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Posted: 6/7/12 at 9:16pm
Here is some trivia about the Tony nominees, both ones I discovered and others collected from around the web. Please add your own, make attributions, and point out any errors!
Jan Maxwell’s nomination for Leading Actress in a Musical means that she has now been nominated in every acting category (Leading/Play, Leading/Musical, Featured/Play, Featured/Musical). She joins Boyd Gaines, Raul Esparza, and Angela Lansbury in that distinction. All four of them only completed their cycle in the last 6 years.
Leap of Faith is the first Best Musical nominee not to pick up any other nomination since Swinging on a Star in 1996, and the first Best Musical nominee to close between the nomination announcement and the awards ceremony since Skyscraper in 1966. It also had the shortest run (19 performances) for a Best Musical nominee since Amour (17 performances) in 2003.
Alan Menken is the composer of 2 Best Musical nominees (Leap of Faith and Newsies). Andrew Lloyd Webber is the composer of 2 Best Musical Revival nominees (Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar).
All four of the Best Play nominees opened Off-Broadway in a previous season (and therefore were ineligible for this year’s Drama Desk or Outer Critics Awards). All four plays originally premiered in the US; this is the first time since 1994 that none of the nominees had a production in England prior to the Broadway premiere. All four playwrights are also nominated for their first straight play on Broadway (although Rick Elice and David Ives have contributed to other shows in the past).
This is also an unusually American year in the acting categories. Only 3 actors, the lowest number in 5 years, are nominated for a role they originated in London (James Corden, Tom Edden, and Tracie Bennett).
Peter and the Starcatcher has as many nominations in other categories (8 nominations) as all of the other Best Play nominees combined.
Six of the Leading Actor/Actress in a Play nominees already have a Tony, while only 1 of the Leading Actor/Actress in a Musical nominees does. (That person is Audra McDonald, whose 4 Tonys evens things out a little!)
Double nominees this year are Rick Elice (Play and Score for Peter and the Starcatcher), Natasha Katz (Lighting for Follies and Once – the only nominee competing against herself), and Kathleen Marshall (Director and Choreographer for Nice Work).
The oldest nominee is 81-year-old James Earl Jones. (Mike Nichols is 80.) There is one posthumous nominee – Eiko Ishioka for Costumes for Spider-Man.
Jan Maxwell’s nomination for Leading Actress in a Musical means that she has now been nominated in every acting category (Leading/Play, Leading/Musical, Featured/Play, Featured/Musical). She joins Boyd Gaines, Raul Esparza, and Angela Lansbury in that distinction. All four of them only completed their cycle in the last 6 years.
Leap of Faith is the first Best Musical nominee not to pick up any other nomination since Swinging on a Star in 1996, and the first Best Musical nominee to close between the nomination announcement and the awards ceremony since Skyscraper in 1966. It also had the shortest run (19 performances) for a Best Musical nominee since Amour (17 performances) in 2003.
Alan Menken is the composer of 2 Best Musical nominees (Leap of Faith and Newsies). Andrew Lloyd Webber is the composer of 2 Best Musical Revival nominees (Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar).
All four of the Best Play nominees opened Off-Broadway in a previous season (and therefore were ineligible for this year’s Drama Desk or Outer Critics Awards). All four plays originally premiered in the US; this is the first time since 1994 that none of the nominees had a production in England prior to the Broadway premiere. All four playwrights are also nominated for their first straight play on Broadway (although Rick Elice and David Ives have contributed to other shows in the past).
This is also an unusually American year in the acting categories. Only 3 actors, the lowest number in 5 years, are nominated for a role they originated in London (James Corden, Tom Edden, and Tracie Bennett).
Peter and the Starcatcher has as many nominations in other categories (8 nominations) as all of the other Best Play nominees combined.
Six of the Leading Actor/Actress in a Play nominees already have a Tony, while only 1 of the Leading Actor/Actress in a Musical nominees does. (That person is Audra McDonald, whose 4 Tonys evens things out a little!)
Double nominees this year are Rick Elice (Play and Score for Peter and the Starcatcher), Natasha Katz (Lighting for Follies and Once – the only nominee competing against herself), and Kathleen Marshall (Director and Choreographer for Nice Work).
The oldest nominee is 81-year-old James Earl Jones. (Mike Nichols is 80.) There is one posthumous nominee – Eiko Ishioka for Costumes for Spider-Man.
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