This is it! As of tomorrow, my book will be out, and I’ll be officially published in both e-book as well as paperback! I will save my rather long-winded post about that for tomorrow, because I feel like as a theatre person who wrote a book about theatre, it is imperative I discuss the Tony Award Nominations that came out early this morning.
As I am not a millionaire (or anywhere close to it) I’ve not seen every show nominate (or not nominated) but I did want to speak to a few things:
As I am not a millionaire (or anywhere close to it) I’ve not seen every show nominate (or not nominated) but I did want to speak to a few things:
1. Congratulations to the cast of “Hamilton” for their record breaking 16 nominations. I had the great pleasure to see a matinee a few weeks ago. The show lives up to the nearly impossibly hype.
2. I am dying to see “Waitress” even more now! Congrats to all nominated. I do think Sara Baralleis should have been nominated for “Best Orchestrations”
3. As a longtime fan of Laurie Metcalf, I hope she wins. I wished I’d seen her in “Misery.”
4. It is impressive that between “Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical” and “Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical” the cast of Hamilton has 5 people nominated. I suspect Lin Manuel Miranda will win Best Lead Actor (though if it goes to Leslie Odom, Jr., he certainly deserves it!) and that Daveed Diggs has a lock for featured actor. Mr. Diggs performance in Hamilton as both LaFayette and Thomas Jefferson is probably the best thing about Hamilton (which is saying something!)
5. While I think Hamilton has several things on lock, the two women (Phillipa Soo and Renée Elise Goldsberry) in Lead and featured actress in a musical have very tough competition. Pretty much everyone nominated in those two categories should win! That being said, both of those women are truly phenomenal and I am pulling for them!
6. Many congrats to Megan Hilty (and Andrea Martin) for being nominated for “Noises Off!” Ms. Hilty deserves to win for that one, every aspect of her performance was truly incredible.
7. Finally, I just want to say that Deaf West’s production of “Spring Awakening” was probably the best piece of musical theatre I’ve seen in many years. It is probably in my top five of all time. The production has serious competition in all of the three categories for which it is nominated. The most heartbreaking is that the director,Michael Arden, is going up against Hamilton’s Thomas Kail (as well as others) for best direction. Honestly, while Hamilton is very good, I would say Arden should win this award. That’s how good his vision of “Spring Awakening” was.
Thinking of the Tony Awards always gets me giddy. In addition to it being one of the best night’s of television ever year, I’ve always had it in my mind how the characters in “The Role,” would handle the drama of being nominated and winning. As the Tony Award’s draw ever closer I will post some of the acceptance speeches I think they’d make. So stay tuned!
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