| It's a New Play | |
| Posted by: oddone 10:19 pm EDT 04/11/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Riverside is a 9 year old play from 2014 - sirpupnyc 08:35 pm EDT 04/11/23 | |
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| It's being considered for the New Play category. It's pretty clear. The lack of a mention, in regards to a play that hasn't been on Broadway before, means it's being considered a new play. Much like the lack of mention of someone billed above the title means they are eligible as a Lead, etc. I don't think I've ever seen the TAC consider some elements of a production in one meeting, and wait to rule on others. When they consider a production, they consider it. The lack of a mention IS the decision here. Last season, Lackawanna Blues and How I Learned to Drive were explicitly mentioned as being Revivals, because again, the default would be that they would otherwise be considered as New Plays. This season, there were three plays dealt with in the first round that were all written and first produced more than a few years ago, but never on Broadway: Cost of Living, Ain't No Mo', and Ohio State Murders. The only one explicitly called out as being a Revival (for Tony purposes) was Ohio State Murders. The other two were not mentioned, and so are by default New Plays. Somewhat crucially (I suspect), both of these were being done with mostly the same casts and design teams as the Off Broadway versions (only half the cast is the same in Cost of Living, but the other two actors are the same). The same is the case with Between Riverside and Crazy, which is the strongest argument for considering it a New Play - it's in some ways a "transfer" of the production at the Atlantic (almost entirely same cast and design team). People get hung up on how many years since the first production, and I don't think that is really the determining factor. It's part of it, but certainly not in a "less than 5 = New, more than 5 = Revival" sort of way. True, How I Learned to Drive also used the same cast as the original Off Broadway production. But it was a different creative team, and in that case, it was around 20 years since that first production. It had that feeling of a Revival, but where we got a chance to "revisit" that original cast in a new light. In contrast, Between Riverside and Crazy feels like other transfer productions - "if you missed it Off Broadway, now you can see the same production on Broadway." |
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