| re: 'She Loves Me' and 'to my amazement ...' | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 08:16 am EDT 08/29/20 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 08:14 am EDT 08/29/20 | |
| In reply to: re: 'She Loves Me' and 'to my amazement ...' - WaymanWong 01:43 am EDT 08/29/20 | |
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| Back in the early years of the Tonys (1947 -- 1966 especially, but not exclusively), the Tony Committee interpreted the rules of who was leading and who was featured or supporting differently in every single season. There was absolutely no consistency. I actually did an extensive study of this inconsistency some years ago. I spent a week at a local branch of the Chicago Public Library and checked the opening night Playbill of every single actor from those years who either was nominated or won a Tony award. The results were astounding. The Bosley and Grimes decisions are two of the most egregious examples of outrageous manipulation. In the same year as the Bosley decision, Robert Morse was nominated for Best Musical Actor for Take Me Along even though he was below the title and even though the role of Richard in the musical version of Ah, Wilderness! is clearly not a lead. To clarify, in the stage version of O'Neill's play the male leads are Richard and Nat Miller. Sid Davis is a relatively small featured role. When MGM did its movie version of Ah, Wilderness! in 1935, the story was considerably changed -- Wallace Beery (solo billed above the title) as Sid and Lionel Barrymore as Nat were now the co-leads and the role of Richard, now considerably smaller, was a supporting character. The musical version Take Me Along was essentially based on the '35 film and not on O'Neill's '33 play. |
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