| re: "Swan Lake" was not eligible for Best Musical because it existed as a piece for the stage before | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 08:42 pm EDT 03/29/21 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 08:21 pm EDT 03/29/21 | |
| In reply to: "Swan Lake" was not eligible for Best Musical because it existed as a piece for the stage before - Quicheo 04:29 pm EDT 03/29/21 | |
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| I'm not sure I agree... Stro could have easily come right from ballet with no musical theater experience and created Contact, and hired a playwright or poet to develop it with her and write it. She happened to be a choreographer from musicals and hired a writer with lots of experience writing musical books... but there is plenty about the writing of Contact that differs from writing a book that needs to incorporate songs into scenes of dialogue, and in to and out of songs *sung* *by* the characters (or a narrator even). Swan Lake isn't a ballet and *not* a musical just because Matthew Bourne didn't come from musical theater before making it... it's a ballet because it's a ballet. Because it is a story or theater piece told specifically through dance to music and without singing. Like Contact. I also think that it doesn't matter that it made most sense to go with "best musical" given the existing category options... it isn't fair to the actual musicals who had to compete and had to have a score of songs, and singers, and live music. Beyond that I personally think that given the existing category options, "Best Play" would have made as much sense or more. The one thing I'd think twice about is putting the director of these pieces up for best director "of a play" if there are two director categories. Tricky, I'll admit. Ah, whatever. I'm sure if i'd been a part of Contact i'd push for it as a musical, especially given the vastly less popular competition that year. But I stand by my issues it the ruling. :) And I'll bet the AIDA team would share those issues, because if Contact were ineligible I have no doubt Aida would have ended up pushing in just to fill the category, and many people think it should have won (not me) ...and the WILD PARTY team too, even though it was nominated and probably only would have won if Contact hadn't been nominated and maybe then only if Aida also hadn't been - hard to say, but Aida was quite popular even if it may have been inferior in the eyes of the Tony nominating committee... and me) |
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