Could American Idiot win Best Musical?

[tking001]

Posted: 3/30/10 at 3:53pm

What else could be nominated for Best Musical? Could Idiot win?

[PReeves]

Posted: 3/30/10 at 4:03pm

without being opened yet and reviews being written yet, its certainly hard to say. Although, with all the hype i'm betting on it getting a nod along with Fela, Come Fly Away and Memphis.

[ljay889]

Posted: 3/30/10 at 4:06pm

Having also seen The Addams Family, Memphis, Fela, and Sondheim on Sondheim, I can easily see American Idiot beating those musicals.

Updated On: 3/30/10 at 04:06 PM

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 3/30/10 at 4:41pm

Sure, I haven't been that impressed with any original musicals this season.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/30/10 at 8:44pm

Another slim year for choices. It should DEFINITELY get a nod.
Win? WAY too early to guess...but of course, it COULD.

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 3/30/10 at 9:34pm

I have yet to see American Idiot but all the rest have sucked. Fela! was probably the most thought out of all of them and I think my favorite.

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 3/30/10 at 9:42pm

What a crappy season for new musicals.

Only 2 new scores, both extremely flawed. 2 modern dance shows disguised as musical theatre. A revue. And an album.

Hardly the brightest season for the future of musical theatre.

Wish Scottsboro Boys could sneak in but it seems highly unlikely.

Hope Everday Rapture comes in a stirs up the pot a little.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/30/10 at 10:02pm

Edited for bizarre double post.

Updated On: 3/30/10 at 10:02 PM

[bjh2114]

Posted: 3/30/10 at 10:12pm

Only 2 new scores, both extremely flawed. 2 modern dance shows disguised as musical theatre. A revue. And an album.

Two albums! American Idiot and Million Dollar Quartet. I honestly would give Burn the Floor a Best Musical nomination over half of the crap in this category this year.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 3/30/10 at 10:29pm

I've never been able to understand why American Idiot is simply an "album" or a "jukebox musical" when shows like Tommy aren't.

It's a ROCK OPERA, people.

and the answer to your question? Yes! Its main competition would be:
1. An inoffensive, formulaic and competent musical that opened months ago and that most critics inexplicably treated like a crayon drawing their kindergartner posted on the refrigerator.
2. A funky, innovative Afrobeat show that is nonetheless too loosely structured and obscure for road producers to like it.
3. Is it a languid, storyless dance piece or a rowdy bonanza suited for a Vegas showroom? YOU DECIDE. Nobody else seems to be able to.
4. A multimillion dollar-budgeted franchise adaptation with an unbeatable pedigree that nonetheless seems unable to make itself heard.
5. Great singers singing Sondheim songs while he talks on plasma screens behind them.

This is a weak year, but it doesn't matter - American Idiot is exactly the kind of thing the Tonys will eat up. It's commercial but artsy, edgy but familiar, the kind of show that can play in Cleveland and Columbus Circle.

[bryan]

Posted: 3/30/10 at 10:45pm

so when does the cast cd of american idiot to come out i hope it is soon.

[tking001]

Posted: 3/30/10 at 10:47pm

April 8th

[threetwoone]

Posted: 3/30/10 at 10:50pm

Why couldn't Catch Me If You Can open this season? Though I haven't seen any of the other shows besides CMIYC, I could see that taking best musical and best score (easily the latter).