Rock of Ages was completely shut out at the Tony Awards on Sunday night. This was something of a predictable outcome; after all, it was up against what was basically an unstoppable juggernaut.
When I wrote my last post on Rock of Ages, about the Tony Awards, I only focused on the awards I thought it stood a chance at winning–the technical awards. There was no way that they were going to hand out best actor or best musical to a jukebox musical when there was an Elton John original to give awards to.
They didn’t even get the technical awards–I thought that maybe there might be a mercy vote in that area. But no. And lets face it, after Bret Michaels made an idiot of himself during the opening number, everybody was probably sitting back and thinking to themselves that they were right not to give the hair metal guys any awards. Honestly, with the number of live shows Poison has done–especially in the 80s–you’d think he’d have known better than to do that.
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