New Tony Award Category?
New Tony Award Category?
#1New Tony Award Category?
Posted: 1/31/08 at 3:24pm
I was curious, what about a new TONY Award Category for "Best Incidental Music(or Lyrics) in Play". Why or why not?
I figured I would ask for opinions here because I know there are people who actually work in the industry and would know the ins and outs of this much better than I.
I've looked at credits on IBDB and most if not all new plays have a composer of music listed. Why not award them for their ARTISTIC contribution to a play?
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#2re: New Tony Award Category?
Posted: 1/31/08 at 4:17pm
I have always felt that the best incidental music in theatre (or even film) is not really noticed. It sets a mood at most.
Incidental music is just that, incidental. It really becomes an element in the larger piece. It isn't like songs in a musical which are set apart.
That said, the scores for productions of Much Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night have been Tony nominated in seasons past.
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#2re: New Tony Award Category?
Posted: 1/31/08 at 4:28pmUnfortunately, because incidental music (which is often more than merely incidental) doesn't draw your full attention like a regular musical number, it gets largely overlooked. Only in the cases of weak seasons or absolutely amazing underscoring does anyone even notice. Case in point, Twelfth Night was nominated in 1999 along with Parade (winner, and a great score in my opinion), Footloose (several bland new songs to join superior songs from the movie), and The Civil War (I won't get started). If you look at the 1998-99 season, is there anything else that was even eligible? Had there been, it probably would have taken the nomination, Tesori's strong work notwithstanding.
#3re: New Tony Award Category?
Posted: 1/31/08 at 7:23pmBump.
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#4re: New Tony Award Category?
Posted: 1/31/08 at 7:54pmI think it'd be hard to justify having two awards for Best Original Score (Play/Musical).
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Yankeefan007
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#5re: New Tony Award Category?
Posted: 1/31/08 at 7:59pm
Actually, a few years ago, they ruled that straight plays with enough underscoring/scene-change/incidental music could be nominated for Best Score.
I still maintain that they should add a Best Ensemble category.
#6re: New Tony Award Category?
Posted: 1/31/08 at 8:03pmBut honestly, do the Plays with enough underscore ever really have a chance? Unless the year is REALLY weak.
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#7re: New Tony Award Category?
Posted: 1/31/08 at 8:18pmI remember last season CORAM BOY was declared eligible for the Best Score category. I wonder what place it came at the end.
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#8re: New Tony Award Category?
Posted: 1/31/08 at 8:28pmI think Coast of Utopia was as well.
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LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#10re: New Tony Award Category?
Posted: 1/31/08 at 9:53pmNo... Sound Design and the music for mood of the production coming through the speakers that were placed around the theatre because of said "sound design" are two totally different things.
that's a really big mic...
jbdc
Leading Actor Joined: 3/17/07
#11re: New Tony Award Category?
Posted: 2/1/08 at 9:00amJeanine Tesori was nominated in 1999 for her Best Original Score for her music for Twelfth Night at Licoln Center.
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