Inside the Tony Awards afterparties: Angelina Jolie serves McDonald’s, Billy Porter protests
nypost.comTony Awards after-after-after party at 3 a.m. Monday morning, due to noise complaints.“I don’t know who you are,” Porter said to two security guards who calmly demanded that only four people remain in the room that was occupied by more than 20. “But it’s wrong!”Especially wrong was that the fridge was stocked with a case of Piper Heidsieck Rare Champagne that goes for $200 a bottle.
Those poor bubbles went uncorked!But the mantra on Broadway is “the show must go on.” Everybody discreetly scurried off onto the elevator and into other rooms instead.Before that oh-so-dramatic fracas, Rick Miramontez’s famed Carlyle kegger was at full blast into the wee hours of the morning on the Upper East Side.
Best Actress in a Play winner Sarah Paulson (“Appropriate”) hit the dance floor, and Jonathan Groff, who won Best Actor in a Musical, sang “Old Friends” from his show “Merrily We Roll Along” at the piano in Bemelman’s Bar with Billy Stritch and Jim Caruso.Featured Actor winner Daniel Radcliffe was also with Groff in Bemelman’s, beaming.Eddie Redmayne, Nicole Scherzinger, Billy Eichner, Leslie Odom Jr., Jim Parsons and Ariana DeBose crammed in with the tuxedoed and frock’ed masses.
And talented “Tommy” star Ali Louis Bourzgui told me he was nervous to perform “Pinball Wizard” on the telecast earlier in the night in in front of so many theater luminaries — alongside The Who’s Pete Townshend, no less.
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