Drama Desk Live Stream — Page 3

^No. Not from my experience and memory. First of all, they include Off Broadway, the categories/eligibility are different and it's a very different pool of voters.

Also, the Golden Globes are almost never a good predictor of the Oscars. I think you're thinking of the Screen Actors Guild and Directors Guild Awards which are usually phenomenal predictors of the Oscars.

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Of course, I'm not saying they're at all irrelevant (congratulations to all the winners by the way!) and they definitely provide a little bit of insight into where some sentiments are.

However, it's pretty ludicrous to call the Drama Desk Awards a good prediction of the Tonys when:
- The presumed biggest challenger to Matilda for best musical at the Tonys wasn't even nominated
- An Off-Broadway show won best music
- The two front runners for best actor in a musical were in different categories
- One of the front runners for best actress in a musical (Patina Miller) wasn't nominated
- The winning sound designers weren't even nominated
- An Off-Broadway show won lighting design
- Somehow no one from the cast of Vanya et al. was nominated

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No one was insinuating that it was an epidemic. I don't know a lot about the Drama Desk Awards so I asked a question.

Yes I would agree with that statement^^.

The two male winners here for Musical were both placed in proper categories..best actor and best supporting...the way I saw the parts. Being the Matilda people chose to put Bertie in the lead category, it is going to be an interesting choice - especially since the two choices are equally talented but performing in totally different styles. The expression comparing apples to oranges does not do it justice.

I hope they release the book to Matilda... The last three Tony-winning books had theirs released... Once, Mormon, Memphis..