*Pets Idina*
I keep watching her Tony Award (Best Leading Actress in a Featured Musical - Up against others from Avenue Q, Wonderful Town, Caroline or Change, and Wicked...Cheno was up for the Tony, too ^_^) and I can't stop giggling and crying. IT'S SO CUTE. She wins and she immediately gets up and hugs/kisses Cheno, who is absolutely estatic, then she turns and kisses Taye, and she gets up to walk and Cheno reaches out and holds her hand. IT'S THE CUTEST. I love those two oh so much. And how just happy Cheno is...she got her Tony...Idina was nominated for RENT but dangit she deserved this one even more.
Then she's up on stage, cut to Taye trying not to cry. *Squishles Taye* And even more Cheno squealing/spazzing.
"Thank you. *Giggles and wipes away a tear. People in audience yell things like 'WE LOVE YOU IDINA!'* I love you too! Thank you! I-I am so proud to be in a musical that celebrates women, that celebrates their strengths and their differences, and to be in the company of these women this evening is just a dream for me, thank you so much. And Kristin Chenoweth, you are the grace and the light on that stage every night, *Cheno blows her a kiss* I-this is something we built together and I love you! And Joe Mantello has had the faith in me for three and a half years, and he kicked my butt into this role. And Stephen Schwarts, for writing the most beautiful music someone could sing eight times a week. And Winnie Holtzman for giving the green girl a heart! And *giggle* and-and-and-and the producers! Mark Platt and David Stone and everyone, and Tonya Travers my voice teacher...and Heather Renyolds and Bonnie Bernstine and Joe *weirdlastname* and Joe *weirdlastname* and Alan *weirdlastname* get me in and out of that silly green make up every night. And the cast - Joel Gray, Carol Shelly, Norbert Butz, the crew for getting me safe up and down in that flying machine...and, and my mother, my father, and my sister Cara, and my grandmother are here tonight! Thank you for taking me to see Dream Girls and Annie and everything growing up! *Gigglespaz* And my beautiful, beautiful husband, who tells me he loves me even when I feel like the biggest loser, I love you so much! *Infamous shot of Taye wiping away a tear* Thank you everybody! *Audience starts cheering, and she inhales and bows and blows a kiss and walks off stage all giggly and happy.*"
*Squee* It's far too cute...it's illegal to be that adorable. For once Idina won out the cuteness award against Cheno. *Huggles them both.* The OBC ROCKED. And, and, AND WHEN IS JOEL GONNA BE ON ALIAS. *Spaz* I want him to sooo sing Willkommen when he gets there. Then Wonderful. Hell, if he doesn't, I will.
-Maddy
P.S. And you know you're a Wicked fan if.....you watch the Tony Performance of Defying Gravity...and you know it was cut and shortened and the sound isn't anywhere near the clarity of actually being there and the TV distorts the voices...but despite all this...you still grin and get goosebumps and you shiver when Idina takes to the sky belting her note ("It's not her, she had nothing to do with it. I'm the the one you want. It's me! It's MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!") and you cheer with the audience as she begins Elphie's biggest moment, and you cry when they cut to Cheno/Glinda looking up at her friend, and you still cry as 'Bring me down!' is belted and you still scream and cheer (to a computer screen) when those green lights hit the fog and the last note is sung and the music stops and you just want to melt and watch it forever...because it's managed to reach out and grab you and refuse to let go, and just watching small bits like that makes you long to be there watching it on stage...and all that bitterness you have built up from people who judge it wrongly due to the book and the amusement you get from a five year old that detests Idina ("the green girl") because she only sees Elphaba as that Wicked Witch of the West and nothing more...it's gone for just a moment and you're stuck staring at a beautiful moment that you don't think you'll ever forget seeing.
Or maybe that's just me....Wicked makes my emotions take over...
I keep watching her Tony Award (Best Leading Actress in a Featured Musical - Up against others from Avenue Q, Wonderful Town, Caroline or Change, and Wicked...Cheno was up for the Tony, too ^_^) and I can't stop giggling and crying. IT'S SO CUTE. She wins and she immediately gets up and hugs/kisses Cheno, who is absolutely estatic, then she turns and kisses Taye, and she gets up to walk and Cheno reaches out and holds her hand. IT'S THE CUTEST. I love those two oh so much. And how just happy Cheno is...she got her Tony...Idina was nominated for RENT but dangit she deserved this one even more.
Then she's up on stage, cut to Taye trying not to cry. *Squishles Taye* And even more Cheno squealing/spazzing.
"Thank you. *Giggles and wipes away a tear. People in audience yell things like 'WE LOVE YOU IDINA!'* I love you too! Thank you! I-I am so proud to be in a musical that celebrates women, that celebrates their strengths and their differences, and to be in the company of these women this evening is just a dream for me, thank you so much. And Kristin Chenoweth, you are the grace and the light on that stage every night, *Cheno blows her a kiss* I-this is something we built together and I love you! And Joe Mantello has had the faith in me for three and a half years, and he kicked my butt into this role. And Stephen Schwarts, for writing the most beautiful music someone could sing eight times a week. And Winnie Holtzman for giving the green girl a heart! And *giggle* and-and-and-and the producers! Mark Platt and David Stone and everyone, and Tonya Travers my voice teacher...and Heather Renyolds and Bonnie Bernstine and Joe *weirdlastname* and Joe *weirdlastname* and Alan *weirdlastname* get me in and out of that silly green make up every night. And the cast - Joel Gray, Carol Shelly, Norbert Butz, the crew for getting me safe up and down in that flying machine...and, and my mother, my father, and my sister Cara, and my grandmother are here tonight! Thank you for taking me to see Dream Girls and Annie and everything growing up! *Gigglespaz* And my beautiful, beautiful husband, who tells me he loves me even when I feel like the biggest loser, I love you so much! *Infamous shot of Taye wiping away a tear* Thank you everybody! *Audience starts cheering, and she inhales and bows and blows a kiss and walks off stage all giggly and happy.*"
*Squee* It's far too cute...it's illegal to be that adorable. For once Idina won out the cuteness award against Cheno. *Huggles them both.* The OBC ROCKED. And, and, AND WHEN IS JOEL GONNA BE ON ALIAS. *Spaz* I want him to sooo sing Willkommen when he gets there. Then Wonderful. Hell, if he doesn't, I will.
-Maddy
P.S. And you know you're a Wicked fan if.....you watch the Tony Performance of Defying Gravity...and you know it was cut and shortened and the sound isn't anywhere near the clarity of actually being there and the TV distorts the voices...but despite all this...you still grin and get goosebumps and you shiver when Idina takes to the sky belting her note ("It's not her, she had nothing to do with it. I'm the the one you want. It's me! It's MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!") and you cheer with the audience as she begins Elphie's biggest moment, and you cry when they cut to Cheno/Glinda looking up at her friend, and you still cry as 'Bring me down!' is belted and you still scream and cheer (to a computer screen) when those green lights hit the fog and the last note is sung and the music stops and you just want to melt and watch it forever...because it's managed to reach out and grab you and refuse to let go, and just watching small bits like that makes you long to be there watching it on stage...and all that bitterness you have built up from people who judge it wrongly due to the book and the amusement you get from a five year old that detests Idina ("the green girl") because she only sees Elphaba as that Wicked Witch of the West and nothing more...it's gone for just a moment and you're stuck staring at a beautiful moment that you don't think you'll ever forget seeing.
Or maybe that's just me....Wicked makes my emotions take over...
