ALW was ROBBED!

How could they NOT nominate Woman in White instead of the Wedding Singer? This is an outrage!! And overlooking Maria Friedman? I think she gave an amazing performance!

Needless to say, Disney needs to make friends with Tony voters (which have been schmoozed to death by Oprah, some say). I expected Tarzan to get more design noms.

But I digress . . ALW was robbed of a Best Musical nom!!

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Agreed, WIW deserved Best Musical nod, included Maria and Michael.

For the record, Andrew Lloyd-Webber was not snubbed. He received a nomination for Best Score.

Wedding Singer isn't deserve the Best Musical nod.

But it did poorly because it wasn't good. At all.

It was a two hour, forty minute yawn.

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Wedding Singer isn't deserve the Best Musical nod.

It isn't?

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Hanna...if WIW hadn't closed, DROWSY would have probably gone into the Schoenfeld instead...still opening before the Tony deadline. So you see...DROWSY would have still "been able to 'take away' it's noms"...and probably would have.

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Updated On: 5/16/06 at 12:21 PM

"Needless to say, Disney needs to make friends with Tony voters (which have been schmoozed to death by Oprah, some say). I expected Tarzan to get more design noms."

Except for the lighting, Tarzan was horribly designed.

DAME -- I LOVE you!!! Don't run away!

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I think Michael Ball and Maria Friedman were shamefully neglected.

Tarzan DIDN'T get completely snubbed...they got a lighting nod.

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I was happy that ALW received a nom for Best Score (wonder if he'll attend the Tony's) - now he can go around telling everyone how it was everyone else's fault WIW closed - lol *(although he has said in recent interviews he was never big on the set design --)

I think if they had stuck to their original plan - open in Chicago in November, come to NY in Jan - things could have been very different. They would have had a $6 million advance no matter what because of the ALW name alone. That would have kept the show doing good business till this time (of Tony Noms) and it probably would have had a bunch of nominations considering the competition really petered out.

Although there's some here who hate WIW, there would have been enough support from the Theatre community for it to do well.

Coulda, shoulda, woulda at this point though...

Although I knew this would happen, I am still upset. I pretty much expected what was going to happen with the noms though, so nothing too out of the ordinary. WIW best win for score!

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