Too Darn Hot- Thank you soo much! You are so right!
PEOPLE too early to make any assumptions! Let's give it a rest...friends!
May I remind you guys..that the original poster also predicted THE LITTLE MERMAID will be nominated to BEST NEW MUSICAL this season! Ohhh! I wish I can be like my good friend, Wanna Be A Foster sometimes! I tried!
DO NOT MAKE ANY ASSUMPTIONS unless YOU HAVE SEEN ALL THE NEW MUSICALS that would open !!! Talking about counting your chickens before they hatch! AGAIN.........Have we learn ANYTHING this from this year?????????
Glory Days?! Young Frankenstein?! A Catered Affair?! The Little Mermaid?!!!!!!!!!! and how everyone assumes that XANADU wont be nominated?
Ok, people making assumptions about these shows is exactly what these threads are about! We haven't seen some of these shows, and it's sort of fun to see opinions change. also, people's expectations is a side of Broadway history not usually seen.
BTW, jaystar, i really don't appreciate your attack on me. Everyone knows I like every show I see, simply because I find the good in them. Also, predicting Little Mermaid getting a nomination was in the spirit of the thread, infact ALOT of people thought that AND Young Frankenstein would get nominated, including yourself if I'm not wrong, so sorry for incorrectly predicting the future in a thread about changing predictions.
I am not attacking you, jagfktb.. I am just stating the facts.. how can you make accurate assumptions when you LIKE all the shows?
This thread reminds me of bryan's thread wanting a CRY-BABY OBCR.lol! he already have the 22 tracks demo and the other we cannot say full version...so why ask for an OBCR when you already have it!
or If I am WBaF! I would say....Why even start a ridiculous thread for the sole purpose of 'just" posting! lol! Damn! I wish I could be him sometimes! that's why I admire him!
Come on, this thread's purpose is just to speculate what the shows will be like, and in my opinion, the history of what fans think of a certain show is a history seldom seen.
There are some really heinous people who feel the need to poo all over so many threads on this board. Of COURSE it's pointless to predict what's going to happen at the Tony's a year from now. That's the whole fun of it! We can look back a year later and think, "Did I seriously believe Young Frankenstein and The Little Mermaid were shoo-ins?" The fun of it all is NOT having seen a single one of these shows. If you can't have fun with absurdity and frivolity, then darling, take a note from Sondheim and Move On.
My picks for next year's Tony nominees for Best New Musical are: Billy Elliot (okay, some of us HAVE seen this, and though I didn't love it, I think it will be embraced), The Visit (I feel a transfer comin' and I have to believe), Vanities (I don't know why, but I have a hunch this is going to be very warmly received, even if it sounds more Off-Broadway sized), and 9 to 5 (because the one thing I love more than musical theater is Dolly Parton).
Please send your complaints to The Oscar Igloo: they'll want to know how wrong they are in making predictions based on speculation and currently-known information.
As jagfkb has said, the whole fun of threads like this is to go back after shows have opened and bombed/succeeded and say "Wow, what was I thinking?" How much fun would AVENUE Q winning Best Musical have been if a situation hadn't been created whereupon everyone thought WICKED was the shoo-in?
If you don't like it, please leave and let the rest of us have our harmless fun.
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
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.
Before I take any of these predictions seriously, how many of them are coming from people who KNEW last year before it opened that Young Frankenstein was going to sweeep the Tonys this year?
I saw NERDS in Philadelphia. It had to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen. It won't win. When I saw it it wasn't a big-budget, smash show by all means but it was still wonderful.