So... The season's over and the awards have all been handed out. The pools have been paid out (who wins these things but the most cynical of us?). Though the arguments will go on until next season finds some more deserving parties egregiously overlooked, for now it's all over but the engraving. I don't know if anyone will ever be able to understand the group mind of the nominating and voting committees. People are glorified or overlooked right and left for no apparent reason or point. I'll have to leave the speculation as to the meaning of all of this to better qualified parties. In the end we find, I believe, that the awards are no more than a celebration of the current state of the theatre. And what's wrong with that?
The awards charts have been updated to reflect this weekend's Tony Awards. And below you'll find a new chart showing the total number of awards given to each show.
Click here for Part I.
Click here for Part II.
Click here for Part III.
Totals? You want totals!?
I gatcha totals right heah. Here's an amazingly colorful chart, with amazingly little point. Who knows what it could mean, but here are the total numbers of awards given to each show nominated in all of the five larger award ceremonies. Only winners are shown -- and I make no promises about the accuracy of the thing.
| Drama Desk |
Drama League |
NY
Drama Critics Circle |
Outer Critics Circle |
Tony Awards |
Totals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| An American Daughter |
1 |
1 |
||||
| A Doll's House |
2 |
2 |
4 |
8 |
||
| Barrymore |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
||
| Bunny Bunny |
1 |
1 |
2 |
|||
| Candide |
1 |
1 |
||||
| Chicago |
6 |
1 |
5 |
6 |
18 |
|
| Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back |
1 |
1 |
||||
| How I Learned to Drive |
3 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
||
| Jekyll & Hyde |
2 |
1 |
3 |
|||
| The Last Night of Ballyhoo |
1 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
6 |
|
| The Life |
3 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
8 |
|
| The Little Foxes |
1 |
1 |
||||
| Present Laughter |
1 |
1 |
||||
| Sex and Longing |
1 |
1 |
||||
| Skylight |
1 |
1 |
||||
| Stanley |
2 |
2 |
||||
| Steel Pier |
1 |
1 |
||||
| Titanic |
1 |
2 |
5 |
8 |
||
| Violet |
1 |
1 |
||||
| When Pigs Fly |
2 |
2 |
4 |
|||
|
Totals |
25 |
3 |
3 |
24 |
21 |
76 |
Weep or gloat -- congratulations go to everyone working in or attending the theatre.
Click here for Part I.
Click here for Part II.
Click here for Part III.
Go see a show!
Originally published at Suite101.com Theatre, 4/6 - 6/3/97
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