Rant about the Tony nominations here- Page 9
Rant about the Tony nominations here
#200Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 6:46pm
I was hoping Everyday Rapture or Sondheim on Sondheim would push Million Dollar Quartet/Come Fly Away out of contention.
I as well. Hell, I would have accepted The Sinatra Musical over Million Dollar Quartet.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#201Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 6:53pmAm I the only one who needs to be constantly reminded that Million Dollar Quartet and Come Fly Away are still playing?
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#202Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 6:54pmI constantly forget about Million Dollar Quartet. Not so much Come Fly Away because I pass it often, but my only reason for ever going down 41st WAS the Nederlander, so now I never pass it.
Wayman_Wong
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#203Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 6:55pmFrankly, I'm kinda surprised that 'Sondheim on Sondheim' didn't get the fourth slot for Best Musical. With all the hoopla over his 80th birthday, and a committee full of theater lovers, I thought they'd pick a theater revue over a jukebox show.
#204Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 6:57pmI have not seen either yet, but on the same grounds, so am I.
Holbee
Featured Actor Joined: 8/3/05
#205Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 7:06pm
Okay, I'm sure this question MUST have been asked and answered somewhere but I can't find it.
How did "The Who's Tommy" and "Evita" get (and win) Tony nominations when, like "American Idiot" both had concept albums--in the case of "Tommy" twenty-five years previous. Green Day always meant "American Idiot" to be staged so why was its score found ineligible? It doesn't make sense and hardly seems fair.
#206Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 7:16pmHolbee- They added a rule after Tommy (actually after State Fair) that to be nominated for best score a score must be at least 50% original.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
#207Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 7:19pm
Green Day always meant "American Idiot" to be staged so why was its score found ineligible? It doesn't make sense and hardly seems fair.
Not it wasn't. They have flip-flopped so much on what the CD was & recently said they never thought about bringing to the stage until Mayer approached them.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#208Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 7:41pmWould a Fela! win mean Will Smith picking up the award? Mmmmm...
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#209Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 9:56pm
And Jay-Z and Jada Pinkett Smith.
~Steven
#210Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:24pm
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions on content, but the lengths people on this board go to trash MEMPHIS at every turn are a little bit laughable.
When it was in previews, people bashed it and predicted a "critical bloodbath." Then, when it got strong reviews, the same people wrote those comments off and were adamant that the show would close quickly regardless. Once the box office numbers remained consistently stable, the same people ignored that development and said that AMERICAN IDIOT would dominate the Tonys. Now that the show got a ton of nominations, people are still trying to crap all over it.
I know that none of these events will (or should) change anyone's feelings on the piece itself, but you'd at least think people would recognize when they're in the minority on something. It just goes to show that you can never satisfy everyone (and no, this is far from a dig at anyone specifically.)
I would also like to know where the stigma that the show is so obviously inferior came from? It seems to only exist amongst certain members of this board, since it's performed extremely well in all other aspects of the business thus far.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Updated On: 5/4/10 at 10:24 PM
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
MEMPHIS10
Chorus Member Joined: 4/16/10
#211Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:30pmI totally agree with previous poster.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#212Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:38pmThe NY Times poll is up: http://projects.nytimes.com/tonys/ballot
sundayclothes2
Featured Actor Joined: 4/10/09
#213Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:41pm^ They have Levi Kreis in MEMPHIS. Wrong show.
jakebloke
Broadway Star Joined: 5/29/03
#214Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:55pmIf you didn't know who Barbara Cook was, nor had any fondness for her, you wouldn't think there was anything special about her in SoS. In fact, she was almost painful to watch waddle across the stage. I don't care who she is, ridiculous nomination in my opinion.
TalkinLoud
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/09
#215Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:57pmAs far as I'm concerned, MDQ is the one of only three new musicals I didn't hate this year. I have no problem with a nomination.
#216Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:02pm
If you didn't know who Barbara Cook was, nor had any fondness for her, you wouldn't think there was anything special about her in SoS. In fact, she was almost painful to watch waddle across the stage. I don't care who she is, ridiculous nomination in my opinion.
Oh, boy. This will be fun. Let me get my snack.
jakebloke
Broadway Star Joined: 5/29/03
#217Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:07pm
haha. I hesitated to write it because people on this board take it so personally. just an opinion people!! and I'm sticking with it.
On the whole, a really lackluster season.
Brick
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/06
#218Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:08pm
The Times' Patrick Healy's take/reporting on the nominations.
One error, though.
“La Cage aux Folles” has a chance to make history by becoming the only show to win for best musical (in 1984) and twice for best musical revival. (It won in 2005, for its first revival.) Other shows that have won best musical and best revival, and had a chance at a second best revival award, were “Guys and Dolls,” “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Company."
COMPANY has won twice, in 1996 and 2006.
Commerce and Art Slug It Out
#219Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:09pmI don't remember anyone complaining last year that Hair's costume nomination was undeserved because the tie-dye and fringe were copying the original. Ragtime is a very specific time period. Of course they're all going to look similar.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#221Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:10pmCompany lost to the revival of The King and I at the 1996 Tonys.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#222Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:10pm
I don't remember anyone complaining last year that Hair's costume nomination was undeserved because the tie-dye and fringe were copying the original. Ragtime is a very specific time period. Of course they're all going to look similar.
But these are the EXACT same costumes he was nominated for in 1998. Like they literally pulled a lot of them out of storage.
Updated On: 5/4/10 at 11:10 PM
#223Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:14pm
Nathan Lane is giving the same performance in Addams Family he did in The Producers, and people are complaining about his snub.
If his recycled costumes are still better than the other options, what does that say about the rest of the musicals' this year?
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Updated On: 5/4/10 at 11:14 PM
Wanting life but never knowing how
TalkinLoud
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/09
#224Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:20pm
It doesn't say anything.
Bye Bye Birdie
Finian's Rainbow
A Little Night Music
Come Fly Away
Addams Family
Promises, Promises
All would have been worthy choices.
