TONY AWARD disgrace!!!- Page 4

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 6:45pm

Ditto, Infinite.

Michael Cerveris is by far the best John Wilkes Booth ever.

[chess12]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 6:52pm

THE LION KING winning the Tony Award over RAGTIME.

FOSSE winning the Tony Award over PARADE.

ART winning the Tony Award over THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:10pm

I thought of one...........judging by the part and the cast recording, I would have given Priscilla Lopez the Tony over her castmate Carole Bishop(now Kelly Bishop) for the 1975 featured actress in a musical. Luckily Priscilla won Tony in the category in 1980.


As for Pippin losing, well it was up against A Little Night Music, which rightfully won IMO.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:16pm

Kelly Bishop's Sheila stole every moment in ACL and broke hearts with "At the Ballet." She definitely deserved the Tony over Lopez.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:21pm

When did she change her name to Kelly? She's wonderful on "The Gilmore Girls" and in "An Unmarried Woman".

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:23pm

It is tuff, but I guess I just like the part of Diana better. She has the song "What I did for love." However, both are great....


Also, by reading these I think I may get the CD to Jane Eyre.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:24pm

Also, I'd probably give more awards to Angels in American cast members....Like Marcia Gay Harden as Harper

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:27pm

I would like to say I agree with you, but I didn't see any of them.

[idinarocksmysocks!510]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:31pm

I know! Raul should have won'!!!!!!!! But i'm glad Idina won. Bernadette should have won too!!!!!!! oh the disgrace!

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:32pm

idina, did you SEE Assassins?

[idinarocksmysocks!510]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:37pm

i love assasins! r u kidding! i wanted to see it in person but i couldn't get tickets, so i taped the performance at the tonys! it was sooooo good!!!!!!

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:38pm

Well, if you had seen it you'd know why Cerveris won - he was really really really brilliant.

But I still am obsessed with TABOO, and Raul Esparza was great.

[MusicMan]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:42pm

In the film JULIA, playwright Lillian Hellman, played by Jane Fonda, scores a triumph with her play THE CHILDREN'S HOUR and tells her lover, novelist Dashiell Hammett, that she is delighted she can now afford to buy a fur coat.
Hammett tells her, "That's fine, Lily, as long as you remember that it's only a fur coat and has nothing to do with writing."

The same thing applies to the Tony Award. Given the politics involved and the general dearth of quality on Broadway, the Tonys have little, if anything, to do with excellence.

As far as THE LION KING vs. RAGTIME contretemps goes, audiences will still be thrilling to the visionary Taymore show when the product-by-committee-that-dropped-the-ball-at-every-opportunity RAGTIME will have been consigned to the dustbin of musical theatre history.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:45pm

Just thought of one while making a thread.....Chita Rivera not being nominated for Anita way back in 1957......Also, if Larry Kurt wasn't nominated, he should of been too.


On the flip side, Chita Rivera probably shouldn't have been nominated for Bring Back Birdie....that had like what...3 performances???

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:46pm

Well until you've seen the show and her competition, you really can't comment. I gather you weren't even alive when WEST SIDE STORY was on Broadway...

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 7:48pm

I born in 1981, so no.......but I have the Cast Recording and she's great in it, and I know that it's a scene-stealing famous role.....so that's enough right there

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 8:17pm

AIDA not being nom for best Musical
Wicked losing best musical and score to Q (love Q but W was better in those catagories)
Les Miz not winning costumes

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 8:47pm

What about Sarah Brightman not being nominated for Phantom???? She's wonderful on the CD....but I have heard some other things about her....Still I would think that The Phantom, Cristine, Raoul, and Carlotta would all be sure nominations.....

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 8:55pm

When Mack & Mabel was nominated for Best Score for which it should have won had it been nominated

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 9:31pm

MTVMANN, what ARE you talking about?

Michael Crawford won.
Judy Kate won.
Wasn't Sarah Brightman nominated?

[bta212]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 9:52pm

So many of these posts and the responses they elicit seem to reflect valid differences of opinion. To me "disgrace" is bigger than Marissa Jaret Winokur vs. Bernadette.

The only night I remember really being outraged was 2001--I thought the "The Producers" All-Tonys-All-The-Time sweep was lazy, insulting bandwagon-jumping crap, and it really angered me; that was a disgrace.

Updated On: 2/4/05 at 09:52 PM

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 9:55pm

I meant that I felt that all of those roles should have been nominated..... I know michale and Judy were nominated and won
but Sarah wasn't

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 10:01pm

Well for the first one, I think you all know what Im gunna say so I just wont.

The Producers winning 12 Tonys. Its a great show but Lord up above its not THAT good!

Beauty and The Beast only winning for costumes, I believe. It was such a wonderful show!

Musicals that truly deserved to win the Tony but didnt:
Again, you all know what Im going to say so... next!
Gypsy
Ragtime
Dreamgirls
Peter Pan *I dont believe this won but Im not sure*
and there are so many more but Im blanking out!

Also, Mamma Mia! walking away empty handed. By far not the best show on Broadway but it was shameless fun. It was a wonderful night out, IMO.

Little Shop not being nominated for Best Revival. This production was amazing! It was so wonderful and I was so upset when it didnt get a nod.

I'm on the fence with Millie and Urinetown. They were two wonderful, wonderful shows but they were so amazingly different I cant compare. I was happy Urinetown took home Director, Book, and Score but I dont know if it shouldve won Best Musical or not. I loved both shows dearly but they cant be compared.

:)

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 10:02pm

Totally agree that Dreamgirls should have won.

[GovernorSlaton]

Posted: 2/4/05 at 10:12pm

Herman must have thought his comments were a bit over-the-line -- he's apologized numerous times for it and said that he didn't mean it the way it sounded. Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum...