Sarah Jones automatically wins TONY for Bridge and Tunnel — Page 2

I remember him being very good looking, too, and I think he left "Broadway" for the choreography world like his father right after, right?
That's kind of a tangent, I know, but still.

So is Primo considered a play? Because I would have thought that it would have been a 'special event'.

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what about Chita's show? is that going to be in the musical category? i thought her show was going to win best special event.

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....sorry, my boss asked me to do something.

I dont know what happened to Christopher, but he was a more traditional fine dancer than Charl...it is likely that he went the way of his daddy...into choreog.

nitol!

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Sondwisenheimer, everyone knows you call a male-to-female transgender by their NEW sex, not their old.

Use the tuck/no tuck rule.

-Congrats to Sarah.
-Remember Susan Browning (in what i'd call a very supporting role), was nominated as a leading actress in "Company."
-Sutton's situation reminds me of when the producers of the "Chicago" revival put Joel Grey in the leading category, where he had no shot instead of the featured category where he would have been a shoo-in.
-Sutton could have cleared room on the mantle if she'd been placed in the featured category. Beth Leavel, TCP women, and the Sweeney women must all be heaving a collective sigh of relief this afternoon.

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I don't think Sutton was a lock over any of the others for a win. A nom, sure.

Oh, and I think Joel Grey's Chicago snub was more a case of being done in by billing. He was over-the-title with the other three leads.

I always thought the story with the Joel situation was that..

The Weisslers missed the deadline to petition Joel as a featured role. Therefore they had to consider him in the lead category. He very well could've won in featured - considering he did was the Drama Desk and OCC Award.

Is anyone else surprised that this announcement is coming less than one week before the nominations are announced?

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I guess when new shows open late in the season (Tarzan) without an out of town tryout that makes sense, but do they really have to meet to decide if Hugh Panero will be LEAD? I mean both Drowsy and Lestat have been kicking around for a while. And in the case of the revivals? Why do they have to wait to decide if Jenny in 3PO is a featured role? It has never been a lead.

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Yes they HAVE to meet and vote. Billing determines the categories unless a petition is made. Once the petition is made (and it can't be made until AFTER a show actually opens -- Drowsy and Lestat didn't actually open here and invite the nominators to see it until the last couple of weeks), the committee has to meet to decide yeah or nay on each request. Lestat didn't open until a couple of weeks ago and Panaro is not billed above the title, so a petition had to be made by the producers and the Tony committee had to vote on whether to move him to the lead category or not (same Jenny in Threepenny). Some votes are obvious and no-brainers. Others -- like whether Sutton Foster can be considered lead for a smallish role (they said yes) or whether Three Days of Rain is a revival or a new play since it never played Broadway before (they ruled it's a revival since it's had hundreds of productions around the country in the past decade) -- are more complicated. Either way, the committee meets several times throughout the year to formally vote on producers' petitions and then release their results in a press release. The one today was the third or fourth of the year and it reflects shows that opened in the past month. This is how it's worked every year for decades and it strikes me a very clear and effective system.

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Updated On: 5/11/06 at 09:29 PM