I was a Theater major in college, and I’ve probably attended or been involved with about a hundred musicals in my lifetime, and thoroughly enjoy the form; I mention this not to pretend that I’m inherently entitled to talk about theatrical matters (far from it, actually – the major required like seven theater credits), but just to make it clear off the bat that I’m not just some dudey dude who got dragged to Phantom once by a girl I was totally trying to bang and came out saying “musicals are totally gay.”
So believe me, ignorance is not my motivating factor when I say again as I’ve said many times in my life, The Tonys are completely effing pointless.
I have nothing against the Tonys Ceremony, but the actual Tony Award itself is just borderline meaningless. The Oscars are already super-political and backwards, but imagine how additionally pointless they would be if only about five movies got released every given year, and you could only watch them in New York City, and the medium of film was struggling so badly to turn a profit that studios would only ever think to greenlight big-name, big-budget star vehicles that tourists would pay $120 per ticket to see.
The result? The Billy Elliot musical got FIFTEEN TONY NOMINATIONS. Fifteen. As in, the number in the title of that Nickelodeon show “Fifteen,” times one. That’s one more nomination than Titanic received, which is…well, a comparably stupid fact.
Rather than continue some unfunny long-winded rant about the Tonys, I ask you to just watch the following clip and ask yourself – does the thing that is occurring here deserve to be seen by human beings, let alone honored fifteen times?
