| Myles Frost joins the recent club of winners Jessie Mueller, Stephanie J. Block, and Adrienne Warren in picking up the big prize for a biographical jukebox musical. As much as I admire them as performers, I always feel it’s a little disappointing to award an impersonation of a pop music icon. I know, I know, there’s a lot of technical work that goes into building any role and maybe I’m being too much of a traditionalist. I just hope (since jukebox musicals aren’t going anywhere) that rewarding original roles or actors brushing the cobwebs off canonical roles continues to be the norm. Grandpa rant over. |
