North East Bain Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

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North East Bain Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

Posted: 6/7/09 at 11:07pm

Congratulations to Billy Elliot with 10 Tony's.

Best Musical
Best Book
Best Performance by a Leading Actor David/Kiril/Trent
Best Performance by an Featured Actor Gregory Jbara
Best Director
Best Choreography
Best Orchestrations
Best Lighting
Best Sound
Best Scene

Where were you all at 4:30am?????????

Updated On: 6/8/09 at 11:07 PM

re: North East Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

Posted: 6/7/09 at 11:33pm

Grrrr some of us are still watching this on TVU and your thread just gave it away grrrrrrr

Oh and it deserved about half of them

Next To Normal should have got best Musical, Best Book and Best Sound.
Shrek should have got Featured Actor

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

re: North East Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

Posted: 6/7/09 at 11:39pm

BILLY ELLIOT chose an awful number to represent the show. Nothing about it sold the show to me. Interesting that N2N won best score over BE.

re: North East Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

Posted: 6/7/09 at 11:46pm

not really, its a far better score

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re: North East Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

Posted: 6/7/09 at 11:55pm

s&d2, I think you are a very courageous individual to say that here. I hope you are wearing protection some here think otherwise.

re: North East Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

Posted: 6/8/09 at 12:18am

Im sorry but the BE score is weak. With the exception of a couple of songs its forgettable

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re: North East Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

Posted: 6/8/09 at 12:32am

Totally agree, and to use the lyric "give em the old razzle dazzle' today is unforgiveable.

re: North East Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

Posted: 6/8/09 at 1:59am

As I have said before, the Billy Elliot music and lyric are good not brilliant, but they work well in context with the movement, thus making it superb.

Updated On: 6/8/09 at 01:59 AM

re: North East Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

Posted: 6/8/09 at 2:15am

I think "superb" may be overdoing it a little.

#10

re: North East Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

Posted: 6/8/09 at 4:02am

Siding with SADM that N2N deserves book, but can understand why BE would get Musical in a split. But when have the Tonys ever been about art anyways? =P

#11

re: North East Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

Posted: 6/8/09 at 4:12am

Agree BE has a forgettable score.

Dont remember it having terrific Lighting either.

Glad its had a big haul though.

#12

re: North East Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

Posted: 6/8/09 at 4:36am

Have to disagree there- the lighting is excellent- remember the Grandma's song- all that lovely cross light. And the focus is excellent. The angry dance also has very dyunamic and effective design.

Having seen both shows, have to disagree with you SADM. I think N2N has the novelty factor going for it- we've lived with BE for 4 years now, so it's important to remember its impact when it first arrived. I still find it more moving than N2N which I find rather domestic/ small of scope.

#13

re: North East Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

Posted: 6/8/09 at 4:44am

I too LOVE the lighting.. with the round spotlights changing to square ones (sorry, that's all i could think of to describe it!)

Congratulations Billy! Have a wonderful run in NYC and London

Updated On: 6/8/09 at 04:44 AM

#14

re: North East Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

Posted: 6/8/09 at 4:58am

"I still find it more moving than N2N which I find rather domestic/ small of scope."

This, I think, is the show's true strength: American drama has always been about the everyman, the home story (probably why God of Carnage is being so rapturously received). The reason why N2N works as well as it does is because it DOES fit the form of Miller, Mamet, and other great American dramatists (even if it's not on their level) that's told entirely through modern powerpop music.

#15

re: North East Knocks Tony Down with 10!!!

Posted: 6/10/09 at 8:19pm

Not only did Billy win 10 Tonys

Best Musical, Best Performance by a Leading Actor (Trent, David & Kiril), Best Book, Best Performance by a Leading Actor (Gregory Jbara), Best Director, Best Choreography, Best Lighting, Best Orchestration, Best Set, Best Sound.

10 out of a possible 14.

Missed out on Best Music/lyrics, Best Performance by a Featured Actress, Best Performance by a Leading Actress, Costume.

10 Drama Desk Awards

Best Musical, Best Book, Best Performance by a Featured Actress (Haydn Gwynne), Best Performance by a Leading Actor(Gregory Jbara), Best Director, Best Choreography, Best Lighting, Best Orchestration, Best Sound, Outstanding Music.

Missed out on Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Outstanding Actress in a Musical, Best Set, Best Costume, Best Lyrics.

10 out of 15.

1 Drama League Award

Best Musical.

1 out of 1.

1 Drama Critic Award

Best Musical.

1 out of 1.

8 Outer Critics Award

Best Musical, Best Performance by a Leading Actor (Gregory Jbara), Best Performance by a Featured Actress (Haydn Gwynne) Best Director, Best Choreography, Best Lighting, Best Score, Special Achievement Award (David, Trent & Kiril).

9 out of 13.

Missed out on Best Set, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Costume.

Pulitzer Award

Not Eligible

0 out of 0

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