| re: 1959 Tony Nominations | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 02:54 pm EDT 05/05/18 | |
| In reply to: 1959 Tony Nominations - BroadwayTonyJ 08:19 am EDT 05/05/18 | |
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| I'm not sure that the Morrow book, even though you'd think it would be authoritative, is correct. The articles in the Times and the Tribune announcing the Tony nominations in 1959 say different things. In the Times, the nominees for featured or supporting actor in a musical were listed as being Nype and Stone, and then the nominees for featured or supporting actress in a musical were listed this way: Julienne Marie, "Whoop-Upl" Pat Stanley, "Goldilocks." (Also cast of "La Plume de Ma Tante.") The Tribune listed Nype and Stone, and listed Marie and Stanley, and then under that, in a separate paragraph, it said this: "Added to the above categories of musical featured or supporting actors and actresses are the cast of 'La Plume de ma Tante' including Colette Brosset and Pierre Olaf." So was the whole cast nominated in the actress category, as happened for the Trapp children, including the boys, in The Sound of Music a year later, or were the men of La Plume nominated in the actor category and the women in the actress category? I would think the latter was the case, but the Tonys have done so many odd things. The other question is whether the group nomination(s) was dropped altogether when it was decided to give a special Tony to the entire cast. I think I've heard that, but I can't find any confirmation of this. It's too bad that the local CBS telecast of the 1959 Tonys has not turned up, at least not on youtube, as that might answer the question definitively. Anyway, I lean toward thinking that's what happened because you probably wouldn't give the cast a special group award, something that had never been done before, and also keep them among the nominees. But maybe they were kept among the nominees, and they didn't win because it was known that they would be winning a special Tony. Another odd thing about that year's Tonys was that they felt compelled to make a statement justifying the decision to put Charlie Ruggles in featured or supporting despite his billing, but they don't seem to have felt compelled to make a statement about the other nominations that did not reflect billing. But we know that the Tonys have been completely inconsistent about this over the decades. Also odd was that there were so many nominees in the play categories, but so few in the musical categories. Obviously, it was a much stronger season for plays than musicals, but it also seems like some sort of statement was being made, perhaps especially in regard to Stritch and Ameche and Goldilocks generally, even though Stanley and Nype won, and de Mille, Castillo and Lehman Engel were nominated. But that, if anything, might confirm that it was a pointed snub to not nominate the show, Stritch and Ameche. Still, it was a strange year. They certainly could have also nominated Pat Suzuki in lead, and Juanita Hall, Arabella Hong and Keye Luke, at minimum, would seem to have been viable nominees to fill out the featured or supporting categories for musicals. |
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