Won't Be Watching the Tonys THIS Year
Yeah, I'm very surprised and disappointed.
All Shook Up didn't receive ANY nominations! ._.
The only other musicals this season that didn't get a nod were Good Vibrations (utter crap, and it already closed), Brooklyn (has been at like 40% attendance for many weeks now. . .), and Dracula (closed a LONG time ago, and it too was supposedly awful). Little Women, which is also fairly hated, at least managed to get one nomination.
Now granted, this was a tough season. It came as no surprise that Spamalot got approx. 356 nominations in every conceivable category, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and the Putnam County 25th Annual Spelling Bee also proved to be popular.
One reason that *I* figured ASU was shut out was also hypothesized in an article on Variety.com: The Tony committee decided to use it as an "example" for the other jukebox musicals due out soon, that it's not the way to go. Zero Tony nominations COULD be the kiss of death for a show. *However,* ASU's attendance has been pretty good (in the 70% range) and most people that have seen it have really enjoyed it. Also, the show and its actors have gotten nominations for other, non-Tony awards, so it's not as though it's been totally overlooked.
So yeah, if I'm not home to watch the Tonys this year, I'm not taping it this time. Last year was pretty exciting, with Wicked and Avenue Q battling it out, not to mention Assassins (I didn't know it sucked at the time, haha), Caroline, Or Change and a bunch of other interesting performances/nominees/whatever. So, we'll see what happens. I think the show is in a month or so.
And that's all I have for now.
All Shook Up didn't receive ANY nominations! ._.
The only other musicals this season that didn't get a nod were Good Vibrations (utter crap, and it already closed), Brooklyn (has been at like 40% attendance for many weeks now. . .), and Dracula (closed a LONG time ago, and it too was supposedly awful). Little Women, which is also fairly hated, at least managed to get one nomination.
Now granted, this was a tough season. It came as no surprise that Spamalot got approx. 356 nominations in every conceivable category, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and the Putnam County 25th Annual Spelling Bee also proved to be popular.
One reason that *I* figured ASU was shut out was also hypothesized in an article on Variety.com: The Tony committee decided to use it as an "example" for the other jukebox musicals due out soon, that it's not the way to go. Zero Tony nominations COULD be the kiss of death for a show. *However,* ASU's attendance has been pretty good (in the 70% range) and most people that have seen it have really enjoyed it. Also, the show and its actors have gotten nominations for other, non-Tony awards, so it's not as though it's been totally overlooked.
So yeah, if I'm not home to watch the Tonys this year, I'm not taping it this time. Last year was pretty exciting, with Wicked and Avenue Q battling it out, not to mention Assassins (I didn't know it sucked at the time, haha), Caroline, Or Change and a bunch of other interesting performances/nominees/whatever. So, we'll see what happens. I think the show is in a month or so.
And that's all I have for now.
posted by Erica at 10:28 PM
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