With T-minus mere hours until the danciest Tony Awards ever (!), the Broadway community has been pretty much drowning in statues, plaques and sealed white envelopes for days. Last Sunday evening, for example, marked the 60th annual Drama Desk Awards, which pitted both Broadway and Off-Broadway shows against each other. And the Theatre World Awards, […]
The Tony Awards (airing this Sunday night!) recognize a lot of Broadway talent: actors, directors, sound designers, lighting designers, writers, composers, and our favorites, choreographers. But we all know that the true muscle behind every amazing musical is the dancers. And they rarely get Tony nominations. (Unless they happen to be the fabulous Karine Plantadit, […]
A scene from last year’s Astaire Awards. Photo by Patrick McMullan. It’s Broadway awards season! While the biggest awards show for Great White Way stars—the Tony Awards—isn’t until June 9 (hosted, yet again, by Neil Patrick Harris, hooray!), the Fred & Adele Astaire Awards are ready to kick things off! OK, so they’re only a […]
Last night I got all dressed up—er, stayed in my nicer-than-normal work attire, actually—to attend the 30th annual Fred and Adele Astaire Awards at New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Now, awards shows are usually fun because you get little glimpses of dancers: those performing backup at the MTV Video Music Awards, […]