2017 Best Score — Page 2

I can't speak much for Comet at the moment but I also really love "For Forever" as a song in DEH. Standing alone it is beautifully melodic and sentimental. Adding the subtext of the show (it was a complete lie; it played into Connor'a families fantasies about who they wish their son was as a person; it played into Evan'a fantasies about the social relationships he wished he has) I think it is an amazing example of tje complexity/multiple layers available to tell a story/explore a character in the American musical.

I actually prefer this to Waving Through a Window, which while catchy and good character development is much more literal than "For Forever".

Only the new music written for Anastasia is eligible

icecreambenjamin said: "There have been many long-running, popular, well written shows that have walked away without a single Tony. The committee isn't going to just throw an award at Groundhog Day just for the hell of it."

This is one of the more obvious/incorrect things said on here. For one thing, the committee can't throw an award at anything or anybody - the committee is only a couple dozen people. It's the voters, and the various voting blocks, who'll be making their final determinations, which aren't due until the second week in June, and there are hundreds of them, all voting presumably independently.

But regardless, any show will obviously only get an award if a majority of those hundreds of voters think something or someone deserves it. No award was ever granted by "committee" just because people wanted to do something "for the hell of it". This Best Score award this year is interesting though. I just skimmed a thread on the other board where a bunch of people seem to be agreeing that Groundhog Day by a nose is the Best Score of the year.