I’m two episodes in and hooked. During the first episode, I thought it was well-made but took a little too long to get where it was going, but by the final sequence with Beth trying to steal the “vitamins”, I was in. Trying to take this one in slowly to tide me over until The Crown.

Bernadette got raves for Song & Dance. Plus, she was basically the whole show. I think it’s a very fitting first win for her.

The exact same criticism could be leveled at JLP. But I think it will still win Book just because it’s the only original story in the group. It’s still not a good book, but at least it’s not as dreadful as Tina’s.

Same thing for Danny Burstein, haha.

I guess we assume that the requisite number of voters will actually vote in the Lead Actor in a Musical category. But I would be tempted to leave it blank if I were a voter. Christian is a featherweight role. Aaron and his voice are both very pretty, but that performance is not going to go down in the pantheon of great musical theater turns. But…[Read more]

I believe 60% or more of voters have to actually cast a vote for him to win. So it’s basically a “yes” or “fuck you” thing.

For the first time ever, I can say that I have seen every single one of the nominees in the musical-specific categories, lol.

The only thing we know for sure before the nominations is that this year will have the worst Best Original Score winner ever.

All of these announcements need to be tagged with a “maybe”.

Just learned that Stumptown has also been “unrenewed” like GLOW due to pandemic production costs.

FML

I have also read accounts from that time that say for any given performance, Merman was either totally on or phoning it in.

That Weekend Update was hilarious, but dark af.

Trump recovering from coronavirus is like when there’s a car crash and the only one to survive is the drunk driver.

The McDonald’s crack was great too—-all for the low, low price of one of your feet.

I wonder if Big Mouth is more of a threat than The Simpsons. Maya Rudolph won over some big names. Plus Big Mouth won an interactive award (where there was only one other nominee, but still).

I adore Big Mouth, so go Maya!

“She’s turning me into a thesbian.”

So the movie managed to find someone who’s even more too old for their role than Ben Platt, lol.

This is all truly excellent news for Adrienne Warren, who can go ahead and clear shelf space for her Tony. She’s deserving, but I’m disappointed we don’t get that showdown with Sharon D. Clarke.

I think Moulin Rouge! has the top award all sewn up, though it will probably always be seen as a default winner.

Most interesting to me is Lead Actor…[Read more]

Jesus Christ, the guy was a complete ass. But even the woman in question has moved on. If she can, why can’t you?