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Tony nominations were rarely if ever advertised back then
Posted by: AlanScott 04:59 pm EDT 08/31/20
In reply to: re: 'She Loves Me' and 'to my amazement ...' - BroadwayTonyJ 03:33 pm EDT 08/29/20

The Tonys were so much less important before the national telecasts. Some shows didn't even bother advertising major Tony wins, and nominations were rarely if ever advertised. I just checked the ABCs for a couple of days between the nominations and the awards ceremony, and Take Me Along did not advertise its nominations.
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re: Tony nominations were rarely if ever advertised back then
Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 06:55 pm EDT 08/31/20
In reply to: Tony nominations were rarely if ever advertised back then - AlanScott 04:59 pm EDT 08/31/20

Oh, I believe you. I was thinking more of the coverage in all the daily newspapers (my parents subscribed to 4 of them) and the weekly magazines (at least 2 in my family that I read) in those days. I was just a kid in 1960, but I remember columnists writing of a supposed rivalry between Gleason and Bosley for the Tony, which I assume was something Gleason just imagined. For years afterward, whenever interviewed, he would always say, "You know, I did win a Tony.
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