Rant about the Tony nominations here
Rant about the Tony nominations here
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#1Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/3/10 at 10:26pm
Once more, Tony nomination day is here.
Every year we get all this outrage from posters who think that their indignation for the nominations justifies starting a number of threads which make the boards unfollowable and unreadable.
So, before you post your "How could (your favorite performer) be nominated over (performer you think sucked)? thread or your WHAT WERE THEY THINKING????? rant or your (Name of the show you worship) was robbed! thread , just post all your frustrations here!
Vent, rant, bitch - but , please, don't start a new thread just because you think you can. 
Thanks, loves.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#2Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/3/10 at 10:36pmI CAN'T BELIEVE ______________ (Did/Did not)GET NOMINATED FOR ________________!!!! IT'S AN OUTRAGE AND I AM FURIOUS!!!! RAWR!!!
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#2Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/3/10 at 10:39pmGive it a few hours for the whiniest day on Broadway.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#5Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/3/10 at 10:53pmIt is a smart idea, but no one is going to use this thread. LOL.
#6Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/3/10 at 10:57pmI love that we're still 10 hours away from the nominations and the board is already getting clogged with threads.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#7Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/3/10 at 11:03pm
It is a smart idea, but no one is going to use this thread. LOL.
I did one last year and it certainly helped.
It still didn't stop the random threads popping up, but there were quite a few less than the year before.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#8Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/3/10 at 11:10pm
Damn you stole my idea , but I was gonna suggest a drinking game
To go with the rants
Attend the tale of Bovine Boy
His party threads we all enjoy
But does he have Mad Cow Disease?
He doesn't eat beef - but cows skating? - oh please!!!
With cocoa!?!
And lemonade!?!
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(World)
#10Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/3/10 at 11:59pmBut aren't the nominations announced at, like, 8:30 in the morning?
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
#11Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:01amI can't believe Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was snubbed.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#12Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:01amI can't believe Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was snubbed.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
MrJNLong
Featured Actor Joined: 6/20/08
#13Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:27am
Well, as I am getting bored reading everyone's predictions that all are quite similar, I would just like to begin my ranting right now about some things:
I will be sad if...
*...Christiane Noll does not get a nomination. Granted I have not seen Neuwirth or Chenoweth, but from the reviews, they don't sound like they deserve the spot over Noll. I know that Glover and Baldwin don't. They were both fine, but didn't come near the acting levels that Noll did. I won't mention CZJ because I feel no one will vote Noll over her, but after seeing them on subsequent nights back in December, I felt like Noll was the stronger actress.
*...Chad Kimball gets a nomination over Jim Norton or Robert Petkoff. I really did not like him. The actor, not the character. His acting choices definitely put me off. Bleah. And can we say vocal pattern?
*...Trevor Nunn is nominated for 'directing' ALNM. Worst directing work I've seen all season. Dodge on the other hand, I really hope gets nominated, but I'm preparing myself for that disappointment.
*...Promises, Promises takes a nomination from Finian or Ragtime. Just sadness.
On a more positive note, I would be happy to see...
*...Bobby Steggert with a nomination.
*...Patrick Heusinger from Next Fall in the Featured Actor category. Not much talk of him from anyone...but I would love to see it happen...and I actually think it could...
*...Carrie Fisher to take Valerie Harper's spot. Don't know why I would like that as I didn't see either show...I just feel like that would make me happy.
*...Jude Law to take the 5th Actor in a Play spot. Spader? Really? Butz? meh. Shalhoub is the real competition here I think, but I loved Law's performance personally...
*...I also wonder if Gilikson won't get a choreography nom for Burn the Floor...no one is prediciting it but why not?
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#14Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 1:49amI thought y'all started drinking at 8AM anyhow.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#15Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 2:02am
That was then, this is now.
(I LOVE an opportunity to reference S.E. Hinton!)
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
sundayclothes2
Featured Actor Joined: 4/10/09
#16Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 8:39am
No ENRON for Best Play?
No Best actor for John Gallgher Jr? Intersting.
Million Dollary Quartet?
So happy for Christopher Ashley and Marsha Milgrom. No director for Michael Mayer. Weird!
#17Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 8:40amNO NATHAN LANE?? Not he can't reject his nomination a la Julie Andrews!
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#18Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 8:41am
Woww at Ragtime Love.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
sundayclothes2
Featured Actor Joined: 4/10/09
#19Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 8:42am
SO happy for Ragtime!
Best Director for a Musical is a weird one.
Is it me or does Memphis have the most nominations for a musical? LOL. Who would have thought?
Edit: Nevermind. FELA has 11 nominations.
Updated On: 5/4/10 at 08:42 AM
moowithme85
Understudy Joined: 7/6/09
#21Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 8:44am
Still confused about the Ragtime eligibility in Costume design, but extremely happy for them and for Finian's, both well represented here! Although, they could have nominated Warren Carlyle, couldn't they?
Also, Tom Kitt was shut out twice in Orchestrations... *gasp*
~Steven
#22Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 8:46amLots of people thought I was on crack for hoping that RAGTIME would be nominated. I'm happy for the show and for Mr Steggert and Ms Noll.
"The price of love is loss, but still we pay; We love anyway."
sundayclothes2
Featured Actor Joined: 4/10/09
#23Rant about the Tony nominations here
Posted: 5/4/10 at 8:46amI didn't even notice Tom Kitt was shut out. WTF!
pacificnorthwest
Broadway Star Joined: 5/29/03
#24No Butz about it?
Posted: 5/4/10 at 8:46amEven the critics who didn't like Enron raved about Butz's performance. I don't think I was the only person on this board that expected him to a strong contender to win for best actor. And now he's not even nominated?
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