MATILDA WAS ROBBED
MATILDA WAS ROBBED
#1MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:07pmSomeone has to start it.
"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
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#2MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:08pmI saw Maltilda but not Kinky Boots but after leaving theatre it was hard for me to imagine Matilda not winning, JMO.
madlibrarian
Broadway Star Joined: 8/15/06
PlayItAgain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/11
#3MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:11pmits fine, Matilda will run so much longer than Kinky.
PastorErnst
Broadway Star Joined: 4/20/09
#4MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:12pmWhen are they going to post their closing notice? (Someone was going to ask it).
#5MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:12pm
Sore losers.
Play It Again, Kinky is not nearly as much money to run.
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Kavana
Featured Actor Joined: 5/16/03
#6MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:12pm
KB will close before next year!
NOT HATING lol
I take that back Memphis ran for too many years
Updated On: 6/9/13 at 11:12 PM
#7MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:12pmI don't want to talk about it.
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#9MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:15pm
I'm in shock. First Once winning over Newsies, now this. Sigh... 
justherehanging
Stand-by Joined: 4/15/12
#10MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:15pm
I agree to a point.
I saw both last month, one on Friday night and one on Saturday night...I think the audience loved Kinky Boots and I just wasn't that excited for me
I enjoyed Matilda more, but not sure if robbed is the right word...its defiantly a preference.
I think alot of folks at home will not understand Kinky Boots or Matlida and that is the problem with both shows.
Hands down my favorite show of the season has been PIPPIN...just gives me goose bumps.
If anyone was robbed, it was Rob McClure who did an AMAZING job in Chapin...he was outstanding.
#11MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:17pm
There was no way Kinky was going to lose.
Those little girls never stood a chance.
#12MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:17pm
Agreed. It boggles my mind that so many people I've spoken to, people on here, and some of my close friends and colleagues think Kinky Boots is so much better than Matilda.
In Matilda I saw the best overall new musical: performances, set, lighting, direction, music, book, and lyrics since Scottsboro Boys.
In Kinky I saw a mediocre book, strange performances, direction and choreography, a cute score and an ugly design.
I really don't get the Kinky Boots appeal at all and I was planning on revisiting since maybe I was having an "off night" when I saw it but that will probably be impossible for a while after the win.
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PlayItAgain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/11
#13MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:18pmI just don't understand how Newsies loses and Kinky Boots wins....
#14MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:19pmI haven't seen either Matilda or Kinky, but Newsies is not even in the same class as Once.
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#15MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:20pmI was so bored by the Kinky Boots performance but was enraptured from start to finish by the children in Matilda. I haven't seen either but I'm looking at Matilda tickets now. I think it will have a nice, long life on Broadway regardless of this loss.
#16MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:22pmYeah, I am mad. They defientely overlooked Kinky Boots with Best Score and Best Cherography. Matilda got robbed :/
#17MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:24pmI'm sure you'll get over it when you realize there are things in the world to cruelly be upset about.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#18MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:26pmI guess some people don't find children endlessly interesting.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
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jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#19MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:27pm
"I saw Maltilda but not Kinky Boots but after leaving theatre it was hard for me to imagine Matilda not winning, JMO."
I was the exact same way.
#20MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:27pmMaybe next year the children will stay home and the grown ups will sing.
michellek45
Leading Actor Joined: 5/20/11
#21MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:28pmHaven't seen Kinky Boots, but nothing I have heard, listened to, or watched has made me enthusiastic about it. I've run through the cast album at least three times, and I just can't see the appeal. But honestly as much as Matilda was robbed, Danny Troob was ridiculously robbed. His beautiful orchestrations for Cinderella are miles above the electro-pop orchestrations for Kinky Boots.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#22MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:28pm
And why did they have to perform a godawful number from Once? Wasn't it bad enough that we had to hear that wailing and whining on last year's show? Luckily, the commercial interrupted the start of it. This is one time I would rather have seen commercials.
And what is so hard to understand about people disliking Matilda? It's cold, nasty, has ugly music, and is unintelligible much of the time. What's to like about all that?
#23MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:28pmI haven't seen Kinky Boots, but I've listened to the score. It has the most repetitive lyrics I've ever heard for a show. I don't see the big deal. Matilda did indeed, got robbed.
broadway guy
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/5/11
#24MATILDA WAS ROBBED
Posted: 6/9/13 at 11:30pmMatila was definitely robbed! Kinky Boots winning is a freaking Joke. How the hell do you win a tony award for coming up with a 3 minute song saying "yeah yeah"? Completely ridiculous. Complete Crap. It doesn't matter though cause PIPPIN was the real winner tonight.
