Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album 2018 — Page 3

LesWickedly said: "Still very confused as to how Hamtilon had all of it’s leads nominated, while the past two years only one to three people have been nominated. Very upsetting for the casts of Come From Away, DEH and Dolly."

I have no idea how that process works, but could it be that the producers submit soloist names and the Grammy committees just approve or deny what has been submitted? The responsibility might fall onto the album producers. 

LesWickedly said: "Still very confused as to how Hamtilon had all of it’s leads nominated, while the past two years only one to three people have been nominated. Very upsetting for the casts of Come From Away, DEH and Dolly."

Right? I'm annoyed that because of these rules, Jenn Colella and Rachel Bay Jones (just to start) can't call themselves Grammy nominees.

JBroadway said: "Assuming this will go to DEH automatically given the nominees, and the fact that Pasek & Paul seem to be on a winning spree.They will have won an undeserved Oscar, an undeserved Tony, and an undeserved Grammy all in the span of a year. That's quite an achievement!"

And what a rare achievement for two white guys!!

JBroadway said: "Assuming this will go to DEH automatically given the nominees, and the fact that Pasek & Paul seem to be on a winning spree.They will have won an undeserved Oscar, an undeserved Tony, and an undeserved Grammy all in the span of a year. That's quite an achievement!"

HAHAHHAHAHAHAA

This is one of the best comments I've read on this message board. Kudos to you, sir.

And they took it from three DIFFERENT people as well. 

About six other times out of the last 18 years, the award went to the cast recording that happened to have major involvement from a previous Grammy winner as their secret weapon. They’ve included…

Aida-Original music composed by Elton John.
Jersey Boys-It utilized the songs of the Four Seasons.
American Idiot-It utilized the songs of Green Day.
Kinky Boots-Original score written by Cyndi Lauper.
Beautiful-It utilized the songs of Carole King.
The Color Purple-It had Jennifer Hudson listed as a principal soloist.

And how do you think those albums sold compared to the other nominees?  Known names = $$$ = award.  Of those same years, the only anomalies I can think that were surprising wins were West Side Story in 2010 (I would've figured on Shrek) and Gypsy in 2004 (definitely would have bet on Movin' Out).  I think Once had the edge over Newsies mainly because it did have Oscar recognition behind it (but it's also just a better album) and I don't know how well it sold, but I'm glad In the Heights beat out the more recognizable commercial Little Mermaid and Young Frankenstein (both backed by major Hollywood players with huge Broadway successes).

ebontoyan said: "So what TV projects are they working on for P&P to get an Emmy for the EGOT??!"

Probably the live version of a Christmas story I guess they are adding some new songs to the score.

The Grammy rules state "Award to the principal vocalist(s) and the album producer(s) of 51% or more playing time of the album".   If you look at the Hamilton Cast Album, most of the cast is listed as performing on almost every song. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_(album)

Aren't several of the Dear Evan Hansen numbers also ensemble pieces, that may be the reason they got added because they were on at least 51% of the tracks.   But I looked at Come From Away and almost every track lists "Company".   I am sure it depends on how the Grammy committee define "principal vocalist" and producer petitions.