OCC Nominations Announced- Page 2
OCC Nominations Announced
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#26re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:54am
Wait, how can Passing Strange be nominated for Best Score and not Best Musical? Shouldn't it be eligible for both? I call bull****.
And leaving off Jenna Russell is an egregious snub.
MarkK
Featured Actor Joined: 5/8/05
#28re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:56am
Wow, looks like Mel paid off the nominating committe
What's up with all the YF Awards, what a joke! ha ha :)
No Kerry Butler or Jenna Russell?
Roger Bart & Boyd Gaines for Best Actor ?
someone drank the Kool-AID over at OCC
bwaygal1
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/5/07
#29re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:57am
Some of these nominations are ludicrous! I can't believe Sherie Rene Scott (I loved her performance, don't get me wrong-it's just not earth shattering) beat out Loretta Ables-Sayre (South Pacific) for the nomination. Unbelievable. I loved Sayre's performance. She was amazing. And Matt Morrison was excellent-he should've been there along with Danny Burstein for featured actor. I hope South Pacific and Xanadu get their awards. That's all I can say.
And August should've cleaned up more in other categories, too. I hope the Drama Desks and Tonys set things right.
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WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#30re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:59amI love that XANADU will probably (unless YF does...) win Best Musical but failed to get a single other nomination. WTF
#31re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:59amWhat a mess! I guess they weren't feeling any love for Passing Strange. And poor Amy Morton. There is no way she shouldn't have been nominated.
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MarkK
Featured Actor Joined: 5/8/05
#32re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:00pm
Loretta Ables-Sayre wasn't nominated as well?
And, it should have been Tony Roberts over Tony Yazbeck!
OMG, this is the funniest list of nominations I have seen in years.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#33re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:00pm
Amy Warren should kick butt in the featured musical actress category but the two other actors should have been nominated also.
Congrats to Jessica Collins also.
ruprecht
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/16/05
NDR
Leading Actor Joined: 11/16/06
#35re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:03pm
I wonder how much Mel Brooks paid the committee to get YF nominated 10 times. With the show not doing amazingly well, his advertising dollars were better spent here buying the committee their next vacation to the caribbean.
All of the shows listed for best new musical are a joke.
#36re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:03pm
Agreed, WiCkEDrOcKS. Agreed.
No Cheyenne, No Kerry. No Testa or Hoffman.
Guess no 'Du Crewers are on the Outer Critics Circle.
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#37re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:04pm
Very odd. No director nom for Sunday?
I had a feeling that YF would get a lot of noms. I think it may win.
....but the world goes 'round
#38re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:07pmWell some of these are odd, (Cry Baby? Really? At all?) but my day was pretty much made with Alice Ripley getting a nom, she was fantastic in Next to Normal. I'm glad they thought so too.
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#39re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:08pmIn The Heights was totally overlooked. Was it inelligble b/c it was off bway last year?
....but the world goes 'round
#40re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:09pm
I'm pretty sure that ITH was ineligible.
EDIT: Yes, they won Outstanding off-Broadway musical and choreography last year.
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#41re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:10pmWhat do you mean 'i wonder how much Mel paid?' Please! LOL
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Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
#42re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:10pmI'm sad there's not more Is He Dead -ness up in there.. was it inelligible ?
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#43re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:10pm
I just don't understand how they determined that Herbie was a leading performance when, since the original production featuring Jack Klugman, Herbie has ALWAYS been nominated for every award in the Featured Actor slot. Why all of a sudden is it a leading role?
This is very confusing
Humbert
Stand-by Joined: 6/11/07
#44re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:12pm
WHERE THE 'F' IS:
KERRY BUTLER
CHEYENNE JACKSON
MARY TESTA
JACKIE HOFFMAN
TONY ROBERTS
CHRIS ASHLEY
and
PASSING STRANGE !!!!!! (I don't even really like Passing Strange, but come on - along with Xanadu, it is the best reviewed show of the year!)
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#45re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:12pm
Is He Dead? was eligible for Best Revival of a Play, Best Actor, etc etc...
In the Heights, however, was ineligible as it was nominated last year in the Off-Broadway categories.
#46re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:12pmI am beginning to think people nominate Boyd Gaines no matter WHAT he does. Really, Roger Bart? Over Cheyenne? That's just absurd. Honestly, most of these nominations are pretty shady. No one will convince me Young Frankenstein deserved anything.
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
theatre2
Featured Actor Joined: 2/11/08
#48re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:13pm
Are you KIDDING me?
1) Mel Brooks over John Bucchino?
2) No Jenna Russell?
3) No Sam Buntrock?
4) Gaines in LEADING Actor?
5) No Nobert Leo Butz?
6) Young Frankenstein gets nominated in categories other than set design?
What a joke.
MarkK
Featured Actor Joined: 5/8/05
#49re: OCC Nominations Announced
Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:13pm
WickedBoy2 - you're kidding right?
YF was trounced by the crtics, and surely does not deserve the number of nominations it was given. I'll give you Set Design.
And Roger Bart? He was savaged by almost every crtic?
Updated On: 4/21/08 at 12:13 PM
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