Not only were TV viewers fooled, many people in the audience thought they were seeing a crowd-pleasing moment in Sunday night’s Tony Awards live. But it was the kind of.
Not only were TV viewers fooled, many people in the audience thought they were seeing a crowd-pleasing moment in Sunday night’s Tony Awards live. But it was the kind of trickery more common in films than the theater, the AP reports. While Alicia Keys performed a medley from her musical Hell’s Kitchen, she walked out of the Lincoln Center theater in New York, telling the audience, “Had to do something crazy—it’s my hometown!”
An onstage video screen then showed Jay-Z doing “Empire State of Mind” on the marble stairs outside the auditorium.
