Mr. Page, whose omission from the last season's Tony Award nominations surprised plenty of fellow artists, said he still hoped to play Cyrano himself on Broadway someday but added that he was at peace with the current realities of casting Tony winners and Hollywood celebrities.
National television appearances (including Today on Tuesday), spring and summer tour dates as support act (and occasional duet partner) of Kenny Chesney, four Academy of Country Music Award nominations and plenty of glowing reviews supply further evidence that fans should be lining up to catch a rising star.
The donor litmus test is a relatively new one; it was not in place in 2007, when Barack Obama surged into contention for the Democratic nomination with plenty of big money from Wall Street.
The modern Democratic Party is far more cohesive than the 1972 version, but a scenario in which Sanders had a delegate lead but no clear mandate, and walked out of Milwaukee with the nomination, would leave plenty of bitter feelings; supporters of Hillary Clinton's 2016 bid, having actually won the nomination by millions of votes and been called thieves anyway, could be vocal in their frustration.
These protestations aside, his nomination would have plenty going for it.
But as the campus played host Monday morning to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Obama's rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, there were plenty of young voters expressing a preference for her as a leader who speaks to their heads, not their hearts.
In 2008, when John McCain won the nomination, there was plenty of caterwauling over his victory by conservatives because they felt betrayed by him for passing the McCain-Feingold campaign finance laws.
One can also expect plenty of nominations for Tom Hooper's musical Les Misérables and the magical fantasy of Ang Lee's Life of Pi.
There have been plenty of nominations, including the announcement, in 2012, that Google would track its customers' Gmail missives, Web searches, and YouTube usage, which had the effect of helping advertisers target potential customers.
My 400-plus colleagues at Prophet gave me plenty of nominations.
