Rant about the Tony nominations here- Page 5

[pli1018]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:28am

Very happy for the love for Ragtime, Finian's, Jan Maxwell & Maria Dizzia but disappointed to see Stanley Tucci, Terri White and The Addams Family's scenic design overlooked.

[sowren1020]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:37am

Kelsey Grammer & Sean Hayes? Yes, they are TV stars, but this is suppose to be the best of Broadway's category for actors who sing, dance and act. I'm not disputing that they are good actors, but I still want my money back from seeing them in their musicals, their performances were so hammy and unbelievable! Sean as a straight leading man? Kelsey not as a straight leading man? Nevertheless, I'm so glad for RAGTIME, FINIAN'S and ALNM, but where was Robert Petkoff? Still congrats to Douglas Hodge, Chad Kimball, & Sahr Ngaujah.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:42am

"Roscoe, what would you have nominated instead (of that idiotic piece of sh*t IN THE NEXT ROOM OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY)?"

I'd have either left a slot empty, or I would have nominated A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE. Not that BEHANDING was a particularly good play, but McDonagh leaves more interesting stuff in his Kleenex than Sarah Ruhl put on the stage of the Lyceum.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:44am

Not to be very predictable, but is Catherine Zeta-Jones really that special that her reaction to her Tony nomination required its own article?

[Marianne2]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:46am

I kind of wish that Abigail Breslin or Allison Pill were nominated for The Miracle Worker. Note: I have not seen any other play this season, so I have nothing to compare them to.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:47am

Sorry, Ms. Cook simply is not "featured" anymore than Ruth Brown was for BLACK AND BLUE. But at least attention was paid.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:54am

It would be nice to see Barbara Cook win. (She won her only Tony in 1958 for THE MUSIC MAN.)

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 10:56am

Today will be endlessly entertaining! How is it that so many people can use the word "shutout" having no clue what it means. It's like insisting that lemons are blue or that chicken stock is made from astroturf. The only thing that surprised me was that Million Dollar Quartet was nominated over Come Fly Away for Best Musical. The rest pretty much makes sense.

[Calvin]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:00am

Right, Matt. I had at least one wrong guess in at least 60-70 percent of the categories, but I wouldn't say I was truly shocked by any of them -- except Million Dollar Quartet as best musical. *sigh* I guess I'll go check it out after all.

[musikman]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:14am

Adamgreer:

As much as I agree with you that these reductions in orchestra/pit sizes are terrible, and can greatly take away from the whole experience (the orchestra provides another character/voice for the show), La Cage getting nominated is more for the fact that Jason Carr took the original orchestrations, and was able to reduce them and re-orchestrate them for only 8 players. They're probably basing it on that, as well as the Tony committee trying to rack up nominations for La Cage.

[Wayman_Wong]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:20am

Adamgreer, tell me again about how 'Everyday Rapture' was gonna knock 'Memphis' out of the Best Musical category at the Tonys, and how Sherie Rene Scott would do the same thing to Montego Glover. Or how Robin deJesus wouldn't be getting a Tony nomination for 'La Cage' because the critics were mixed ...

Sorry, just had to bust your chops at least once.

Congrats to the cast and creators of 'Memphis.' Hockadoo!

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:23am

Glad to see the love for "Million Dollar Quartet." I have an old friend working behind the scenes on this show.

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:25am

I think Michael Starobin was snubbed, and so was Tom Kitt for his fine work on Everyday Rapture, which would have been much easier to swallow than his work on American Idiot if the committee wanted to nominate him and not the show they didn't like.

I was also hoping Sondheim on Sondheim would win Best Scenic Design. O well. How can I root against Ragtime now? How could anyone?

Speaking of, can someone please clear this up for me? I had thought those were the original costume designs for Ragtime. So how is it eligible? Am I wrong, is it a completely new design?

~Steven

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:25am

Mister Matt, it will be entertaining. I wait for this day every year on BWW. It is my favorite thread! And since I haven't been able to get back to NYC for the past few seasons BWW has been my lifeline to NY theatre.

With everything I have read over this past season, my gut feeling is that if Glover doesn't take the Tony, Scott is going to get it. Just a gut feeling.

[ljay889]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:37am

I really don't think MEMPHIS would have received all of this recognition if this were a stronger season. I really don't.

But Waymon_Wong predicted this all!!!!!! Go boy!!!!
Updated On: 5/4/10 at 11:37 AM

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:40am

I really don't think MEMPHIS would have received all of this recognition if this were a stronger season. I really don't.

It probably would have gone down like All Shook Up. Now that, people of BWW, is an actual shutout.

~Steven

[harris007]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 11:42am

Wow

Did musclefl somehow get to chose the Toby noms ?

[Pianist3912]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:00pm

I think La Cage's orchestrations being nominated over American Idiot's is a travesty. Also VERY surprised Addams Family did not pick up Best Set Design.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:00pm

I join the praise for the Ragtime nominations!! I just hope they win something.

And is Memphis the frontrunner as everyone is saying or is Fela! considering their 11 nominations?

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:07pm

The Tony voters have spoken: We frown on gimmick theatre, darling.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:09pm

Seeing as as FELA! opened to universally positive reviews - on one negative notice - would say it is the front-runner.

MEMPHIS is front-runner (only runner actually) for Best Score.

For balance I would like to see RAPTURE get the Tony for Best Book.

I like it best when the awards are evenly divided among several shows, especially in a season where no one production stands above the rest.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:12pm

It would have been noble and nice to see BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS get some kind of nomination.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:13pm

Also VERY surprised Addams Family did not pick up Best Set Design.

Once again the best set of the season goes down with the sinking ship of a show it's in. This year it's the Addams Family, last year it was 9 to 5. I hate that design categories are affected by whether or not the critics liked specific shows in general. The musical costume, lighting, and sound design categories are basically shows that got critical praise, regardless of being deserving in those specific categories. I mean...La Cage... lighting? Really?

[ljay889]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:16pm

It would have been noble and nice to see BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS get some kind of nomination.

They were not eligible.

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 12:22pm

Were the sets and costumes for Addams family really Tony-worthy?

I'm judging by the photos, but I find them very typical by today's standards. Take a Charles Addams illustration and add bits of color accents in the fabric---a style choice used to great effect for the OBC of Sunday in the Park, but overused by so many productions since then with no real point to it. I guess it makes them "interesting." I don't think they look that good up close or from a distance. And adding color swatches doesn't constitute "artistic vision" above anything other than "trend."

Also Bebe Newirth's dress is a horrible fit. They had to really work to make that body look bad. They found just the right quilty material and dress cut to do the job. She looks like she's trapped in a sofa cover.

And the sets are harder to judge in photos, but they don't look extraordinary to me, other than I can tell they spent some bucks. That's about it.