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Tony Noms Debrief: Niche Rules and the Fall of Boomersicals
But it’s good news for ‘Hell’s Kitchen,’ ‘Stereophonic,’ and three Elphaba alumna.
If you weren’t keeping up with the doings of the Tony Nominating Committee (the list of , minus whoever had to drop out due to conflicts of scheduling or interest), you might not have noticed the finicky reasons why some productions ended up where they are. It’s hard to imagine Suffs getting the amount of recognition it did on Tuesday if it had taken its Off Broadway incarnation uptown, but they (and specifically, double-nominated Shaina Taub) put in a lot of work and it paid off. In a different year, there might be space for, say, Michael Imperioli in An Enemy of the People, or Will Keen’s Putin in Patriots(and he won an Olivier), not to mention the supporting work in Mary Jane, Jaja’s, or Vanya.
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