Because WICKED deserved it over AVENUE Q? Ergghh...I think not, friend. WICKED is a serviceable musical with immense commercial appeal. AVENUE Q had much more heart.
Wicked is clearly the superior musical. Avenue Q is great but WICKED is on a whole other level.
-WSS losing to Music Man - Giving the Matildas a TONY INTO THE WOODS COMPLETELY DESERVED SCORE OVER PHANTOM. -N2N losing to Billy Elliot - Sierra B not getting nominated for Ariel -BATB not winning Best Musical -Nominating Leap of Faith. - Newsies losing to ONCE - Patti Lupone losing the tony in 05
I think the producers of A CHRISTMAS STORY should have put John Bolton up for Featured Performer. I think Johnny Rabe should have at leas been nominated for an award for his terrific performance in that same show. If any little performer deserves a "special" Tony, it is little Luke Spring, who stopped the (same) show nightly and was featured prominently in just about every review.
Agree, idina menzel winning over tonya pinkins- tonya pinkins' performance was extraordinary as was the show (caroline or change)- wicked is a great tourist attraction. the performances were not even on the same league... performances like tonya's don't happen very often on broadway...
The worst was having last years Memoriam Section shown during commercials. It's a video montage honoring the theatre professionals who died in the previous year and instead of showing that on the air they had a cruise ship commercial. Shame on the producers!
South FL Mark-I so agree with you. I thought it was so disrespectful and for those of us watching from home or elsewhere, it left us wondering what happened to that section.
Rita Moreno as Featured Actress for THE RITZ. She was the ONLY actress in the show and clearly the leading lady. She said as much in her acceptance speech, apologizing to the other nominees. But that was before producers could petition.
When STATE FAIR was nominated for best Score, the committee said voters could only consider the songs that had not been heard on Broadway previously (there were interpolations from ALLEGRO, ME AND JULIET and PIPE DREAM). David Merrick had the ushers hand out earplugs when the voters came. His last show and his final shtick.
Stephanie J Block not being nominated until this year.
I mean, I like Stephanie J. Block, but she's only been in 6 Broadway shows and 2 of those were as a replacement.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
*Defientely Avenue Q over Wicked. Avenue Q was GOOD, but not as great as Wicked! *Alan Cumming not being nominated for MACBETH *Bertie, getting nominated for LEADING. Now, he might lose -_- *The Matilda girls, getting honors. Bailey was great, but not Tony-winning *Norbert beating Andrew and Josh for Best Leading Actor in 2011 *I haven't seen Once yet, so for now: I think Newsies should have gotten Best Set Design and Leading Actor *Into the Woods, beating Phantom for Best Music *Mary Poppins should have won Best Cherography. Step In Time was amazing! *Aaron Tviet, not getting nominated for N2M *Godspell should have got nominated for Best Revival and Direction. I really enjoyed it! *Kristin Chenoweth not nominated for The Apple Tree (WTH was up with that?!)
*Aida getting nominated for Best Score, but not Best Musical *The Pajama Game winning Best Revival over Sweeney Todd
And never giving the Best Play/Best Revival of a Play nominees the respect and attention they deserve on the telecast. I'd like to see more than just two seconds of each show, when they bother to throw them an attention bone.
^^ This, about the Plays. Especially the last few years, when the Play categories have been so strong (Revivals, too) and to have such great material be overshadowed by performances by MEMPHIS, cruise ship casts, touring ensembles and non-nominated musicals just to sell their tickets is very disappointing.
Curious question, because I honestly don't know how it works: are the Play nominees invited to perform a scene or is that courtesy not even offered at this point? If, say, TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL wants to let Cecily do a monologue so they can try and sell more of their summer extension, do they have to petition the Tonys to let them or is there an invitation that all the plays choose to decline?
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
From the 2005 telecast: who the hell thought it would be a good idea to pay tribute to those we'd lost by singing an ode to being famous without needing talent? Not to mention the poor vocal performance- that last note is rather hysterical, though...