Full Tony Nominations Out! (from the official website)- Page 6

[singtopher]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 11:16am

"I don't even know if I wanna watch the broadcast this year. "

We say that every year, and every year we still watch.


Overall, i'm pleased. It is obvious the comitee didn't care for A Caterd Affair, and is trying to send a message to Disney and Mel. I'm surprised Testa and Hoffman weren't recognized, along with Jackson. But, I'm very pleased David Pittu's work is being recognized.

[MiracleElixir]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 11:17am

Hmm... I know they were predictable (75% at least), but these BEST MUSICAL nominations are dispiriting to say the least...

"Passing Strange" is the only nominee that wouldn't upset me were it to win (and it probably will lose to Latino Spring Awak... er, "In the Heights"). "A Catered Affair" would've at least been an acceptable second-best, but no, we got "Cry-Baby."
Updated On: 5/13/08 at 11:17 AM

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 11:30am

I hope they replace "papa's plaque" with Laura or Patti's tony award the day after they win.

[Drewprecht]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 11:39am

Why does everyone hate the Stew nomination? Passing Strange is wholly original and innovative, and he does a fantastic job narrating and following the beautiful journey of his life.

Personally, I would've knocked Wopat out and put Jackson in his place. But either way, YAY for Stew and Passing Strange!

[bertandrew2]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 11:45am

Of CRY BABY getting the nom for best musical, Jaystar writes "Its really a popularity contest!"

Since when is CRY BABY popular??? Seems like its been nothing but a hate festival for this show (for the most part) especially on Broadway World posts. So now that it got a nod its popular???

Good for you CRY BABY!!!

[Roscoe]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 11:47am

Well, Stew didn't really do much of what I might consider "acting." He played his guitar really well, sang really well, and slung around a lot of anti-musical theatre attitude, and spouted a batch of comingofage cliches that he seemed to think were terribly terribly profound and "EDGY" and "GROUNDBREAKING" and "ORIGINAL" and all that crap.

[Greekmusicalfan]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 11:54am

Well, I am happy overall for the nominations, except the fact that I was secretly hoping for a nomination for Matt, who does a wonderful job in South Pacific ! And Cheyenne and Mary Testa ! And of course, I agree with the majority ! How can anyone nominate the awful crap of Cry-Baby for ANYTHING except choreography ? CATERED AFFAIR or even YF and MERMAID were way better in everything this joke of a show was nominated for !
Go IN THE HEIGHTS, SOUTH PACIFIC, GYPSY and XANADU !!!

[MiracleElixir]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 11:59am

"Well, Stew didn't really do much of what I might consider "acting." He played his guitar really well, sang really well..."

Excuse me, but this is the TONYs. Whether you agree with it or not, Best "Actor" or "Actress" has always been more about the overall package (performance, singing, dancing, etc) than just the 'Acting' element. I'm sorry, did John Lloyd Young win for "Jersey Boys" because of his mastery of the craft of Acting? No, he won because 'he sings pretty and sounds like that guy.' Remember what awards these are...

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 12:02pm

I'm excited for the Xanadu noms. I would love for it to win Best Musical, but I'm afraid it won't considering it is up against In the Heights and Passing Strange, both strong political contenders. But the Xanadu tour is pulling out of the station, which we already know is a huge deciding factor among voters.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 12:09pm

Remember what they are? Well, okay. I certainly remember Hugh Jackman winning a Tony for singing pretty well and basically standing there and being incredibly gorgeous, exuding CHARM. If Stew had even done that, I'd be okay with it. I just didn't think Stew did much of anything well enough to merit a Tony nomination for anything connected with that show.

If they gave a nomination for Best Onstage Guitar Performance, Stew would win in a walk. Anything else, not so much.

[shh282]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 12:13pm

Too much Cry-Baby, if they take anything outside Choreography, and even if they DO take Choreography because I want In the Heights to sweep that- there will be trouble.

Not enough Is He Dead? but that was to be expected I guess, I hope David takes that category but I haven't seen the other three so I don't know

SO happy for in the heights, they deserve this.

Happy with Boeing-Boeing also.

[H.Higgins]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 12:14pm

Damn, look at those amazing musical REVIVALS racking up the nominations! Woohoo!

[Roscoe]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 12:16pm

I was very glad to see the sublime Mark Rylance get a nomination. He's one of the best actors around.

I was very disappointed that Ciaran Hynds didn't get a nomination for SEAFARER, but that's how it goes sometimes.

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 12:18pm

My Thoughts:

*A CATERED AFFAIR became the theater's INTO THE WILD. They must have REALLY hated it to give THE LITTLE MERMAID a nomination over it.

*Yay for me, I got all the Best Leading Actor in a Play slots right! And I predicted David Pittu!

*So they picked MACBETH after all. I thought it might have been snubbed because there would be enough voters who thought the production didn't do the text justice.

*Yay Raul!

*Stew for Best Actor? Seriously?

*Oh God, the CRY-BABY producers are going to be intolerable. They'll keep that blob open beyond all human reasoning now.

FINAL THOUGHTS
So you give CRY-BABY a Best Musical nod, give Stew a nod, do all these other things wrong... and you still have the cajones to give GREASE! Best Revival. Bravo, voters. (cen) Bravo. The only thing you could do now to cement things is to not give Laura Benanti the Tony.

FINAL FINAL THOUGHTS
There's no way I'm missing Sondheim's speech. Thank you, voters. Thank you.

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[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 12:19pm

When I saw Cry Baby was nominated for Best Musical, I gagged. And congrats to Chicago Shakespare Theatre. I've loved that theatre ever since I was 2!!!

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 12:22pm

Yay for Boeing-Boeing! Richly deserved!

Cry-Baby sucks, but Young Frankenstein and The Little Mermaid suck more, and since Cry-Baby isn't going to win, I don't care. It's a real shame about A Catered Affair, though. They had to pick something commercial. I thank them for not choosing Young Frankenstein. As I've said many times, I've never been so outright offended by something trying to pass itself off as "entertainment" before.

And did I mention yay for Boeing-Boeing, Rylance, and McCormack? Well, yay!

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 12:31pm

It's a real shame about A Catered Affair, though. They had to pick something commercial

So you have a Latin musical, a Rock musical, a Parody musical, and that's not commercial enough?

No, I think they didn't vote for CATERED AFFAIR because they genuinely hated it. If they had liked it, to hell with "commercial".

Somewhere, someplace, Harvey Fierstein must be really really angry.

[Dolly_Levi]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 12:49pm

I will be curious to read Harvey's blog after these nominations.

[Kasie]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 1:29pm

Yay for In the Heights. 13 Noms!

Oh, and extremely excited to hear Sondheim's speech as well.
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[jaystarr]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 1:43pm

Somewhere, someplace, Harvey Fierstein must be really really angry.

^^^ that is the BEST QUOTE of the day!

J*

[popular_elphie]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 1:46pm

I'm sorry, did John Lloyd Young win for "Jersey Boys" because of his mastery of the craft of Acting? No, he won because 'he sings pretty and sounds like that guy.'
Are you still bitter about Michael Cerveris or something? Did you even see JERSEY BOYS with John Lloyd? That man brought something to the role that I've never seen anyone else do in any other show I've ever seen. He's amazing at being able to age the character on stage from 16 to 60. He sounded weathered and tired and became Frankie Valli in that role. The Tony voters are a little smarter than to vote because someone 'sounds pretty'.

[jaystarr]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 2:14pm

I said. It's a popularity contest after the nominations~as its always been!

or else Light in the Piazza & Grey Gardens would have won the BEST NEW MUSICALS.

The nominating process is like~ who p*ssed who? its like SURVIVOR- I am voting you off bec. I have an agenda. and let's not fool ourselves- the only reason why CRY-BABY got the nod is its has lesser enemies than Mel Brooks and Disney and less backlash than A CATERED AFFAIR!

I have nothing against CRY-BABY! Personally I just think it shouldn't got a nod for BEST MUSICAL over A CATERED AFFAIR or even YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN~and that's just my opinion. I am happy for them, at least they will pick up some bussiness now.

and let's face it~it would never win the BEST NEW MUSICAL-its a filler! I am personally rooting for PASSING STRANGE but IN THE HEIGHTS will more likely to win! I am happy for the Musical Revival Categories ( I knew GREASE will be nominated by DEFAULT) and most of the nominees....

I am just disappointed with the following:

1. Cry-Baby over A CATERED AFFAIR or even YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.

2. Les Liasons over CYRANO

3. Score : Bucchino over CB & TLM's score-I thought Bucchino's score is beautiful.

4. Mary Testa or Jackie Hoffman not getting nominated.

Overall.. I am happy.. btw- Rob Ashford deserved the choreography for CRY-BABY



J*





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[jaystarr]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 2:25pm

and if its a popularity contest...CRY-BABY will NEVER be nominated at all and it looks like ~ none of the Tony Committee ever post at Broadwayworld.com!

J*
Updated On: 5/13/08 at 02:25 PM

[BrianS]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 2:29pm

I know I'm very much in the minority with this, but I would rather have seen Sierra get the nomination over Jenna Russell. If you look at the quality of the material that each woman had to work with and what they did with it, Sierra did the better job. Jenna did very mediocre work with great material and Sierra did amazing things with mediocre (at best) material.

I didn't care for many of Jenna's choices and her voice wasn't the strongest. There are a lot of LM haters (I thought the show was just ok, and Act II's plot mechanics were actually insulting), but Sierra's acting and singing were both extremely strong and imho it was an amazing debut.

[Broadwayj1]

Posted: 5/13/08 at 2:41pm

I think they got it right with the plays. But did they see the same shows I saw with musicals? WOW!