OCC Nominations Announced- Page 2

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#25

Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:53am

Yazbeck got a nod?!

Jeez...

[BroadwayChica]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#26

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.

[WaltSummersPI]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#27

Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:54am

Most ridiculous list ever.

[MarkK]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#28

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]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#29

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.

"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world." "Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#30

Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:59am

I love that XANADU will probably (unless YF does...) win Best Musical but failed to get a single other nomination. WTF

[WhizzerMarvin]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#31

Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:59am

What 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.

Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco. Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!

[MarkK]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#32

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]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#33

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]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#34

Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:01pm

ALICE RIPLEY?!?

[NDR]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#35

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.

[ClumsyDude15]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#36

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.

"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.

[tazber]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#37

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

[LeaGirl]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#38

Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:07pm

Well 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.

Now what would you say if today I started over? Without a thing but this taped together four leaf clover And I'll pretend like everything is already alright And I'll run toward the sun till the castle's out of sight

[tazber]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#39

Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:08pm

In The Heights was totally overlooked. Was it inelligble b/c it was off bway last year?

....but the world goes 'round

[dancingthrulife04]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#40

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.

http://www.beintheheights.com/katnicole1 (Please click and help me win!) I chose, and my world was shaken- So what?
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda "And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler

Updated On: 4/21/08 at 12:09 PM

[WickedBoy2]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#41

Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:10pm

What do you mean 'i wonder how much Mel paid?' Please! LOL

A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!'' Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'

[shh282]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#42

Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:10pm

I'm sad there's not more Is He Dead -ness up in there.. was it inelligible ?

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#43

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]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#44

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]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#45

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.

[bythesword84]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#46

Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:12pm

I 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]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#47

Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:12pm

yes for cry baby in you face.

[jv92]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#48

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]

re: OCC Nominations Announced#49

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