The Tony Awards were handed out earlier today. What a great telecast it was on Foxtel’s Arena (via ABC America). It was hosted by Neil Patrick Harris from How I Met Your Mother (or some of us will remember him as Doogie Howser). The difference with the Tonys and why they are so much more entertaining than other award shows is they concentrate more on showcasing current Broadway shows rather than the boring announcing of nominees and acceptance speeches. In fact a lot of the awards were given out prior to the telecast leaving the show to give us a taste of current Broadway shows.

For those that haven’t watched the Tonys before, they are a peer awards for shows (musicals and plays) on New York’s Broadway. They’re replayed tonight on Arena if you have a spare couple of hours. But if you don’t have time, watch the opening number, it really was amazing and worth watching.

Whilst some musicals are released on Musicals DVD unfortunately most of them aren’t which is a real tragedy seeing how very few Broadway musicals we get here in Aus. After seeing a few numbers from Matilda and Best Musical winner Kinky Boots I’d really like to watch them on a Music DVD which would be far cheaper than a 24 hour plane journey to New York.

Talking of Matilda, wasn’t their numbers that was shown on the Tonys awesome. The music and lyrics of Matilda were composed by Australia’s own Tim Minchin. He’s an incredibly talented entertainer originally from Perth but now resides in London. You may know him as an hilarious musical comedian who sells out his one man shows. I’ve had the absolute pleasure to seeing all his shows. He’s got to be one the most talented entertainers this country has ever produced, seriously. He’s currently touring Australia as the lead in the new Jesus Christ Superstar. Anyway, Minchin didn’t win for his nominated work on Matilda, but in my biased opinion, he was robbed 🙂 But Matilda did pick up a few awards. We can only hope this will be released on a Musical DVD like Jesus Christ Superstar which is now available on DVD and Blu Ray.

He was beat out by, get this, by Cyndi Lauper. Yes, that Cyndi Lauper. She did music and lyrics for Kinky Boots which looks great. If nothing else Lauper should have won an award for best hair (or should that be worst hair) but hay, it’s Cyndi Lauper, it would have been disappointing to have seen her in a regular hair cut.

It was Neil Patrick Harris’ 4th time hosting the Tony Awards and quite frankly they should give the hosting role every year. I saw him in Cabaret on Broadway quite a few years ago, when we only knew him as Doogie and was blown away by his talent. Check out the replay of the 2013 Tony Awards tonight, it’s not going to be released on a Music DVD so it’ll be your last chance to watch the official telecast.

Many believe Tracy Anderson produces the best fitness DVDs. It’s hard to argue with
Tracy Anderson DVDs regularly outselling any other Fitness DVD on the market. It’s easy to see why with a long list of A Grade celebs as her clients including Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow, Shakira and Jennifer Lopez.

The 38 year old Fitness entrepreneur is the daughter of a dance instructor. She planned on becoming a professional dancer but after putting on 20kg in her first year in New York, she changed paths to fitness and wellness.

Tracy is best known for her, not surprisingly titled, Tracy Anderson Method but after starting her own family she started producing pregnancy DVDs aimed at women in pre-natal and post-natal periods. This is arguably where Tracy Anderson gained her most fame. This was helped with regular appearances on Oprah Winfrey and the US Talk Show circuit.

It’s hard to think of any other more popular fitness DVD instructor than Tracy Anderson, picking up from the trail originally blazed by Jane Fonda. Tracy has on many occasions credited Jane as her inspiration. Whether or not that’s just Tracy’s PR to align herself with the world’s original fitness guru we’ll never know. What we do know is Tracy Anderson goes from strength to strength creating the most effective and popular fitness DVDs. They are worth a go, at least trying them will save us from the sometimes uncomfortable gym.

Tracy Anderson DVD at DVDLand

State Of Origin starts tonight with game 1. Is it going to be yet another Maroons victory or will the Blues finally win a series and break the massive drought. Who knows, but it will be a great series, that’s for sure. It’s no coincidence that for the first time ever a complete Origin box set has been released on DVD. The box set contains every Origin game ever played. That’s 1980-2012 in an amazing limited edition box set. The 2013 series is also available to pre-order. How do you spend Origin night?

Great news with the release announcement of Offspring season 4 DVD and this week’s DVD release of Breaking Bad season 5.

Offspring season 4 is currently being shown on channel 10 and is getting huge ratings. One could say it’s because of the gripping drama or even it’s quirky story lines but one can’t ignore that good Aussie drama is hard to find and once an Aussie show like this finds an audience they stick with it. Yes, absolutely, Asher Keddie is simply outstanding in this show and winning the Gold Logie this year drew even further attention to Offspring which has helped the audience grow even more. Besides, who has the time to sit through all the boring commercials when you can own the DVD and watch it the way it should be watched.

Has anyone seen Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby as yet? We’d love to hear what you thought of the movie. Complete a review of the movie on our website and share your thoughts good or bad. It’s knocked Star Trek Into Darkness off the top of the Aussie Box Office tree this week but that was expected. But Iron Man 3 is still the most popular movie of the year so far according to the Australian Box office takings.