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| What happened with the Tonys? | |
| Posted by: bobby2 01:42 am EDT 08/17/20 | |
| In reply to: 1988 Carrie reunion with Betty Buckley, Seth Rudestsky and others - bobby2 12:23 am EDT 08/16/20 | |
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| Did they not have time to invite the voters? I never understand that. I think there where shows around this era and before that lasted a few nights and still got nominations. Didn't Marian Seldes get nominated for something that closed on opening night? It was odd how the show opened when it did. They just missed the cutoff for the 1988 season. Then 1989 was the worst year for musicals in Tony history. Buckley certainly deserved a nod. (This is the like the show that got away for me. I was a kid but loved the movie and wanted to go. I foolishly waited for the reviews and then when they came out I told my parents they were bad and they said so then I guess we won't go. I wish we had gone to a preview. I guess many people feel that way.) |
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| re: What happened with the Tonys? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 11:55 pm EDT 08/20/20 | |
| In reply to: What happened with the Tonys? - bobby2 01:42 am EDT 08/17/20 | |
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| Seldes was nominated for Father's Day in 1971. Mielziner was also nominated for his set. In the early 1970s, several people were nominated for their work in plays and musicals that ran only one performance. It was in the late 1960s that it started to be more common for critics to be invited to late previews, and the Tony nominating committee was much smaller. I think 1973 may have been the last time someone was nominated for a show that ran one performance (Maya Angelou in Look Away). I'm not sure exactly when the rules were changed so that shows that did not run long enough to invite the voters could not receive nominations. At one time the voting body was so small that the awards themselves were decided on in a meeting. Now the nominating committee is around the size (or nearly the size) as the voting body in the early years. |
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