Re: 2008 Tony Nominations!?

On May 14, 8:34=A0pm, Stephen Farrow <stephen.far...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I wouldn't (at least, based on the cast recording). "Puttin' on the
> Ritz" only serves to highlight - in neon letters fifty feet high - the
> astoni****ng shallowness of the rest of the score. It's even more vapid
> than his score for "The Producers". It has all of the ingredients of
> classic golden-age musical comedy except wit, charm and style.


I don't dispute a word of this, but at least he wrote *something* - at
least he had to reach for a rhyming dictionary on one or two
occasions. In regards of the book he did NOTHING.

Let me be clear - he was rightfully snubbed in both categories but if
the Tony nominators were to begrudgingly give him a nomination to fill
in one of the categories it would have made more sense for it to be
for score.