Tony Award Boo Boos

#1

Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 6:31pm

Not nominating Mack & Mabel score ( one of the best ever written ) for a Tony

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Updated On: 8/21/06 at 06:31 PM

#2

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 6:50pm

Not giving Ragtime the Best Musical Tony

Rewarding Mary Martin for Best Actress in Sound of Music instead of Ethel Merman in Gypsy

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#3

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 6:51pm

The Pajama Game winning over Sweeney Todd.

#4

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 6:51pm

Spamalot winning over The Light in the Piazza.

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#5

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 6:53pm

definitely ^^^^

#6

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 7:03pm

Let's not pick at the scabs anymore, shall we?

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#7

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 7:05pm

Not nominating J/H for score

I am ready for the brickbats that will start about now

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#8

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 7:05pm

haha- Picking at century old scabs and scars is what we do best on this board

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#9

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 7:05pm

The Tony voters not seeing Fiddler or DRS and nixing the award they were going to start.
Obligatory Sweeney Todd revival losing reference

#10

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 7:07pm

Well said Katurian

Took the words right out of my mouth

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#11

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 7:38pm

"The Pajama Game winning over Sweeney Todd."

Since that happened, I don't think the tony's honor real theater anymore. I think The Pajama Game just won just because it had Harry Connick Jr. in it and, was more of a commercial sucess then Sweeney.

#12

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 7:40pm

Not nominating Aida for best musical.

#13

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 7:45pm

^ It still won Best Original Score. I didn't think that was possible for s show to win Best Score but, not be nominated for Best Musical.

Updated On: 8/21/06 at 07:45 PM

#14

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 8:00pm

yeah, i definitley agree with the SWEENEY one

SWEET CHARITY not winning best revival

JERSEY BOYS winning best musical

lots of stuff...

#15

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 8:03pm

Hey, I thought Jersey Boys deserved the Tony! My opnion.


The Last Five Years not being nominated for a Tony Award.

Spamalot winning over The Light in the Piazza and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Putting this years performances in front of a bunch of heads. I missed the crowd interaction.

#16

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 8:04pm

"The Last Five Years not being nominated for a Tony Award."

Ummm Last 5 Years was off-broadway.

#17

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 8:04pm

....considering TL5Y was Off-Broadway, it wasn't ever eligible for a Tony award.

EDIT: Beat me to it.

Loretta Devine not winning (and not even being nominated) for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for "Dreamgirls."

Daniel Reichard not winning (and not even being nominated) for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for "Jersey Boys."

Idina Menzel winning for Best Actress in a Musical for "Wicked" over Tonya Pinkins for "Caroline, or Change."

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Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
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Updated On: 8/21/06 at 08:04 PM

#18

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 8:18pm

JERSEY BOYS completely deserved it's Tony.

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#19

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 8:21pm

sorry, didnt mean to get people worked up, just my opinion

#20

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 8:23pm

Spamalot winning over all of the other choices. My least favorite of the 4.

#21

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 8:28pm

Well, sorry if I didn't know..somethingwicked...that off-broadway shows could not be nominated for a Tony Award.

#22

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 8:32pm

^ Sorry to sound bitchy but, knowing that only Broadway shows can be nominated for TONYS is common theater sense.

Updated On: 8/21/06 at 08:32 PM

#23

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 8:35pm

DRS not winning more Tonys than it should have

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#24

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 8:36pm

I am sorry if I came across in a less than nice way I<3bway, but as the other poster said, it is sort of common knowledge, and as someone on a Broadway message board, I assumed you'd know that.

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Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

#25

re: Tony Award Boo Boos

Posted: 8/21/06 at 8:37pm

i definitely agree on that about DRS!

Updated On: 8/21/06 at 08:37 PM