One has to wonder: Did the Tony nominators bend over backwards and nominate "Leap of Faith" for best musical (but nothing else) in order to deny a best musical nod to "Spider-Man," a show that many Broadway insiders grew to dislike for its exorbitant costs and backstage melodramas?
And in a highly unusual move in a season with so many glittery and crowd-pleasing musicals still running, the nominators reached back to bestow 12 nominations on "The Scottsboro Boys," a look at the underside of American history told in the audacious style of a minstrel show.
Although its director, Bartlett Sher, had done a wonderful job with another Odets play, "Awake and Sing!," I was nevertheless impressed by how vibrant and alive the play felt (and was glad the Tony nominators gave it plenty of love: 8 nominations, more than any other production of a play, old or new).
Election officials have told him, questionably, that his ten nominators must belong to his neighbourhood's election committee.
Boston University's Brussels arm was one of the nominators, but the thinking also seems to have been that companies might be more attracted to the candidates if they could add geographic and gender diversity at the same time.
One of those nominators said that Robert has "a real and significant effect" on Londoners' happiness.
His most notable contribution was the suggestion that candidates for the prizes be put forth by foreign as well as Swedish nominators, thereby ensuring that the selection process became international.
Nominators and selection committees now award the grants, which eventually became fewer in number and larger in size (twenty-five thousand dollars instead of five thousand).
Even more aghast will be the expressions of the Corbyn nominators.
When the Academy nominators failed to put it on the documentary short list, that weeklong run was cancelled; it opens February 7th.
"The Addams Family" got slammed by the critics and snubbed by the Tony nominators.
