How will the tony committee handle The Coast Of Utopia?
How will the tony committee handle The Coast Of Utopia?
buddharich
Featured Actor Joined: 3/23/07
#1How will the tony committee handle The Coast Of Utopia?
Posted: 4/1/07 at 10:20am
Will each of the three parts be considered separate plays? Will actors be nominated for one of the 3 parts or all 3? Have they decided who will be considered lead and who will be considered featured? And are the 3 actress (Jennifer Ehle, Amy Irving, and Martha Plimpton) all being considered for featured? Jack O'Brien, one nomination for all 3 or separate nominations?
I hope Ethan Hawke and Martha Plimpton get nominations; well, actually, all 10 major roles/actors deserve recognition - too bad there isn't a best ensemble tony!
ashbash1990
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#2re: How will the tony committee handle The Coast Of Utopia?
Posted: 4/1/07 at 10:36amcorrect me if i'm wrong, but i thought the tony commitee called "Angels in America" one play, so i think they will do the same with "Coast of Utopia" especially since they opened in the same season...
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#2re: How will the tony committee handle The Coast Of Utopia?
Posted: 4/1/07 at 10:41amNo, they didn't. How else would Stephen Spinella have won two separate awards for Prior and both win the award for Best Play?
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#3re: How will the tony committee handle The Coast Of Utopia?
Posted: 4/1/07 at 10:45am
ANGELS IN AMERICA: Millenium Approaches & Perestroika were considered two separate plays, as they quite cleverly opened in the same year but different seasons. (Millenium opened in the spring, Perestroika opened in the fall.)
I'm interested in seeing how the committee is going to rule on this show, as all three parts opened in the same season. While individually they are all wonderful, when seen as a whole it is so clear that it really is one work. Hmmmm... Personally, I'd be inclined to give the nomination to THE COAST OF UTOPIA as one complete work. But that's just me.
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Updated On: 4/1/07 at 10:45 AM
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#4re: How will the tony committee handle The Coast Of Utopia?
Posted: 4/1/07 at 10:50amI am almost positive they will be considered separately, but I can find out today
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Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#5re: How will the tony committee handle The Coast Of Utopia?
Posted: 4/1/07 at 12:03pm
It's a tricky question too because normally they would just nominate the Salvage and have that serve for the trilogy overall. Sort of a Lord of the Rings strategy. But many people who liked The Coast of Utopia didn't like Salvage, so that might hurt their overall chances.
Regardless of how it's done, I can't see how it couldn't win for a lot of the production categories, and also for Best Director.
myManCape
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/26/05
#6re: How will the tony committee handle The Coast Of Utopia?
Posted: 4/1/07 at 12:12pmThe committee has yet to rule and probably will not until the end of the season. The LCT producers are petitioning for Utopia to be considered as one work, and therefore only eligible in each category once. This will greatly improve the chances of a nomination, as the actors would not be competing against them selves in the same categories. Not only are all 3 parts opening in the same season, they are playing in rep. I really don’t think there is any other way to consider Utopia.
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madlibrarian
Broadway Star Joined: 8/15/06
#7re: How will the tony committee handle The Coast Of Utopia?
Posted: 4/1/07 at 9:14pmThere is precedent in this case: the two parts of Nicholas Nickleby were nominated as a single play (and won!).
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#8re: How will the tony committee handle The Coast Of Utopia?
Posted: 4/1/07 at 11:39pmBut Nicholas Nickleby was one play. Written and developed as one play but performed as two parts. Utopia is three separate plays that together form a trilogy.
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#9re: How will the tony committee handle The Coast Of Utopia?
Posted: 4/1/07 at 11:43pmThey considered THE KENTUCKY CYCLE one play.
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#10re: How will the tony committee handle The Coast Of Utopia?
Posted: 4/1/07 at 11:53pmwhere's margo???
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myManCape
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/26/05
#11re: How will the tony committee handle The Coast Of Utopia?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 12:04amMargo has answered this question multiple times in many different threads. My post earlier sums up what Margo has said on this topic before only he says it in a much better way.
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