TONY Eligibility 2015-16, round one

[WayTooBroadway]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:51pm

http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/news/articles/2015-11-12/201511121447360083892.html

Including:
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr. and Phillipa Soo will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical categories for their respective performances in Hamilton.

[mpd4165]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:57pm

WayTooBroadway said: "http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/news/articles/2015-11-12/201511121447360083892.html

Including:
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr. and Phillipa Soo will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical categories for their respective performances in Hamilton.

Which is absolutely correct. Good call, committee. 

"

 

[PianoMann]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:57pm

This is bad news for Danny Burstein's bid for Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for Fiddler.  Leslie Odom, Jr. is stronger competition in that category than Lin-Manuel posed.  

[MNC77]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 3:58pm

Wait is Therese Raquin being counted as a new play?

[WayTooBroadway]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:01pm

First round is for these productions: An Act of God, Amazing Grace, Hamilton, Spring Awakening, Old Times, Fool for Love, The Gin Game, Dames at Sea, Sylvia, and Thérèse Raquin.

- Scott Pask and Peter Nigrini will be considered jointly eligible in the Best Scenic Design of a Play category for their work in An Act of God.

- Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr. and Phillipa Soo will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical categories for their respective performances in Hamilton.

- Austin P. McKenzie and Sandra Mae Frank will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical categories for their respective performances in Spring Awakening.

- Dane Laffrey and Lucy Mackinnon will be considered jointly eligible in the Best Scenic Design of a Musical category for their work in Spring Awakening.

- Sam Rockwell and Nina Arianda will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Leading Role in a Play categories for their respective performances in Fool for Love.

- Robert Sella and Julie White will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Featured Role in a Play categories for their respective performances in Sylvia.   

- Cary Tedder and Eloise Kropp will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical categories for their respective performances in Dames at Sea.

- Gabriel Ebert and Judith Light will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Featured Role in a Play categories for their respective performances in Thérèse Raquin.  

- Fool for Love and Sylvia will be considered eligible in the Best Revival of a Play category.

- Dames at Sea will be considered eligible in the Best Revival of a Musical category.
 

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:07pm

"Wait is Therese Raquin being counted as a new play"

Weirdly enough, yes.

[Kad]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:14pm

It's a new adaptation, is it not?

[hork]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:14pm

Ah, the Tonys, where Aaron Burr and Eliza Hamilton are leads but Judas Iscariot, Huckleberry Finn, Joseph, and Tommy are featured. And the Master of Ceremonies and Alfred P. Doolittle are either/or, depending on the production.

[playbill-love]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:15pm

I am interested in how acting nominations for Spring Awakening could work with the Deaf actors and their characters' "voices."

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:17pm

Interesting! Very excited to hear that Annaleigh will be competing for leading actress this year.

[Kad]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:17pm

You can debate whether Eliza Hamilton is truly a leading role, but Aaron Burr is inarguably the co-lead of the show.

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:20pm

PianoMann said: "This is bad news for Danny Burstein's bid for Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for Fiddler.  Leslie Odom, Jr. is stronger competition in that category than Lin-Manuel posed. "

But voters still may split the Hamilton votes anyways, so Burstein just might have a chance.


As for Eliza being a lead, I agree wholeheartedly. The reveal at the end supports this idea.

Updated On: 11/12/15 at 04:20 PM

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:27pm

Does this mean Josh Young is "featured" for playing the lead in Amazing Grace? That makes no sense.

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:28pm

HAMILTON has the potential to best THE PRODUCERS for most acting nominations from a single show. We're looking at locks and possible nominations for:

 

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Leslie Odom Jr.

Phillipa Soo

Renee Elise Goldsberry

Daveed Diggs

Christopher Jackson

Jonathan Groff

 

They could also go for Jasmine Cephas Jones in Featured if they're really in the mood.

 

*Bartione: Josh Young & Erin Mackey were above the title for AMAZING GRACE.

 

Updated On: 11/12/15 at 04:28 PM

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:38pm

Therese is a new adaptation but the story is certainly not new. It appeared on Broadway as the basis of Thou Shalt Not, even. It just seems strange to call something from the 1800s "new."

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:40pm

"Does this mean Josh Young is "featured" for playing the lead in Amazing Grace? That makes no sense."

No. Josh Young was above the title, so it's consistent with opening night credits.
http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/Whos_who/14118/61307/Amazing-Grace

[dramamama611]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:41pm

If the production does not petition for a specific change, can/will the committee consider changes on their own?  

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 4:58pm

"You can debate whether Eliza Hamilton is truly a leading role, but Aaron Burr is inarguably the co-lead of the show."

 

Agreed. I think if Hamilton has a lead actress, it is Philippa. Now whether the character is a lead character is a slightly more complicated question. I do not see Cary Tedder and Eloise Kropp being very competitive as lead actors. Personally, I think Robert Sella could definitely get a nomination for Sylvia. 

 

Are they just waiting to make determinations on the other actors/characters in these shows or are they not being considered for nominations?

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 5:02pm

"Are they just waiting to make determinations on the other actors/characters in these shows or are they not being considered for nominations?"

Everything else for this round will conform to the usually eligibility rules. I.E., the above/below the title rule, and so on. :)

Updated On: 11/12/15 at 05:02 PM

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 5:06pm

I agree with Therese being considered a new play. They are awarding the playwright's ability to adapt the novel, and this adaptation has never been seen before.

 

If you wrote a new play version of Gone With the Wind it wouldn't be a revival of any of the previous Gone With the Wind efforts and it wouldn't make sense to call it a revival when your words hadn't been spoken on a stage, Broadway or otherwise, before.

[JBroadway]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 5:09pm

neonlightsxo said: "Therese is a new adaptation but the story is certainly not new. It appeared on Broadway as the basis of Thou Shalt Not, even. It just seems strange to call something from the 1800s "new." "

 

Totally understandable to have that feeling given how often the material is adapted. But this is production IS a new adaptation, even if it's "old" in a colloquial sense. If some composer and librettist decided right now that they wanted to write a new musical about Peter Pan, it would still be a new musical even though we would all role our eyes and say it's "old"

 

If Annaleigh Ashford wins again this year I might vomit. 

 

EDIT: Ha, was typing this post when Whizzer posted his. Funny how we chose different examples but used the same basic argument. 

Updated On: 11/12/15 at 05:09 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 5:12pm

Dames was never on Broadway so how can it be nominated for a revival Tony ? A Tony is for Broadway productions which Dames never was prior to 2015.

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 5:14pm

^The same reason why Assassins, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, and Violet were eligible as 'revivals'.

Updated On: 11/12/15 at 05:14 PM

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 5:16pm

Mr Roxy said: "Dames was never on Broadway so how can it be nominated for a revival Tony ? A Tony is for Broadway productions which Dames never was prior to 2015."

 

Direct from the 2015 Tonys rules and regulations: A “Revival” shall be any production in an eligible Broadway theatre of a play or musical that: (A) is deemed a “classic” or in the historical or popular repertoire in accordance with paragraph 2(g) above; (B) was previously presented professionally at any time prior to the 1946-47 Broadway season in substantially the same form in the Borough of Manhattan (other than as a showcase, workshop or so-called “letter of agreement” production) and that has not had a professional performance in the Borough of Manhattan at any time during the three years immediately preceding the Eligibility Date; or (C) was previously presented professionally at any time during or after the 1946-47 Broadway season in substantially the same form in an eligible Broadway theatre and that has not had a professional performance in the Borough of Manhattan at any time during the three years immediately preceding the Eligibility Date.

 

Think about Hedwig and Cinderella. 

[JBroadway]

Posted: 11/12/15 at 5:18pm

What Jeffrey said, and also many others, including but not limited to:

Fool For Love (as they announced today)

Sylvia (as they announced today)

Cripple of Inishmaan

Little Shop of Horrors

This is Our Youth

Lady Day

 

It's the "classics" rule that the Tony's have. Basically the rule of thumb is: if it's a show that is being revived, then it's a revival. 

Updated On: 11/12/15 at 05:18 PM