Patti LuPone Tony nomination 2011

[Musicaldudepeter]

Posted: 3/19/11 at 7:14pm

Hi everyone!

Just a quick question

Does anyone think that Patti has a chance of getting a Tony nomination for her Featured role in 'Women on the Verge' .... even a Drama Desk nomination?

[HBBrock]

Posted: 3/19/11 at 7:19pm

Zero chance. The only person in that show with a chance at any nomination is Laura Benanti.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/19/11 at 7:23pm

Well then, that's settled.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 3/19/11 at 8:30pm

I think the sets and costumes deserve consideration,
and maybe even the score. But, the Pone, no.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 3/19/11 at 9:39pm

Not a chance. Laura Benanti was the only memorable thing about that show.

[egghumor]

Posted: 3/20/11 at 3:51am

I agree that if "Verge" snags a Tony nomination, it will surely go to Laura Benanti. While many theatergoers marvelled at the set, it was also felt by many that the design and execution of the sets did not serve the show successfully.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 3/20/11 at 4:17am

I would love to see the design (both set and lighting) to get nominated. I feel like a lot set designs that should be nominated aren't.

[fitz2]

Posted: 3/20/11 at 12:31pm

Hi all,

This week Pitch's Spotlight was on Patti's performance in...
Gypsy! xx

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 3/20/11 at 4:08pm

I think WOTVOANB was a BIG step down in Patti's career.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 3/20/11 at 4:15pm

Her character had the best songs (Time Stood Still and Invisible) but no. No nomination for her.

[Ryan4]

Posted: 3/21/11 at 2:24am

Benanti was fine, did a lot of audience coddling, but the best thing about the show - maybe the only good thing - was LuPone's number in Act 2. It's some of the best acting I've seen her do in her career. She won't get nominated but if anything from the production deserves it, she does.

[goldenboy]

Posted: 3/24/11 at 1:58am

Women on the verge was so bad.... I'm fairly certain it will be passed over accross the board for nominations.

The night I saw it, they were pushing Patti to do the Equity Fights Aids Speech.... they kept pushing her and she shook her head no and resisted physically as if she were embarrassed to even be there....

Finally Brian Stokes Mitchell did the speech.

This had to be one of the worst musicals I've ever had to sit through.
Patti's songs were terribly written and impossible for anyone to sing. Laura Benati was cute ... but I predict even she will not be nominated.

Im sure for all concerned they just want the memory of that show to go away.

[AC126748]

Posted: 3/24/11 at 9:31am

Women on the Verge... was not nearly as bad as people said. It was a victim of a negative dog-piling. It wasn't fashionable to like the show, so everyone jumped on the hate bandwagon. Was it perfect? No. Did it have good things going for it? Absolutely. Patti was divine, but I doubt she'll be nominated. Laura has a chance.

I'm surprised anyone would try to get Patti to give the BC/EFA speech after the whole Noises Off business...and the fact that she's said MANY times that she doesn't approve of lobbying for money after the show. Whether or not people agree with her, she's made her position pretty clear on this issue.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/24/11 at 1:41pm

I doubt it. The show opened and closed too early in the season. But Benanti will surely be remembered (and probably end up in a hot race with Osnes and Butler) and possibly Burstein. I'd hate to see the show forgotten when nominations come around. I think it got a bad rap and it was actually one of my favorite musicals in the last 10 years. With all the negativity surrounding the show, I feared the worst, but I loved every minute of it. I would love to see a musical of All About My Mother next.

[dexter3]

Posted: 3/24/11 at 1:47pm

Can someone tell me what the aformentioned NOISES OFF incident was?

[AC126748]

Posted: 3/24/11 at 3:12pm

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/68239-LuPone-Back-in-Noises-Off-March-12-Following-Backstage-Ballyhoo

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 3/24/11 at 3:17pm

"Can someone tell me what the aformentioned NOISES OFF incident was"
As Ethel said to Lucy:
That story has had more performances than SOUTH PACIFIC!

[ljay889]

Posted: 3/24/11 at 3:29pm

Women on the Verge... was not nearly as bad as people said. It was a victim of a negative dog-piling. It wasn't fashionable to like the show, so everyone jumped on the hate bandwagon. Was it perfect? No. Did it have good things going for it? Absolutely. Patti was divine, but I doubt she'll be nominated. Laura has a chance.

Amen. I took a lot of heat on here for supporting the show as I did. David Yazbek's score is truly worthy of a Tony nomination, but that is so unlikely now.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 3/24/11 at 4:31pm

Taken from the NOISES OFF article:

"A LuPone spokesman said LuPone, though a supporter of AIDS charities, takes issue with asking for money from theatregoers who are already spending $75 on a top ticket."

Now that the top ticket price is $125+, I'm sure Patti has even more of an issue with the BCEFA collecting!

[LoveDemBroadwayShows2]

Posted: 3/24/11 at 4:57pm

How quaint!!! $75 'top' tickets. Prices have almost doubled in 9 short years.

[goldenboy]

Posted: 3/25/11 at 4:42pm

That explains her not doing it and her actions. I did not know that.
I just thought she was embarrassed to be in the one of the worst musicals ever written (both score and book) and having the likes of Lupone,Benanti, Stokes Mitchell and Burstein having to perform in it.

I have been a lover of maligned musicals in the past... Mail,
The Life but this one belongs in the "please forget me fast"
category