Every year we get all this outrage from posters who think that their indignation for the nominations justifies starting a number of threads which make the boards unfollowable and unreadable.
So, before you post your "How could (your favorite performer) be nominated over (performer you think sucked)? thread or your WHAT WERE THEY THINKING????? rant or your (Name of the show you worship) was robbed! thread , just post all your frustrations here!
Vent, rant, bitch - but , please, don't start a new thread just because you think you can.
Thanks, loves.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
Damn you stole my idea , but I was gonna suggest a drinking game To go with the rants
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
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Well, as I am getting bored reading everyone's predictions that all are quite similar, I would just like to begin my ranting right now about some things:
I will be sad if... *...Christiane Noll does not get a nomination. Granted I have not seen Neuwirth or Chenoweth, but from the reviews, they don't sound like they deserve the spot over Noll. I know that Glover and Baldwin don't. They were both fine, but didn't come near the acting levels that Noll did. I won't mention CZJ because I feel no one will vote Noll over her, but after seeing them on subsequent nights back in December, I felt like Noll was the stronger actress. *...Chad Kimball gets a nomination over Jim Norton or Robert Petkoff. I really did not like him. The actor, not the character. His acting choices definitely put me off. Bleah. And can we say vocal pattern? *...Trevor Nunn is nominated for 'directing' ALNM. Worst directing work I've seen all season. Dodge on the other hand, I really hope gets nominated, but I'm preparing myself for that disappointment. *...Promises, Promises takes a nomination from Finian or Ragtime. Just sadness.
On a more positive note, I would be happy to see... *...Bobby Steggert with a nomination. *...Patrick Heusinger from Next Fall in the Featured Actor category. Not much talk of him from anyone...but I would love to see it happen...and I actually think it could... *...Carrie Fisher to take Valerie Harper's spot. Don't know why I would like that as I didn't see either show...I just feel like that would make me happy. *...Jude Law to take the 5th Actor in a Play spot. Spader? Really? Butz? meh. Shalhoub is the real competition here I think, but I loved Law's performance personally... *...I also wonder if Gilikson won't get a choreography nom for Burn the Floor...no one is prediciting it but why not?
NO NATHAN LANE?? Not he can't reject his nomination a la Julie Andrews!
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Still confused about the Ragtime eligibility in Costume design, but extremely happy for them and for Finian's, both well represented here! Although, they could have nominated Warren Carlyle, couldn't they?
Also, Tom Kitt was shut out twice in Orchestrations... *gasp*
Even the critics who didn't like Enron raved about Butz's performance. I don't think I was the only person on this board that expected him to a strong contender to win for best actor. And now he's not even nominated?