Illinoise - best new score?

Broadway Journal/ Phillip Boroff reports:

Orin Wolf is preparing to move the dance piece to the St. James Theater, packing another new musical into the busy 2023-24 season.

Is this eligible for best new score?

Kad said: "For somebody who reliably has insider industry info, I’m kind of surprised you’d even ask."

To be fair, the source material isn't exactly mainstream. I didn't actually know about its existence until this show and I'm so glad I do now.

I could make the argument either way on this.

Several concept albums have been released before shows - that went on to be eligible for best score.

The show isn't a greatest hits piece like Movin Out or the upcoming Alicia Keys musical.

It’s a dance piece to an existing album. So I’d say no.

Didn't Stereophonic win best score?

Is this for sure coming to Broadway? Was going to extend my trip a day to catch it since I've been trying to see it since it was upstate. But wanted to make sure before I changed my flight

ColorTheHours048 said: "rattleNwoolypenguin said: "There's nothing funnier than theatre people talking about well known non theatre music using theatrey terms.

It's hysterical.

The indie music world would be like "Why are you discussing Sufjan like this?""

What?

RUkiddingmesaid: "Didn’t Stereophonic win best score?"

…What??

I swear some of the posters on the boards these days are huffing paint."



I'm not. Sufjan is from the indie folk world, where that album is SO famous, so beloved, a classic, and so it is genuinely funny seeing theatre people who probably don't listen to Sufjan Stevens pontificating about it being a "concept album" like Evita was or something.

We just are very in our own little bubble sometimes.

But if you are not connected to theatre you don't see the term "concept album" and immediately go

"Ah, of course. A song cycle ultimately intending to play at Roundabout"

I don’t think it will/can even be considered. Keep in mind, Pete Townshend won the Tony for best score for the original production of Tommy with some backlash. Aside from the songs I Believe my own Eyes and Sally Simpson’s question, they were all songs that came out in 1969. The rule was changed so that a musical adaptation like a Disney musical for example, had to have at least half the score be written for the stage in addition to any songs from the original film.

Islander_fan said: "I don’t think it will/can even be considered. Keep in mind, Pete Townshend won the Tony for best score for the original production of Tommy with some backlash. Aside from the songs I Believe my own Eyes and Sally Simpson’s question, they were all songs that came out in 1969. The rule was changed so that a musical adaptation like a Disney musical for example, had to have at least half the score be written for the stage in addition to any songs from the original film."

That IS actually ridiculous about Tommy especially when you consider they adapted the album into a musical film, and I think at one point someone did a stage production of it.

ColorTheHours048 said: "rattleNwoolypenguin said: "There's nothing funnier than theatre people talking about well known non theatre music using theatrey terms.

It's hysterical.

The indie music world would be like "Why are you discussing Sufjan like this?""

What?

RUkiddingmesaid: "Didn’t Stereophonic win best score?"

…What??

I swear some of the posters on the boards these days are huffing paint."

It's not only a "these days" condition though. It's a perpetual thing on anon chat boards.

Do we know if they will be recording an album ?