2009 Tony Predictions Best Musical — Page 2
#28
Posted: 5/26/08 at 1:12pm
Was Band Wagon aiming for Broadway for this season?
#29
Posted: 5/26/08 at 1:38pm
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!
I rest my case!
J*
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!
I rest my case!
J*
Updated On: 5/26/08 at 01:38 PM
#30
Posted: 5/26/08 at 1:45pm
Another thing:
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?
J*
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?
J*
Updated On: 5/26/08 at 01:45 PM
#31
Posted: 5/26/08 at 5:03pm
I "attack", my dear, because you have NOT seen all of the musicals coming to Broadway!
How can you possibly pass judgement and make predictions with NOTHING to go on? It makes me upset so I will post in this stupid thread... thanks.
Jaystarr - I'm with you. It's absolutely ridiculous
How can you possibly pass judgement and make predictions with NOTHING to go on? It makes me upset so I will post in this stupid thread... thanks.
Jaystarr - I'm with you. It's absolutely ridiculous
#32
Posted: 5/26/08 at 5:29pm
Remember the The Times They Are A-Changin' predictions? Oh boy!
#33
Posted: 5/26/08 at 5:34pm
It's ridiculous for this discussion to be happening this early. We don't even know HALF of the musicals to be coming to Broadway next season.
But being that we know BILLY ELLIOT is definite, I'd be very surprised if BILLY ELLIOT doesn't end up being the show to beat next year.
But being that we know BILLY ELLIOT is definite, I'd be very surprised if BILLY ELLIOT doesn't end up being the show to beat next year.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#34
Posted: 5/26/08 at 5:36pm
This is so lame.
Lets hope THE VISIT transfers though.
Lets hope THE VISIT transfers though.
#35
Posted: 5/26/08 at 6:39pm
billy elliot is going to win.
end of story.
(unless the visit transfers and gets amazing reviews and is a huge ass hit. bet on billy elliot though.)
end of story.
(unless the visit transfers and gets amazing reviews and is a huge ass hit. bet on billy elliot though.)
*Kristen*
#36
Posted: 5/26/08 at 8:06pm
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.
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.
#37
Posted: 5/26/08 at 9:30pm
"it's sort of fun to see opinions change."
If you don't see a show, you can't form an accurate opinion based on any substance to start with.
you're just passing judgement without seeing the show... it's ridiculous.
I don't think it's fun, sorry jagfkb.
If you don't see a show, you can't form an accurate opinion based on any substance to start with.
you're just passing judgement without seeing the show... it's ridiculous.
I don't think it's fun, sorry jagfkb.
#38
Posted: 5/26/08 at 9:39pm
Thank you again, TooDarnHot!
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!
J*
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!
J*
Updated On: 5/26/08 at 09:39 PM
#39
Posted: 5/26/08 at 9:46pm
dude.. what a stupid thread! a true passionate theater afficionado knows better than to post this, unless youre just 15 yrs old?
Updated On: 5/26/08 at 09:46 PM
#40
Posted: 5/26/08 at 10:01pm
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.
#41
Posted: 5/26/08 at 10:08pm
Change your mickey mouse avatar then well talk!
#42
Posted: 5/26/08 at 10:17pm
9 to 5
"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson
#43
Posted: 5/26/08 at 10:23pm
NYCBoy2, so true.
I think jafkbkfofmd is 15 years old. acts like it.
I think jafkbkfofmd is 15 years old. acts like it.
#44
Posted: 5/28/08 at 9:00pm
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).
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).
#45
Posted: 5/28/08 at 9:51pm
Stop hating on the fifteen year olds. Just make it fourteen and i'll be alright =). But, yeah this thread is pointless.
"There are only two worthwhile things to leave behind when we depart this world of ours: children and art."
-Sunday In The Park With George
#46
Posted: 5/28/08 at 10:21pm
To all the haters out there:
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.
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
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
Updated On: 5/28/08 at 10:21 PM
#47
Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:08pm
I think Spiderman is fall 2009.
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#48
Posted: 5/28/08 at 11:14pm
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?
#49
Posted: 5/29/08 at 12:37am
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.
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