Kennedy Centre Honors 2024

[Theatrefanboy1]

Posted: 12/29/23 at 9:27am

Any names? Ideas for who should be honoured?

[DramaTeach]

Posted: 12/29/23 at 10:05am

I said on the post about this year’s show that we need to start honoring our songwriters again - Schwartz, Menken, Shaiman, etc. They wrote the soundtracks of our lives.

[Tag]

Posted: 12/29/23 at 10:52am

Lately there's been a 'I have a show on CBS' nominee. My guess for 2024 would be Kathy Bates as she'll have the Matlock reboot.

(I'm sure you all noticed the blatant Equalizer shilling during Latifah's segment)

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 12/29/23 at 11:39am

Albert Brooks, but he also needs the Mark Twain prize.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 12/29/23 at 12:23pm

I second the suggestion of Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, and Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty.

Jeanine Tesori, Susan Stroman, Paula Vogel, and Lynn Nottage could be candidates, considering they're among the most decorated women of their generations in their respective fields, and the KenCen is deeply conscious of spreading the wealth in terms of gender and race.
 

Other theatre folks who SHOULD be honored in their lifetime --

Elaine May (what are they waiting for??)
Harvey Fierstein
Nathan Lane
Liza (discussed ad naeseum)
Michael Feinstein
Tommy Tune (what are they waiting for??)
James Lapine
Lydia Tár
Audra McDonald
Bernadette Peters
Patti LuPone
 

People I expect them to honor in the next decade or so (whether all "deserve" it or not over others is a wholly different matter; these are populists who could draw starry tributes) ----- Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, James Cameron, Kathryn Bigelow, Joel & Ethan Coen, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, Robert Downey Jr., Kevin Costner, Martin Short, Glenn Close, Sigourney Weaver, Tim Burton, Steven Soderbergh, RuPaul, Wes Anderson, Chuck Lorre (he's made a lotttt of money for CBS), Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, John Carpenter

Under a Republican presidency we could get David Mamet, Gary Sinise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voigt, or Caitlin Jenner.

Updated On: 12/29/23 at 12:23 PM

[JSquared2]

Posted: 12/29/23 at 12:30pm

Alan Alda

Glenn Close

Fleetwood Mac

Jane Fonda (WAY overdue -- )

Harrison Ford

Michael J Fox

Whoopi Goldberg

Ron Howard

Jessica Lange

Madonna

Barry Manilow

Alan Menken

Liza Minnelli (needless to say -- but I assume she has already turned it down)

Bob Newhart (PLEASE before it's too late!)

Bernadette Peters

Patti LuPone

Denzel Washington

Updated On: 12/29/23 at 12:30 PM

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 12/29/23 at 4:12pm

Adding SPIKE LEE to the list as an obvious candidate!

[inception]

Posted: 12/29/23 at 7:42pm

ErmengardeStopSniveling said:

Lydia Tár
 

Not a real person.

[BearcatBroadwayLover]

Posted: 12/29/23 at 7:45pm

Patti LaBelle, the performances could be legendary. 

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 12/29/23 at 10:18pm

Theatre veterans who I think should receive Kennedy Center Honors are:

Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg
Betty Buckley
Glenn Close
Sandy Duncan
Harvey Fierstein
Nathan Lane
Patti LuPone
Alan Menken
Liza Minnelli
Tim Rice
Stephen Schwartz
Charles Strouse
Tommy Tune

As for those who aren’t mainly known for theatre, but have worked in that medium:

Phil Collins
Cyndi Lauper
Frankie Valli
Otis Williams

[ManOfLaMuncha]

Posted: 12/30/23 at 6:52am

Next at the Kennedy Center 1 hr 2023 concert / performance New S2 E3 Cynthia Erivo & Friends: A New Year's Eve Celebration Ring in the New Year with a star-studded musical celebration on stage at the Kennedy Center. Read More

 

This is new on PBS (unless it's excerpts from the show).  Comes on New Years Eve 8 pm for an hour and repeated again at 9 pm.  Not much of a description on TVGuide.com.

Updated On: 12/30/23 at 06:52 AM

[SomeOtherMe]

Posted: 12/30/23 at 7:15am

Cyndi Lauper has been overdue for a while.

[The Other One]

Posted: 12/30/23 at 9:58am

"Under a Republican presidency we could get David Mamet, Gary Sinise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voigt, or Caitlin Jenner."

Mamet, Sinise and Voight have all had influential, decades long careers worthy of consideration.  

In spite of their political disagreements, Streisand received, without complaint, her Kennedy Center Honor from George W. Bush, who she had spent years lambasting.  Charlton Heston received his from Clinton, under much the same circumstance. 

Artistic accomplishments shouldn't be subjected to political dictates.

Updated On: 12/30/23 at 09:58 AM

[Zeppie2022]

Posted: 12/30/23 at 10:05am

"Streisand received, without complaint, her Kennedy Center Honor from George W. Bush, who she had spent years lambasting.  Charlton Heston received his from Clinton, under much the same circumstance."

Kudos to the both of them to not let politics get in the way of accepting this award with dignity/class.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 12/30/23 at 10:34am

The Other One said: ""Under a Republican presidency we could get David Mamet, Gary Sinise, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voigt, or Caitlin Jenner."

Mamet, Sinise and Voight have all had influential, decades long careers worthy of consideration.

In spite of their political disagreements, Streisand received, without complaint, her Kennedy Center Honor from George W. Bush, who she had spent years lambasting. Charlton Heston received his from Clinton, under much the same circumstance.

Artistic accomplishments shouldn't be subjected to political dictates."

I believe ErmengardeStopSniveling was kidding with the “Under a Republican presidency.” I don’t believe the president has any actual involvement in selecting the honorees.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 12/30/23 at 12:50pm

I was only half kidding. The president doesn't have a say to my knowledge, but usually presides over the event. As we saw with the Trump presidency, much has changed since the days of "liberal artists attend Bush or Reagan events" (KC Honors, inaugurations, WH concerts, etc). Whether that continues in future presidencies remains to be seen.

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 12/30/23 at 1:23pm

“Not a real person.”

 

Thanks captain. 

[darquegk]

Posted: 12/30/23 at 2:04pm

Tim Curry should be in consideration: one of the great character actors of all time, an exemplary voice actor, and an inadvertent part of so many people’s childhoods due to his run of family films in the nineties.

[morosco]

Posted: 12/30/23 at 6:44pm

Hard to believe that Carol Channing was never honored.

Over all the years of the honors there are several who really didn't even deserve it. 

[DramaTeach]

Posted: 12/31/23 at 10:27am

Shirley Jones! She’s got the R&H musicals, Music Man, Partridge Family, come on!