#1
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:01pm
What about Bernadette or Elaine being nominated - do you think this production is Tony worthy?
Will FOLLIES be nominated/win any Tonys for 2012?
#2
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:05pm
Bernadette will obviously be nominated...and I'm sure the show will be nominated for a few Tonys....the winning part is the most interesting discussion though, I think.
Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.
#3
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:05pm
I think there will be lots of nominations for it, but there will be tough competition from EVITA. Especially for Best Actress and BEst Revival. Saw EVITA in London in 2006 and its an incredible production.... Broadway is in for a treat 
#4
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:07pm
If Jan's performance is as spectacular as everyone says, I'd say she's a lock for a nomination. Sally may be the lead, but Phyllis is a much showier role. Remember that Alexis Smith won and Blythe Danner was nominated, while neither Dorothy Collins nor Judith Ivey were even nominated in the past.
"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
#5
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:10pm
Dorothy Collins was nominated. John McMartin was the only lead to not be nominated.
#6
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:14pm
Good Lord, the show hasn't opened in NY yet and people are wondering whether it'll be nominated for any Tony Awards! What about the rest of the season? Will there be shows better than FOLLIES? Will there be performances better than Bernadette's? Will it be any less of a show if it doesn't get any nominations at all?
Honestly, this obsession with Tony Awards is absolutely freaky!
Honestly, this obsession with Tony Awards is absolutely freaky!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#7
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:25pm
I stand corrected re: Collins. For some reason I always thought she was snubbed.
"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
#8
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:26pm
Summer/fall shows don't exist. So no, it won't win. Maybe they will give it a nomination for Book!
#9
Posted: 6/26/11 at 6:39pm
Given that this discussion is ridiculously premature, I'd LOVE for Terri White to win a Tony.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#10
Posted: 6/26/11 at 7:08pm
I think that Bernadette will be nominated, but Jan's performance is so electrifying and haunting that it might score her her long-overdue trophy.
#11
Posted: 6/26/11 at 7:14pm
No matter who wins, Jan will be putting a Tony in her bag.
"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
#12
Posted: 6/26/11 at 8:16pm
I think it's safe to predict that Follies will be nominated for costumes and scenic design. Peters seems pretty safe because it's Peters.
#13
Posted: 6/26/11 at 8:19pm
I don't really see the set being nominated. It's nothing spectacular. The costumes certainly deserve to be nominated.
#14
Posted: 6/26/11 at 8:26pm
^Yeah, the Loveland set was a letdown. Unless Derek McLane has some divine intervention between D.C. and Broadway, it might actually cost him a nomination.
#15
Posted: 6/26/11 at 8:48pm
The set sucked.
Sorry, it was lacking.
Sorry, it was lacking.
#16
Posted: 6/26/11 at 10:26pm
At this point, Follies is scheduled to run through the end of the year. Assuming it closes then, it will be a distant memory come May 2012. It's great that New York will see this production, but, historically, Tony voters have very short memories.
BroadwayEd
#17
Posted: 6/26/11 at 10:58pm
Tony voters have very short memories.
That's really not always true.
The Scottsboro Boys- 12 nominations
Ragtime- 6 nominations
Finian's Rainbow- 3 nominations
In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play- 3 nominations
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown- 3 nominations
All recent short-lived shows that weren't totally forgotten.
That's really not always true.
The Scottsboro Boys- 12 nominations
Ragtime- 6 nominations
Finian's Rainbow- 3 nominations
In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play- 3 nominations
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown- 3 nominations
All recent short-lived shows that weren't totally forgotten.
Updated On: 6/26/11 at 10:58 PM
#18
Posted: 6/26/11 at 11:18pm
In a perfect world, Maxwell would finally get her long overdue Tony Award and not have to take others to put in her bag.
Who knows what will happen by May of 2012, though.
This time last year we all assumed Women on the Verge would be the commercial hit of the season.
Who knows what will happen by May of 2012, though.
This time last year we all assumed Women on the Verge would be the commercial hit of the season.
#19
Posted: 6/26/11 at 11:36pm
Hey, how many wins did those shows get? And really? Catch Me If You Can and Sister Act over Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson?
#20
Posted: 6/27/11 at 12:42am
It appears that the nominators have long time memories but the voters do not. I think aspects of this show (performances) will be remembered at Awards time.
#21
Posted: 6/27/11 at 7:05am
It may not happen often, but it's not uncommon. In recent years, both Julie White and Michele Pawk won for shows that had been closed 4-6 months by Tony time.
"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
#22
Posted: 6/27/11 at 9:01am
I agree with Dollypop. This Board's extreme obsession with Tony Awards is plain ridiculous, and constantly reading about them has become very tiresome.
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
#23
Posted: 6/27/11 at 10:30am
Really? The set is bad? I liked the photos I saw of it but I'll defer to people who saw the show. I figured the demand and variety of sets would be enough, but I could be wrong. Did they just do a bunch of projections for the different settings?
#24
Posted: 7/2/11 at 12:40am
I think the only Tony nomination this production could count on would be for Best Pillow.
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#25
Posted: 7/2/11 at 10:11am
Saw this in DC on the last night. I could easily see the four leads being nominated. Whether they win or not, remains to be seen, but I would be surprised if they weren't nominated. The set, not so much. The costumes definitely.
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