ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
#2ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/10/13 at 6:31pmNow Once is very close to EGOT-ing!! They just have to figure out how to get to the TV world!!
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#3ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/10/13 at 6:41pmIf MEMPHIS can win an Emmy after being broadcast on PBS, ONCE could win if it ever gets filmed.
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#4ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/10/13 at 7:29pmEgh. I was hoping for Porgy and Bess.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#7ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/10/13 at 8:16pmI kinda felt like whoever is voting on the Grammys would choose "Once", since there's the recognition from the Oscars. I mean, the revival of "West Side Story" and "American Idiot" won in prior years. I don't think any of the voters even listen to the cast albums they were voting on. I personally would have loved it if "Follies" got it, as that one to me was the most satisfying to listen to.
Xanadu! Can't cry on cue!
#8ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/10/13 at 8:38pmFOLLIES deserved it big time. A masterpiece of a cast album. Why don't they get rid of the category since they clearly don't give a sh*t about it...
#9ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/10/13 at 9:48pmcongrats!!!
A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.
#10ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/10/13 at 11:08pmDo Kazee and Milotti actually receive Grammy awards?
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#11ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/10/13 at 11:12pm
No.
It goes to the album's producers. It's not a performance award.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#12ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/10/13 at 11:16pm
No, actually, when the categories were restructured in 2012, the award description changed.
"From 2012, the award description is as follows: 'Award to the principle vocalist(s) and the album producer(s) of 51% or more playing time of the album. The lyricist(s) and composer(s) of a new score are eligible for an Award if they have written and/or composed a new score which comprises 51% or more playing time of the album.'"
So Kazee and Milioti and the two producers all receive an award. Just as Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells did last year.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#13ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/10/13 at 11:23pmWell congrats to them. I'm gonna rush the show on Tuesday and steal that lady's spot in line just to show my support.
#14ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/10/13 at 11:32pm
givesmevoice -- I had NO idea the rules changed. I just looked it up and am a little speechless.
The nominees for ONCE were:
"Steve Kazee & Cristin Milioti, principal soloists; Steven Epstein & Martin Lowe, producers (Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, composers/lyricists) (Original Broadway Cast With Steve Kazee, Cristin Milioti & Others)
Label: Masterworks"
So Kazee, Milioti, Epstein, and Lowe are the Grammy Winners for this album. Hansaard, Irglova, and Masterworks are too?
I find this a bit bizarre. I can't wrap my mind around the principal vocalists of a cast album being a Grammy Winner.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#15ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/10/13 at 11:42pmPrincipal vocalists on Best Opera Recording winners have been getting Grammys for years (which is how Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald won theirs in 2009). This change for the Musical Theater Albums just brings it in line with the similar categories.
#16ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/11/13 at 12:57amI forgot to congratulate the cast and album producers and writers of "Once" for their win. (even though I wrote earlier that I thought "Follies" should have won). They were my second choice.
Xanadu! Can't cry on cue!
AndersonTours
Stand-by Joined: 12/19/10
#17ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/11/13 at 1:08am
Completely agree that Follies should have won. That is one of my favorite cast recording ever. Brilliant recording. My second choice was Porgy and Bess. Also a fantastic recording.
Not sure this win truly means anything since it so obviously wasn't the best cast recording this year. Not even close. Almost like Newsies better. In fact, I think I do. I certainly listen to it more.
Perhaps it won because it is still running. Who knows?
Anyway, congrats to them. But trying to keep it all in perspective.
#18ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/11/13 at 1:18amI couldn't bring myself to really like "Porgy & Bess". Great performances by a strong cast, but marred by crappy reduced orchestrations.
Xanadu! Can't cry on cue!
#19ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/11/13 at 2:31am
I actually find the Follies recording to be terrible. I don't enjoy it at all. I think Once actually was the best produced album. Not judging by the scores at all (which is appropriate since Follies and Porgy & Bess are revivals anyway), I still think the sound quality of the Once album is by far the best of the nominees. Congrats to them.
Updated On: 2/11/13 at 02:31 AM
#20ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/11/13 at 6:11am
I figured it would win, but Follies deserved it imo.
....but the world goes 'round
#21ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/11/13 at 3:35pmThe Grammy goes to the nominee with the highest sales. Riverdance also won for this category in 1997.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#22ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/11/13 at 3:35pmI love the Once recording. I think it's well made, beautifully performed, and smartly produced. Congrats to Martin Lowe and Steve Kazee, now Tony and Grammy winners for Once!
elmore3003
Leading Actor Joined: 3/31/04
#23ONCE Wins 2013 GRAMMY Award for Best Musical Theater Album!
Posted: 2/12/13 at 9:25am
I voted for ONCE; I think it sounds spectacular and gives a great representation of the show itself. As for the FOLLIES recording, I think it's an okay recording of a mediocre stock production; the dialogue, which sounds arch and canned to me, doesn't help it. I think Bruce Kimmel should have got a Grammy for his remix of the OBC, and I also like the Papermill recording.
Updated On: 2/12/13 at 09:25 AM
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