Tony Award Boo Boos — Page 4

Contact as Best Special Event but as Best Musical with no original music & it using canned music , I think not

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Giving Contact the Tony for Best Musical was pure bullcrap. How did Aida not get nominated?

I have to say it, folks, it was a big boo boo not nominating Drew Sarich for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Lestat. Just like Carolee Carmello, his was a great performance in a not so great musical in my book. Plus, he was probably the only actor apart from Hugh Panaro who had ample stage time.

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if you guys and gals can talk about the tony awards who won and who did not i can talk about shows that need to come out on cd like good vibrations and lesast and in my life.

That is extremely true. William Daniels gave an amazing performance. Well, in the movie he did. I'm glad he turned it down. That was bad Tony decisioning. Yes, decisioning. I know it is not a word. So shut your mouth.

I didn't really think Spamalot was Tony caliber. I think it's a great show but The Light in the Piazza was more deserving. It was just a beautiful show.

And Millie. I don't even care. I saw the revival of Into the Woods that year.

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Judy Holliday over Julie Andrews (1956)
Mary Martin over Ethel Merman (1959)
Sound of Music over Gypsy (1959)
Richard Rodgers over Jule Styne (1959)
Man of La Mancha's score over Jerry Herman (1966)
Hamlisch and Kleban over Kander and Ebb (1976)
Jerry Herman over Sondheim (1984) *Although La Cage still has a great score
Donna Murphy over Julie Andrews (1995)
Lion King over Ragtime (199
Mel Brooks over David Yazbek (2001) *Mel's songs are delightful and his lyrics are great, but some of them are not entirely original and Keep it Gay is stolen from a number performed on The Mike Douglas Show.
Elaine Stritch At Liberty not counting as an original musical. Couldn't you call it an Elaine Stritch jukebox musical? (2002)
Elaine Stritch not counting in Best Actress (2002)
Elaine Stritch's speech being cut (2002)
Rob Ashford over Susan Stroman (2002)
Into the Woods over Oklahoma! (2002)
Marrisa Jarret Winoker over Bernadette Peters (2003)
Twyla Tharp over Jerry Mitchell...well, not really. Couldn't they have tied or something? (2003)
Spamalot over The Light in the Piazza (2005)
Spelling Bee's book over Craig Lucas (2005)
Sara Ramerez over Kelli O'Hara (2005)
Greg Jbara being snubbed (2005)
Jersey Boys over The Drowsy Chaperone (2006)
John Lloyd Young over Michael Cerveris (2006)
Christian Hoff and his wishy washy speech (2006)
Christian Hoff over Jim Dale (2006)
La Chaze over Patti LuPone (2006) *Don't get me started

Updated On: 9/4/06 at 07:17 PM

I absolutely believe that Jersey Boys, John Lloyd Young and Christian Hoff, 100% deserved their awards! I just wish they gave an award to Daniel and J. Robert also.
This show will go down as one of my top 3 shows of all time.

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From this year only:

- The Pajama Game performance bored me to tears
- Drowsy not winning Best Musical
- LaChanze over Patti was the only Sweeney loss that surprised me

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Not nominating Maria Friedman for Best Actress (and instead giving the slot to Chita Rivera for who knows why).

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