How did "Wicked" lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
How did "Wicked" lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
#2re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:06pmWicked should of won.
Hunter: Your teeth need whitening./ Heidi: You sound weird./ Jeff: You taste funny.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
#2re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:07pmI'll let you know when I see Wicked for the first time this Thursday.
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#3re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:07pm
Avenue Q led an extensive Tony campaign that was very funny and very popular.
Also: Avenue Q is a better musical.
#4re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:08pm
I know. So unfair.
It should have lost to that show about black and Jewish people instead.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#5re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:09pmI would've rather it lost to that (or an Australian singer who happens to be Judy Garland's son-in-law) than what's supposed to be a parody of Sesame Street.
jarred03
Leading Actor Joined: 10/17/04
#6re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:15pmhave you seen Avenue Q, because Wicked is one of my favorites but as a whole show(i.e. book, music, actors, sets, lighting etc...) Avenue Q was in fact the better show. Wicked is great but it's all about the leads and their songs, it faulters with the other characters and the script could be tighter.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#7re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:16pmThey voted their hearts and gave the award to the best show.
lightguy06222
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/3/06
#8re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:24pmgo see Avenue Q, and you will see why it won. Its much better than wicked. And im not show bashing, because ive seen Wicked 11 times, but AVE Q is overall better.
#9re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:28pm
Avenue Q deserved every award it got IMO. The score is much more tuneful than Wicked's mostly forgettable score (and this comes from someone who loves Schwartz's Godspell and Pippin scores). 2 or 3 memorable songs does not a good score make.
Avenue Q also has a bright and witty book which shines in comparison to Winnie Holzman's book, which contains underdeveloped characters (Fiyero), plot holes, and loose ends (the green bottle, the whole Animal/animal subplot that's introduced in Act 1, then dropped).
Basically what I'm saying is that the better show won. That's not to say Wicked is a god-awful show, but it relies on tons of spectacle to cover up the flaws in the material. Flaws which were clearly evident to the Tony voters.
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
Updated On: 6/2/08 at 08:28 PM
#10re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:30pm
The score is much more tuneful than Wicked's mostly forgettable score (and this comes from someone who loves Schwartz's Godspell and Pippin scores). 2 or 3 memorable songs does not a good score make.
- EXACTLY. So true. WICKED is a very mediocre score, save for 2 or 3 songs.
#11re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:31pmWhat are you talking about. The only forgettable songs are "March of the Witch Hunters" and "Dear Old Shiz".
#12re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:34pm
I would consider every song except "Popular," "Defying Gravity," and "Dancing Through Life" very forgettable.
I absolutely despise "No One Mourns the Wicked." I really didn't remember "What is this Feeling?" (which, by the way, has a completely inconvenient title) after I saw it, and thats one of the more heralded numbers in the show.
Oh, and "Wonderful?" I mean, come on.
#13re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:34pm
Because Avenue Q is a tight, well written show while Wicked isn't as tight of a package. I happen to think Wicked is kind of mediocre in many ways, and Avenue Q is just about as good as it can get. It's a very good, very entertaining production, but that's just my opinion. The majority of Tony voters seemed to have agreed with me.
~Steven
#14re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:36pmNo Good Deed is pretty memorable!
Hunter: Your teeth need whitening./ Heidi: You sound weird./ Jeff: You taste funny.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
#15re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:36pmdouble post
Hunter: Your teeth need whitening./ Heidi: You sound weird./ Jeff: You taste funny.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
Updated On: 6/2/08 at 08:36 PM
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
#16re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:41pmYou can't tell a Wicked fan the truth they won't believe it. I like Wicked but Avenue Q in the long run is a better musical.
#17re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:42pm
"Dancing Through Life" is an awful, awful song. It features some of Schwartz' worst lyrics.
I think "Defying Gravity" is fun, "No Good Deed" is thrilling, "For Good" is touching (if derivative), "Popular" is an old-fashioned musical comedy number and with a good actress (ie Chenoweth, Jennifer Laura Thompsom, etc) it can be a real comedic showstopper (with a bad actress, the song itself kinda falls flat), and "No One Mourns the Wicked" is a great opening number.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#18re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:43pmWizard and I deserves a mention here too.
Hunter: Your teeth need whitening./ Heidi: You sound weird./ Jeff: You taste funny.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
#19re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:43pm
When are you people going to understand?
Just because YOU like something does NOT mean that EVERYONE ELSE DOES!
I love the score for WICKED! Plenty of people hate it!
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#20re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:45pmIdina's performance on the Tonys was so bad they decided to give Avenue Q the award.
#21re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:46pm
What the hell is up with this recent abundance of WICKED threads
Stop it already, just stop it. STOP IT
#22re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:47pm
Now that I agree with! Idina did TERRIBLY at the Tony's.
Hunter: Your teeth need whitening./ Heidi: You sound weird./ Jeff: You taste funny.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
Updated On: 6/2/08 at 08:47 PM
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
#23re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:49pmSo did Tonya Pinkins, yet she still deserved the award over Menzel.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#24re: How did 'Wicked' lose Best Musical to a show about puppets?
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:50pm
"So did Tonya Pinkins, yet she still deserved the award over Menzel."
Now, by the same logic, we know why Caroline, or Change did not win Best Musical either.
