| re: Why was Victor/Victoria "egregiously overlooked" | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 02:49 am EDT 07/15/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Why was Victor/Victoria "egregiously overlooked" - Chromolume 12:44 am EDT 07/15/22 | |
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| It still seems like a hollow statement to make to turn down a Tony nom, and likely win, especially when she had not won a Tony yet but was musical theater royalty, to stand up for what was not a raved about exemplary production or musical. I bet if her husband hadn't been the director/writer and maker of the film it was adapted from, she wouldn't have been so motivated to slap back at the Tonys for only singling her out. I get it. But I'd still love for her to have been able to receive a competitive Tony. Maybe she'd felt like this was a repeat of what she'd been through with Camelot. Her return to Broadway after the universal triumph of My Fair Lady, reunited with Lerner and Loewe and in what was for all intents and purposes a wonderful musical even with its many flaws and long run time. And while she was nominated, they didn't even nominate Camelot for Best Musical... there were only *3* nominated musicals... the hit Bye Bye Birdie, the forgettable Do Re Mi, and Irma La Duce, which beat Julie for her acting award. Burton won his Tony but besides Julie no one else was nominated, not the director, not Robert Goulet or anyone else in the cast, etc, leaving many categories for musical awards with only 3 or even 2 nominees that year. (They didn't even do a Best Score award that year, which was true from 1952 until the year after Camelot, 1962... which means this was the one last real chance for Lerner & Loewe to win a Tony together having MFL come out in a year with no Score category... and I'd have voted for Camelot that year even if the show was a mess or a clunker) |
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