"Best Musical" 2007 TONY Contenders — Page 2

Amen, sundaymorning6am. Amen.

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Has Love Musik been performed somewhere before? I am hesitant to ever say that one because I've heard nothing but a name and a few cast members, so FOR REAL I say:

Curtains
Grey Gardens
The Pirate Queen
Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening
Legally Blonde
The Pirate Queen (if it shapes up)
Gret Gardens

I do not see Poppins getting nominated nor Love Musik...I am still weary of Curtains. The Hirschfield has not been so lucky recently.

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Mary Poppins! = )

I think this will be the "Indie" year too, just like last year's Oscar race. If artistically challenging and inspired fare like "Spring Awakening" isn't nominated (I havn't seen Grey Gardens yet), then we DESERVE to have nothing on Broadway but movie musicals and fizzy fare! Mary Poppins could be the spoiler here. The Tony Committee may be thinking that the telecast needs at least one big show in order to boost the ratings.

Legally Blonde
Mary Poppins
Spring Awakening
Grey Gardens

Possibly switching Legally Blonde with Curtains.

I'm just curious to see what's gonna win this year...

Wow, I didn't realize Mary Poppins wasn't a strong lead contender. Were the reviews bad? I've been lazy and haven't read any yet, but the show looked like it'd be amazing to me (and I love the London cast album)

RentBoy, LoveMusik does not have an original score, it will feature the songs of Kurt Weill which are brilliant and exquisite, plenty of them written for the stage, most of them cabaret standards. So the score is most likely going to be one of the best things about the show. Donna Murphy has gotten glowing reviews in just about every Broadway show in which she has had a major role (though she got mixed reviews for her Tony Award-winning turn in the 1996 revival of The King & I) and Michael Cerveris is one of the most prominent leading men currently working on Broadway. Hal Prince is one of the most legendary living directors. With such pedigree the show is bound to be at least of the same quality as Curtains, which is why some of us think of it as a very likely contender in the Best Musical category.
I hope Mary Poppins does not get a nomination, it is such a mediocre show.
Am I right to believe Grey Gardens is the front-runner at this point?

Curtains
Mary Poppins
Legally Blonde
???????

I think Spring Awakening could potenitally get a nomanation, but I do not think it will win.
But I'm not really sure what to put in the last spot. It could possibly be "Fame Becomes Me" or somthing else but for now, I will leave it blank.

But, Best Revival is one of the simplest awards to list and guess, unless of course you have 2 very strong revivals like ACL and Le Miserables, but I'm getting off topic!

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All I have heard about GG is that, except Ebersole, it is really bad.

Mary Poppins
Spring Awakening
Curtains
(either LoveMusik or Pirate Queen)

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what about High Fidelity? I saw it, its sort of the Wedding Singer of the season --- really cute, some fun stuff, nothing life changing, but it was good, and a good lead performance.
and pirate queen -- i saw that ---- atrocious. atrocious. oh god it was bad.
not gettin nominated. just a mess.

UMMMM, alwy15....NO!! No way in HELL is High Fidelity getting a nomination. I saw it last night, it blew. You can't compare it to Wedding Singer because WS actually had some standout performances and good music. High Fidelity is nothing more than a piece of crap. It is pretty much guaranteed that Curtains and Grey Gardens will get nominations, with the other two spots possibly being filled by LoveMusik, Mary Poppins, Spring Awakening, and Pirate Queen. High Fidelity and Legally Blonde (unless its surprisingly awesome) have no chance of making the list.

LaCage wrote: Just saw SPRING AWAKENING on Bway and I thought it was one of the most distasteful and artistically challenged shows I've seen in awhile. Maybe I just didn't get it, but I really doubt this Broadway transfer helped the show any, infact I think it hurt the show.

LaCage, I normally love the disparity of opinions that can be found on this board, but the strength of your vehemence struck me as a little unfriendly. Did you even see it off broadway? If not, how can you say that the transfer hurt the show? If so, what would make you go back to see something which you obviously didn't like the first time? It sounds like you have an axe to grind.
Smaxie, your post made me curious (I have way too much time on my hands!) and I googled some of SA's earlier reviews. Every single major NY periodical ( The New York Times, TimeOutNY, Variety, NY Observer, USA Today, Associated Press, New York Magazine, and New Yorker) were overwhelmingly positive.