Time Out knocks Tony noms
Time Out knocks Tony noms
Randy1
Swing Joined: 4/28/14
#1Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 1:54pm
Adam Feldman doesn't seem pleased with the main choices.
Time Out responds
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 2:06pm
"Absent from competition are most of the season’s original musicals: The Bridges of Madison County, a lovely effort that received generally strong and sometimes rapturous reviews, as well as Rocky and If/Then. (Bullets Over Broadway, which was also excluded, has a score of existing Jazz Age ditties.) Flawed as these shows may be in some eyes, it is hard to argue that Beautiful and Aladdin are significantly better—and both are a good deal less risky and inventive."
Definitely agree with that.
"I shall stay until the wind changes."
#3Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 2:06pmIt is disappointing to see a professional theater writer rant against the Tony committee without reading the rules that would have prompted the amount of nominees he desired. It's one thing for people on here to just add their blahblah without reading the Tony Nominating Committee rules, but a journalist doesn't get the same pass.
#4Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 2:50pmFeldman certainly seems to understand the updated rules. He's writing about the fact that the rule amendment doesn't seem to have made a noticable difference in categories where it could and should have.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
NewSynchopation
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/13
#5Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 2:57pmI find it funny that people get so upset about Tony noms. It isn't one person deciding all of these nominations, it is a committee that votes individually, so it's just the results of everybody's opinions.
#6Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 3:01pmI'm pretty sure everyone here understands that.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#7Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 3:06pmYes, everyone does. It doesn't mean people can't be extremely disappointed with the nominations.
#8Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 3:15pmPerhaps the writer should petition to have a new category added: Best Risky and Innovative Musical. I'd suggest that the riskest show of the season walked off with the most nominations.
"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
#9Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 3:34pmIt's hardly a rant. Also, I don't see how it can be said that he hasn't read the rules given that he's actually commenting on them.
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#10Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 3:41pm
These are award nominations. Not life and death decisions... or even political elections.
People, it will be okay. The world is not ending. Broadway lives on and shows will continue to be produced as long as there are ticket buying patrons and investors foolish enough to take a risk.
#11Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 4:10pm
As Effie sings:
"She thinks she's better than everybody--she ain't better than anybody. She ain't nothin' but common!"
Steve721
Stand-by Joined: 2/21/14
#12Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 4:25pmNo, it's not the end of world. But what's the purpose of a Broadway message board if you can't kvetch about the Tonys?
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#13Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 4:30pm
"Broadway is better than it's letting on"
Pretty much agree. Interesting article.
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#14Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 5:02pmA rule that would allow for a fifth musical to be nominated, but then there IS no fifth musical nominated (even though there are several viable options) is a terrible rule and it should be amended. If nine or more musicals open in a season, there should be five slots. Fewer than 9, four. This idea of 'Get within three votes' is just strange. BRIDGES certainly deserves to be there alongside ALADDIN, BEAUTIFUL and AFTER MIDNIGHT. I get that not everyone loves it and that it's struggling, but it did receive some of the better reviews of the season. Even BULLETS (though I didn't particularly love it) would have been a perfectly respectable fifth nominee.
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#15Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 5:03pm
"No, it's not the end of world. But what's the purpose of a Broadway message board if you can't kvetch about the Tonys?"
That is the point of this entire message board and particular thread. Rant, bitch, complain, rage, and discuss the hell out of the Tonys. That is what this day is for! 
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#16Time Out knocks Tony noms
Posted: 4/29/14 at 5:04pm
"No, it's not the end of world. But what's the purpose of a Broadway message board if you can't kvetch about the Tonys?"
That is the point of this entire message board and particular thread. Rant, bitch, complain, rage, and discuss the hell out of the Tonys. That is what this day is for!
