Rant about the 2015 TONY NOMINATIONS here — Page 6

I am really thrilled for Sting and for Vicky Clark! Sting worked so incredibly hard, he was at the theatre every single night (I used to watch him in the back row of the theatre at The Simon, before he went into the show working on the score.)  

As for Ms. Clark? She's bringing more and more to her performance every week. I cannot believe that her performance could continue to grow (because it was so terrific to begin with) but it has grown and grown. Amazing. 

The testament to both of these nominations from both "The Last Ship" and "Gigi" is that when you put your whole heart into something, it shows. 

No major complaints about the nominations this year though I wish that Rachel Tucker (The Last Ship) and Francesca Faridany (Curious Incident...) had got nominations for their work. I loved their what they did.  I say this in respect of their performances rather than disrespecting the work of the nominees.

I'm delighted that Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett were nominated for Best Choreography for Curious Incident... The movement was such an integral part of that show. 

"I didn't go to many of the play revivals this year, but how on earth did This is Our Youth get nominated?"

It was a very good production of a fine play which got excellent reviews.  That's how.

The Times Rave

It's also a much better play than Heidi.  And always was.

I love how two of Gene Kelly's film characters (Gabey in "On the Town" and Jerry in "An American in Paris) were both nominated this year against each other!

So happy for K. Todd Freeman!  I'd be over the moon if he won, but with SIX nominees in the category, I know it's a long shot.  As far as Finding Neverland, I really haven't read anything to lead me to believe it would receive any particular nominations, so I don't find its shutout that surprising.

I wonder whether it's possible that the pretty much equally lauded AN AMERICAN IN PARIS and FUN HOME will cancel each other out, allowing SOMETHING ROTTEN to sneak in for the win. 

I like this piece going on by the New York Times where they have some professionals discussing nominations. Especially their points about Finding Neverland suffering due to Weinstein's cavalier attitude about producing on Broadway.

"This is Our Youth" got excellent reviews, and I'm very glad the Tony nominators remembered it; I thought it was a very fine revival.  Sad that "Side Show" didn't get any noms.  As for "Finding Neverland", given that it bombed with the critics, I'm not surprised it didn't get any noms, although I thought Morrison might sneak in.

I think its true because I think they would have been nominated for Best Musical, Score, Lead Actor, Orchestrations, and possibly featured actress, featured actor, and choreo. We will never know though

The nominators see all the shows.   So it staying open longer has no bearing on the outcome at all.   The show was seen.

IF Kelli O'Hara loses yet again (praying it won't happen), will she become the performer that lost the most times? 

"yeah and Honeymoon was critically acclaimed. It would have gotten a lot of nominations. How can you say that wouldn't happen? "

 Because plenty of shows that got nominated are now closed, and have been closed for way longer than Honeymoon in Vegas. 

The show could have run another two, three, four, six, nine, twelve weeks; it still wouldn't have been nominated. The nominators saw it, and it didn't happen. That's that. 

Not much to rant about, except I wish SideShow was chosen over On the Town. But, the three that were chosen are all three really strong revivals. I'm kind of glad now Jennifer Hudson performed the song from Finding Neverland last year, since they won't be performing this year. Unless, Harvey sneaks his way in. Besides that, I was screaming when Kuhn, Skeggs, and Lucas were nominated.