No Legally Blonde for Best Musical

[Trish2]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:53am

Yes, there is a god.

[TheQuibbler]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 8:59am

There is a God, but He has a sense of humor: Best Score & Best Book.

[TechEverlasting]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:00am

I think it was that other guy down below who was resposible for LBB's best score and book nominations.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:05am

The score to LB is awful, IMO, and I'm surprised it was nominated. The book was OK.

[joe5]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:07am

Thank God.............

[James885]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:07am

I was surprised they got as many nominations as they did. But Best Score really surprised me.

[C is for Company]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:18am

As long as they don't pull a Spamalot and deprive another show of it, I am fine if they got nominated for book and lyrics. They won't win it anyway!

[TechEverlasting]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:21am

Although I don't agree with the best actress, book or score noms it's obvious that the nominating committee did not want Legally Blonde to win best musical and deliberately excluded it from that category.

With the Mary Poppins nomination we'll get to see if the fabled "road voters" really have that much power.

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:41am

It seems to me (very quickly) that the Legally Blonde snub this morning was a direct insult to the road voters, Tech.

Either way, I don't think it matters much, because LB is doing fine. Of the seven nominations, I don't see them TAKING any, though.

[Dirty_Rotten_Guy]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:49am

Yeah, sadly I dont see them taking any awards
But anyways, I dont think it was worthy of a Best Musical nomination. It was great, but not Best Musical worthy.
But Mary Poppins got the nomination instead? What happened?

[goldenboy]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:50am

Oh my gosh you guys, the tony nominating committee finally got something right!

The nominating committee did not reward a sub-standard Broadway Muscial which wasn't even half as good as the movie it was based on. They realized Jerry Mitchell, while having a strong choreographic hand, didn't really direct the piece.

Christian Borle was fabulous and deserved to be nominated for Spamalot. He wasn't. So if he wins, let's face it, its for Spamalot; not this part where he hardly has a chance to shine.

As for the score being nominated, they probably ran out of slots. I think one year
Starmites was nominated for best musical. Need I say more?

Laura Bell Bundy was nominated. It showed that the tony award commitee has heart
as we found out with the Avenue Q win, and didn't blame the mediocrity of the show on her. I guess being nominated for her was a nice thing. If she wins, I'll eat my hat.
(Does anyone still wear a hat?)

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:54am

I think the entire audience of RCMH will have to buy hats if Ebersole and Wilson don't take the ladies categories.

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 9:58am

I am kind of happy that it wasn't nominated. Updated On: 5/15/07 at 09:58 AM

[Anakela]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:08am

Mary Poppins, best musical. Seriously? Mary Poppins was possibly my most boring theatre experience this season. And I enjoyed The Lion King, etc. so it's not an "omg I hate Disney!" comment. I just thought MP was pretty to look at, but that was about it- it wasn't the best musical in my mind.

I just can't believe that LB gets passed up by the same organization that decided "Tony nominee for best musical: The Wedding Singer." Seriously.

[tazber]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:09am

Did you think LB was that much better? It was between those two for the last slot and Poppins got way better reviews.

[Anakela]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:15am

Oh yeah I thought LB was much better than MP- I suffered through MP once on a comp ticket, and haven't been back since, it made my 'don't need to see *that* again' list. I've paid to go to LB more than once so far.

I think LB is flawed, yes. It is not "OMG teh bestest show evah!!!1!!!1!" by any means (personally I hope SA takes the Best Musical win), but to lose out on that slot to MP? If LoveMusik, etc. anyone else had taken that fourth slot that would've been fine by me, I just don't think MP was in the top four Best Musicals this year, I don't.

[sondhead]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:20am

The score was bad and the book was OK? When they weren't copying the movie's jokes, they were getting REALLY crappy one-liners. Not to even mention the fact that the change of Paulette's character while keeping the same plot points from the movie made her character not make any sense. We also saw no bonding between Elle and Paulette. They meet the first time, randomly talk to eachother as if they're alREADY friends and then the next time she appears its to get the dog back, despite the fact that given her new attitude she would have had no problem doing it herself. Aaaaand let's not even talk about that whole Ireland thing.

I'd say the Book was the worst part of the show, direction (or lack thereof) coming in 2nd and score in 3rd. O'Keefe and Benjamin are great composers, but stay away from pop scores. I would have enjoyed some songs instead of the sprawling pop musical "scenes" they wrote...