Why didn't Wicked get nominated for Best New Musical in 2007 Oliviers

'Porgy & Bess' was newly musicalised. Was it Trevor Nunn who hacked it about? Turned it from a four hour+ opera into a two and a half hour musical. It was sufficiently altered that it may as well have been a new musical. So they chose to include it as such.

You personally may consider 'Wicked' superior to 'Spamalot'. Many people don't. Also, please not to be forgetting that this is the country that spawned Monty Python in the first place. You may have noticed that when it comes to awards ceremonies, people do tend to favour the more native options.

What we can do is acknowledge the reality that there were other more worthy candidates than 'Wicked' that year, in EVERY category, and stop whinging. :3

Also, 'Phantom Of The Opera' was probably entertaining in 1986. Lord knows it isn't now, but it obviously got its unstoppable momentum from somewhere. :P

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Updated On: 4/17/08 at 06:23 PM

Maybe they did not think it was worthy of nomination

I think it is entertaing but not Best anything material.

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Why didn't Wicked get nominated for Best New Musical in 2007 Oliviers

Um... because it sucks?

Wicked got pretty awful reviews here in the UK

It got pretty awful reviews here too!

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Because out of the options, it's not a good contender.

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musicaltheatrefan3, you can say whatever you want, but this has to be the fourth Wicked post of the day.

No, there was no Idina in TLM, no we don't know how you can make a Wicked video with youtube footage, Wicked wasn't nominated for obvious reasons and there are other musicals that are not WICKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED.

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Hey, where I normally post (musicals.net) there are people who post 6+ topics a day on "Wicked".

My explanation for the threads:
Olivier (This one): I was looking at the 2007 nominees for Best New Musical and saw Wicked wasn't on there, wanted to know why
TLM-Thought that there was a character in TLM called Idina
iMovie-Wanted to make one

I know that there are other musicals besides "Wicked". "Wicked" isn't even my number one-favorite musical. I'm DEFINITELY not a fangirl.

blaxx-you got on my nerves today, like you always do

I think I'm going to make a signature that says

I don't want to hear it, blaxx, because all you ever do is criticize me.

If anyone would like this deleted, EXCEPT THE OP, let me know..

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http://googleforidiots.com/

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My explanation for the threads:
Olivier (This one): I was looking at the 2007 nominees for Best New Musical and saw Wicked wasn't on there, wanted to know why
TLM-Thought that there was a character in TLM called Idina
iMovie-Wanted to make one

My constructive explanation:

You can start a thread "Questions regarding Wicked" and ask them all at once.
In this forum, we don't start 6+ Wicked posts a day.

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Don't encourage it. I like Passing Strange, but imagine if I was to post 6+ threads in one day:

Why didn't Passing Strange win an Oscar?
Was there a hyena called Stew in The Lion King?
I want to make a slide show of Stew's belly button but I don't know how?

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Updated On: 4/17/08 at 09:13 PM

^^^ lol! Ed!

Very well said!

J*

Spamalot is just plain awesome. I can't get enough of the music at all, and a lot of songs are in my top 25 most listened on my iPod. There are only 2 songs from Wicked on that, and they are near the bottom. But I still love the music. And you cannot hate Porgy and Bess because Gershwin wrote the music. To me, he is a musical genius.

Oh, and spellingbeefan-That picture making fun of Wicked just made me laugh so hard. My sister sitting next to me probably thinks I'm insane for sitting here laughing so much about something sort of dumb.

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