The 76th Annual Tony Award Nominations (2023) — Page 13

No acting noms for Fat Ham?

RippedMan said: "No acting noms for Fat Ham?"

Nikki Crawford got in. But was a surprise Marcel Spears did not (although Lead Actor was certainly an embarrassment of riches this year, so understandable).

I completely forgot about Dancin' and Bad Cinderella this morning. Like, that they even existed. It sucks for all involved but I think they will post soon.

fashionguru_23 said: "I apologize if this was discussed somewhere else, but was Dancineligible for choreography?"

It was not, as the choreo was Fosse's original.

I think, to summarize, the total shutouts (regardless of quality or eligibility) were:

- Walking With Ghosts

- The Old Man and the Pool

- The Collaboration

- The Kite Runner

- Peter Pan Goes Wrong

- Pictures From Home

- The Thanksgiving Play

- 1776

- A Beautiful Noise

- Dancin’

- Bad Cinderella

11/38 eligible productions….

—-guess Sara Porkalob’s 75% wasn’t good enough for a nomination and throwing your cast and creative team under the bus doesn’t really sit well with people. The production was bad and the tour is worse. It was not a well thought out idea and it didn’t translate and felt gimmicky. It got all the recognition it deserved.

It really did.

quizking101 said: "I think, to summarize, the total shutouts (regardless of quality or eligibility) were:

- The Collaboration

In retrospect, The Collaboration was the worst thing I saw this season. The lack of nominations is richly deserved.

Playbill_Trash said: "I wonder how Sara Porkalob is feeling this morning since she put out in that interview her hope for doing 1776 was getting a tony nomination. I was hoping the directors of that revival got nominated just to spite her. But the overall snub was good enough."

I think memories are such that people remember that incident but not who did it.

It was a strong year for musical revivals and it's not surprising that this one –– which tried things but not in an effective way –– got shut out.

I am not seeing Sweeney until this summer but I have heard so much about how terrible the Sound Design is. And people don't normally talk about Sound Design in general yet I've seen on this forum, on social media & on podcasts people complain about the Sound Design for that show. So how in the world does it get nominated for that category? Are they just trying to award Jonathan Tunick's Orchestrations?

John David Washington never stood a chance, and I can accept that Danielle Brooks was overlooked, too, though I thought she was very good. But Sam Jackson over Michael Potts is a crime.



I am so glad someone shares my sentiments here. I am also just baffled at the lack of nominations for Death of a Salesman. Sharon D. Clarke how? I understand that she was in the featured actress category, which is also a confusing call from the committee seeing as how she was above the title with Wendell and Andre. Just some odd odd calls, if you ask me.

Sutton Ross said: "I completely forgot about Dancin'and Bad Cinderella this morning. Like, that they even existed. It sucks for all involved but I think they will post soon."

I still think Bad Cinderella is a much better show than NYNY.

Sound is tricky, as most nominators are not qualified to understand what makes a good sound design.

PianoMann said: "The nominators are obligated to see every eligible production in a given season or else recuse themselves from voting at all. This is spelled out in Section 5.a.ii of the Rules and Regulations. So it isn't surprising that they all got to see, for example, Ain't No Mo' or The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. There were 40 nominators this year, winnowed down from a longer list as people had to recuse themselves. The entire list is on the Tony site and Gold Derby."

I was not aware the nominating committee had to recuse themselves entirely if they were unable to see a show - I thought they could simply choose to recuse themselves in particular categories. But I guess that is only for the voters for the actual winners.

Ain't No Mo' ran only 28 performances (plus previews), so I guess the nominators all piled in during the last week or two of the run since they knew it was closing.