatergoers in the future, after his co-star Jesse Williams (&#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8221;) was illegally filmed by an audience member during a nude scene.  The footage was later leaked online last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;&#8216;Take Me Out&#8217; is a very unique play with shower scenes and celebrities. I don&#8217;t think those match up too often on stage,&#8221; Ferguson told journalists.  &#8220;Maybe we&#8217;ll see a surge now of those plays, who knows? But no. &#8230; I think that was an isolated event, and I love and trust all of my theatergoing fans just as much as I did before this.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>Jesse Tyler Ferguson<\/strong> says he&#8217;s &#8216;appalled&#8217; by leak of Jesse Williams nude in &#8216;Take Me Out&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">&#8216;Consent is important&#8217;:<\/strong>Jesse Williams addresses leak of Broadway nude scene<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img gnt_em_img__inset\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:450px\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/13\/USAT\/0a5972ea-e2bf-4cc4-89cb-8149a9650992-USP_Entertainment__2022_Tony_Awards_show_1.jpg?ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/13\/USAT\/0a5972ea-e2bf-4cc4-89cb-8149a9650992-USP_Entertainment__2022_Tony_Awards_show_1.jpg?width=600&amp;height=900&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patti LuPone accepts the award for best performance by an actress in a featured role in a musical for her performance in &quot;Company.&quot;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Patti LuPone revives viral meme while accepting third Tony<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Broadway legend picked up her third Tony Sunday for best featured actress in a musical for &#8220;Company,&#8221; following past wins for playing Eva Peron in &#8220;Evita&#8221; and Mama Rose in &#8220;Gypsy.&#8221;  In &#8220;Company,&#8221; she portrays the vodka-slinging Joanne, who belts out the Sondheim musical&#8217;s signature song &#8220;The Ladies Who Lunch.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In her speech, a visibly emotional LuPone, 73, paid tribute to &#8220;all of the understudies across all of the stage in New York,&#8221; as well as &#8220;all of the COVID safety people.&#8221;  She also made a playful nod to a viral video last month, in which she berated a &#8220;Company&#8221; audience member for not wearing a mask, who then claimed to pay the actress&#8217; salary.  (&#8220;Chris Harper pays my salary!&#8221; LuPone retorted, name-dropping one of the show&#8217;s producers.) <\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Chris Harper, who pays my salary, you are my one and last producer,&#8221; LuPone said as she closed out her Tonys speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">&#8216;Who do you think you are?&#8217;:<\/strong>Patti LuPone claps back at Broadway theatergoer for not wearing mask<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll just say, you don&#8217;t see that coming, do you?&#8221;  Harper said of the viral phenomenon, with theater fans printing his name di lui on T-shirts in weeks since.  &#8220;The great thing about Patti is that you never know what&#8217;s gonna happen. I love her so deeply. She&#8217;s hilarious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>2022 Tony Awards:<\/strong> Broadway&#8217;s biggest night in photos<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/12\/USAT\/31f45426-ac66-498a-acfb-01cb2b5e04d6-AP_75th_Annual_Tony_Awards_-_Arrivals.1.jpg?resize=660%2C372&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/12\/USAT\/31f45426-ac66-498a-acfb-01cb2b5e04d6-AP_75th_Annual_Tony_Awards_-_Arrivals.1.jpg?crop=2241,1261,x0,y0&amp;width=1320&amp;height=744&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Broadway&#8217;s biggest night returned with starry tributes, teary speeches and plenty of love to go around. After a scaled-down show last year due to COVID-19, the Tony Awards came home to Radio City Music Hall Sunday with a joyous ceremony hosted by theater veteran-turned-Oscar winner Ariana DeBose (\u201cWest Side Story\u201d). Stephen Sondheim&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/billy-crystal-samuel-l-jackson-sing-more-moments\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Billy Crystal, Samuel L. Jackson sing;  more moments<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/12\/USAT\/8e78e0cb-6b40-4cc9-8907-7b740530da77-AP_75th_Annual_Tony_Awards_-_Arrivals.4.jpg?crop=2179,3000,x0,y0&width=300&height=414&format=pjpg&auto=webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}