Posted: 4/29/15 at 3:57am
Henrik...that error seems to have been removed.
Posted: 4/29/15 at 8:01am
Just going to say it to get it out of my system; Stockard Channing. Not even a nomination? It's not like I'm not used to her being snubbed (7 noms and 1 win? Out of how many performances? At least 20). This is really getting old.
I was all excited to watch the TONY's this year...yeah, not so much anymore.
Posted: 4/29/15 at 8:03am
You're right, dramamama, thanks.
Posted: 4/29/15 at 8:21am
I love Stockard, but the Tonys aren't a longevity race. I'm sure you are complaining more than she is. She's a working actress, she's thrilled.
And really, THATS the reason you won't watch. To each his own.
Posted: 4/29/15 at 8:25am
"Just going to say it to get it out of my system; Stockard Channing. Not even a nomination? It's not like I'm not used to her being snubbed (7 noms and 1 win? Out of how many performances? At least 20). This is really getting old.
I was all excited to watch the TONY's this year...yeah, not so much anymore."
No one, not even Stockard Channing, expected a nod for a performance that, frankly, wasn't award-worthy in a production that really wasn't, either.
Posted: 4/29/15 at 8:41am
Regarding this year's Tony nominations, and I'll quote Gaston: "It's a bore."
Posted: 4/29/15 at 9:00am
""Just going to say it to get it out of my system; Stockard Channing. Not even a nomination? It's not like I'm not used to her being snubbed (7 noms and 1 win? Out of how many performances? At least 20). This is really getting old.
I was all excited to watch the TONY's this year...yeah, not so much anymore."
No one, not even Stockard Channing, expected a nod for a performance that, frankly, wasn't award-worthy in a production that really wasn't, either."
Agreed, Kad! If one of them had to get in, I'm glad it was Micah Stock, who was (to me) the least offensive of the performers. I can't remember the last time I had been so disappointed in performers who I've seen do much better work.
Posted: 4/29/15 at 9:09am
As I noted in another thread (before I saw this one..sorry), I am just a little sad that Something Rotten which I really REALLY liked and Finding Neverland which I also really really REALLY liked were valued so differently. I am not sure SR deserved all the noms they got if it meant excluding FN for everything (not that one really has to do with the other = there would have been others I would have excluded first in certain categories).
It just doesn't seem correct to me.
Updated On: 4/29/15 at 09:09 AM
Posted: 4/29/15 at 9:18am
"Correct?"
You think it's not "correct" for members of the nominating committee to have different aesthetic values than you do?
I can see disagreeing with their priorities, but calling them not "correct?"
Posted: 4/29/15 at 9:24am
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME snubbed for Best Play. One of the most well-received and innovative new productions of the season, the West End import failed to catch on with the Tony Awards and did not receive a nomination for Best Play, which surprised many pundits when the nominations were announced yesterday.
The curious incident of the many pundits surprised by something that didn't happen. Boy, all their many faces must be RED. It's a good thing they all retained their anonymity. There were many of them, after all. If this journalist hadn't experienced the reaction of these many pundits and honestly reported on this curious incident, we might never had known.
Updated On: 4/29/15 at 09:24 AM
Posted: 4/29/15 at 9:41am
Posted: 4/29/15 at 9:47am
The author was Pat Cecesaro (sp) who was once a controversial poster on this board.
Updated On: 4/29/15 at 09:47 AM
Posted: 4/29/15 at 9:52am
Posted: 4/29/15 at 10:28am
""Just going to say it to get it out of my system; Stockard Channing. Not even a nomination? It's not like I'm not used to her being snubbed (7 noms and 1 win? Out of how many performances? At least 20). This is really getting old.
I was all excited to watch the TONY's this year...yeah, not so much anymore."
No one, not even Stockard Channing, expected a nod for a performance that, frankly, wasn't award-worthy in a production that really wasn't, either."
It's not the best thing I've seen Stockard in at all--by far. But, she does her job very well. I am more upset about than even she is, I am certain about that. But, alas, 'tis why I am a fan.
Posted: 4/29/15 at 10:38am
That's a hilarious error, considering it was the first nominated play announced.
Even more hilarious is that apparently many pundits made the exact same error! Many! Not just this witness to the many other pundits.
Posted: 4/29/15 at 11:54am
""Correct?"
You think it's not "correct" for members of the nominating committee to have different aesthetic values than you do?
I can see disagreeing with their priorities, but calling them not "correct?""
Hmm... when I wrote, "It just doesn't seem to be correct to me"...I thought it was obvious that I was just giving my opinion.
Obviously the nominating committee can vote for whomever they want...and maybe "correct" was a poor choice of words. So I will now just disagree. I personally did not think that one show was overall SO much better than the other in all categories involved. My opinion..nothing more, nothing less.
Updated On: 4/29/15 at 11:54 AM
Posted: 4/29/15 at 1:09pm
Posted: 4/29/15 at 1:31pm
If Lucas wins, she will be the, what, third youngest winner of a Tony ever? I only remember the kid from Secret Garden. Also, she's the first child to be nominated since Kendrick, right?
Posted: 4/29/15 at 1:39pm
The little boy from Mame also won, I believe.
Posted: 4/29/15 at 1:43pm
The last children to be nominated with the kids from Billy Elliot, I believe.
Posted: 4/29/15 at 1:56pm
Yes Frankie Michaels, the little boy from Mame, did win and has been the youngest winner so far. I believe he was just 10. I think the Billy Elliot boys were older, as is Sydney if she wins for FH.
If you include special Tony's, then Sophia Gennusa is the youngest Tony winner as Matilda. Otherwise, it's still Frankie.
Posted: 4/29/15 at 2:03pm
The Matildas were given a special award.
Some other nominated/winning children (featured or lead):
1960, Lauri Peters and the Children (Kathy Dunn, Evanna Lien, Mary Susan Locke, Marilyn Rogers, William Snowden, Joseph Stewart) (The Sound of Music)
1963, Barry Gordon (A Thousand Clowns)
1966, Frankie Michaels (Mame - win)
1968, Scott Jacoby (Golden Rainbow)
1974, Ralph Carter (Raisin)
1992, Jonathan Kaplan (Falsettos)
1996, Brett Tabisel (Big - The Musical)
1998, Anna Kendrick (High Society)
2009, David Bologna, (Billy Elliot, The Musical)
2009, David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik, and Kiril Kulish (Billy Elliot, The Musical – win)
Posted: 4/29/15 at 3:00pm
^ You're missing Daisy Eagan from 'The Secret Garden', she won in 91 at age of 11 years old (and seven months) in and still is the youngest female winner of a competitive Tony.
I believe that if Lucas wins she'll beat her depending on her birth date, anyone knows?
Posted: 4/29/15 at 3:03pm
"I would actually argue that K&I was "new" in a way that the other two were not. Both hewed pretty closely to the original productions. Not that they weren't glorious - they were - but they were not reinvented in the way I felt K&I was."
I haven't seen On the Town but were all the train tricks (mainly in the second act) in the original production? It's not that they couldn't have done those things before but I felt like all the moving parts of the train were the real production part of the show.
Posted: 4/29/15 at 4:22pm
Not that they weren't glorious - they were - but they were not reinvented in the way I felt K&I was.
How so? I remember feeling that way about the 1996 revival, but I hadn't read anything to that effect regarding this production. Only about the ship at the beginning and that it's a lovely production (and the raves over O'Hara). I'd love to see it, but I doubt I'll get the chance.
