Tony Eligibility Rulings
Tony Eligibility Rulings
Tony Eligibility Rulings#1
Posted: 10/14/16 at 12:51pm
Round 1 - https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-News-Tony-Awards-Administration-Committee-Makes-First-Rulings-of-the-Season-on-CATS-PARAMOUR-More-20161014
Nothing crazy - Paramour and Cats are both eligible (An Act of God is not), and the Hudson Theatre is officially a tony-eligible house.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
Tony Eligibility Rulings#2
Posted: 10/14/16 at 1:07pm
But will Andy's choreography from Cats be deemed eligible even if it's based/inspired by Lynne's original?
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/19/05
Tony Eligibility Rulings#3
Posted: 10/14/16 at 1:16pm
^According to Riedel's article yesterday, it will not be eligible.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/05
Tony Eligibility Rulings#4
Posted: 10/14/16 at 1:35pm
From the linked article:
"BroadwayWorld has confirmed that Andy Blankenbuehler, who choreographed the show (based on the original choreography by Gillian Lynne), has been deemed ineligible in the category."
Tony Eligibility Rulings#5
Posted: 10/14/16 at 1:36pm
It's interesting, because hasn't Christopher Gattelli been eligible for his work on South Pacific and the king and I even though his work was based off the original Jerome Robbins choreography and he was nominated for both too. I'm sure there are more examples, but Gattelli was the first one I could think of.
Tony Eligibility Rulings#6
Posted: 10/14/16 at 1:48pm
trpguyy said: "From the linked article:
"BroadwayWorld has confirmed that Andy Blankenbuehler, who choreographed the show (based on the original choreography by Gillian Lynne), has been deemed ineligible in the category.""
They must have added that since I posted. I was looking for something of that nature.
Call_me_jorge - percentage could be key. I remember seeing a lot of the original choreography with some smaller Blankenbuhler sections, but I may be wrong
Tony Eligibility Rulings#7
Posted: 10/14/16 at 3:05pm
Just curious. Were any of the actors in Paramour above the title in the playbill (aka eligible in lead)? I'm assuming not, but I havent caught it yet and cant find that info anywhere.
Tony Eligibility Rulings#8
Posted: 10/14/16 at 3:08pm
There's no playbill for Paramour. They only had little flyers with the leads' names in it that were placed in the lobby and near the bar.
Tony Eligibility Rulings#10
Posted: 10/14/16 at 8:58pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QhW5FAOtIs someone made a comparison video of Gillian Lyne's original choreography from the CATS DVD and Andy B's choreography from the Good Morning America performance clip. from what I see, it's basically the same except Andy added more angular movements ()(see the video ar around 0:30),
Tony Eligibility Rulings#11
Posted: 10/14/16 at 9:44pm
MayAudraBlessYou2 said: "wait...seriously? Well, that's bizarre.
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Yup. I asked someone working there about it and their repsonse was "Cirque doesn't do playbills".
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