Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Musicaldudepeter
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/10
#1Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:01pmWhat about Bernadette or Elaine being nominated - do you think this production is Tony worthy?
#2Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:05pmBernadette will obviously be nominated...and I'm sure the show will be nominated for a few Tonys....the winning part is the most interesting discussion though, I think.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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Understudy Joined: 3/14/11
#2Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:05pm
I think there will be lots of nominations for it, but there will be tough competition from EVITA. Especially for Best Actress and BEst Revival. Saw EVITA in London in 2006 and its an incredible production.... Broadway is in for a treat 
#3Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:07pmIf Jan's performance is as spectacular as everyone says, I'd say she's a lock for a nomination. Sally may be the lead, but Phyllis is a much showier role. Remember that Alexis Smith won and Blythe Danner was nominated, while neither Dorothy Collins nor Judith Ivey were even nominated in the past.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#4Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:10pmDorothy Collins was nominated. John McMartin was the only lead to not be nominated.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#5Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:14pm
Good Lord, the show hasn't opened in NY yet and people are wondering whether it'll be nominated for any Tony Awards! What about the rest of the season? Will there be shows better than FOLLIES? Will there be performances better than Bernadette's? Will it be any less of a show if it doesn't get any nominations at all?
Honestly, this obsession with Tony Awards is absolutely freaky!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#6Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:25pmI stand corrected re: Collins. For some reason I always thought she was snubbed.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
rougeduck
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/07
#7Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:26pmSummer/fall shows don't exist. So no, it won't win. Maybe they will give it a nomination for Book!
#8Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:39pmGiven that this discussion is ridiculously premature, I'd LOVE for Terri White to win a Tony.
"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
#9Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 7:08pmI think that Bernadette will be nominated, but Jan's performance is so electrifying and haunting that it might score her her long-overdue trophy.
#10Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 7:14pmNo matter who wins, Jan will be putting a Tony in her bag.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#11Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 8:16pmI think it's safe to predict that Follies will be nominated for costumes and scenic design. Peters seems pretty safe because it's Peters.
#12Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 8:19pmI don't really see the set being nominated. It's nothing spectacular. The costumes certainly deserve to be nominated.
#13Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 8:26pm^Yeah, the Loveland set was a letdown. Unless Derek McLane has some divine intervention between D.C. and Broadway, it might actually cost him a nomination.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#14Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 8:48pm
The set sucked.
Sorry, it was lacking.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#15Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 10:26pmAt this point, Follies is scheduled to run through the end of the year. Assuming it closes then, it will be a distant memory come May 2012. It's great that New York will see this production, but, historically, Tony voters have very short memories.
BroadwayEd
#16Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 10:58pm
Tony voters have very short memories.
That's really not always true.
The Scottsboro Boys- 12 nominations
Ragtime- 6 nominations
Finian's Rainbow- 3 nominations
In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play- 3 nominations
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown- 3 nominations
All recent short-lived shows that weren't totally forgotten.
Updated On: 6/26/11 at 10:58 PM
#17Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 11:18pm
In a perfect world, Maxwell would finally get her long overdue Tony Award and not have to take others to put in her bag.
Who knows what will happen by May of 2012, though.
This time last year we all assumed Women on the Verge would be the commercial hit of the season.
rougeduck
Broadway Star Joined: 6/5/07
#18Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/26/11 at 11:36pmHey, how many wins did those shows get? And really? Catch Me If You Can and Sister Act over Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson?
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#19Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 12:42amIt appears that the nominators have long time memories but the voters do not. I think aspects of this show (performances) will be remembered at Awards time.
#20Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 7:05amIt may not happen often, but it's not uncommon. In recent years, both Julie White and Michele Pawk won for shows that had been closed 4-6 months by Tony time.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#21Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 9:01amI agree with Dollypop. This Board's extreme obsession with Tony Awards is plain ridiculous, and constantly reading about them has become very tiresome.
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
#22Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 6/27/11 at 10:30amReally? The set is bad? I liked the photos I saw of it but I'll defer to people who saw the show. I figured the demand and variety of sets would be enough, but I could be wrong. Did they just do a bunch of projections for the different settings?
#23Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 7/2/11 at 12:40amI think the only Tony nomination this production could count on would be for Best Pillow.
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
AndersonTours
Stand-by Joined: 12/19/10
#24Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
Posted: 7/2/11 at 10:11amSaw this in DC on the last night. I could easily see the four leads being nominated. Whether they win or not, remains to be seen, but I would be surprised if they weren't nominated. The set, not so much. The costumes definitely.
