The 2nd Annual Yankeefan Awards for Excellence in Theater

[Yankeefan007]

The 2nd Annual Yankeefan Awards for Excellence in Theater#1

Posted: 12/4/07 at 9:10pm

Well, it's that time of year again. Time for the 2nd Annual Yankeefan007 Awards for Excellence in Theater. These awards encompass every show which opened in 2007. A listing of Broadway and Off-Broadway shows will be found below. If you disagreed with the Tony Awards, this is your chance to make your voices heard...and have some fun.

Nominee-voting begins right now, and ends on December 11. Voting for winners begins on December 12 and will end on December 19. The time cut-off is 8 PM on those selected days. The winners will be announced on December 20.

This year's categories are as follows:

Best Original Show of the Year (Broadway)
Worst Show of the Year (Broadway)
Best Financial Flop
Best Critical Flop
Best New Off-Broadway Show
Worst New Off-Broadway Show
Best Performance of the Year, Male or Female
Worst Performance of the Year, Male or Female
Actor, Male or Female, who made you go “wow, I didn’t know they could do that!”
Best Male Broadway Debut
Best Female Broadway Debut
Worst Male Broadway Debut
Worst Female Broadway Debut
Best Breakthrough Performance, Male or Female
Best Male Replacement
Best Female Replacement
Worst Replacement, Male or Female
Best Understudy/Standby
Best Return to Broadway, Male (after an absence of 2+ years)
Best Return to Broadway, Female (after an absence of 2+ years)
Who Deserved a Tony but Didn’t Win?
Best Return to Broadway, but in a Bad Show
Show To Which You’d Give a 2nd Chance
Most Anticipated Show Which Let You Down
Best New Show Tune
Worst New Show Tune
Show Which Most Deserved A Broadway Transfer and Didn’t Get One
Freshest Long-Running Show, on Broadway or Off

Please send in 5 nominees per category. You can post them here, or PM them to me. That method is preferred.

Broadway Shows Eligible:
Translations, Coast of Utopia Part III: Salvage, Journey’s End, Prelude to a Kiss, Talk Radio, Curtains, The Year of Magical Thinking, The Pirate Queen, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Inherit the Wind, Frost/Nixon, Legally Blonde, Coram Boy, LoveMusik, Deuce, Radio Golf, 110 in the Shade, Old Acquaintance, Xanadu, Grease, Mauritius, The Ritz, Pygmalion, A Bronx Tale, Cyrano de Bergerac, Duran Duran: Red Carpet Massacre, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Young Frankenstein, The Farnsworth Invention, The Seafarer, August: Osage County, Is He Dead?, Cymbeline, The Homecoming*, The Little Mermaid*

Partial Listing of Eligible Off-Broadway Shows:
10 Million Miles, 100 Saints You Should Know, Adrift in Macao, Blackbird, Celia, Crazy Mary, Die Mommie Die!, Dividing the Estate, Dying City, Elvis People, Essential Self Defense, Eurydice, Frankenstein, Gone Missing, Gutenberg: the Musical!, In A Dark Dark House, In the Heights, Iphigenia 2.0, Jack Goes Boating, Make Me A Song, My First Time, Our Leading Lady, Passing Strange, Peter and Jerry, Scarcity, Some Men, Spain, The Glorious Ones, The Overwhelming, The Receptionist, The Rise of Dorothy Hale, The Scene, Walmartopia


*denotes a show which has started previews but won't be open within the cut-off, because of the 2007 Strike.

Have fun!

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

re: The 2nd Annual Yankeefan Awards for Excellence in Theater#2

Posted: 12/4/07 at 9:43pm

Best Original Show of the Year (Broadway): Curtains, Xanadu, Young Frankenstein, Frost/Nixon, Cyrano De Bergerac

Worst Show of the Year (Broadway): Pirate Queen, Talk Radio, Grease, Deuce, Year Of Magical Thinking, A Bronx Tale

Best Financial Flop: Journey's End, Old Aquaintence, Coram Boy, Moon For The Misbegotten

Best Critical Flop: Curtains, Young Frankenstein, Legally Blonde, Coram Boy, Cyrano de Bergerac

Best New Off-Broadway Show: In The Heights, Speech And Debate, Eurydice, Make Me A Song, Frankenstein

Worst New Off-Broadway Show: Gutenburg, Walmartopia, Elvis People, Jack Goes Boating, Die, Mommie, Die!

Best Performance of the Year, Male or Female
Worst Performance of the Year, Male or Female
Actor, Male or Female, who made you go “wow, I didn’t know they could do that!”
Best Male Broadway Debut
Best Female Broadway Debut
Worst Male Broadway Debut
Worst Female Broadway Debut
Best Breakthrough Performance, Male or Female
Best Male Replacement
Best Female Replacement
Worst Replacement, Male or Female
Best Understudy/Standby
Best Return to Broadway, Male (after an absence of 2+ years)
Best Return to Broadway, Female (after an absence of 2+ years)
Who Deserved a Tony but Didn’t Win?
Best Return to Broadway, but in a Bad Show
Show To Which You’d Give a 2nd Chance
Most Anticipated Show Which Let You Down
Best New Show Tune
Worst New Show Tune
Show Which Most Deserved A Broadway Transfer and Didn’t Get One
Freshest Long-Running Show, on Broadway or Off

I'll have to finish this later...

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[Heybeenfood]

re: The 2nd Annual Yankeefan Awards for Excellence in Theater#2

Posted: 12/4/07 at 10:32pm

Best Original Show of the Year (Broadway)The Seafarer, Xanadu, Is He Dead? Curtains and Frost/Nixon
Worst Show of the Year (Broadway)Deuce, Old Acquaintance, Prelude to A Kiss, A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Young Frankenstein.
Best Financial Flop The Seafarer, Is He Dead?, Journey's End, Radio Golf, and Coram Boy.
Best Critical Flop: Legally Blonde and The Ritz
Best New Off-Broadway Show Speech and Debate, Passing Strange, Blackbird, In the Heights, and The Receptionist.
Worst New Off-Broadway Show: Celia.
Best Performance of the Year, Male or Female: Jim Norton and Conleth Hill for The Seafarer, Frank Langella for Frost Nixon, Stark Sands for Journey's End, and Allison Pill for Blackbird.
Worst Performance of the Year, Male or Female: Kevin Spacey for A Moon for the Misbegotten, Harriet Harris for Old Acquaintance, Roger Bart for Young Frankenstein,
Actor, Male or Female, who made you go “wow, I didn’t know they could do that!” Kerry Butler (roller skating) for Xanadu, Megan Sikora for Curtains, Rosie Perez for the Ritz, Sutton Foster (yodeling) for Young Frankenstein, and
Best Male Broadway Debut Stark Sands for Journey's End, Seth Rudetsky for The Ritz,Chazz Palminteri, and Bobby Steggert for 110.
Best Female Broadway Debut Claire Danes for Pygmallion, Eve Best for A Moon for the Misbegotten, Xanthe Elbrick for Coram Boy, Jennifer Garner for Cyrano, and Annaleigh Ashford for Legally Blonde.
Best Breakthrough Performance, Male or Female Leslie Kritzer, Eve Best, Xanthe Elbrick, Stark Sands
Best Return to Broadway, Male (after an absence of 2+ years)Kevin Kline, Jefferson Mays, Frank Langella, David Hyde Pierce, and Christopher Plummer.
Best Return to Broadway, Female (after an absence of 2+ years)Audra McDonald, Andrea Martin, Mary Testa, Jackie Hoffman, and Donna Murphy.
Who Deserved a Tony but Didn’t Win? Michael Cerveris, Boyd Gaines, David Pittu, Eve Best, and Xanthe Elbrick.
Most Anticipated Show Which Let You Down Deuce, Mauritius, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Young Frankenstein, and LoveMusik.
Show Which Most Deserved A Broadway Transfer and Didn’t Get One: Euridyce, Blackbird, Follies (ENCORES!), Speech and Debate, and The Scene.
Freshest Long-Running Show, on Broadway or Off Avenue Q, Forbidden Broadway, Chicago, Hairspray, and Spelling Bee.

[jaystarr]

re: The 2nd Annual Yankeefan Awards for Excellence in Theater#3

Posted: 12/4/07 at 10:35pm

Yankee- I will participate.. I just have to print this out and look at it. I might miss some shows..I will get back before 12/11. Thanks

J*

[RockabyeHamlet]

re: The 2nd Annual Yankeefan Awards for Excellence in Theater#4

Posted: 12/5/07 at 8:50am

Is there a reason Company is not on the list?

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[Smaxie]

re: The 2nd Annual Yankeefan Awards for Excellence in Theater#5

Posted: 12/5/07 at 8:59am

Yankee's list is for shows that opened in 2007. Company opened in 2006, and was probably covered by the 1st Annual Yankeefan Awards for Excellence in Theater.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

[Yankeefan007]

re: The 2nd Annual Yankeefan Awards for Excellence in Theater#6

Posted: 12/8/07 at 9:53am

bump

[RyToast1]

re: The 2nd Annual Yankeefan Awards for Excellence in Theater#7

Posted: 12/8/07 at 4:44pm

So shows with * aren't eligible for voting?

[songanddanceman2]

re: The 2nd Annual Yankeefan Awards for Excellence in Theater#8

Posted: 12/8/07 at 5:50pm

im sorry but how was LB a critical flop, it had a ton of great reviews

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

[Heybeenfood]

re: The 2nd Annual Yankeefan Awards for Excellence in Theater#9

Posted: 12/8/07 at 8:00pm

It was certainly not panned, but it did not get great reviews overall.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

re: The 2nd Annual Yankeefan Awards for Excellence in Theater#10

Posted: 12/8/07 at 8:41pm

Best Female Replacement
Annelise Van Der Pol, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Aida Turturro, CHICAGO
Mara Davi, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

Worst Replacement, Male or Female
Tamyra Gray, RENT
Lance Bass, HAIRSPRAY

Who Deserved a Tony but Didn’t Win?
Mary Testa, XANADU
Karen Ziemba, CURTAINS
Audra McDonald

Freshest Long-Running Show, on Broadway or Off
FORBIDDEN BROADWAY
WICKED
MARY POPPINS
AVENUE Q
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE

"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop

[Yankeefan007]

re: The 2nd Annual Yankeefan Awards for Excellence in Theater#11

Posted: 12/9/07 at 8:32am

Rytoast - those are open on a case by case basis. You obviously can't vote for Mermaid as "Best Critical Flop."

And no, Legally Blonde was not a critical flop.