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All your strikes against FUN HOME were also true of last year's winner...

Posted by:	ShowGoer 05:28 pm EDT 05/09/15
In reply to:	The small musical almost never wins... - mikem 08:55 am EDT 05/09/15

Literally everything you just said above was true of "Gentleman's Guide" as well - a show with not nearly the rave reviews that Fun Home has (jeez, just take a look at the ahmahzing 2 page ad in this weekend's Arts and Leisure section), or the growth at the box office that Fun Home has shown just in the last two weeks. I think (as your exceptions prove the rule - Avenue Q, Once, and Gentleman's Guide) we're entering a new age where voters vote for their personal favorite, regardless of size, crowd-pleasing, box office marketability, tour potential, etc. And then, as Avenue Q, Once and Gentleman's Guide have proven, after you HAVE those awards, you DO make money, you CAN tour, etc. American in Paris will get choreography, as well as I believe an acting and design award or two. The ones I fear may walk away empty handed this year are Something Rotten and The Visit - a shame since in any other year those would both be respectable winners for the big prize. But my hunch still goes with Fun Home eking out a win for the lion's share of the major awards.

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re: All your strikes against FUN HOME were also true of last year's winner...

Posted by:	ryhog 12:10 am EDT 05/10/15
In reply to:	All your strikes against FUN HOME were also true of last year's winner... - ShowGoer 05:28 pm EDT 05/09/15

I agree with your batting down of the size argument with GG, but I see no evidence of a "new age." And although (as I have said) FH is my "should win" choice, I think we can't sweep its serious marketability issues under the rug. And GG does not have that impedimenta to shlep around, far from it.

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