And several shows were overlooked entirely: the new plays Chicken & Biscuits, Thoughts of a Colored Man, Is This a Room, Birthday Candles and Pass Over. The sold-out revival of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite got a costume design nomination, but neither of its stars, Sarah Jessica Parker or Matthew Broderick, are up for an award. Daniel Craig, who headlines a revival of Macbeth didn't receive a nod, though co-star Ruth Negga did. Doubtfire only received one nomination, for lead actor Rob McClure, while Flying Over Sunset, the original musical about three 1950s celebrities experimenting with LSD, received four nominations but wasn't up for best musical. In addition to Funny Girl, several other productions didn't receive much love from the nominators. Several shows were overlooked entirelyĮvery year, shows and actors are snubbed. Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse, reprising their roles from the original production, are both up for best acting awards. Paula Vogel's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a girl who is sexually molested by her uncle, How I Learned to Drive, received three nominations. Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out, about a baseball superstar who announces he's gay, has four nominations, the same number as Alice Childress' 1955 play Trouble in Mind, about racism in Broadway theater and David Mamet's American Buffalo, about three would-be thieves. Franklin/for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf A revival of Funny Girl, starring Beanie Feldstein was ignored, save for a featured actor nominee. Other best play nominees include Clyde's, Lynn Nottage's look at five formerly incarcerated people working in a sandwich shop, with five nominations Hangmen, Martin McDonagh's black comedy about the last executioner in England, also with five Skeleton Crew, Dominique Morriseau's look at auto workers in Detroit facing cutbacks, with three nominations and Tracy Letts' The Minutes, a play about a contentious city council meeting, revealing some dark secrets.Īlthough four musicals were eligible to be nominated for best revival, only three got the nod. It's up for best play, and all three performers are up for best actor in a play. The story of the Lehman Brothers, immigrants from 19th century Germany who built a financial empire, was a mini-epic, with three actors in a rotating glass box. And several shows were overlooked entirely: the new plays Chicken & Biscuits, Thoughts of a Colored Man, Is This a Room, Birthday Candles and Pass Over.The front-runner for best play is Stefano Massimi's The Lehman Trilogy, adapted by Ben Power, which received eight nominations. The cast of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
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