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I second this but there were no weak links that year.From what I recall, there was no clear frontrunner and any of those shows could ha

Sammy232 said: "Lavieboheme3090 said: "I still would have given "Here Lies Love" a best musical nomination. But glad they were noticed for score."

I agree. What I find most shocking is no nom for Alex Timbers."

I feel like there was a bit of "we're not going to recognize folks for work they did a decade-plus ago here" going on this morning. Same with Des for Tommy (even though it's a new production, it's s

BoringBoredBoard40 said: "I know atleast two nominators that HATED Cabaret"

This is what I mean. To be clear, I agree with everyone that it is probably going to get nominated. But it does feel like there is a lot of genuine hatred for this production in the NY industry and the whole concept behind it, and we've seen in the past some folks intentionally push shows like that down their ballot (even if they truthfully liked it better than Spamalot, Gutenberg, e

Not to overreact to tonight's reviews, but....do we think there's actually a chance Cabaret could get left out of revival? All the buzz around this production lately is starting to feel a lot less like "we hate the show" and more "we hate everything about the idea of this production" (between the prices, the London overhype, the immersive aspects, that they felt the need to reinvent this show again, etc). And we've seen in the past when that happens with shows,

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "The Des ruling situation is similar to Scott Ellis for SHE LOVES ME (also directed the 90s revival) andArthur Laurents for LuPone GYPSY (also directed the Lansbury and Daly revivals). As long as the production isn't a recreation of what was done previously, the Tonys will be pretty lenient. Hiring a different choreographer and set designer is basically enough to say "it's not a carbon copy!""

The one difference wit

Here's the thing, though: there are so many categories like this that could be added, where do we stop? If we have an award for hair and makeup designers, then where's the award for projection designers, props designers, automated lighting designers, puppet designers. Then do we get into recognizing best scene charge artist, master electrician, etc. Choreography vs fight choreography. Orchestrations vs conductor and music director. The list goes on and on and all of those folks are de

I'm sorry, but Oh, Mary is not a Broadway show. That isn't a bad thing nor does it mean it's not great. But trying to sell that as a commercial run in a Broadway house is insane. And the show will 100% lose its charm in a house bigger than 250 seats. Teeth, Here We Are, All the Devils are Here--all phenomenal Off Broadway shows over the past year that are also completely wrong for a Broadway house. We need to get over this stigma of "everything good has to play Broadway"

rattleNwoolypenguin said: "I have a possibly inflammatory question about Titanic…



is it a good musical?

It is truly never talked about so I have no consensus on how people feel about it and I have never seen it."

Titanic is an absolutely beautiful score with a horrendous book and a concept that is almost impossible to stage effectively, regardless of how big your stage or budget is. That's why I feel Encores is the perfect

Kad said: "The Tonys have become far better about aligning leading and supporting roles with the appropriate categories, particularly after such embarrassing things like putting Mary Beth Peil in featured actress for the ‘85 revival of The King and I for playing Anna. I can’t really recall a modern precedent for a clear lead being put in featured or vice versa because of billing."

To be fair, there wasn't a leading category in 1985, so they h

Broadway Flash said: "Wow you’re forgetting key people like Jeremy Jordan, Casey Likes, Corey Cott, Andrew Rannells, Josh Gad. I don’t think Bourzgui is lead, is he?
I also think that the two guys from back to the future both get in Roger Bart, Huge Coles."

Rannells and Gad are going to cancel each other out, I'm afraid. Jordan and Cott would have to get phenomenal notices to even be in the running. I have a better chance of being nominated for s