Wow, congrats to Robert Lopez for becoming the 12th EGOT winner tonight!!!- Page 2

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 12:11pm

I'd still rather be Sondheim. Lopez seems to like writing about and working with Clitoris (clitori?). Sondheim has a PGOT and his by the look of his hot young squeeze Sondheim's P probably has GOT a lot of recognition recently so he has the last laugh anyway!

I don't...understand what's happening.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 12:15pm

I think they should have given this particular achievement the acronym: G E T O.

[finebydesign]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 12:25pm

Is there seriously a discussion about Sondheim not getting EGOT before Lopez???!? Stephen Sondheim has had a lifetime of opportunities to work in television AND FILM! He has literally watched musical theatre come in and out of style on television for decades.

BTW, does he have any other Oscar nominations? It's kind of surprising the amount of films that have been made of his work and only Dick Tracy gets a win. Maybe it's not his thing.

Alan Menken is another almost-EGOT that could easily get wins writing music for television.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 12:32pm

I do keep myself awake at night sometimes, fretting that Sondheim has not received enough award recognition in his lifetime.

[finebydesign]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 12:37pm

And kudos to Bobby Lopez, he's awesome.

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 12:40pm

But without an Emmy Award, he can't trade them in for a hotel.

Don't you people understand how this game works?

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 12:44pm

But..but..it's STEPHEN SONDHEIM!! Don't you know he deserves it just for merely existing?

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 12:47pm

BTW, does he have any other Oscar nominations? It's kind of surprising the amount of films that have been made of his work and only Dick Tracy gets a win.

Not really. Songs and scores are only eligible for Oscars if they were written specifically for the movie. It doesn't matter how many of his musicals have been made into films, or how good they are, they are not eligible unless Sondheim writes a completely new song to shove into the story for the sole purpose of winning an Oscar -- and he is not the type of songwriter to do that. He is a stickler for songs serving the story only when they are necessary; it is why he has said that he thinks FORUM is one of his worse shows, despite it being one of the most popular and successful.

If you just consider his original film work, he has contributed to:
THE BIRDCAGE (one song)
DICK TRACY (five songs)
THE LAST OF SHEILA (cowrote screenplay)
REDS (one song, and I believe some of the score)
THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION (one song)
STAVISKY (score)

So, yeah, not that surprising.

[sdgold60]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 1:02pm

what about Barbra Stresand as an EGOT

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 1:04pm

She has only won an honorary Tony. Noncompetitive awards are generally not counted towards the EGOT. If she ever came back to Broadway, then maybe.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 1:05pm

Barbra has an EGOT but one of the awards was won out of competition so she is not part of the elite 12

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 1:08pm

Who was the first to achieve it?

[Blockhead24]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 1:12pm

richard rodgers?

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 1:24pm

Richard Rodgers 1962
Helen Hayes 1977
Rita Moreno 1977
John Gielgud 1991
Audrey Hepburn 1994
Marvin Hamlisch 1995
Jonathan Tunick 1997
Mel Brooks 2001
Mike Nichols 2001
Whoopi Goldberg 2002
Scott Rudin 2012
Robert Lopez 2014

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 1:25pm

Yes, Rodgers was the first, with his Emmy in 1962. The link that best12bars provided lists the EGOT winners in chronological order, with the years they first won each award.

[Kad]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 2:09pm

I hope that we will have a touching tribute to Sondheim's lack of an Emmy at the birthday concerts that happen every year.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 3:03pm

Yes, this March 22 marks the fourth anniversary of Sondheim's 80th birthday, so some concerts are in order.

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 3:28pm

I believe "Evening Primrose" in 1966 is Sondheim's only project that would have been eligible for an Emmy. I am sure someone more knowledgeable will correct me...

Updated On: 3/4/14 at 03:28 PM

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 3:39pm

I don't...understand what's happening.

Apparently Sondheim stands in his backyard wearing a tattered robe and screams "LOPEZ!!" into the night sky while his dreams lay in tatters at his feet.

Or something like that.

[finebydesign]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 4:06pm

That Eris is called a "song moment."

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 4:29pm

That, Eris, is called a "song moment."

By Shaiman/Wittman

[Kad]

Posted: 3/4/14 at 4:52pm

Maybe Sondheim will sing "Let it Go"?