{"id":10149,"date":"2019-06-07T16:54:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T16:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/?p=10149"},"modified":"2019-06-07T23:24:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T23:24:29","slug":"the-tony-awards-are-sunday-heres-what-should-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laughfrodisiac.com\/2019\/06\/07\/the-tony-awards-are-sunday-heres-what-should-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tony Awards are Sunday! Here’s What Should Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the mooost wonderful tiiiime of the year!\u00a0<\/em>It\u2019s Tony season! Well I guess it\u2019s\u00a0been <\/em>Tony season; now it\u2019s TONY WEEKEND! How pumped are you? How are you talking about anything else? The big Federer-Nadal match is over, no one is seeing\u00a0Dark Phoenix<\/em>, and the world is still going to shit so there is nothing more to do but sit back, relax, and let the joy of Tony Weekend wash all over you.<\/p>\n

Until Monday morning, when we piss and moan about all the injustice of amazing performers losing arbitrary awards to equally amazing performers and all of them getting to do the best job on the planet, so unfair.<\/p>\n

So what will I be pissing and moaning about in particular on Monday morning? A lot of things! Mainly, that here in the UK I can\u2019t watch it live, but also that a few of my favorite performances probably won\u2019t be rewarded; that Scott Rudin will add to his vast collection of trophies even though he\u2019s a big dumb bully; and that Tony voters should have to see all the nominees in order to\u00a0be<\/em>\u00a0Tony voters (you have one job; if you don\u2019t want it, give it to me plz).<\/p>\n

If Tony knows what\u2019s good for her (yes, Tony is a girl!), she\u2019ll do her level best to keep a few of those predicted complaints from happening, but most importantly she\u2019ll put on one hell of a show and, with James Corden\u2019s help, demonstrate to the Emmys, the Grammys, and the Oscars most years how to do awards shows right. Mostly, as long as Tony Toni Tone sticks to the whole underworld theme of the best shows this season (Hadestown<\/em>\u00a0is obvs about Hades and the underworld, and\u00a0The Ferryman<\/em> title refers to Hades\u2019s ferryman Charon who rows the newly dead souls across the river Styx and into the underworld. POSS CROSSOVER EVENT?), things will be good.<\/p>\n

I’ve already rambled on about the nominations<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and who should have been nominated (so read that post first if you haven’t already), so this one will be purely about the actual nominees.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Let’s start with the most important, since we all know these posts tend to go on and some of you never make it to the end. Yeah I see you! We’ll do all 3 big musical categories, the biggie plus score and book. Hadestown<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span>, as I’ve been saying since last year, is the best musical by far. It’s the only solidly great one, too, but even if it had great competition I can’t see anything surpassing it in terms of quality, uniqueness, and emotional depth. Most of its magic comes from Anais Mitchell’s incredible score, like nothing we’ve heard before, especially not on Broadway, which should absolutely win as well. A lot of voters want to award the good-hearted social message of The Prom <\/em>for Best Musical, and while I understand that, there should be zero doubt about voting for\u00a0Hadestown<\/em> for Best Score<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And although it seems the vast majority of people still don’t understand what a book of a musical is, Mitchell’s flawless structure and creative twist on classic myths to tell this old-but-new kind of story should win\u00a0Best Book<\/strong> as well.\u00a0Tootsie\u00a0<\/em>will, because it has the most jokes, and that’s what people usually think of in terms of book: the script and how enjoyable it is. But it also has to do with the overall story and its structure and how it is told, and Hades tops the charts for all of that. Still, as long as Hadestown<\/em> wins Best Musical and Score, all will be right.<\/p>\n

While the current, feel-good-about-being-a-good-person musical The Prom<\/em> is the closest competition, everyone absolute adores Ain’t Too Proud<\/em>, which I can see being the real surprise, if such a surprise as\u00a0Hadestown<\/em> not winning Best Musical were to happen, but that would be some real bullshirt (it losing, not ATP winning). Oh and Beetlejuice <\/em>isn’t winning shit; someone tell Warner Bros. they need a new head of their theatrical division (*cough* me *cough*).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seriously watch this and tell me I’m wrong about this music. (And about the actors who should win.)<\/p>\n