Of the Four Nominated scores...

Best Lyrics: DRS

Funniest Lyrics: DRS

Best Music: Piazza (for breath and ravishingness)

Best individual song, and name the Song: DRS - "Nothing Is to Wonderful to be True"

Best Male Song, and name it: "Passegiata" Piazza

Best Female Song, and name it: "Here I Am" DRS or "Fable" Piazza

Best Duet, and name it: "Say It Somehow" Piazza

Best overall score: tie
a) Piazza for a forward thinking MT score
b) DRS for a tuneful, funny, wonderful Musical Comedy score

As much as I like Piazza, I feel that DRS will probably live in my CD player more often. Its catchy, funny and winningly sung (though I tend to fast forward through Lithgow's solos). But I lay odds that Yazbeck will have a new show on Bway before Guettel does (maybe even 2).

Best Lyrics: DRS

Funniest Lyrics: DRS

Best Music: Piazza

Best individual song, and name the Song: "Fable" Piazza (runner up is "The I Love You Song" from Bee)

Best Male Song, and name it: "MUE" from Bee

Best Female Song, and name it: "Fable" Piazza

Best Duet, and name it: "Say it Somehow" Piazza (close runner-ups are "Song That Goes Like This" from Spamalot and "Love is My Legs" from DRS)

Best overall score: Piazza.

*I haven't heard Spelling Bee, so I didn't consider them in my list*


Best Lyrics -- The Light in the Piazza

Funniest Lyrics -- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Best Music -- The Light in the Piazza

Best Song -- Fable, The Light in the Piazza

Male Song -- Love to Me, The Light in the Piazza

Female Song -- Dividing Day/The Light in the Piazza, The Light in the Piazza

Best Duet -- Say it Somehow, The Light in the Piazza / Love Is My Legs, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (I really love that song!)

Overall -- Hmmm, I think its Piazza!

*Though I own Spelling Bee, I haven't actually listened to it yet, so I didn't include it*:)

Best Lyrics: DRS

Funniest Lyrics: Spamalot

Best Music: Piazza

Best individual song, and name the Song: "Find your Grail" - Spam

Best Male Song, and name it: "Great Big Stuff - DRS

Best Female Song, and name it: "Fable" - Piazza

Best Duet, and name it: "Dirty Rotten Song" - DRS

Best overall score: Piazza

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Best Lyrics: Piazza, for its poetry
Funniest Lyrics: Spelling Bee is the most smart-funny, I think, which is my favorite kind of humor. DRS is endearingly goofy but some of the rhymes are painful. Spamalot is bland with a few bits of brilliance, but mostly doesn't approach the intelligent hilarity of vintage Python material.
Best Music: Piazza, no question.
Best individual Song: Fable, from Piazza
Best Male Song, and name it: Love to Me from Piazza
Best Female Song, and name it: Fable again, The Beauty Is as runner-up
Best Duet, and name it: Say it Somehow. I don't like Love is My Legs much, but Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True is very nice, and the lyrics crack me up a bit at the end.
Best Trio: The I Love You Song (because I wanted to mention Bee in here somewhere)
Best overall score: Piazza!

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Best Lyrics: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Funniest Lyrics: Spamalot and at times Bee

Best Music: The Light in the Piazza

Best individual song, and name the Song: "The I LOVE YOU Song" from Spelling Bee

Best Male Song, and name it: Either "Magic Foot" from Spelling Bee or "Great Big Stuff" from DRS

Best Female Song, and name it: "Here I Am" from DRS & "Fable" from Piazza

Best Duet, and name it: "Dirty Rotten Number" from DRS

Best overall score: Although they're totally different, I'd have to say Piazza with Bee very close behind

best lyrics: Scoundrels
funniest lyrics: Scoundrels/Spamalot...hard.
best music: Piazza
best individual song: Nothing is Too Wonderful to Be True, Scoundrels
best male song: Great Big Stuff, Scoundrels
best female song: Nothing is Too Wonderful to Be True, Scoundrels
best duet: Dirty Rotten Number, Scoundrels
best score: Eh, I dunno.

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Updated On: 6/13/05 at 06:09 PM

Best Lyrics: Adam Guettel, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA

Funniest Lyrics: David Yazbeck, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS

Best Music: Adam Guettel, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA

Best individual song: "Dirty Rotten Number", DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS

Best Male Song: "Il Mondo Era Vuoto", THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA

Best Female Song: "Here I Am", DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS

Best Duet: "Say it Somehow", THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA

Best overall score: Adam Guettel, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA

can we have a category for the most mediocre score? I nominate SPELLING BEE and SPAMALOT. neither have any stand out songs that are even close to those I mentioned above...

Best Lyrics: ADAM GUETTEL - LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Funniest Lyrics: WILLIAM FINN - SPELLING BEE
Best Music: ADAM GUETTEL - LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Best Individual Song: THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA - LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Best Male Song: LOVE TO ME - LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Best Female Song: THEW LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA - LIGHT IN THE LIAZZA
Best Duet: DIRTY ROTTEN NUMBER - DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
Best Overall Score: ADAM GUETTEL - LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
and I'll add another one - Best Book: CRAIG LUCAS - LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA

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Best Lyrics: Piazza

Funniest Lyrics: Spamelot

Best Music: Piazza

Best individual song, and name the Song: either "Love to Me" (Piazza) or "The Song that Goes Like This" (Spamelot)

Best Male Song, and name it: "Love to Me" (Piazza)

Best Female Song, and name it: "Diva's Lament" (Spamelot)

Best Duet, and name it: "The Song That Goes Like This" (Spamelot)

Best overall score: Piazza