Schwartz talks about his "bitterness"

From a GlobeandMail.com article:

"That was a big deal,' Schwartz acknowledges now with a pained look, seated at a round glass table in the dining room of the two-bedroom Hell's Kitchen apartment he uses as his base in New York. "But in retrospect I'm glad about it because it completely cured me entirely of ever thinking about these things or dealing with them again. People kept saying to me this year, 'Were the Grammys fun?' [Wicked beat Avenue Q at last month's awards for Best Musical Show Album.] And I was like, I don't know, because I wasn't there, because I'm never going to another awards show as long as I live. That's it.

'I'm extremely bitter about it,' he adds, with a curdled purr. 'I'm happy to talk about it, I took it extremely personally, I consider it a personal repudiation. I'm very, very bitter and I expect to be bitter about it for the rest of my life.' Schwartz pauses, then adds, tongue-in-cheek,' he said cheerfully."

The link to the full article is below.
"Wicked" composer is bitter but better

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if you ask me, he should just accept it like a man that he didn't win, many other people who have lost awards did

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Shouldn't it just be an honor to be nominated in the first place? As cliche as this sounds, winning really isn't everything.

Updated On: 3/13/05 at 11:39 AM

judy, while I agree that Wicked's score isn't the strongest score in the world, MANY Tony voters have gone on record saying they were swayed by the fact that Q said it was touring as well, and that's why they voted for it.

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I don't know, I really don't care for Avenue Q's score. I mean, it's fun, but there's nothing groundbreaking about it. I did like Wicked's score better. Avenue's book's better, but I like the score to Wicked better.

I never got into Caroline. I saw the CD, but I was like "$24.95, screw it!", so I just never found out about it. I wish I had, though.

::shivers at the thought of Caroline winning a Tony for Best Score::

ugh.

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I second what Matt_G said. does he think that saying this is gonna get him pity from friends? he should be happy he got a nomination! being a nominee for a Tony award is no joke and a real honor. So he should shut up. (that was aggressive...)

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He needs to go to the recently opened "Frank Wildhorn Turn The Other Cheek & Smile While Being Crapped All Over" school.


The Oscars never gave an award to Hitckcock or Cary Grant or Richard Burton . O Toole had to get a lifetime achievement award. Susan Lucci stuck in there. Steve, if you cannot take the heat, get out of the kitchen.


Them's the breaks Stevo

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Jeez, somebody's a sore loser. Not getting an award doesn't mean your music is terrible - just like getting an award doesn't necessarily mean it's good. I think I like Schwartz even less now, if possible.

FOAnatic, I agree with you there, but I just gotta thread jack really quickly and say that I think Wicked would have done better with its book if they stayed more with the original novel

ok end of thread jack, sorry

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Avenue Q is in the style of Sesame Street, not based on it. Big Bird never shows up.

::giggles at the thought of Big Bird making an appearance during "You Can Be As Loud As The Hell You Want"::

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