Before Keanu Reeves was traveling through time in a phone booth in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, he did it by switching bodies with his older self in Young Again. He looks the same now as he did when he was 21 in that 1986 telemovie.
Growing up in New York City, I grew up with theater. Especially, since my father did plays from community theater to Off-Off-Broadway. Therefore, I thought I knew how to say Godot, as in Waiting for Godot, and I was wrong.
I thought it was Ga (like Ga-linda)-Dough. As did everyone I knew who ever said it around me. And we were all mispronouncing it.
Yesterday, when Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves appeared on Today to talk about their Broadway play, they revealed the correct pronunciation. It is Gd-Oh. Like, O-M-G-Oh…did you hear who is starring in Waiting for Godot?
Ted “Theodore” Logan explained, “In the play, there is so much alliteration and rhymes with Godot.” Then he added, “The play is talking a bit about Gd.”
So for the future, we know the proper way to say it, so we sound like theater aficionados.
However, if you want to say it the way you have always been saying it, that is alright. Bill S. Preston, Esquire, told Craig Melvin that the play’s author, Samuel Beckett (no relation to the guy from Quantum Leap), “preferred Gd-Oh…Beckett himself said you can pronounce it however you want.”
Jonathan Groff was once again nominated for a Tony, this time for Just in Time, which is about singer Bobby Darin.
If you are nominated for a musical, most likely you are going to perform a number from the show, and he did.
During the Broadway production, he interacts with the audience. And he did the same at The Tonys.
Who did he choose to interact with in the audience? The most loved star in the house, after him. Keanu Reeves, of course!
How did the internet’s boyfriend react? He ate it up! And we ate his reaction up!
I don’t know who was the luckier man here. Because I would love to give Keanu a lap dance, and I would love to get a dance from Groff. So I will call it a tie!
The best part is that the Tony winner picked to light John Wick’s wick over George Clooney! Proving Clooney is so last century! While Reeves is both!
I grew up watching Keanu Reeves because Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure is one of my favorite movies. However, he doesn’t seem to be growing older.
So imagine my surprise when Chris Connelly asked him, “How does it feel to be 60 and still doing this [movies like Ballerina] at such a high level?”
I was like, “Woah!” No way, he is 60 because he looks the same as when he did a Coca-Cola commercial in 1983.
That’s right; his career has been going strong for over 40 years. That means we have had 40 years to love him. Does he feel that love? He told the Good Morning America reporter, “I get to feel that sometimes on the street. I do get like, ‘Nice to see you, Mr. Wick.’ I get some Mr. Wicks, which are cool. And once in a while, I get an ‘Excellent!’ Some Utah, Johnny Utah, ‘Give me two.’
What would you say to him if you saw him on the street? I would say thank you for the enjoyable movies!
In 1989, we fell in love with Bill & Ted, and we still love them! Case in point, later this year, they will be sharing the stage in Waiting for Godot on Broadway, and it is the most anticipated show of the Fall.
Well, a lightbulb went off in someone’s head when they realized that the actors are coming to the Great White Way, so they said that we should get Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves to present at this year’s Tony Awards. Therefore,, they put out the offer, and they said, “Excellent,” and did an air guitar strum.
I have a most excellent idea. They should start off the show with them dressed as Bill & Ted. Then we hear someone say that they need to do a paper on Hamilton. So, they run to their phone booth on stage left, go into it, and the lights go dark. Then, when they turn on, we see the cast of Hamilton ready to perform. Since Lin-Manuel Miranda and the OG cast are reuniting to celebrate the musical’s 10th anniversary.
Then, when they are done, the lights go dark. When they come back on, Ted says, “What year is it? 1776? 2016? Or 2025?” And Bill says, “Woah, dude!” Then, they go to commercial.
When I told my friend that idea, he told me his idea. He said that Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald should come out holding hands! Maybe they can do that too for the first award.
Here are the other presenters: Aaron Tveit, Adam Lambert, Allison Janney, Ariana DeBose, Ben Stiller, Bryan Cranston, Carrie Preston, Charli D’Amelio, Danielle Brooks, Jean Smart, Jesse Eisenberg, Katie Holmes, Kelli O’Hara, Kristin Chenoweth, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Lea Michele, Lea Salonga, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Michelle Williams, Oprah, Rachel Bay Jones, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Samuel L. Jackson, Sara Bareilles and Sarah Paulson.
My only complaint is that they didn’t ask Little Shop of Horrors’ Milo Manheim and Elizabeth Gillies to be part of the show. They are being hailed as the best Seymour and Audrey of this run. So, it would have been nice if they were able to be part of the broadcast. Who is with me?
