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| Posted by: mikem 12:28 pm EDT 09/27/21 | |
| In reply to: re: To argue with Riedel’s rant: - Delvino 06:59 am EDT 09/27/21 | |
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| I had predicted Slave Play would win, mostly because of the message that win would send. But Tony voters have shown in the past that they are perhaps less concerned about the message of their votes than other award voters. My personal preference was for The Inheritance, which was imperfect but much better written than Slave Play IMO. I thought Slave Play was provocative and surprisingly funny, but it really needed another round of re-writes. If Slave Play had won, I think it would have been one of the worst-written Best Play winners. The Inheritance also tugs at the heartstrings in a way that Slave Play does not. We go to the theater both to think and to feel, but the naked emotionalism of a show like The Inheritance might linger in the minds of the voters for a long time. All the voting was done about a year after anyone would have seen a nominated show. I also wonder how many voters saw Slave Play, which only ran from Sept to Jan. I went to the final performance, and I enjoyed it but I did not leave thinking that it would win any Tonys at all. It was not really on my "must-see" list. Pre-pandemic and before George Floyd's death, the show to beat for Best Play was The Lehman Trilogy, not The Inheritance or Slave Play. In a "normal" year, Slave Play might have been nominated for Best Play, Best Director, Leading Actress, Ato Blankson-Wood for Featured Actor, and Costumes, but that would have been it. If it had had 1 to 5 nominations and lost them all, that would have been the fate of many shows over the years and not particularly remarkable. |
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