I'm thrilled for GOLDEN BOY, for not getting lost in the shuffle...8 nominations is certainly nothing to shrug at. Would have loved to have seen Seth Numrich make the cut, though!
Also, surprised Charl Brown got nominated for MOTOWN over the Michael Jackson boys. The Tonys really gave the kids the cold shoulder this year...
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A little bummed about Jim Norton and Alan Cumming being overlooked, but overall pretty pleased with the nominations. I guess I need to see Kinky Boots now. I'm just pleased that something got more noms than Matilda.
Kinky Boots - 13 Matilda The Musical - 12 Pippin - 10 Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella - 9 Golden Boy - 8 Lucky Guy - 6 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike - 6 The Mystery of Edwin Drood - 5 The Nance - 5 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 5 Motown The Musical - 4 The Trip to Bountiful - 4 The Assembled Parties - 3 A Christmas Story, The Musical - 3 Hands on a Hardbody - 3 The Testament of Mary - 3 Bring It On: The Musical - 2 The Heiress - 2 Orphans - 2 Ann - 1 Annie - 1 The Big Knife - 1 Chaplin - 1 Cyrano de Bergerac - 1 The Other Place - 1 Scandalous - 1
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So it's come to this: all four nominees for Best Musical are (at least partially) based on films. I know Matilda is 'based on the novel' but there still is a pre-existing movie, and people do associate the two.
cant complain, except im sorry Jessica Chastain and Yvonne Strahovski were overlooked. both were mesmerizing and both made me cry.
Bring it on! Yay!!!! proof it wasnt just a HS show
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On the one hand, it's surprising to me that Kinky Boots has 13 nominations. On the other hand, it wasn't a very strong year. I did think it was a thoroughly mediocre show, but...this year that's enough!
I actually thought the lyrics in Kinky Boots were awful. Except for one song (the one sung by Annaleigh Ashford), I was embarrassed for Lauper. All of the rhymes were so obvious that I guessed most of them before I heard them.
Not as bad as Kathie Lee's Scandalous lyrics, though. Wow.
Yay for the nominations for "Vanya-Sonya-Masha & Spike". Shalita Grant and Billy Magnussen have such enthusiasm for their play, in all those promotional videos they've made. I'm looking forward to being in NYC during the Tonys weekend. Yay. from RC in Austin, Texas...back to work.
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This is a great list. But I'm pretty bummed not to see Seth Numrich's name in Best Actor. He carried Golden Boy and gave one of the most powerful performances of the season IMO. congrats to all the great nominees today!
How can it be a revival if it's never been on Broadway before, and the book has been substantially re-written to the point that it does not resemble its original story?
So... Posner got three out of four nominations. And he'll lose them all? Crazy town!
Don't have many gripes about this, except for the shunning of Alan Cumming and Lilla Crawford. The Crawford thing bothers me mostly because they are awarding the MATILDA girls just because they can.
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