The big spoiler is that he's actually been dead the whole time, right, and that plays into Alice Ripley's depression? (I was talking about this with stop_theworld right after the Tonys, ugh, you guys and your Broadway proximity). I do think I might feel different if I had actually seen the play, I just thought it was a very awkward choice for a Tony presentation. But it also seems like the kind of thing that only works as a whole, I mean, what else could they have chosen (I guess I don't know enough to make that statement, though, my rhetorical question could have an obvious answer)? And then I also tend to like classic musical stuff better -- I like orchestras and trumpets and big dance numbers, I can't help it.

AND YES, his song with Stockard Channing was TOTALLY awkward. There was a lot of awkward stuff going on -- why, why, why did they have to include the touring company numbers?