Best Musical Best Book of a Musical - Dick Scanlan & Sherie Rene Scott Best Actress in a Musical - Sherie Rene Scott Best Orchestrations - Tom Kitt Best Direction of a Musical - Michael Mayer
I'm SO excited! This is by far a better choice than LIPS TOGETHER...!
Do you think the production will change any/much? Any additions, or any efforts to make it a "bigger" production? I loved it when I saw it last summer, but that was a fairly small theater. Is the American Airlines Theater going to be too big for this small production? I've never been in that theater so I don't know. Thoughts?
I don't think it gets a Director nomination. Michael Mayer will be recognized for American Idiot, but there are too many directors this season to give a small show like this a nomination for Direction.
I don't see it getting an Orchestrations nomination either. But I agree with you about Book, Musical, and Sherie. And, if Brantley has his way, Eamon Foley will be nominated for Featured Actor.
I'm so coming up from DC *does happy dance with backflips and cartwheels
Attend the tale of Bovine Boy
His party threads we all enjoy
But does he have Mad Cow Disease?
He doesn't eat beef - but cows skating? - oh please!!!
With cocoa!?!
And lemonade!?!
The heifer-mad poster of Broadway
(World)
I'm so coming up from DC *does happy dance with backflips and cartwheels
Attend the tale of Bovine Boy
His party threads we all enjoy
But does he have Mad Cow Disease?
He doesn't eat beef - but cows skating? - oh please!!!
With cocoa!?!
And lemonade!?!
The heifer-mad poster of Broadway
(World)
I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS! This season is going to have at least one positive now...
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5
May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot
Not to burst everyone's bubble. But I can see them awarding Sherie for book, but giving Actress to a woman playing an actual character. Like Stew in 2008.
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
I would agree with that, ljay, if PASSING STRANGE and EVERYDAY RAPTURE were similar. Sure, they're both autobiographical but in terms of execution, they couldn't be any more different. ER is much more mainstream and easily accessible for the average theater-goer. And the Tonys probably wouldn't feel like they were taking so much of a "risk" by awarding Sherie Best Actress. It's not right, but it's probably the truth.
And Sherie does much more in ER than Stew did in PS in terms of being involved in the actual story-line. Stew served (exclusively) as the narrator and Daniel Breaker did most of the real "acting," hence why Breaker was considered to be a real threat to Boyd Gaines. I remember hearing grumblings that Stew wasn't really doing any "acting" in PS which is why his nomination was considered his "win." But Breaker was the one being considered as a legitimate potential winner because he played more of an interactional role in the show.
Sherie does double duty: playing narrator AND "acting" as herself in book-scenes.
Plus, also, I think a lot of EVERYDAY RAPTURE wouldn't work without Sherie delivering the lines. On paper, some of the show sounds very vain and narcissistic, but with Sherie leading the way, it comes off as very self-deprecating. In an odd way, she's really walking a tightrope the entire show. She could very easily come off as arrogant, because the material allows room for that to happen, but she instead is anything but. And on top of all that, she makes it look effortless.
So on paper, I think the comparison to Stew is fair, but in reality, I think Sherie has the Tony in the bag. Updated On: 4/1/10 at 04:54 PM
This is also not a particularly strong year for Leading Actress in a Musical. Honestly, the one person who deserves the award more than anyone else might not even be nominated because her show closed so long ago. Last year, Sherie wouldn't have won. The year before that, Sherie wouldn't have won. The year before that, Sherie wouldn't have won. This year, definitely.
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bjh - who are you referring to when you say that "the one person who deserves the award more than anyone else" was part of a show that "closed so long ago"? It couldn't have been that long ago. Are you thinking of Christiane Noll? Kate Baldwin? Just curious.
I'm also kind of wondering why you are beating around the bush. Do you just not like Sherie? I think she's absolutely fantastic in ER. If you really think someone else deserves it so badly, why not mention her by name? I mean, I loved both aforementioned possible contenders and think that, at least, Christiane deserves a Tony for her performance, but I'm not in charge of nominations or votes. As many on here are suggesting, Sherie might be the only one who is nominated who could feasibly beat CZJ and I think Sherie deserves it more than CZJ.
There were only understudies at Second Stage during the two week extension period.
I'm not sure who covered the women, but Morgan Karr understudied Eamon Foley.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
broadway_show_fan, I was talking about Kate Baldwin, sorry. I guess I forgot to actually say her name, lol. And no, I meant of the women OTHER than Sherie, Kate was the only one deserving to win. I think Sherie is fantastic in Everyday Rapture.
There's no song list or even song credits listed in the Playbill from Second Stage, but I'll try to describe the show.
It's broken into 6 sections:
1. BOTH SIDES NOW - She has two pieces of paper in her pockets. One says "The world was created for me." The other says "I am a speck of dust." This sets up the main themes of the show (as the promotional materials say: balancing her mostly Mennonite past and her mostly Manhattan future).
2. THE NAME OF MY STAR - She discusses growing up half-Mennonite in Topeka, Kansas. Includes mentions of "Pastor Fred" (Fred Phelps) and Judy Garland.
3. BEAUTIFUL DAY - Talks about her love of Mr. Rogers.
4. LIKE MAGIC - Here she tells about her first trip to New York and a man she met there.
5. REACH OUT AND TOUCH - . . . I'm totally blanking on this part. Anyone? I think this may have been where she discussed the fall-out from her time with the man she met in New York.
6. FOUR-LEAF CLOVER - She shares her realization that she doesn't need to wait for the rapture - as she was taught by the Mennonites - because it's already here. Everday. Rapture.
That's a very, very simplified version of what I can remember from a year ago but it'll hopefully give you an idea.