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 about having seen some more deserving parties egregiously overlooked, for now it's all over but the engraving.
I still 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?
Click here for Part I - The
Performance Awards
Click here for Part II - Large
Categories (Play, Musical, etc.), Direction, and Design
Click here for Part III - All
the stuff that didn't fit into the chart.
Totals? You want totals!?
I gatcha totals right heah. Turned out by our terrific team of trembling touch typists, here's an amazingly colorful chart. Who knows what it could mean, but here are the total numbers of awards given to each show nominated in all of the six larger award ceremonies. Note that I've said "given to each show" -- we're rather pointlessly throwing awards given to individuals in with their shows. (Hey! That's just like they do it in the ads!)
We make no guarantees about the accuracy of the thing. Please note that (for my sanity's sake) this chart only includes awards appearing in charts 1 (Performance) and 2 (Large Categories, Direction, and Design), but not chart 3 (What Doesn't Fit). For each entry the first number represents awards won, while the second number represents the total nominations for that show. (If there's no entry in a column, then the show received no nominations for that group's awards. Doh!)
Because of its massiveness, the Great Big Giant Huge Large
Chart of Winners and Losers needed a page of its own. Therefore:
Take
me to that Big Ol' Chart!
C U @ the Theatre!