Was it 'Clybourne Park' with its one Tony albeit for best play, which is the most prestigious one you can win in the play category.
Who was it 'Peter and the Starcatcher' that won five, but less prestigious than best play.
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Clybourne Park was the best new play of the year. Peter and the Starcatcher had an excellent production. Thus, they were awarded accordingly.
Collaborators won the Olivier for best play this year, but nothing else. But it was a damn sight better than Frankenstein as a play, although Frankenstein certainly deserved its acting and lighting design awards. It's a similar thing here.
The last play to win Best Play and nothing else was ten years ago: The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, which was only nominated for Best Actress other than Best Play.
Five Tonys is a great feat. So is winning Best Play. They both win.
I think was you are asking is : who will most reap the benefit of their Tony win? Time will tell.
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I think the real question is - who REALLY won Best Actress?
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"I think Glee is way too sharp, smart, witty, clever and emotionally confronting for the masses." - Dave19 -
"What's next? Snow Black and the 7 Swaggers? Shasquirta and the Beast? 101 Weavematians?
Willis in Ghettoland?" - Dave19, in reference to the new ANNIE remake.
Even before Christian Borle picked up his Featured Actor Tony for Peter and the Starcatcher Sunday night, the Peter Pan prequel was winning over Broadway audiences. The play had its best week ever, earning $541,177 for the week ending June 10, according to figures from the Broadway League. That’s a healthy 27-percent jump from the previous week — certainly nothing for Borle’s Black Stache to snigger at. (In addition to Borle’s acting prize, the show earned three other Tonys in technical categories.)
Some of the Tony broadcast’s production numbers may have a more cautionary effect. I suspect that virtually no Tony viewers were swayed to buy tickets to the long-flailing revival of Godspell — or to book a Royal Caribbean cruise to see that shaky non-Equity production of Hairspray. Indeed, Godspell posted its worst box office returns ever last week, down 7 percent to $156,437. Prepare ye the way of a closing notice. Link
Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.
So according to that, as a whole, the Tony voters thought "Clybourne Park" was the best play of the year.
Of the parts (sound design, costumes, etc."), they deemed "Peter and the Starcatcher" to have the best in those categories.
Not everything can be a clean sweep. I don't know if I could watch awards shows knowing whatever movie/musical/play won some technical award forshadows them winning everything else.
I do admit that I used to question this too. Back in 2008, I thought it was funny that "Gypsy" swept all the acting awards (except for Male Lead), but "Gypsy" lost to "South Pacific" for best Musical Revival. Though in that case, at the time I was watching, I didn't realize that "South Pacific" got most of the technical awards.
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I think what JeanGaudio is saying is that he thinks the Tonys for Peter and the Starcatcher were "consolation prizes" for the creative team, who also worked on Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson last season and won nothing.
Well, that makes no sense. They gave them awards this year to a sho the voters didn't think they deserved to make up for the fact that the voters didn't think they deserved any LAST year?
Oy.
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