2007 Leading Actress in a Musical Tony Nominee Contenders — Page 27

While I have not seen Legally Blonde (but want to desperately!), I believe it's going to be tough for a show to conquer Spring Awakening this season. Is it the best piece of musical theatre ever written? Of course not. That honor belongs to Wicked, of course (sarcasm =)). But is it the most challenging, thought provoking, beautiful piece written for THIS season? I believe so. Granted, I've only read reviews of Legally Blonde, lots of them. But from what I've read, I've just gathered that Blonde is a fun, good time at the theatre type of show. Granted, Spring and Blonde are like apples and oranges. So, who knows?

Since I do believe Spring Awakening will win Best Musical, I will say this. The Best Musical winner usually always has contenders in the Leading Actor/Actress category to support the win and/or nomination. Thus, why I nominated Lea Michele. She doesn't have the best performance of the season, but I think she does enough to garner a nomination for the right reasons.

After seeing LOVEMUSIK last week, I will be *very* surprised if LEGALLY BLONDE garners a nomination for Best Musical. There is little chance that the Nominating Committee is going to give that 4th slot to LEGALLY BLONDE over the gorgeous, starry and artistic LOVEMUSIK. Remember, the Nominating Committee members are not road voters. They are 25 New York artists. They will give the benefit to LOVEMUSIK and in turn keep LEGALLY BLONDE out of the running.

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I think there should be some variety in the nominations. And, depending on BLONDE's reviews, there's a good chance it could take CURTAINS's spot. All it would need is fairly positive reviews to trump CURTAINS's lukewarm responses.

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I highly doubt CURTAINS won't be nominated for Best Musical and wouldn't be surprised if it won. It definitely has more commercial appeal than SPRING AWAKENING, GREY GARDENS, or LOVEMUSIK. It also doesn't hurt that it actually is a great musical which may not be the case with LEGALLY BLONDE. I'm not too sure LOVEMUSIK will be able to garner a nomination in the Best Musical category though I do hope it does.
Ideally the nominees would be: CURTAINS, GREY GARDENS, LOVEMUSIK, SPRING AWAKENING.

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I haven't seen LOVEMUSIK...I plan to do so this weekend. Some are raving, some are saying it's a trainwreck. Sounds fascinating.

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Haha, that's funny broadwayfan. That gave me a good chuckle.

Mine????? If so, NO.
Those are my feelings, they may come across funny...but i'm being serious

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Chenoweth
Ebersole
McDonald
Michele
Murphy

JBDC, replace Michele with Bundy and I think you have it.

I doubt Monk and Chenoweth will cancel each other out. Chenoweth got raves. I think Monk will be nominated, but Bundy could possibly slip in.

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