AMOUR was nominated for Best Musical despite only playing 17 performances (and having been closed for 7 months by the time the nominations were announced).
THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS only played 49 performances but was last year's second most-nominated show, after BOOK OF MORMON.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
If a show has had less than 30 performances, it has probably received awful reviews by critics. It also has probably not got good "word of mouth" either from the paying public. It is hard to see a show being worthy (quality) if both things I mentioned have occurred. IMO - they nominated LOF this year because they wanted to fill the 4th slot. I would have given the voters credit if they nominated only three shows because that is what they thought deserved a nomination.
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Posted: 5/8/12 at 11:50pm