2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
#12008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 8:31am
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#2re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 8:38amNot surprised by the shafting of YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, but CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF? It's the biggest straight-play hit of the season!
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#2re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 8:38am
Did I just see CRY-BABY got nominated for BEST NEW MUSICAL? or I am seeing it wrong?
what happened to A CATERED AFFAIR!!! 
Updated On: 5/13/08 at 08:38 AM
#3re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 8:40amomg the site is right, good lord CRY BABY?????????????????
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#4re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 8:41amand CYRANO de BERGERAC????? why????
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#5re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 8:44amOh, that's right! CYRANO got shafted, too! Strange noms this year. Yay for Miss Martha Plimpton!
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#6re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 8:46am
I was a bit upset that A CATERED AFFAIR & CYRANO DE BERGERAC was overlooked!!
#7re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 8:48am
I feel bad that Nathan/NOVEMBER didn't get any real recognition Oh well.
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#8re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 9:15amYay! And so it begins... Congrats to the Nominees!
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Trekkie2
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#9re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 9:20amI honestly would have preferred YF over Cry-Baby... It really doesn't make any sense.
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#10re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 9:28amKerry Butler finally gets a nomination! And Christopher Fitzgerald! Overall the only one I am really confused about is Cry-Baby, oh and Grease getting a nomination for Best Revival.
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#11re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 10:03amIm so happy Chris, Andrea and Kerry didnt get overlooked this year! However I dont get the cry baby nomination at all! Im so surprised ACA didnt get best musical or score when it had 12 drama desk nominations. I also find it amusing that Grease was nominated.
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#12re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 10:04amGREASE was nominated by default!
mikeyb16
Broadway Star Joined: 1/22/06
#13re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 12:31pmI'm so happy for Kerry! I'm sad that neither Sierra or Sherie got nominated though.
mc1227
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/07
#14re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 4:51pmNo way is Cry-Baby a better show than "A Catered Affair" or even YF for that matter. Laurie Metcalf?? She spends the first act doing almost nothing!! The Tonys get stranger every year!!
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#15re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 5:00pmCongrats to them all! Even Cry Baby.. i guess.. hahah.. FINALLY KERRY BUTLER! WOOO!
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Radioactiveduck
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#16re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 5:08pm
How in the world did Norbert Leo Butz get passed up for Is He Dead?
Come on people!
But props to them for their nod to Chris Fitzgerald in YF. He's amazing.
#17re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 6:47pmUpset for the lack of Sherie love, it may have been a weak show but God she's can spin crap into gold, really, really good gold.
Radioactiveduck
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/05
#18re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 7:08pm
^^Amen!^^
Except for the part where I kind of liked TLM, but thats neither here nor there right now.
jackson992
Broadway Star Joined: 12/25/04
#19re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 7:17pmWhat's wrong with Cry Baby? And Grease is great why shouldn't it be up there.
#20re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 7:26pm
A Catered Affair could eat Cry-Baby for dinner.
Seth has Boyd Gaines this Thursday. I wonder if reservations has/will jump now that Boyd is a Tony nominee.
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#21re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 7:29pmI haven't been able to hear A Catered Affair yet. Haven't found a place that has the music yet to listen to heh.
#22re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 7:40pm
The OBCR for A Catered Affair doesn't come out until May 27 but Coney Island is on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4lCYbB9xl0
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
Updated On: 5/13/08 at 07:40 PM
jackson992
Broadway Star Joined: 12/25/04
#23re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 8:14pmthx a lot I will watch this tonight.
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#24re: 2008 Tony Award Nominations Announced!
Posted: 5/13/08 at 8:16pm
What's wrong with Cry Baby? And Grease is great why shouldn't it be up there.
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