| re: CONTACT -- a Rare Original Broadway Production that has a Recording that Can Legitimately Be Called a SOUNDTRACK! |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 11:56 am EST 01/05/22 |
| In reply to: re: CONTACT -- a Rare Original Broadway Production that has a Recording that Can Legitimately Be Called a SOUNDTRACK! - writerkev 11:41 am EST 01/05/22 |
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Yep! And I didn't mean this thread to veer into a debate on if Contact is a "musical (luckily there's been no debate yet, those who replied seem to agree with me), but it's just such a shame it got forced into that category in a year with so many worthwhile and actual musicals. It wasn't in one of the years where Jukebox musicals dominated... it took the award from musicals where the craft of writing and performing musicals was on full and varied display in The Wild Party (easily my choice for "best musical"), Aida, Marie Christine, even James Joyce's The Dead... and even Putting It Together might have snuck in with a Best Musical nomination had it not been for Contact. At least Swing! was a revue with singing (though of course not better as a piece of original theater than Contact).
I suppose if one doesn't like either LaChiusa musical or Aida then this must seem like a very weak year, but I happen to love them both and I respect Aida for what it was as an original musical and production and its long run and many passionate fans who must have been quite perturbed and confused by the Tonys that year. |
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