Shows that should have won best musical?- Page 3

[Steel Pier Fan]

Posted: 6/4/11 at 5:27pm

Hahaha Kad. Also Gypsy losing pisses me off.

[BwayTday]

Posted: 6/4/11 at 5:28pm

A discussion is more interesting then a list. If they are staying relatively on topic, why does it matter? Don't try to control your thread like this.

[Steel Pier Fan]

Posted: 6/4/11 at 5:28pm

I wrote list and discuss in the message.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/4/11 at 5:29pm

Oh and SPF, just because you sarcastically say something is witty doesn't mean it wasn't. We've been through this before.

[uncageg]

Posted: 6/4/11 at 5:55pm

I personally would like to have seen The Drowsy Chaperone beat out Jersey Boys.

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 6/4/11 at 7:12pm

I've really learned not to expect much from the Tonys. Here's what I thought should have one:

2010 Everyday Rapture (not even nominated?!)
2009 Next to Normal
2008 Passing Strange or Xanadu
2007 Grey Gardens
2006 Drowsy Chaperone
2005 Light in the PIazza
2004 Caroline or Change
2002 Urintetown
1999 Parade
1998 Ragtime
1992 Falsettos
1988 Into the Woods
1984 Sunday
1972 Follies
1960 Gypsy
1958 West Side Story
1955 Peter Pan

There are quite a few more winners that I don't like but I haven't seen any of the other nominees (cough couh Cats and Sunset cough cough).

On the subject of Candide, I really don't think that any version of Candide that's been on Broadway deserves best musical/revival. I really can't stand the over the top Hugh Wheeler book at all, and we all know that Lilian Hellman's book was a disaster. However, last October, I saw Mary Zimmerman's production in Chicago, and I thought that it finally got the show right. If I remember correctly, the production will be playing in Boston this fall (it played DC this winter) so I recommend any big Candide fans in the Boston area get out to see it. It's a quite different Candide than any other production, and it beautifully represents the original book.

[charlesjguiteau]

Posted: 6/5/11 at 12:33pm

Actually love this thread, particularly as it gives a chance for the rarified aesthetes to battle it out with the commercial fans for each season's wins. (I of course count myself on the side of the aesthetes.)

For instance I agree with most (not all) of awesomedanny's choices over the far more commercial feel-good shows that actually won each of those years. Each year seems to produce a blockbuster that the crowds go crazy over, and a groundbreaking gem that leaves audiences troubled and challenged. (Music Man vs West Side Story, Phantom of the Opera vs Into the Woods, Book of Mormon vs Scottsboro Boys.)

Tastes do shift from year to year, but it does seem as though the Tony's invariably go with the popular smash time and time again over the cultured pearl. It's nice to know that history has a way of reappraising the masterpieces and giving the pearls their proper due in the long run, Tony or no Tony.