Quote from: scenicdesign71 on May 14, 2023, 01:25 AM...Parade would actually be my subjective, wholly irrational favorite (given that I've never even seen it anywhere, ever, and know the show only by its reputation and its score -- which I admire, rather than adore) to take home the Tony.
Quote from: KathyB on May 14, 2023, 10:32 AMI have seen the original touring production of Parade, and came away from it loving it even more than I already loved the score. It's one of my favorite non-Sondheim musicals. I know it gets quite a few regional productions, but I don't ever remember seeing one around here. Not that that has anything to do with the award chances of any of the nominees, but I'd go for Parade to win as well.
Quote from: Jason Robert Brown, The Dramatist Nov/Dec 1999*When I looked at the period of Parade, Ives seemed right, though he was from the wrong milieu. Ives is Massachusetts, and Parade is Georgia. I knew I had to adapt his music to make it more Southern, but the stylistic impulse was right, his impulse of all this music happening at the same time: marching bands, rags, and waltzes playing against more sinister, symphonic sounds. I thought that, at heart, the texture of the show should be collisions, many things jumping on top of each other and never really ending. Keys abruptly change ...There's all this overlapping. There's all this cacophony...
Quote from: scenicdesign71 on May 14, 2023, 01:25 AMSweeney is the only one of this year's Best Revival-nomined productions that I've seen, but I'm basically rooting against it. I have seen five other productions of ITW (plus the movie) and one of Camelot (plus the movie), not that that bears any relevance whatsoever to the award-worthiness of their respective B'way incarnations this past season. But Parade would actually be my subjective, wholly irrational favorite (given that I've never even seen it anywhere, ever, and know the show only by its reputation and its score -- which I admire, rather than adore) to take home the Tony.I have seen the original touring production of Parade, and came away from it loving it even more than I already loved the score. It's one of my favorite non-Sondheim musicals. I know it gets quite a few regional productions, but I don't ever remember seeing one around here. Not that that has anything to do with the award chances of any of the nominees, but I'd go for Parade to win as well.
Quote from: KathyB on May 02, 2023, 05:24 PMTony nominations came out today, and Into the Woods and Sweeney Todd are up against each other in the best revival of a musical category. And a bunch of other categories as well.