Broadway.com awards- Page 2

[GreenSharpie]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 2:18pm

Well for my part I'm happy about the well-deserved love the deaf stars of Spring Awakening (along with the other main SA actors) are getting here from fans, especially since the Big Award Shows are not showing the love with all of the fierce competition (and of course shows that are ALL still open)..

 

Favorite Onstage Pair - Daniel Durant & Alex Boniello (the 'Moritz' pair)

Favorite Breakthrough Performance (Female) - Sandra Mae Frank (Wendla)

Favorite Breakthrough Performance (Male) - Austin McKenzie (Melchior)

Favorite Feature Actor in a Musical - Andy Mientus (Hanschen)

Favorite Featured Actress in a Musical - Krysta Rodriguez (Ilse)

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 2:39pm

These awards are more cutesie than anything else. The fact that Taye Diggs got a Best Replacement nomination for Hedwig speaks rather clearly to how critically and artistically meaningless these are.

[Sunny11]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 2:47pm

BroadwayConcierge said: "These awards are more cutesie than anything else. The fact that Taye Diggs got a Best Replacement nomination for Hedwig speaks rather clearly to how critically and artistically meaningless these are.

Just because you disagree with their opinions doesn't  been that theirs is critically and artistically meaningless. 

 

[ebontoyan]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 2:59pm

There is no critical or artistic about this. They are all fan love!!! So maybe you should have filled out a nom survey instead of mocking who's been nominated.  This is all a fun way to get the fans involved!  Nothing serious so don't take too seriously!

I knew Hamilton will be nominated in almost all (and I love Hamilton, I will see it 3x by June) so I filled out a form to also nominate Allegiance and Lea Salonga (which I also loved I cried from start to end not even Hamilton could do!).  I didn't expect them to be included but I suppose there were other like minded fans too!

Updated On: 4/30/16 at 02:59 PM

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 3:04pm

Dudes. Diggs literally didn't know his lines. I understand that it's all fan love, but at what cost...

[Sunny11]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 3:05pm

But why do fans  get invested in certain shows/performers? Broadway wouldn't exist without a  paying audience so should their opinions be valued?

[ebontoyan]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 3:16pm

There are enough Taye Diggs fans out there that disagree with you to get him nominated, what can you do??! lol I am not a huge fan of Hedwig the show but I don't begrudge anyone to show their fan love. And they too are keeping Broadway alive

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 3:32pm

I'm majorly surprised that not even a single New Song nomination went to Waitress - especially She Used To Be Mine. I love Hamilton, don't get wrong, but I just do not understand how there was 11 new musicals and it's a Hamilton open and shut case. 

[ebontoyan]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 3:57pm

The Hamilton fans were out in force filling the nominee lists!  Where were the Waitress fans is the question?! Even some of Allegiance and Spring Awakening fans showed up to nominate their faves

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 4:01pm

These awards have no artistic merit.

 

Why no noms for other music?  Waitress isn't recorded yet.  My guess is most of the voters have seen only one or two (at best) of the new shows...with some not having seen any and voting on word of mouth and recordings.

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 4:13pm

dramamama611 said: "These awards have no artistic merit. Why no noms for other music?  Waitress isn't recorded yet.  My guess is most of the voters have seen only one or two (at best) of the new shows...with some not having seen any and voting on word of mouth and recordings."

Definitely not an award that has the esteem of artistic merit, but it's still ridiculous that 11 musicals open with wonderful scores (Personally I adore Waitress and Bright Star) and Hamilton gets every single slot. While Waitress hasn't released their cast album yet, Sara Bareilles did release her concept album of songs from it. Plus, She Used To Be Mine has been in her docket since her summer tour last year. 

 

Updated On: 4/30/16 at 04:13 PM

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 4:32pm

Of course its ridiculous!

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 5:29pm

People like Taye because he is Idina's Baby Daddy.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 5:39pm

That and he's beyond hot.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 8:20pm

BroadwayConcierge said: "Dudes. Diggs literally didn't know his lines. I understand that it's all fan love, but at what cost..."

 

Agreed... Watching Taye Diggs play Hedwig was one of the most painful experiences I have ever had in a theatre.

 

[binau]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 8:27pm

Sunny11 said: "But why do fans  get invested in certain shows/performers? Broadway wouldn't exist without a  paying audience so should their opinions be valued?

 

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I think so, but I'd be more interested if the awards were representative of theatre goers. I think these awards are probably more representative of younger, internet-savvy types - but Broadway has quite an aged audience. This is same effect how if you only looked on the internet, you would expect Bernie Sanders to be defeating Hillary Clinton by a landslide (but he's not because it's just not representative). 

[Randomlink1]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 8:35pm

I mean, I think the problem with these awards is that people haven't seen the shows, since they don't have access to them. Also, a lot of them are more of people who are obsessed with shows, so it doesn't really mean a lot of artistic merit, since people can vote as many times as they want and a lot of them probably haven't seen the shows (I mean, I only get to see 2 shows a year max, but I want to get out more and see shows). It's more of what the fans like.

[Randomlink1]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 8:36pm

bwayphreak234 said: "BroadwayConcierge said: "Dudes. Diggs literally didn't know his lines. I understand that it's all fan love, but at what cost..."

 

Agreed... Watching Taye Diggs play Hedwig was one of the most painful experiences I have ever had in a theatre.

 

 

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I didn't get to see it, but it made a respected theatre critic take the show down from the best show of 2014 to the 10th worst show of 2015, just because Taye Diggs played the role. 

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 9:02pm

The single fact that Andy Mientus was nominated at all shows how meaningless these awards are. Especially over Daniel N. Durant.

[NJ_BroadwayGirl]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 9:04pm

I pretty much try not to give clicks to Broadway.com  because it is such a scam site with its ticket sales and gift certificates. I hate that unsuspecting people get duped into paying their unbelievably high ticket fees.

[Randomlink1]

Posted: 4/30/16 at 9:34pm

Also, they voted Young Frankenstein, Sister Act, and If/Then as the best musicals of their respective years, while much better shows also played. So, just keep that in mind.