Eagle-eyed viewers of last night’s Tony Awards (all three of them) caught a surprising nod to animation during the Broadway community’s annual celebration of cheesy tourist-fare.A lifetime achievement award was presented to Jerry Herman - composer of “Mame,” “La Cage Aux Folles,” and that musical the high school drama club did in 10th grade - while slides showed the titles of his big numbers. And in an unlikely twist, the tune “Put On Your Sunday Clothes” was credited as being “from Hello, Dolly! and WALL*E.” Really?
Must be Broadway trying to ride some Pixar coattails. Of course, the fifty-year-old tune isn’t originally from WALL*E. But the film’s adorable robo-Casanova did learn his moves from an old VHS of “Hello, Dolly!” It seems the trash compactor himself was originally supposed to present Jerry Herman’s award, as part of Disney's Living Character Initiative, but Wall*E was mysteriously cut from the broadcast. He was probably getting drunk backstage with Liza Minelli.
Additional fun fact! Jerry Herman knew last year that he’d licensed some of his songs to Pixar. But he had no idea the extent to which they were being used. Until he sat down and watched WALL*E. [HuffPo]
Can you imagine? Not only you have the surprise of your fifty-year-old songs - and not the most widely-remembered in your songbook - turning out to be a major plot point in this fantastic little robot movie, but also? That this fantastic little robot movie says your fifty-year-old songs are going to OUT-LAST CIVILIZATION.
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