| re: that 50% rule... | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 08:52 pm EST 01/25/18 | |
| In reply to: re: that 50% rule... - WaymanWong 08:35 pm EST 01/25/18 | |
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| You really think that what brought the show or score any attention was the 50% they wrote newly for the stage production? God love ya, but I'll never buy that. And come on, Newsies won because it was Alan Menken (who had lost for Beauty and Mermaid and was never eligible for Little Shop, not to mention his original broadway musicals like Leap of Faith and Sister Act) for his film score filmed with the songs that got the show a stage production, and because its only competition were TWO PLAYS and a score for a flop score from the much maligned Frank Wildhorn. Beauty and the Beast lost to Sondheim's Passion (which also won best musical, which ain't nothin even if one could say it was to spite Disney's attempted takeover) The Lion King lost to Ragtime, one of the best original scores of the last few decades, from a show that would have been showered in Tonys if The Lion King hadn't taken the world by storm the same year. The Little Mermaid lost to In the Heights, but might also have lost to Passing Strange. Aladdin lost to Bridges of Madison County but would probably have also lost to Gentleman's Guide, that year's Best Musical winner. Those are hardly the same kind of competition as the year Newsies won... and it might have won anyway because it was a score written for humans and the Tonys, I would guess, want to give an award to Menken. Either way I stand by that if the songs were written FOR the *property* (rather than reused from another property) then it should be newly eligible for the awards for whatever medium the property is being produced in/adapted for, unless the songs have already been eligible for that award in the past. And for an award like the Tonys, which seems desperate to nominate or award fan favorites and works by beloved writers, they should WANT these scores to be eligible to be given the theater's biggest award. |
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