bdn223 said: "I honestly wonder if voters will solely consider Aaron Tveit’s Performance in Moulin Rougue, or more consider this does he deserve a career achievement award based on his path past performances. If voters think with the former I could see him not winning, just because I’m sure many of them think it’s stupid that only one person is nominated therefore they shouldn’t with an award for being the only person. If they go with the latter which I agree with I think his career in the theater is deserving of some recognition, especially his snub for his performance in Next to Normal. I also think it’s really in poor taste that the committee left to be in a lose lose situation Due to the to their decision not to nominate Chris McCarrell for Lightening Thief. Even in years where there are only two revivals of a musical and one is really bad they still nominate both. The same could be said of the best score category, which is happened in 2010. When we started to get the then thought to be filler Play score nominations, making it appear that Memphis didn’t win best score by default. Is having a nomination to your name so secret for Tony voters that I couldn’t stop this situation Where the Award itself is now considered illegitimate to many in the community."
A 'career achievement award' at his age, particularly given his past performances. Excellent in N2N, totally lacking in charisma in Catch Me If You Can. Besides MR -- in which he sang beautifully, looked really handsome, and also showed no charisma (bad for the lead in a huge musical IMO), what am I forgetting?? I did read that the bylaws require that 60% of the voting(?) committee members support his actually receiving the award. That would be more embarrassing to me...to get nominated and then not receive the award when you have no competition. A lose / lose situation for Tveit, which is a shame. And verification that the people on the nominating committee are not capable of original thinking. They refused to adapt to the reality of this season...I am sure the nom is bitter-sweet for Tveit, who would have been nominated but not won in a fuller season. If he loses, it is not because someone else was preferred...it was because the committee did not think he was a serious contender.
On another front, re the drama categories, looking at the actual nominees, I am inclined to think that the collective list of nominees for this partial season is more impressive than the lists of nominees from MANY past full seasons. No one in the drama categories should feel that their nomination or eventual win (for some) should be considered as anything other than well-deserved, not a consolation prize.
Also, the majority of the nominees from musicals would have been nominated in a lot of seasons, even if as the fourth or fifth choice. Bottom line for me: given that the season was cut short dramatically, I think that most of the nominees would have been nominated in many full seasons. For me, the only problematic categories are best music (which was clearly originally intended for musicals, but which introduced plays IMO to fill voids left by fewer musicals per season, juke box musicals, bad seasons for musicals, etc.).
Maybe it is time to create a 'best music for a play' category. It would be fairer to the composers of plays to actually have a chance at getting a Tony in a normal season. This season is still an aberration because all of the musicals are juke box musicals. Who knows...maybe I am 180 degrees wrong. With the love of juke box musicals, maybe we will see a time when the only nominees in a full season are for plays because there are no original scores to consider. I don't think so, but who knows.
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