Theatre Awards
The arrival of marks the end of the theatre season here in NY so it’s awards time. The Tony Awards just deal with Broadway plays and there are other awards that include both Broadway and off-Broadway. I always find the mixed awards so fascinating because sometimes (usually) the plays off-Broadway are usually much better, kind of like indie films are better that studio pictures. This year the NY Drama Critics Circle named Ruined as the best play and Billy Elliot as the best musical. Ruined would clearly be the front runner if it were playing on Broadway, especially because it won the Pulitzer last month. It bothers me greatly that this play is not on Broadway. I know that it has been extended several times at Manhattan Theatre Club (I have not seen it and want to very much), but I took a look back at the last several Pulitzer winners and shocker! most of the plays by men made it to Broadway. In the last ten years only one Pulitzer prize winning play by a man didn’t make it to Broadway, and only one Pulitzer prize winning play by a woman made it to Broadway. Interesting. Even Pulitzer Prize winning plays by women can’t make it to Broadway. Here’s the list: 2008 August: Osage County by Tracy Letts As for the Tonys - here are my observations 9 to 5 was pretty much shut out (Dolly got a nomination for best score) and it doesn’t bode well for a long run (I am seeing it tonight and will have a full report). A French woman continues her success - Yasmina Reza’s The God of Carnage. The best performance by a leding actress in a play is the most exciting category: Hope Davis, God of Carnage; Jane Fonda, 33 Variations; Marcia Gay Harden, God of Carnage; Janet McTeer, Mary Stuart; Harriet Walter, Mary Stuart. Women got 3 out of 8 directing nominations: BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY- Phyllida Lloyd, Mary Stuart; BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL - Kristin Hanggi, Rock of Ages; Diane Paulus, Hair.
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