Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
#1Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 1:56pmMy sister was telling me there are "examples" of Tony Voters being homophobic in the past, (not against nominations, but actual winning) in their treatment of certain shows. So if Next Fall loses the best play Tony, does that mean Tony Voters are homophobic?
#2Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 1:56pmdouble post. Updated On: 5/10/10 at 01:56 PM
TalkinLoud
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/09
#3Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 1:59pm
I think NEXT FALL sucks. Does that make me homophobic?
Updated On: 5/10/10 at 01:59 PM
#4Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 1:59pm
Yes, b/c no gay themed play has ever won and no gay actor has ever won either.
....but the world goes 'round
#5Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 1:59pm
What examples in the past?
The only thing that it does prove, if Next Fall loses to Red, is that Tony Voters are Anti-American. imo.
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Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"
Updated On: 5/10/10 at 01:59 PM
#6Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:00pmNo, they can't be anti-American b/c they dissed Enron.
....but the world goes 'round
TalkinLoud
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/09
#7Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:01pmOr maybe it would "prove" that RED is a better play? Maybe?
#8Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:02pm^ Those were 20 odd Tony nominators, not the 700 voters.
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Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#9Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:02pm
>The only thing that it does prove, if Next Fall loses to Red, is that Tony Voters are Anti-American. imo.<
John Logan, the author of Red, is American. Born in Chicago, grew up in New Jersey. It's a British production of an American playwright's work.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#10Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:07pm
Then maybe the voters would just be prejudiced against Female Directors? I mean, no woman has ever won best director, right?
If a woman can win the Oscar this year, then a woman should win best director.
Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?"
Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"
#11Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:08pmLike Anna D. Shapiro (August Osage County), Julie Taymor (The Lion King) and Susan Stroman (The Producers)?
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#12Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:09pmWhat if NEXT FALL loses but LA CAGE wins? Does that mean that the Tony committee is prejudiced against gays who aren't drag queens?
mina3
Stand-by Joined: 5/3/09
#13Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:10pm
"It's a British production of an American playwright's work."
Exactly. Not to mention that Red is a play about an American artist, set in New York. Clearly voting for it shows bias against Americans... (sarcasm, if that somehow wasn't evident).
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#14Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:12pmAren't absolutes funsy?
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#15Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:17pmI stand corrected. You've all convinced me, Next Fall isn't as good as Red. Thanks for letting me see the light. Go Red!
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Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"
TalkinLoud
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/09
#16Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:20pm
Glad to be of help.
But seriously, it is.
But seriously seriously, I don't think anyone is trying to convince you that RED is better than NEXT FALL, just trying to convince you that if NEXT FALL loses, it doesn't mean the Tony voters are homophobic, anti-American, or anything like that.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#17Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:23pm
>Like Anna D. Shapiro (August Osage County), Julie Taymor (The Lion King) and Susan Stroman (The Producers)?<
Garry Hynes also won the Tony for directing Beauty Queen of Leenane.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#18Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:25pmI only want to like what others tell me that I should like, so that when Red wins, I will be on the winning team. Public opinion says Red will win, so go Red! Actual merits are just too hard for me to understand! Aren't they irrelevent anyways, I mean, everyone wants to be on the winning team!
Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?"
Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"
TalkinLoud
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/3/09
#19Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:29pmmybigsplash, are you directing your comments at me or just pontificating to no one in particular?
#20Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:30pmWhats pontificating? Go Red!
Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?"
Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"
#21Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:32pmWell, they're obviously racist because Bombay Dreams didn't win a thing!
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
Phyllis Rogers Stone
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#22Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:46pm
Voting bodies are only homophobic when Brokeback Mountain loses. And voting bodies are only whatever kind of phobic when they don't vote the way you want.
Updated On: 5/10/10 at 02:46 PM
#23Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:48pm
If Red loses, then Tony voters are Anti- culture, and good taste, and genius.
And Anti-Public opinion! (The worst phobia)
Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?"
Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"
Updated On: 5/10/10 at 02:48 PM
#24Tony Voters Homophibic if Next Fall loses?
Posted: 5/10/10 at 2:52pmIs Ramin Setoodeh a Tony voter?
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
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