2017 Best Score - Page 2

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 5:01pm

froote said: "DEH really does not deserve this award. Waving Through a Window is the only exceptional song. Comet's music is certainly so much more varied and inventive and would be the deserving winner. Whether it will be too inaccessible for voters is anyone's guess."

This.

[binau]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 5:20pm

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". 

[froote]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 5:25pm

I do agree, I probably consider For Forever the second best song in the score. I'd probably count it as exceptional if there weren't so many other similar sounding, similarly paced ballads in the score.

[Laurapattifan]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 5:42pm

Only the new music written for Anastasia is eligible 

[poisonivy2]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 5:58pm

DEH's score is more consistent. There's a couple of really beautiful songs ("For Forever," "Waiting Through the Window", some very lovely duets ("Only Us". The score has a theme and a sound to it.

Great Comet has some beautiful anthems ("Dust and Ashes", "Great Comet of 1812", some very quirky but effective hits ("Sonya Alone", and some real dogs ("Natasha Very Ill". The highest highs are higher than DEH, but the low moments in the score are also lower. 

So it'll be rewarding either a consistent score or an inconsistent but very rewarding score. I think CFA is out of contention -- as much as I was charmed by the musical, I think the score was too derivative of Irish pop and Riverdance to really make much of an impact.

[Kimbo]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 6:01pm

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.

 

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 4/25/17 at 7:26pm

I think DEAR EVAN HANSEN has a really fantastic, well-rounded score. But compared to GREAT COMET, it comes off as generic. GREAT COMET has such a unique score, and with recent winners proving that the Tonys are supportive of original, unique experiences, I think GREAT COMET could have an edge.