Shuffle Along listed as original

http://www.playbill.com/production/shuffle-along-or-the-making-of-the-musical-sensation-of-1921-and-all-that-followed-music-box-theatre-vault-0000014107

Guess it'll be qualified as an original for Tony and it'll compete with Hamilton for the best original musical category.

That doesn't really mean anything. The producers could still petition it as a revival for Tony purposes.

Regardless, the phrase "compete with Hamilton" is an lol.

Cinders, how many Tony voters do you know? Why are you just spouting gossip nonsense when you don't know what you're talking about?

neonlightsxo said: "Cinders, how many Tony voters do you know? Why are you just spouting gossip nonsense when you don't know what you're talking about?"

There was a whole New York Times article about it this last summer. How about you stop trying to start fights with your trite insults and maybe do a little bit of research? I never claimed this was "insider" information - I'm not an insider. Take a look at Google, dude.

"The Show Currently At The Richard Rodgers"

Ha! I love that... like when Prince stopped saying his name. And this being the home of abbreviations (for days I though SOR was a new respiratory epidemic) we can call it TSCATRR.

Are you serious? Yes they are. Can you please, please do some simple research? Lin set up a window for Tony voters in the summer - he is no longer giving voters tickets to see the show. They had a very small window of time to see it. Please, stop talking. This is all very public information.

The article I assume you're talking about, btw, is this piece of Riedel gossip. That as I said, is not true.

http://nypost.com/2015/07/31/the-hamilton-backlash-has-begun/

CindersGolightly said: "Not a total lol - a LOT of the Tony voters expressed distaste for "Hamilton" and Lin publicly because they were only allowed to see the show during the summer on an assigned date. So, the Tony voters have all either seen the show, or they won't get to. I'm not saying it won't take Best Musical, I'm just saying there are reasons to believe that there could be a....I'll say snag."

Cinders, can you please provide a link to the New York Times article? (Not to the New York Post article.)

As I remember this "controversy," Riedel had gotten his facts mixed up (no surprise there). The Tony voters didn't want to wait until "Tony season" in spring 2016 to get their tickets to Hamilton, they wanted to see it right away after the show started previews in July. So the producers tried to accommodate them by offering tickets during the week last summer.

This was not an attempt to limit Tony voters, it was an attempt to accommodate them. And Riedel overheard something incorrectly.

Updated On: 2/23/16 at 12:43 PM

Everyone knows the winner in original musical category so time to move on to something else

Listen, I'm totally sympathetic to the fact that Shuffle Along has a lot of potential to—and probably will—be absolutely incredible and amazing. I've already bought my tickets for it.

I'm also sympathetic to the fact that our lives have effectively—and deservedly—been Hamilton Hamilton Hamilton for the last 13 months. And that even Tony voters might be at the end of riding the wave.

But to believe that any work other than Hamilton will, could, or might win the 2016 Tony Award for Best Musical is frankly unrealistic. I mean, really.

re time limitations on Tony voters

That's old news. They were trying to encourage the voters who could to come in then to do so (most were chomping at the bit anyway) but all voters are being accommodated.

re the status of Shuffle.

Playbill does not maake assumptions. The show is registered as original with the league, and that is where Playbill gets their information. They don't just make it up. That does not mean the producers cannot petition to be shifted to revival and as said the admin committee has not met on it and can't until it opens.

No matter how the Tony committee decides it will be eligible, it's still an "original" piece in that it incorporates a considerable amount of new material that's completely different from what was on Broadway in 1921. Even calling it a "revisal" is a stretch.

And before you turn your pitch forks at me, this is obviously all conjecture.