Why do the Olivier Awards nominate replacements?- Page 2

[AC126748]

Why do the Olivier Awards nominate replacements? #25

Posted: 9/30/11 at 5:40pm

Don't tell H Foster.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[Gaveston2]

Why do the Olivier Awards nominate replacements? #26

Posted: 9/30/11 at 5:42pm

Which brings up another possibility: restrict it to performers who get above-the-title billing. Not fair to the many great replacements in supporting roles, but at least it would make it clear that the featured replacements weren't being rejected. And it would make more manageable the number of replacements that the committee has to see.

[AC126748]

Why do the Olivier Awards nominate replacements? #27

Posted: 9/30/11 at 5:44pm

Don't quote me, but I believe that was the original intention.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[Gaveston2]

Why do the Olivier Awards nominate replacements? #28

Posted: 9/30/11 at 5:46pm

Makes sense to me, obviously. Thanks, AC.

[theatreguy]

Why do the Olivier Awards nominate replacements? #29

Posted: 9/30/11 at 10:36pm

It was going to be restricted only to roles that had been deemed Leading when the production first opened. So Elaine Stritch would not have been eligible for A Little Night Music whereas Bernadette Peters would have been, for example.

[Gaveston2]

Why do the Olivier Awards nominate replacements? #30

Posted: 10/1/11 at 10:27am

^^^^

I love Stritch, but I have a lot of trouble imagining her as Madame Armfeldt. So that doesn't strike me as a tragedy.

[best12bars]

Why do the Olivier Awards nominate replacements? #31

Posted: 10/1/11 at 10:37am

With shows running longer and longer on Broadway these days, i think it's a great idea to honor replacements, whether it's with a special award or with their own categories.

It might cause too much controversy to have them filtered into the major categories, as with the Olivier Awards. It all depends. The Oliviers don't do it that often.

But if suddenly every Elphaba who ever waved a broom was being nominated for Best Actress, five years in a row, people would freak out. (Not that my example would ever happen ...)

Still, with past performances like Reba in Annie Get Your Gun, Peters in Night Music, and Mazzie in Next To Normal, you begin to think they really do need to come up with something.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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