Curious about Nathan Lane in Love! Valour! Compassion!

[Albin]

Curious about Nathan Lane in Love! Valour! Compassion!#0

Posted: 2/12/05 at 11:32am

Why no Tony nomination for him when he won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics award?

[magruder]

re: Curious about Nathan Lane in Love! Valour! Compassion!#1

Posted: 2/12/05 at 11:46am

At the time, the Tony nominators voted in silent ballots with no discussion afterwards. I think what might have happened is that Nathan Lane was considered such a shoo-in for the nomination, that the nominators all voted for other people, thinking someone else would take care of Nathan. It shocked everyone at the time when he was not nominated. Because of that incident and others, I believe the nominators have a discussion period, where they can talk about whether they've made an error or not. The number of nominators was also doubled.

"Gif me the cobra jool!"

Updated On: 2/12/05 at 11:46 AM

[WISHIHADATONY]

re: Curious about Nathan Lane in Love! Valour! Compassion!#2

Posted: 2/12/05 at 3:57pm

I recall Nathan Lane jokingly crying about "not even being nominated" that year for LOVE VALOUR COMPASSION as he co-hosted the Tonys with Gregory Hines.

"Blow out the candles Robert and make a wish. Want something, want SOMETHING."