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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2017 9:55:02 GMT
Congratulations to Cynthia, Jennifer, Danielle and the music team for their Grammy win! With just one role, Cynthia is now halfway there for an EGOT!
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Post by poster J on Feb 13, 2017 14:50:19 GMT
Congratulations to Cynthia, Jennifer, Danielle and the music team for their Grammy win! With just one role, Cynthia is now halfway there for an EGOT! Yes, well deserved! Cynthia's performance with John Legend was stunning as well. Such a shame not all the soloists on winning musical theatre albums actually get Grammys, but at least Jennifer, Cynthia and Danielle have each got one - I had read some versions of the citation where Danielle had been left out!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2017 19:14:16 GMT
Congratulations to Cynthia, Jennifer, Danielle and the music team for their Grammy win! With just one role, Cynthia is now halfway there for an EGOT! Yes, well deserved! Cynthia's performance with John Legend was stunning as well. Such a shame not all the soloists on winning musical theatre albums actually get Grammys, but at least Jennifer, Cynthia and Danielle have each got one - I had read some versions of the citation where Danielle had been left out! They seem to change their mind every year. Last year for Hamilton even people like Oak, Jasmine Cephas Jones and Jonathan Groff won Grammys. Took three people in one go (Daveed, Leslie, Renee) halfway to EGOT.
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Post by poster J on Feb 13, 2017 19:55:01 GMT
Yes, well deserved! Cynthia's performance with John Legend was stunning as well. Such a shame not all the soloists on winning musical theatre albums actually get Grammys, but at least Jennifer, Cynthia and Danielle have each got one - I had read some versions of the citation where Danielle had been left out! They seem to change their mind every year. Last year for Hamilton even people like Oak, Jasmine Cephas Jones and Jonathan Groff won Grammys. Took three people in one go (Daveed, Leslie, Renee) halfway to EGOT. Many an exception/favour appears to have been created for Hamilton (multiple performances on the one night at the Tonys, introduced by the President etc), but there you go. Consistency would be great but is all too rare (though I guess it comes down to personal preference too). Vaguely related to consistency, I see various tweets are now pointing out how the critics in London didn't give Cynthia any awards in years of performing here yet she goes to Broadway for a year and wins a Grammy and a Tony. Though I'm not sure TCP at the Menier was eligible for the Oliviers, was it? I suspect the result of all that is it'll have to be a really good, lead, West End part to bring Cynthia back to the West End from the US from now on though - shame for us that she won't be here more often!
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Post by d'James on Feb 13, 2017 20:04:40 GMT
Which shows would she have been eligible for? I Can't Sing and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg?? (I don't know how big her part was in the latter.)
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Post by poster J on Feb 13, 2017 20:48:50 GMT
Which shows would she have been eligible for? I Can't Sing and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg?? (I don't know how big her part was in the latter.) I think the issue is more the Menier production not being eligible than anything else, I can't think of anything else she's done that would have been likely to be nominated if eligible.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2017 20:56:49 GMT
They seem to change their mind every year. Last year for Hamilton even people like Oak, Jasmine Cephas Jones and Jonathan Groff won Grammys. Took three people in one go (Daveed, Leslie, Renee) halfway to EGOT. Many an exception/favour appears to have been created for Hamilton (multiple performances on the one night at the Tonys, introduced by the President etc), but there you go. Consistency would be great but is all too rare (though I guess it comes down to personal preference too). To be fair, they have had that rule before so it's not like they introduced it for Hamilton. But yes, they did seem to bring it back last year solely for the show. I couldn't care less about the Tonys stuff as it really was a monumental moment in musical theatre history, but the Grammys rule is annoying. I'm just glad Phillipa Soo has a Grammy. I think if today's rule had been in place it would have been just Lin and Leslie. Cynthia seems enamoured with America. I don't think she's ever coming back for longer than a few months at a time. She has even said on her Twitter how dire the West End is in comparison to Broadway and to be fair, I agree.
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Post by ali973 on Feb 14, 2017 5:17:06 GMT
I agree, too. She has appeared in every single charity (and non-charity) function, gig, you name it. There's just a LOT more going on there for a happening Broadway performer in addition to their 8-shows a week routine.
I think anyone can see this. The Broadway area, roughly between 54th/Broadway to 42nd or so is just theatremania. Everything is theatre or catered around theatre. You hear it in the conversations everywhere you go. Even the businesses are catered for theatre goers, or for the theatre industry. Be it restaurants, shops, agents, lawyers, studios..you name it.
It becomes even ever so apparent on a Monday when most theatres are dark, and how the contrast is in terms of the traffic and movement on these streets.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 17:44:06 GMT
She was so wasted as Shug imo and it seems to have put her off theatre for a while.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2018 20:59:56 GMT
Via B3ta.com
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