Reeve Carney as Orpheus and Eva Noblezada as Eurydice in Hadestown. (photo: Helen Maybanks) The modern take on Greek mythology, Hadestown, dominated the 2019 Tony Award nominations, leading the field 14 nods on Tuesday, including one for Best Musical. Ain’t Too Proud To Beg, a celebration of the music of the Temptations, and Tootsie, an update of the Oscar-winning 1982 …
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The Tony Award nominations will be announced this Tuesday April 30th. Honoring the best of the 2018-2019 Broadway season, there are many shows that are coming into the nominations with a great deal of buzz and expectancy for nominations. Shows like Hadestown, The Ferryman, and To Kill A Mockingbird will most likely be the talk of nominations morning, but before …
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The 63rd Drama Desk Awards were held last weekend, a bit of a dry run for next weekend’s big show, The Tony Awards. There’s a lot of crossover in nominations between the two groups with some winners here being the frontrunners there. SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical won Outstanding Musical, Director of a Musical, Actor in a Musical (for Ethan Slater) …
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The Broadway adaptations of a popular teen movie (Mean Girls) and a smash kids TV cartoon (SpongeBob SquarePants) were the top nomination getters at this morning’s Tony Awards nominations announcement. The pair of musicals each scored a massive 12 nominations apiece including Best Musical, Direction of a Musical, Book and Score of a Musical and a host of acting mentions. …
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The 2018 Tony Award nominations will be announced tomorrow and…it’s kind of unexciting. While we have the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations from last week to tip us off it still looks like a relatively lackluster list of possibilities with some categories (like Actor in a Musical) struggling to fill out slots. Here are my predictions for this …
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The Actors’ Equity Association is pushing the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing to add two new awards categories for the 2019 Tony Awards (covering the 2018-2019 season): Best Chorus in a Play or Musical and Best Ensemble in a Play or Musical. The group has started its campaign with the website EveryoneOnStage.com, which includes a petition of that supporters …
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Emmy Expert Jonathan Boehle and I have already revealed our prediction in the Variety and Reality categories in Emmy Podcast #20 but now you can see where the rest of the experts stand in the tight races. Reality-Competition and Reality Host are especially close with first time nominee RuPaul’s Drag Race challenging 10-time winner The Amazing Race and three-time winner …
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The EGOT, a phrase coined Miami Vice‘s Philip Michael Thomas, represents earning the highest individual, competitive entertainment honors in the areas of television (Emmy), music (Grammy), film (Oscar) and theatre (Tony). To date, only 15 people have received all four awards with Robert Lopez and holds the records for having completed his in record time (10 years) and as the …
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Dear Evan Hansen won Best Musical at the 2017 Tony Awards tonight, along with its star Ben Platt winning Actor in a Musical, Rachel Bay Jones for Featured Actress, Oscar winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (La La Land) won for the score and the musical also won Book. Curiously, it lost Best Direction to Christopher Ashley for Come …
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The best of Broadway will be recognized tomorrow night at the 71st Tony Awards with performances by Leslie Odom. Jr. and Cynthia Erivo, both winners in 2016, as well as the casts of the musicals Bandstand, Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Falsettos, Groundhog Day, Hello, Dolly!, Miss Saigon, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 and War Paint. Set to …
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