Do I Smell a "Best Score" TONY for BOY GEORGE???

[Horsey]

Posted: 10/30/03 at 10:41pm

[Dude]

Posted: 10/30/03 at 10:43pm

I think you're smelling something else

Posted: 10/30/03 at 10:43pm

All that's smelling are horse-ies.

Yours for a better Broadway!

[bwaylyric]

Posted: 10/30/03 at 10:45pm

You must have a cold. Like The Lion King, the score is not all original. So far, AVENUE Q is looking like a winner.

[Horsey]

Posted: 10/30/03 at 10:46pm

This NOSE Knows.

[Seany]

Posted: 10/30/03 at 10:47pm

What I don't get....is...how can Taboo win a Tony for best score but JCS, Rocky Horror, Cabaret, etc. have never won anything? Those are excellent scores!

[StateOfJade]

Posted: 10/30/03 at 10:48pm

Yes, I smell that too. When I enter a public toilet.

[Horsey]

Posted: 10/30/03 at 11:05pm

Because Seany, when those show opened, (in their particular seasons) there were other shows, in those same seasons, with excellent scores. Some of which, won the TONY Award.

Posted: 10/30/03 at 11:09pm

I smell a rat.

[Horsey]

Posted: 10/30/03 at 11:11pm

RATS, "Now and Forever"
Everybody who was so mean to me by immediately jumping down my throat the day I joined this message board and expressed my opinion about TABOO. Yuck. Updated On: 10/30/03 at 11:11 PM

[tkts]

Posted: 10/30/03 at 11:13pm

Horsey, are you on some kind of medication? If not, get some.

[theatreguy]

Posted: 10/30/03 at 11:23pm

What I don't get....is...how can Taboo win a Tony for best score but JCS, Rocky Horror, Cabaret, etc. have never won anything? Those are excellent scores!

Um, Cabaret won best score. And 6 or 7 other Tonys as well. Plus 4 more for the revival.

[Horsey]

Posted: 10/30/03 at 11:38pm

Well...there you go!!!

[LC]

Posted: 10/31/03 at 1:56am

Serious question. Tony wise, how original does a score have to be? What percentage has to be original to qualify, I mean?

[theatreguy]

Posted: 10/31/03 at 2:06am

It all depends on what shows have opened each year. State Fair got a nomination even though only 4 or 5 of it's songs were "new." (In this case, "new" meaning never having been performed on Broadway before).

[LC]

Posted: 10/31/03 at 3:09am

So "new" doesn't mean written specifically for the musical? Is there not some kind of ruling?

[TEACHEROFTHEATER]

Posted: 10/31/03 at 8:42am

Seany, what do you mean when you say Cabaret has never won anything? When Cabaret opened in 1966 it won the Tony for best musical and the Tony for best music and lyrics for Kander and Ebb.

A few years back, the revival of Cabaret won the Tony for best revival.

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 10/31/03 at 9:09am

Horsey, God bless you!

[sheekala]

Posted: 10/31/03 at 9:20am

I like it better when Seany stays silent, and looks pretty, cause sometimes he says things and it reminds me I'm a hundred years older than him. Speaking of old and moldy, Horsey's sad and tired pronouncements are getting more drastic by the minute. Shouldn't you be on your way to court ROS...uh, sorry, HORSEY?

[WillParker]

Posted: 10/31/03 at 12:15pm

I think you're becoming my new best friend, Sheekala. And to stay on-topic, I think that at this point, the Tony is Avenue Q's to lose.

[Starlight]

Posted: 10/31/03 at 12:23pm

Seany...though Rocky Horror has been around forever, to my knowledge it has never actually been "on broadway" and therefore wouldn't even be eligible for a Tony. In fact, I read an article in which they talked about a debate regarding whether RHPS would be eligible for "new" categories for this year's Tony's, or whether it would fall under "revival" because of its long history in the theater world.

[Horsey]

Posted: 10/31/03 at 12:27pm

Why are some of you so bitter?
Aren't we all here to SUPPORT Broadway?
The negative elements of condeming theatre can be left to the Press which seems to have quite a good handle on that aspect.
I have no "bone to pick" with any of you.
Can we just post our opinions without hurling "personal insults" toward people we don't even know and have never met???

[WillParker]

Posted: 10/31/03 at 12:28pm

Actually, there have been two productions of the Rocky Horror Show on Broadway. The original production opened on March 10, 1975 at the Belasco, and the revival opened on November 15, 2000 at Circle in the Square.

[robbiej]

Posted: 10/31/03 at 12:29pm

I always thought that RHS played on Broadway originally and BOMBED...perhaps it was off-Broadway.

Horsey...you may very well be right. It could be the best score on Broadway and end up being a monster hit.

What is a little upsetting is that your posts reek of shilling. You seem to know a bit too much about the show to be just an enthusiastic theatregoer. Many of us here (some in the business, like myself...others not) prefer to not be marketed to on this site.

[magruder]

Posted: 10/31/03 at 12:38pm

I think it all depends on Bombay Dreams at this point. Taboo too, but I wonder if Rosie has alienated some people by her pronouncement that she's going to win the Tony. My guess is that if Bombay Dreams is even competent, it will win Best Musical with Avenue Q taking book and score, a la Urinetown. Businesswise, whatever looks like the show that can make a mint on the road wins the Tony for Best Musical, with often better shows taking home the artistic prizes of Book and Score. I know the London version of Bombay Dreams gets some mixed opinions on this board, but considering that Thomas Meehan has been brought in to write the new book and his golden touch lately (Hairspray, Producers, not to mention Annie), and the show has that enviable late spring opening position that makes it fresh in the mind of Tony voters, it could be the one to beat.