Tony Awards 2016

It's still two more nominations than it got at the 2014 Olivier Awards! At least it still has plenty of nods for the Drama Desk and Outer Critic Awards.

Shame no nominations for allegiance ?

Yeahhhh I don't think Jennifer is very happy...

It wouldn't surprise me if she left early now.

Not happy at all lol

The lack of appreciation from critics and sections of the audience for American Psycho is something I found depressing. I realised a while ago that a number of shows that I've similarly appreciated have resulted in that same disparity though. I saw what I perceived as a cleverly integrated whole matching style with substance; the substance affecting me deeply emotionally whilst the style providing the visceral thrill. Instead, however, I read from others a fixation on the style with their seemingly unable to access the substance that I saw.

Is it that the style is too overwhelming for some so it becomes the totality of their experience? American Psycho certainly doesn't hold back with the sensory overload (I love sensory overload!). Which brings me to Hamilton that is able to have its stylistically innovative cake which appears to nourish nearly everyone (okay, I'll drop the metaphor).

I haven't seen Hamilton but Miranda treads a careful middle way whereby the strength of actual history and the palatability is high compared to American Psycho's cousins in violence and tattered morality such as Three Kingdoms and Sarah Kane. Bright Star, School of Rock, Waitress, Shuffle Along even are small c conservative. Other murderous shows justify their body count, such as the social background of Sweeney Todd, American Psycho is a giant FU to consumer capitalism and The Donald. No wonder it got stiffed, if the substance don't get you, the two fingers to the audience's way of life will.*

*Whenever I go to New York the well-heeledness of the audience surprises me compared to the London audience, ticket prices playing a large part I imagine. When I saw Urinetown the audience, irony of ironies, was more Wall Street than anything else.

The problem is, is that that was quite a competitive category. Sadly you can't nominate everyone. 

I think we are all forgetting a very interesting race that has not been mentioned and is another one that could get in the way of Hamilton's record break and that is Choreography... will it be Andy or will it be Savion for Shuffle Along?

I have read many interesting thoughts; ranging from "Savion SHOULD win, but he won't" to "it depends what is considered Choreography?" As Hamilton is very movement based whilst Shuffle is huge dance numbers etc... it is certainly shaping up to be one of the most interesting races of the night and one I could certainly see going either way!

its no surprise that hamilton has set another record with all its nominations, interesting that its managed to do so with the lack of the sound design category (which The Producers and Billy Elliot had when they set the record for 12) and really interesting to read some peoples responses to it all!

i have just realised that i will actually be in new york for the tony awards ceremony so thats going to be really exciting to see those shows pre and post awards!

Hamilton will pick up every award it is nominated for bar Leading Actor, Leading Actress and Choreography. That is my guess only, obviously having no inside knowledge or anything. I think those will go to Danny, Cynthia and Shuffle Along. I kind of hope they do too, just for the sake of making the night more interesting!

What did Jennifer tweet?

Was there only one Tweet?

Here's a link about one anyway:

www.ew.com/article/2016/05/03/jennifer-hudson-tweets-deletes-reaction-tony-awards-snub