JERSEY BOYS TAKES IT!!!!

JERSEY BOYS ROCKS MY SOCKS!!!!

I'm disgusted.

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BOOOO!!

Yay!! I am so Jersey Boys. This show deserved this award. One of the best shows I've seen in a long time.

I like your Av zoomzoom. While I am anti-jukebox, I also don't think it deserved it. I'll never understand how a musical can win Best Scenery, Best Costumes, Best Book, and Best Score, and lose best musical. If that's not politics I don't know what is.

Won't this thread spoil it for those on the west coast who are just watching the Tony's now?

As I stated in the other thread:







I am happy for all their awards!!!!

Same thing happened with Parade not winning. It's all very odd. Guess that it's just how everything comes together.

Is it bad that I cried?

I am SO HAPPY. They deserved it. That cast is the best on Broadway, and that show is just....gahhh.

YES :).

Best overall production...uh huh...

Tell that to their TONY, babe.

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I'm happy for them and everything but i must say this. I'm proud right now that i cannot sing because the fact that if i was i'd be furious. I would not want the trends to go more towards jukebox musicals(Granted Jersey Boys is a good one(I'm also a fan of All Shook up and several others
I'd be furious because i want new great shows written not everything has to be premade "just add script/storyline".
I was also so happy hearing everyother performance since it was all new. And i personally don't see John Lloyd Young being one of those tony winners people will remember or having a long career.

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while Jersey Boys is in the same class as...well...Spamalot.

And THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, and GYPSY, and HELLO, DOLLY!

You're right...those classless Best Musical winners.

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The book of Jersey Boys is, I'm sorry- AMAZING. It's a wonderful, solid story and I was very disappointed that Brickman and Ellis didn't win. I haven't seen Chaperone yet, but I wonder if it makes you care half as much about the main characters as Jersey Boys does. Chaperone strikes me (again, only going on what I've seen/read) as a fun, high-energy show with a lot of jokes, but slim on character depth. Jersey Boys goes in to the lives of each of these men... probably more "character development" than I've seen in a show in quite some time... yet it's being strung up because it uses the music from the Four Seasons catalogue. It may not be what Rodgers and Hammerstein envisioned when they penned "Oklahoma", but I see it as a musical.

I would say that, ever since "Contact" won back in 2001, the definition of musical has been changing. I love traditional book-driven musicals with original scores, but they seem to be losing steam. Just because a show is completely new doesn't mean it should automatically deserve the big prize. Neither should a show deserve the big prize because of a big name (*cough* Spamalot *cough*). A successful night of theater for me is one in which I was both entertained and forced to think a little. I don't need to have a life-changing experience every time I go to the theater- I'll admit, I really enjoyed Spamalot- but the best theater touches you. And Jersey Boys did for me.

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