Serious TONY pick: best play.
Serious TONY pick: best play.
#1Serious TONY pick: best play.
Posted: 5/27/14 at 5:05pmHands down: CASA VALENTINA...out of town visitors this is a must see!
#2Serious TONY pick: best play.
Posted: 5/27/14 at 5:06pmAnd "NO"...I don't work for MTC nor am I Barry Grove's cleaning lady.
#2Serious TONY pick: best play.
Posted: 5/27/14 at 9:14pmI enjoyed it as well. Exceptional acting and brilliantly directed. Do you think it could win The Tony? I'd like to see it win
#3Serious TONY pick: best play.
Posted: 5/27/14 at 9:29pmThe play itself is not very good. What's great is what talent applied to it, and that talent is what should be awarded. But there is a lot of traffic...
A Director
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/07
#4Serious TONY pick: best play.
Posted: 5/28/14 at 2:35amHands down, All The Way will win Best Play!
#5Serious TONY pick: best play.
Posted: 5/28/14 at 6:56amOk, Mr. Director...tell me why you think so?
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#6Serious TONY pick: best play.
Posted: 5/28/14 at 9:11amCasa Valentina won't win. It's between Act One and All the Way.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#7Serious TONY pick: best play.
Posted: 5/28/14 at 9:14am
YOU didn't give us any reasons for your pick....so how about we start there?
(But I agree, All the Way pretty much has this in the bag.)
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wonkit
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/30/08
#8Serious TONY pick: best play.
Posted: 5/28/14 at 8:59pmSaw ALL THE WAY today. The three hours of beautifully written character development and no cliches. It should get the TONY, IMO.
#9Serious TONY pick: best play.
Posted: 5/28/14 at 9:20pmACT ONE should and will win.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#10Serious TONY pick: best play.
Posted: 5/29/14 at 11:11amBoth ACT ONE and ALL THE WAY fall short of some of our recent Best Play winners, but I agree ACT ONE deserves it this year. Both shows felt bloated, but ACT ONE felt bloated with theatricality and emotional resonances, and ALL THE WAY felt bloated with anecdotes, famous quips and historicity rather than analysis. ALL THE WAY told me nothing about what it was like to be any of those men (MLK aside, the only character I felt was three-dimensional in the writing.) ACT ONE was a richer emotional experience, and more entertaining overall, though not great literature. ALL THE WAY was academic (and not in a good way, ie Stoppard) and wooden. A chore to stick with, since it was like a High School textbook instead of a compelling drama.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#11Serious TONY pick: best play.
Posted: 5/29/14 at 11:49am
"All the Way" will take it I think.
I would vote for the far more daring and current "Mothers and Sons" or "Casa Valentina". I thought the success of "All the Way" is due to the sublime cast-the material trudges along at certain points. It was fine. The cast...was stellar. (Makes me wish for an ensemble Tony.)
#12Serious TONY pick: best play.
Posted: 5/29/14 at 12:25pmI agree that none of the nominees are particularly well-written, but since a "best" award has to be given, I imagine that it'll go to All The Way which presented the best total package.
#13Serious TONY pick: best play.
Posted: 5/29/14 at 12:29pm
^ I concur. This was an exceptionally weak season for new plays.
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#14Serious TONY pick: best play.
Posted: 5/29/14 at 12:35pmI've said this before, but personally my vote would be for MULLINGAR, which I found far and away the best-written and most enjoyable play of the season.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
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