Will Great Comet Take Best Score This Year? — Page 2

Mister Matt said: "... Dear Evan Hansen is my least favorite of the top four nominees ... I'm just curious as to why people are so crazy about it, other than for the its tragic teen appeal."

Ben Platt, Ben Platt, Ben Platt

I'm sure Malloy was pandering to the "ADD/Instagram" audience when he wrote the piano line for "Pierre and Natasha."

Bettyboy72 said: "Also, I think Oscar voters had Lin fatigue by the time he was up for an Oscar. He was everywhere. Pasek and Paul aren't saturating media in the same cloying way Lin did."

Maybe a few voters thought like that, but the Academy has 7000 members. It's more likely they just preferred City of Stars. Similarly, whichever score wins the Tony will be because it is preferable to the voters, not because they prefer Pasek and Paul or Dave Malloy as people and/or want to award anyone's 'moment'.

PaulWom said: "Bettyboy72 said: "PaulWom said: "I'm sure Malloy was pandering to the "ADD/Instagram" audience when he wrote the piano line for "Pierre and Natasha."

Honestly, who can pay attention to the music in that theatre? I think the Broadway staging has only hurt the show and hearing the score. It's completely, "look up here, look down here, look over here." It gave me a migraine. I liked and longed for the quiet numbers.

Well, I could. A lot of people I talked to did as well. It's a show that rewards repeated viewings. It asks that you keep up with it-- it doesn't spoon feed things to you.

Well most people aren't theatre aficianados and "reward" shows with repeated viewings. I should be able to go once, appreciate it and leave without a migraine. Im glad lots of people "you talked to" felt the same as you.

It's not. It's all subjective. I was reading online reviews from audiences, not speaking to anyone.

froote said: "Bettyboy72 said: "Also, I think Oscar voters had Lin fatigue by the time he was up for an Oscar. He was everywhere. Pasek and Paul aren't saturating media in the same cloying way Lin did."

Maybe a few voters thought like that, but the Academy has 7000 members. It's more likely they just preferred City of Stars. Similarly, whichever score wins the Tony will be because it is preferable to the voters, not because they prefer Pasek and Paul or Dave Malloy as people and/or want to award anyone's 'moment'."

What's also worth noting that aside from the acting (and I believe directing) categories at the Oscars, the names of the creative individuals don't even appear on the voting ballots.

Bettyboy72 said: "Comet would win best theatre overhaul if that were a Tony. Most people leave the theatre talking about the theatre and Groban. I don't know what they will do when he leaves.

I don't care for the score at all. I think its certainly more complex and shows more muscle than DEH, but I still loathe it. I think Comet is a overstimulating mess for the ADD instagram generation.

I think Come From Away should win everything.

Also, I think Oscar voters had Lin fatigue by the time he was up for an Oscar. He was everywhere. Pasek and Paul aren't saturating media in the same cloying way Lin did.



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Wow, my thoughts exactly. I saw Comet yesterday and while I'm glad I experienced it I didn't see what all the hype was about. Out of everything I've been this year "Come From Away" has been the top of the list in everything. I could see Comet winning for set design or lighting but as a whole I thought it was a mess and need to be cut severely. All the interaction with the audience reminded me of my days doing Mystery Dinner Theatre and comes off as a gimmick more than anything.

I've listened to some of the songs from it- Several are great, some if it is a little weird, but it's better then Dear Evan Hansen that's for sure.

It's definitely interesting, that's for sure. DEH seems poised to take Best Musical though.

Gensho said: "I think people are living in a fantasy world if they think that any show other than DEH takes Best Musical and Best Score. I think CFA takes Best Book. And Great Comet takes Best Direction."

Silly statement, much stranger things have happened at award shows than any of those shows losing any of those awards.

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1091297

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1097319

DEH fans need to stop with this 'it's just backlash' narrative. Read the above threads and you'll see that people on this board have had issues with this show from day one. DEH gets no more hate than Comet. And all three shows are very much in competition with each other.

That's what I said, the people on this board. Not the general public or Tony voters.

I must say that I really found Dear Evan Hansen and The Great Comet both superb. Dear Evan Hansen is a fantastic family drama that honestly is getting kind of savaged on here. The Great Comet on the other hand is a beautiful and rich, surreal musical based on War and Peace that has also recieved a lot of hate from people who seem to, frankly, find it too difficult to listen to a score and simply follow a story. I honestly think that The Great Comet deserves score, direction, and some tech awards, while Dear Evan Hansen deserves book, musical, actor, and featured actress. I think that Come From Away and Groundhog Day are wonderful shows, but neither deserve to be awarded anything as a "consolation prize." They will do just fine even without any wins and just the exposure on the Tonys.