The Tonys Almost Kill Bret Michaels

This is classic.

The Tony's started with a live performance montage of various shows.

First up- Elton John. No sound for a few seconds. Why do we see this on live shows? They rehearse, yes?

Then, it's West Side Story gangs and there's no sound again. The director must go to audience mics because it sounds like we're, well, in the audience complete with audience chatter (I'm surprised we didn't hear someone trying to open up a candy wrapper). I'm sensing that Scott the Engineer from the Stern show is working the sound.

Then when Craig Bierko shows up for Guys and Dolls, some woman in the audience screams in delight (she must recognize him from when he was on Sex and the City having ADD sex with Carrie). Who squeals for Craig Bierko?

The sound appears to be fixed, so we don't hear chatty, squealy woman when Poison appears for Rock of Ages (a musical with a hair band theme).

I don't think the audience:
1) knows Poison isn't normally in the production
2) knows who Poison is

Bret Michaels doesn't leave the set fast enough and just about gets decapitated from one of the set pieces after singing "don't need nothin' but a good time". Well, you might need a good time and good timing. ba dum chh!

Rizzo! I am not up on my Broadway shows to have a clue what show she is in. Just think, Kenickie is probably crawling on the floor in Pasadena looking for Percocet. He never was the same after he got hit on the head with the car door before the big race.

Liza graces the stage, and, yikes. Liza with a "z", not an "s" as in "sing".

All, in all, it was entertaining in it's glitches. And everyone seemed to come away unscathed (although no word on Bret Michaels' weave).

Ah, now we have word:
Neil Patrick Harris comes out and says Bret Michaels' performance "gave head bangin' a whole new meaning"...the audience "ooohs" and NPH responds- "he's fine".

Jane Fonda is the first presenter. She looks fantastic.

And with that, I change the channel.