quizking101 said: "There are only 4 potential nominees for Revival since MAMMA MIA did not submit for consideration and BEETLEJUICE is not eligible because of the less than 3 year turnaround between productions. I don’t think CHESS will win because it needed to be a knockout and had a lot of eyes on the book."
Although since there are (currently) four eligible candidates this year, there will automatically be three nominees. A fourth is possible, but only if th
EDSOSLO858 said: "In a more competitive musical season, I'd bet this would get zero Tony nods. (1 or 2 if the nominating committee were feeling kind?)
All three leads, the lighting design, and revival of a musical seems like a solid expectation for 2026."
Depending on how Cats and The Rocky Horror Show are both received in the spring, I wouldn’t be surprised to see this one left out for Best Musical Revival.<
quizqueen101 said: "The Tony voter I saw a show with the other day was telling me how she’s never been impressed with Levy. And that was even before I mentioned my distaste for her. Caissie is not Tony caliber. She’s not enough. She’ll never be nominated for a Tony."
This sounds like something out of Scott Feinberg's brutally honest Oscar ballots. One may not always agree with what the voter says, but they're always fun to read.
BJR said: "Condon wasn't referring to how his film was performing (wow this is like a game of Telephone!). He was saying why they went the independent path to making this film, so he could make it how he wanted.
He was saying streamers are no longer interested in **making** musicals because of those metrics of folks turning them off. Of course blockbusters like Wicked will do well once they arrive on streaming. (Hamilton is the once-in-a-generati
John Adams said: "Jeffrey Karasarides said: "As Bill Condon recently talked about in an interview with Pete Hammond of Deadline Hollywood, 'So many movies are made by streamers and they don't like musicals. They tried, it didn't work for them. Netflix famously has this metric that, you know, 'when do people turn it off?'."
Daisy Crumpler said: "I'm so sad and disappointed in how little fanfare there was for this film.
I'm a complete civilian, but seems like the producers went out of their way to give the film a wider theatrical release instead of partnering with a streaming service. The musical numbers definitely deserve to be seen on a big screen, but I wonder if they had partnered with Netflix or Amazon initially, would there have been a larger ad campaign? Streaming services will
BJR said: "everythingtaboo said: "I doubt it'll ever see a Broadway stage again, but I can certainly hope it renews enough interest for a revival in the West End, or at least more regional productions."
You're not going to see regionals any time soon as they've been trying to raise funds for a Bway revival.
Very curious to see if that still is true though..."
everythingtaboo said: "I doubt it'll ever see a Broadway stage again, but I can certainly hope it renews enough interest for a revival in the West End, or at least more regional productions."
Earlier today, I accomplished a personal goal of mine. I had always wanted to see a show at Lincoln Center Theater. What better way to start than with “the music of something beginning.”
I first saw Ragtime in August of 2008 as an usher for a local production at the Players Guild Theatre in Canton, Ohio. Prior to that, I had heard of the musical from researching Tony Awards history when I was just getting into Broadway. When the Guild announced they were p
As Ragtime was already guaranteed for a Best Musical Revival Tony nomination, the extension has just given it an even greater fighting chance for the win.
BrodyFosse123 said: "I saw the original Broadway production with both Chita and Vanessa and will admit, though the musical is beautifully crafted, my only interest in the musical has always been, and remains, the Aurora sequences. I always zoned out during the rest of the show just waiting for the Aurora numbers. For this, I enjoyed the film adaptation. Didn’t have to slodge thru those endless non-Aurora numbers, which to this day, I can’t recall as even on the 2 separate
BJR said: "There's another thread on BLUE MOON, which also failed to find an audience. But so did Julia Roberts' new Luca Guadagnino film, and even the extremely well reviewed PTA film starring Sean Penn and Leo DiCaprio - an early Best Picture fave, I've read - is going to lose 100 million."
Many have talked about how stars are no longer a driving force for a movie's success in this day and age. Although I did see someone mention on LinkedIn recently
quizking101 said: "I’m sure this will be a film people will rediscover as a “forgotten gem” decades from now, but seeing this flop so hard is kind of tragic."
As Dreamworks Animation alum Tim Johnson says, "I love making movies, I just hate releasing them."
Jeffrey Karasarides said: "Play Esq. said: "Similarly, I’d love to see a gothic or Grand Guignol concepthelmed by Guillermo del Toro."
Josh Parham of Next Best Picture, who actually has a soft spot for Joel Schumacher's film despite its flaws, once tweeted that "If we ever get another adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’sPhantom of the Opera(and I fully believe we should), my choice for a director would be Guillermo del Toro." If you ask me, that actually sounds like a great idea. He's not only such a visionary filmmaker, but he also has a good amount of experiences with monsters. Plus, the original songs in his 2022 Netflix adaptation of Pinocchio were staged so well that I’d like to see what he could do with a full fledged live action movie musical."
quizking101 said: "RAGTIME extending could help a nomination for revival, but it’s also going up against CHESS (the redemption arc), CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL (Critically acclaimed and awarded off Broadway) and possibly THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (I talked to Sam Pinkleton at Oh Mary the other night and he seemed a little nervous, but that doesn’t mean anything necessarily)"
If Ragtime doesn't extend, I doubt that'll be detrimental to its chance
