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But the Tonys are first and foremost an awards show. Yes, they can lead to ticket sales spike. Yes, the performances allow people who otherwise would never be able to see a Broadway show a chance to see at least a segment of the nominated shows. But for every performance they feature, they have to move AT LEAST 1 AWARD to the pre-show. And then everyone will complain about those nominees not getting the proper spotlight. Plus a Lifetime Achievement presentation. Plus an In Memoriam presentati...

The Tonys will never have enough time to showcase everything with a major nomination that is still running. I truly don't understand why this is a controversy. They have turned down offers before. They are producing an awards show. They have to have time to give out the awards too. And the $300k-ish is meant to cover the expenses of each individual show's performance, it's not something the Tonys make money on. They didn't "turn down $300k in profits."That said, what if they had two extra slo...

Maybe they determined they only had airtime for two non-Best Musical nominees? RWHC and JIT are both performing, plus all the BM and Best Revival nominees, plus Hamilton, plus Broadway Inspirational Voices...and they have to do this thing that is actually giving out the awards...all in the allotted time. IF Boop asked for a slot and was turned down, it's likely because they just don't have time to feature every show with a major category nomination.

The Committee can still vote to overturn the producers' submission of Sink into Lead if they believe the role is Featured.

The rationale given for the ineligibility of the Matildas was also that they each played 2 performances a week, which is the same amount of performances typically done by an alternate. Also, I see a lot of people in here assuming that the producers petitioned Natasha up to Lead Actress. Do we know that to be the case for sure? It can just as easily be that they didn't petition and asked for all credits to be considered as is and the Tonys Committee voted against that. They are pretty good abo...

Sent you a PM as I am interested!

It’s possible they petitioned for that and the TAC didn’t accept the petitions. All petitions are still subject to approval.

Is it announced what days Taub is not performing (since there's an alternate listed in the Playbill)?

Jeffrey Karasarides said:"Here's something else to think about:If the acting categories were degendered last season, only Victoria Clark or J. Harrison Ghee would’ve won Best Lead Performance in a Musical. Had Ghee won, it would’ve been at the expense of Clark winning for what is sure to go down as a legendary performance. Had Clark won, it would’ve been at the expense of Ghee’s history-making win. I doubt anyone would've really wanted either scenario to happen." That's operating under the as...

I have seen hundreds of Broadway shows across three decades and this might be the single greatest night I’ve ever had at the theatre. Not hyperbole. I cried four times. The highlights:-Fully staged “Prologue” with original choreography!-Five standing os: “Prologue,” “Wheels of a Dream” (the longest obviously), “Back to Before” (more on this below), “Make Them Hear You,” curtain call where they brought out the original kids Alex Strange and Lea Michele and Ahrens and Flaherty! I’d also count “...

I had a chance to see this last Friday - one of the Mary alternates, Ava Madison Gray, was on, and the rest of the regular cast was on as scheduled.I am a DIEHARD TSG fan (it was my very first Broadway musical I saw when I was 8, and it made me the monster I am today!) so I will welcome any chance to see this glorious score sung live. Besides the OBC, I saw both the concert with Rebecca Luker reprising Lily as well as the Lincoln Center concert with Daisy Eagan, Sierra Boggess and Sydney Luca...

SeanD2 said: "Honest question since I've never used one of the captioning devices. Are they real time or preprogrammed? I guess what I'm really asking is did this woman see the transcription of Lilias White calling her out or did the captioning just turn off for a moment waiting for the cue that the official script had started back up?"The audience member may not be 100% Deaf to require a captioning device.

The Pam & Tommy series was notably made without her permission though - a show based on her violation that is essentially once again violating her. So it will always be controversial for that reason, even though the reviews have been stellar and (as noted above) they are portraying her in a positive light. I do think the revitalized interest in her brought us the Chicago casting though.

JSquared2 said: "fashionguru_23 said:Harry Connick Jr's bigger mistake was the Maybe (Reprise) that he wrote for himself. The lyrics were very klunky. After hearing the songs for the upteenth time, you expect to hear the melody and it didn't seem like that.Uhh, sorry to break it to you, but Harry Connick Jr. didn't write "Maybe" (or the reprise). There was a "Maybe" Reprise that Albert Finney sang in the original film (and Finney didn't write that one either)."Harry was credited as writing th...

nealb1 said: "This is a movie about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Not a movie about Lucy & Ricky Ricardo.Lucille Ball had a lot of highs, and lot of lows. The Commie Red Scare, Desi's womanizing, his drinking, the divorce. These are far from funny topics.BrodyFosse123 is right. This is being done by Lucie & Desi, Jr. If they are ok with it, then there you go." The plot of the movie is one week in the filming of I Love Lucy when their relationship is tested. So it doesn't appear to be an all-in...

VintageSnarker said: "If I had the cash to splash, I'd go with someone like Susan Egan who seems to take time to make them special and rewrite songs from her most popular roles. I think Cameo started off a little cringe but some people are turning out more professional video responses these days."My boyfriend got me a surprise Cameo from Susan Egan for my birthday last year to go along with tickets/M&G to the Broadway Princess Party and she SANG on the Cameo. Highly recommended.

Ravenclaw said: "Which leads to an interesting philosophical question...Is being mean to people of color racist if you're uniformly nasty to people of every race? Like the comedians who call themselves "equal-opportunity offenders," in a way. But if you're causing that much harm and destruction to the people around you, does it really matter whether or not yourmotivations are race-related?"It's up for the people of color she harasses to decide. If it feels racially motivated to them, then tha...

Alexis Kalehoff and Alicia Morton are best friends, dating back to the time they were both in "Les Miserables" on Broadway together as kids.

JBroadway said: "She's also played Miss Hannigan a couple of times, once with her daughter as Annie."Andrea McArdle's daugher Alexis Kalehoff has never played Annie (although you can get a glimpse of her auditioning for the 1997 revival on the ABC "Turning Point" special on YouTube). She did star relatively recently with her mom in "Les Miserables" at Ogunquit Playhouse - Andrea as Fantine, Alexis as Eponine.

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