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| re: NY NY Score: it seems to me | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 08:51 am EDT 04/10/23 | |
| In reply to: NY NY Score - tocop 08:48 am EDT 04/09/23 | |
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| As indicated below, the eligibility for 'Best Score' requires that 50% of the score be written for the theatre (for the new show). The song list isnt available online as yet as far as I can tell. I would be surprised if the producers/writers hadnt been sure to meet the 50% rule ... that said - that would be a LOT of new songs. | |
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| the producers may not care | |
| Posted by: dramedy 11:20 am EDT 04/10/23 | |
| In reply to: re: NY NY Score: it seems to me - NewtonUK 08:51 am EDT 04/10/23 | |
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| about best score tony and the competition this year with KAkimbo and Hot scores completely written for the show, they wouldn't win in this category anyway. The Tony for Best Musical is the only one that matters for ticket sales and even that didn't save last year's winner. | |
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| re: NY NY Score: it seems to me | |
| Posted by: ryhog 09:37 am EDT 04/10/23 | |
| In reply to: re: NY NY Score: it seems to me - NewtonUK 08:51 am EDT 04/10/23 | |
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| You highlight a part of the requirement that is overlooked (by some): that it is intended to apply to songs written for the specific show, which would seemingly exclude trunk songs. That is very hard to regulate though. A composer might say, for instance, that a song written decades ago was a diddle with this show in mind. Likewise, unless it had been performed, how would anyone know it was a trunk song. I have a friend who is a novelist who mentioned one time that he had about 20 "chapters" in his file cabinet that were untethered to any book (but the one we were discussing included such a chapter). Richard Foreman, in his heydey, got up every morning and wrote randomly for (I think) 2-3 hours. Later, he would pick up some of these scraps and write a play with them. It is kind of a chicken and egg situation. It does seem inconceivable the producers would not have kept their eyes on this ball particularly with the effort to keep everyone's eyes on John Kander. |
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