Sometimes, red carpets yield surprises, but not necessarily the nice kind. And now I’m kind of sad, and the awards haven’t even started yet!
Maybe I should back up a little. Here’s what happened: There I was, watching the Tony Awards red carpet webcast with Natalie and my roommate. Norbert Leo Butz, who had been nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for Catch Me If You Can, was being interviewed alongside his wife, actress Michelle Federer. Butz and Federer were discussing “showbiz romances,” of which theirs is one (they met when they were members of the original company of Wicked). And then Natalie, sitting beside me, mentioned something about Sutton Foster and Bobby Cannavale being the current big showbiz couple.
I choked on my sangria. “But… but… what happened to Sutton Foster and Christian Borle?” I spluttered. More »