Shuffle Along listed as original

[Dancingthrulife2]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 11:09am

http://www.playbill.com/production/shuffle-along-or-the-making-of-the-musical-sensation-of-1921-and-all-that-followed-music-box-theatre-vault-0000014107

Guess it'll be qualified as an original for Tony and it'll compete with Hamilton for the best original musical category.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 11:12am

No. The Tony committee hasn't met yet. Playbill is just making an assumption.

[ljay889]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 11:12am

That doesn't really mean anything. The producers could still petition it as a revival for Tony purposes. 

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 11:13am

I think it likely to be considered original but all bets are off until the Administration Committe weights in.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 11:30am

Regardless, the phrase "compete with Hamilton" is an lol.

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 11:36am

Not a total lol - a LOT of the Tony voters expressed distaste for "Hamilton" and Lin publicly because they were only allowed to see the show during the summer on an assigned date. So, the Tony voters have all either seen the show, or they won't get to. I'm not saying it won't take Best Musical, I'm just saying there are reasons to believe that there could be a....I'll say snag.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 11:37am

Cinders, how many Tony voters do you know? Why are you just spouting gossip nonsense when you don't know what you're talking about?

[vdirects]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 11:42am

Is there a Tony time limit on what can be considered a revival? Are there even official rules? Or does the committee just decide whatever they want?

 

Either way, there is NO way Hamilton is NOT taking best musical. It literally makes no sense. I would rather see it go head to head with Color Purple in best revival.

 

On another note, it will be great to see the Tonys do with diversity what Hollywood seems incapable of doing, if those are the top contenders for best musical. Color Purple, Shuffle and Hamilton will be big winners

Updated On: 2/23/16 at 11:42 AM

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 11:49am

neonlightsxo said: "Cinders, how many Tony voters do you know? Why are you just spouting gossip nonsense when you don't know what you're talking about?"

 

There was a whole New York Times article about it this last summer. How about you stop trying to start fights with your trite insults and maybe do a little bit of research? I never claimed this was "insider" information - I'm not an insider. Take a look at Google, dude.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 11:51am

They should go for revival. It would be an exercise in futility to run against The Show Currently At The Richard Rodgers.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 11:54am

"The Show Currently At The Richard Rodgers"

 

Ha!  I love that... like when Prince stopped saying his name.  And this being the home of abbreviations (for days I though SOR was a new respiratory epidemic) we can call it TSCATRR.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:03pm

A "whole New York Times article" doesn't mean it's true. No Tony voters are having trouble getting tickets to Hamilton, which is what you said in your post.

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:06pm

Are you serious? Yes they are. Can you please, please do some simple research? Lin set up a window for Tony voters in the summer - he is no longer giving voters tickets to see the show. They had a very small window of time to see it. Please, stop talking. This is all very public information.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:11pm

No, that's not true. I don't need to do research, because I know from life that's not true.

 You think LIN is the one who handles the Tony voter tickets? You must be joking.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:13pm

The article I assume you're talking about, btw, is this piece of Riedel gossip. That as I said, is not true.

http://nypost.com/2015/07/31/the-hamilton-backlash-has-begun/

 

[Tag]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:40pm

From the way Audra described it on Fallon last night, it sounds like half a revival/half new work.

[macnyc]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:43pm

CindersGolightly said: "Not a total lol - a LOT of the Tony voters expressed distaste for "Hamilton" and Lin publicly because they were only allowed to see the show during the summer on an assigned date. So, the Tony voters have all either seen the show, or they won't get to. I'm not saying it won't take Best Musical, I'm just saying there are reasons to believe that there could be a....I'll say snag."

 

Cinders, can you please provide a link to the New York Times article? (Not to the New York Post article.)

 

As I remember this "controversy," Riedel had gotten his facts mixed up (no surprise there). The Tony voters didn't want to wait until "Tony season" in spring 2016 to get their tickets to Hamilton, they wanted to see it right away after the show started previews in July. So the producers tried to accommodate them by offering tickets during the week last summer.

 

This was not an attempt to limit Tony voters, it was an attempt to accommodate them. And Riedel overheard something incorrectly.

 

 

 

Updated On: 2/23/16 at 12:43 PM

[woeisme3]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:48pm

It seems sketchy to go for revival despite half the show being new- and the tony committee can shut down requests. Remember when One Man, Two Guvnors went for revival?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 12:50pm

Everyone knows the winner in original musical  category so time to move on to something else

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 1:07pm

macnyc, yup.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 1:28pm

Listen, I'm totally sympathetic to the fact that Shuffle Along has a lot of potential to—and probably will—be absolutely incredible and amazing. I've already bought my tickets for it.

 

I'm also sympathetic to the fact that our lives have effectively—and deservedly—been Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton for the last 13 months. And that even Tony voters might be at the end of riding the wave.

 

But to believe that any work other than Hamilton will, could, or might win the 2016 Tony Award for Best Musical is frankly unrealistic. I mean, really.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 1:31pm

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. You can stick with yours and me with mine but I think it would be safe to bet the farm on the Richard Rodgers show IMO. We shall see come June.

[HogansHero]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 1:39pm

re time limitations on Tony voters

That's old news. They were trying to encourage the voters who could to come in then to do so (most were chomping at the bit anyway) but all voters are being accommodated.

re the status of Shuffle. 

Playbill does not maake assumptions. The show is registered as original with the league, and that is where Playbill gets their information. They don't just make it up. That does not mean the producers cannot petition to be shifted to revival and as said the admin committee has not met on it and can't until it opens.

[GreasedLightning]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 5:06pm

Tag said: "From the way Audra described it on Fallon last night, it sounds like half a revival/half new work.

 

"

Last time I checked that was not a Tony category. 

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 2/23/16 at 5:54pm

No matter how the Tony committee decides it will be eligible, it's still an "original" piece in that it incorporates a considerable amount of new material that's completely different from what was on Broadway in 1921. Even calling it a "revisal" is a stretch.

 

And before you turn your pitch forks at me, this is obviously all conjecture.