Post-Tony Wishes

Script of A Play

I would love to see an award for playwright and production of a play. Two very different things. 

nophibbing said: "I would love to see an award for playwright and production of a play. Two very different things."

I think the common wisdom is the more production heavy Best Play winners with subpar/weak scripts we get the more likely they are to re-instate the Best Author of a Play category. I don’t think Lehman Trilogy falls into that category, but War Horse and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child do. Its questionable if Curious Incident or the Dog in the Nighttime qualifies in that category, but also it is an adaptation. 
I think the best case scenario to re-instate best author of a play category is for playwrights to band together to call our the difference between adaptations and original writing. We seem to be getting significantly more adaptations of preexisting material into straight plays, which unlike musical adaptations often are beat for beat copies of the source material with the production itself being the star over playwrights words. If anything I would push for Best Author of an  play to be re-instated with the caveat that only original plays are eligible, and if the playwright is not eligible in this category they are eligible in the Best Production of a Play category. 

While adding even more to the already long show may not be for the best, I wish we got the brief scenes of the nominated plays back.

yyys said: "Best Understudy"

I feel like that wouldn't be very practical 

Best Score of a Musical should be part of the telecast. What is a musical without a score??

Updated On: 6/13/22 at 01:08 PM