| re: what happened to these acting awards? | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 05:13 pm EDT 05/06/24 | |
| In reply to: what happened to these acting awards? - Chazwaza 01:47 am EDT 05/06/24 | |
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| Well, here's the thing...if there are fewer winners, no matter what the award is, it makes winning even more special for those who do win and might make the award itself actually mean something. Most of these non-Tony theatre awards are a mystery to anyone not actually involved in the business. What does it mean to win a Lortel or a Drama Desk or an Obie or whatever? What does it mean if you've won one and there were actually multiple winners in your category and myriad winners in your season? These awards start to look like participation trophies at the annual Little League banquet. I like this idea. Let's create one award for each category, eg: Best Performance in a Leading Role in a Play, and nominate a set amount of performers regardless of gender, and choose a single winner each season (unless there's a tie). You'd want to make sure that your nominating committee is a good mix of people so that you end up with some diversity in the slate of nominees, but I don't see why this can't work. Then the people that win truly have won something. Creative awards like Best Set Design or Best Direction aren't divided up by gender and never have been and I don't see any reason why performance awards should be. Sure, it's difficult to compare this performance to that performance and "Best" is always going to be subjective on the part of the voters, but that has always been the case. If it's just too hard to choose between performers and it's all the harder due to their varying genders, then it's clearly too challenging to even have awards. |
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