Rant about the Tony nominations here- Page 5
Rant about the Tony nominations here
pli1018
Broadway Star Joined: 4/16/07
#100Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:28amVery happy for the love for Ragtime, Finian's, Jan Maxwell & Maria Dizzia but disappointed to see Stanley Tucci, Terri White and The Addams Family's scenic design overlooked.
#101Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:37amKelsey Grammer & Sean Hayes? Yes, they are TV stars, but this is suppose to be the best of Broadway's category for actors who sing, dance and act. I'm not disputing that they are good actors, but I still want my money back from seeing them in their musicals, their performances were so hammy and unbelievable! Sean as a straight leading man? Kelsey not as a straight leading man? Nevertheless, I'm so glad for RAGTIME, FINIAN'S and ALNM, but where was Robert Petkoff? Still congrats to Douglas Hodge, Chad Kimball, & Sahr Ngaujah.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#102Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:42am
"Roscoe, what would you have nominated instead (of that idiotic piece of sh*t IN THE NEXT ROOM OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY)?"
I'd have either left a slot empty, or I would have nominated A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE. Not that BEHANDING was a particularly good play, but McDonagh leaves more interesting stuff in his Kleenex than Sarah Ruhl put on the stage of the Lyceum.
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#103Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:44amNot to be very predictable, but is Catherine Zeta-Jones really that special that her reaction to her Tony nomination required its own article?
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#104Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:46amI kind of wish that Abigail Breslin or Allison Pill were nominated for The Miracle Worker. Note: I have not seen any other play this season, so I have nothing to compare them to.
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Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#105Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:47amSorry, Ms. Cook simply is not "featured" anymore than Ruth Brown was for BLACK AND BLUE. But at least attention was paid.
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#106Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:54am
It would be nice to see Barbara Cook win. (She won her only Tony in 1958 for THE MUSIC MAN.)
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#107Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:56amToday will be endlessly entertaining! How is it that so many people can use the word "shutout" having no clue what it means. It's like insisting that lemons are blue or that chicken stock is made from astroturf. The only thing that surprised me was that Million Dollar Quartet was nominated over Come Fly Away for Best Musical. The rest pretty much makes sense.
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#108Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:00am
Right, Matt. 
I had at least one wrong guess in at least 60-70 percent of the categories, but I wouldn't say I was truly shocked by any of them -- except Million Dollar Quartet as best musical. *sigh* I guess I'll go check it out after all.
#109Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:14am
Adamgreer:
As much as I agree with you that these reductions in orchestra/pit sizes are terrible, and can greatly take away from the whole experience (the orchestra provides another character/voice for the show), La Cage getting nominated is more for the fact that Jason Carr took the original orchestrations, and was able to reduce them and re-orchestrate them for only 8 players. They're probably basing it on that, as well as the Tony committee trying to rack up nominations for La Cage.
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Wayman_Wong
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#110Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:20am
Adamgreer, tell me again about how 'Everyday Rapture' was gonna knock 'Memphis' out of the Best Musical category at the Tonys, and how Sherie Rene Scott would do the same thing to Montego Glover. Or how Robin deJesus wouldn't be getting a Tony nomination for 'La Cage' because the critics were mixed ... 
Sorry, just had to bust your chops at least once.
Congrats to the cast and creators of 'Memphis.' Hockadoo!
#111Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:23amGlad to see the love for "Million Dollar Quartet." I have an old friend working behind the scenes on this show.
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#112Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:25am
I think Michael Starobin was snubbed, and so was Tom Kitt for his fine work on Everyday Rapture, which would have been much easier to swallow than his work on American Idiot if the committee wanted to nominate him and not the show they didn't like.
I was also hoping Sondheim on Sondheim would win Best Scenic Design. O well. How can I root against Ragtime now? How could anyone?
Speaking of, can someone please clear this up for me? I had thought those were the original costume designs for Ragtime. So how is it eligible? Am I wrong, is it a completely new design?
~Steven
#113Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:25am
Mister Matt, it will be entertaining. I wait for this day every year on BWW. It is my favorite thread! And since I haven't been able to get back to NYC for the past few seasons BWW has been my lifeline to NY theatre.
With everything I have read over this past season, my gut feeling is that if Glover doesn't take the Tony, Scott is going to get it. Just a gut feeling.
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#114Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:37am
I really don't think MEMPHIS would have received all of this recognition if this were a stronger season. I really don't.
But Waymon_Wong predicted this all!!!!!! Go boy!!!!
Updated On: 5/4/10 at 11:37 AM
#115Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:40am
I really don't think MEMPHIS would have received all of this recognition if this were a stronger season. I really don't.
It probably would have gone down like All Shook Up. Now that, people of BWW, is an actual shutout.
~Steven
#116Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:42am
Wow
Did musclefl somehow get to chose the Toby noms ?
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Pianist3912
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#117Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:00pmI think La Cage's orchestrations being nominated over American Idiot's is a travesty. Also VERY surprised Addams Family did not pick up Best Set Design.
#118Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:00pm
I join the praise for the Ragtime nominations!! I just hope they win something.
And is Memphis the frontrunner as everyone is saying or is Fela! considering their 11 nominations?
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#119Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:07pmThe Tony voters have spoken: We frown on gimmick theatre, darling.
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#120Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:09pm
Seeing as as FELA! opened to universally positive reviews - on one negative notice - would say it is the front-runner.
MEMPHIS is front-runner (only runner actually) for Best Score.
For balance I would like to see RAPTURE get the Tony for Best Book.
I like it best when the awards are evenly divided among several shows, especially in a season where no one production stands above the rest.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#121Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:12pmIt would have been noble and nice to see BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS get some kind of nomination.
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#122Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:13pm
Also VERY surprised Addams Family did not pick up Best Set Design.
Once again the best set of the season goes down with the sinking ship of a show it's in. This year it's the Addams Family, last year it was 9 to 5. I hate that design categories are affected by whether or not the critics liked specific shows in general. The musical costume, lighting, and sound design categories are basically shows that got critical praise, regardless of being deserving in those specific categories. I mean...La Cage... lighting? Really?
#123Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:16pm
It would have been noble and nice to see BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS get some kind of nomination.
They were not eligible.
#124Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:22pm
Were the sets and costumes for Addams family really Tony-worthy?
I'm judging by the photos, but I find them very typical by today's standards. Take a Charles Addams illustration and add bits of color accents in the fabric---a style choice used to great effect for the OBC of Sunday in the Park, but overused by so many productions since then with no real point to it. I guess it makes them "interesting." I don't think they look that good up close or from a distance. And adding color swatches doesn't constitute "artistic vision" above anything other than "trend."
Also Bebe Newirth's dress is a horrible fit. They had to really work to make that body look bad. They found just the right quilty material and dress cut to do the job. She looks like she's trapped in a sofa cover.
And the sets are harder to judge in photos, but they don't look extraordinary to me, other than I can tell they spent some bucks. That's about it.
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