Let's show some BroadwayWorld love to this little show that could.
Congratulations to Steven Lutvak, Robert Freedman, Darko Tresnjak, Jefferson Mays, Bryce Pinkham, Lauren Worsham,Alexander Dodge, Linda Cho and and the legendary Jonathan Tunick.
And congratulations to the cast and the producers and everyone involved!
I really enjoyed this show, and I'm glad to see all the (deserved) love it has gotten during awards season. I hope it gets a few wins, and sees a bump in attendance.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
I'm particularly glad for them given how much they need a boost. It's funny that a show that's so good, that got the best reviews of the season, and that now has the most Tony nominations has been limping along at the box office. I really hope this helps them turn that around.
It deserves every single one of it's nominations, and I hope it makes a killing on June 8!
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I was thrilled by this news as well, and really pleased for Bryce Pinkham, who could have been easily overshadowed by Jefferson Mays, but instead made the role of Monty something different and special. I was also very pleased for Lauren Worsham, whom I thought was great as Phoebe, but a little disappointed that Lisa O'Hare didn't get a nod for her work as Sibella. Another role, like Pinkham's, that could have been generic, but I thought she really stood out. I loved her voice.
I enjoyed it immensely, and I thought everyone was terrific. Jefferson Mays was dazzling, but I think Bryce Pinkham's performance is what made the whole thing work for me. He never soft-pedaled his ruthlessness and yet he maintained a sort of innocent charm.
Mays reminded me--in a very, very good way--of seeing Charles Ludlam in "Irma Vep" back in the day.
I don't quite know how to describe the tone the show hit--and maintained. It wasn't the sort of hushed solemnity of the film (Alec Guinness notwithstanding), and it didn't have the "we're putting on a show" aspect of "Drood," nor the moral harshness of "Sweeney." At any rate, it worked like gangbusters. Kind of Monty Python meets Edward Gorey.