Nominess Announced for 2007 Broadway.com Audience Awards: Spring Awakening — Page 7

It's almost funny right? I was talking to my director about it and who he voted for and who I did and blah blah and they just went right ahead and said something like "Well on the Facebook group we run we told them all to do all this stuff so SA can win! I made like 5 other addresses and used my parents e-mails! Anna, why are you looking at me like that? It's not THAT big of a deal. I bet you voted for aaron Lazar and Audra McDonald like 500 times. The others on the facebook were fine about it. No biggie."

Shaaameless.

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its also sad that if it doesnt really matter, why people are making such a big deal about it. just let it go and vote for who you want to. arguing over it won't change anything

I meant quite sad to Becoz. As I am one of those arguing over the injustices of crazy fandom and the Broadway.com awards, I can't agree with Cats.

Hakuna Matata

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And this is not because I don't like Spring Awakening, but the songs that eventually won the noms aren't even the best ones! those SA fans are not as good as we though. I am so disappointed

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You don't like my smile???
It's perfectly ok to comment about something negative towards a show that you love. Ewan McGregor is one of my favorite actors, and I'm the first one to say he kinda blew it in Guys and Dolls. I can come up with a LIST of negative things I've said or thought privately about shows or performers I like.

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OH! Ha! Gotchya.

But yeah the competition for biggest smile is extreme to the max.

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Okay, woah, this thread is insane. I don't understand the accusations of cheating--one person posted that someone had a facebook group encouraging the same four people to ask their aunts and uncles to vote (which they probably didn't). That's cheating? Isn't that how all voting systems work? Especially silly internet voting of no consequence? You ask a bunch of people who don't care to vote for the one you want to win?

Second, it's the Broadway.com audience awards. The audience that reads Broadway.com voted. If the other shows/actors didn't motivate the audience the way SA did, bully to them.

Third, the amount of vitriol I have seen people express towards Spring Awakening astounds me. These are the same people claiming the absolutely juvenile dreck that is Mary Poppins to be some sort of worthy piece of art, and the trying after the first 40 minutes Martin Short to be deserving of nominations. Huh? Mary Poppins? Are we four?

There is a huge contingency of people who just hate SA for whatever reason. I agree that these Broadway.com Audience Award Nominations are fairly ridiculous, but get over it.

Okay, this person (MrMusic) perfectly expressed my point. He says:

"I never thought Spring Awakening would turn into that kind of show. It makes me shudder and want to hide. When I saw it Off-Broadway, I thought it was such an artistic and intimate piece of theatre. I never thought it would fare well on Broadway or find an audience. I thought it would get swallowed up in a bigger house. And now to find a seemingly rabid audience..."

Okay, wait. You liked it but you wished for it to succeed? Once it did you don't like it anymore? That makes what kind of sense?

I just think it's trendy to hate Spring Awakening.

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That seems a little funny, I was at the show recently and 90% of the people there were not teenagers. In fact there were a heck of allot of middle age and senior citizens there. They didn’t seem freaky at all.

I do find it a little amusing that of all of those cast members chosen by the fans, the two that I personally like the most (Jonathan B. Wright and Phoebe Strole) are not mentioned. Go figure???

Well it's certainly cheating to make-up other e-mail addresses and use those of your parent's, yes.

"Third, the amount of vitriol I have seen people express towards Spring Awakening astounds me. These are the same people claiming the absolutely juvenile dreck that is Mary Poppins to be some sort of worthy piece of art, and the trying after the first 40 minutes Martin Short to be deserving of nominations. Huh? Mary Poppins? Are we four?"

I'm not just ragging on SA for the hell of it. A good friend of mine is involved in it's production and I still never liked it, and I never will. And I also don't like Mary Poppins.

Again, I said before I myself am not going to complain too much because the people I wanted to get a nomination did, I'm just pointing out the extremes of some of the fans.

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Wicked wasn't up for nearly as many categories this year, unless you mean the awards the year it was eligible for...

I have a couple of questions about past Broadway.com Audience awards, so if someone has been voting with them for the past couple of year could pm me I would appreciate it becaue I don't wanna waste up posts here.

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These award nominations are exactly why I love this website so much. I love that people on here have such different opinions on all the shows...unlike on broadway.com.

Although I love SA, a lot of those nominations are ridiculous.

I did love the Aaron Lazar nom though. =)