| re: Aida wasn’t nominated for best musical | |
| Posted by: EvFoDr 05:23 pm EST 02/14/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Aida wasn’t nominated for best musical - Chazwaza 03:52 pm EST 02/14/20 | |
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| I also must lovingly remind you both that The Wild Party on Broadway did not have an act two. The show was performed without an intermission. :-) I understand you probably mean "later in the show", or something to the effect. I believe it was George C. Wolfe who said "parties don't have intermissions", and so the show didn't. I remember having excellent seats third row center. Early in the show Toni Collette threw a powder puff into the audience and I caught it! I still have it too. LOL. And People Like Us WAS thrilling, especially being so close. They came all the way downstage and a sort of fire escape railing rose up through the stage floor, which they leaned on during the song. I think another reason the song is so potent is that it lands as a big complete number amid a lot of snippets and partial songs that come before it (this is probably on purpose), and the fire escape setting is a refreshing visual change from the same party set we'd seen all night up until then. Having seen Contact, Swing, and The Wild Party (my tix to The Dead were refunded when it shuttered), I would have hands down given Best Musical to Contact. I don't want to get into the whole debate, but they did the best they could to categorize a show that didn't fit the traditional definition of a musical. I thought Contact was the most satisfying and fully realized experience of all of them. I didn't think much of Aida at all. I don't have strong feelings about Headley vs. Collette. I thought they both served their shows well but neither inspired a passionate feeling about who should win the Tony. |
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