Biggest Mistake(s) in Tony History- Page 4

[shesings]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 5:55pm

NOT saying Wicked should have won best book, but since the book is so drastically different than the show I think Winnie deserves more credit, she practically wrote an entire novel on her own.

Why didn't Marisa Jaret Winokur deserve the Tony over Bernadette? I adore, worship Bernadette - but in the beginning months of Gypsy it was an average performance. As well as the fact the she was really sick and missed a ton of performances - which is why the Tony voters really didn't pick her - from what I hear. Berny has enough Tony's - lets give someone else a shot.

Posted: 7/6/04 at 6:02pm

Heather Headly did an amazing job in AIDA.
And as much as I love Audra, I bet that the fact that she won three tonys already might have had something to do with it. And this year she won another. The girl was 4!!! Not that she did not deserve it.

[AugustBurns2]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 6:36pm

I completely agree with M J R!

Will Rodgers Follies was awful, though I did love the opening number. I still don't understand the purpose of Act II. And I love all the writers behind it, but it beat Miss Saigon! Once on the This Island!

[DoReMi]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 6:41pm

Biggest mistake was allowing you to become a member and keep posting nonsense messages about Chenoweth.

Wow..only four Chenoweth threads from you today????

slowing down a bit?

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 6:49pm

>> Interesting note: The 1959-60 Tony Awards was the only time that FIVE musicals were nominated

Small correction: The 1957-58 season also had five nominees --

Jamaica - E.Y. Harburg, Fred Saidy, Harold Arlen
The Music Man - Meredith Willson, Franklin Lacey
New Girl In Town - George Abbott, Bob Merrill
Oh, Captain! - Al Morgan, Jose Ferrer, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
West Side Story - Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim

and the 1954-55 season nominees were

Fanny
The Pajama Game - George Abbott, Richard Bissell, Richard Adler, Jerry Ross
Peter Pan
Plain and Fancy
Silk Stockings

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 6:58pm

Thanks for the correction. I was probably thinking in the back of my mind that that was the LAST season with five nominted musicals.

[sean martin]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:02pm

>> I was probably thinking in the back of my mind that that was the LAST season with five nominted musicals

I think you're right (he says, wandering off to check just for the hell of it when he should be working on designs for DAMN YANKEES and GODSPELL and BEAUTY/BEAST)

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:05pm

ohmigosh. Make it stop. MAKE IT STOP. The Tonys were like... more than three weeks ago already. Wicked didn't win those awards. Whether or not you think it's a mistake or a triumph, Wicked didn't win. LET IT GO ALREADY.

*steps off soapbox*
Emcee has spoken. Thank you.

Updated On: 7/6/04 at 07:05 PM

[SammyGal]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:10pm

Go Emcee GO!!!!!
Wicked deserved what it got. Be happy.

I think Raul Esparza deserved the Tony this year... but so did Michael Cerveris. A DRAW I SAY!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:16pm

Don't even get me started on Raul. I was so heartbroken when he lost... I literally made a bee-line for the pint of ice cream in my refrigerator when they announced that Michael won. I know Michael is just as deserving, but I was still sad.

[boborunstheshow]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:16pm

Brighton Beach Memoirs not being nominated as Best Play.



Well, thats justifiable. Matthew broderick played the lead

[SammyGal]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:17pm

Trust me, I understand.
I was all huffy for the next few days. But when I finally saw Michael perform, I knew he had something special. It made me happy to hear him say in his acceptance speech that Raul would be up there next cause its SO true.
That made me happy.
Go Raul Go.

[CK2]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:27pm

"Jane Krakowski winning over Mary Stuart Masterson."

I couldn't agree more!

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:32pm

Hey, DOREMI- shove it.

[boborunstheshow]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:41pm

"NOT saying Wicked should have won best book, but since the book is so drastically different than the show I think Winnie deserves more credit, she practically wrote an entire novel on her own."


She DID receive credit. She was nominated for a tony

[nystateomind04]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:43pm

sometimes i think that with an award like "best featured actress", when a performers has one really amazing moment (krakowski's gravity-defying entrance in "a call from the vatican"), they can take the award because the voters aren't looking for someone who carries the show. masterson's role is less showy, she served as a piece of a well-constructed puzzle- the "plain girl", while krakowski get's the laughes, and the tony.

that said, krakowski was fantastic, her performance left much more of an impression on me than masterson's, although they were both wonderful. Updated On: 7/6/04 at 07:43 PM

[SammyGal]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:44pm

indeed bobo. That was good enough for moi.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:44pm

You seriously think Eartha Kitt should have won over Karen Ziemba just because she went one (and only one) step beyond her schtick for once??? Ziemba was sheer powerful raw brilliance.

Updated On: 7/6/04 at 07:44 PM

[cliffarico]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:47pm

Patty Duke not being nominated for a Tony for The Miracle Worker...

[tkts]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:49pm

"Biggest Mistake(s) in Tony History"

Easy...Any nomination for Stephen Schwartz.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:49pm

I believe she was nominated but didn't win.

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 7:53pm

Didn't Patty lose to her co-star, Anne Bancroft?

[fosse2]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 8:04pm

Caroline, or Change losing Best Musical
Bernadette losing Best Actress to Marissa
Marla Schaffel losing Best Actress to Christine Ebersole
Kate Levering losing Best Featured Actress to Cady Huffman
THE PRODUCERS WINNING EVERYTHING! Am I the only one who doesn't find them show special? Something must be wrong me I guess.
The Wild Party losign Best Musical to Contact

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 8:06pm

The Producers
Marissa Jaret Winokur
Urinetown losing

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/6/04 at 8:08pm

Ah, yes, fosse. Good one... Bernadette losing to MJW. SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED!