【早安分享】我62歲，對上述仍似懂非懂。
「在你心裡，藏著所有答案。朝你的恐懼走去，你將會學會飛翔。」- 領導力大師Robin Sharma
早安，更深一層地認識自己，
答案就會呼之欲出。
不過我去查一下這位大師 Robin Sharma：
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_S_Sharma_%28author%29
一笑。
Tony Awards
Tony Nominations Spread Across a Wide Stage
The major races for Broadway’s Tony Awards
will be unusually wide-open this spring, with the nominations,
announced on Tuesday, showing more love for Shakespeare than for
Hollywood and for popular songs by Carole King and Duke Ellington than
for original musicals. Ambitiously conceived productions like “Rocky” and “If/Then”
fared poorly, and some of the season’s most praised performers —
including the boldface names Daniel Radcliffe and Denzel Washington —
were edged out.
The
33 Tony nominators spread the recognition around: Sixteen shows
received at least four nominations, compared with 12 shows in 2013 and
10 in 2012. That lack of consensus, and the notable lack of
front-runners, were more signs (in addition to critics’ reviews and
audience buzz) that this was a season of letdowns on Broadway — a season
that started with high hopes for its 12 new musicals but ended with
more misses than hits.
Only one new show — “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder”
— received nominations for best musical, book, score and director,
suggesting that Tony nominators saw flaws in many of the others.
2014 Tony Award Nominations
Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
Unlike
most years, when a couple of musicals dominate both the Tonys and
ticket sales (think of “Kinky Boots” and “The Book of Mormon”), this
spring has no show that’s a powerhouse: “Gentleman’s Guide” earned the
most Tony nominations, 10, but is one of the weakest-selling of the
season. Most nominees for best play also have modest ticket sales, like “Casa Valentina” and “Mothers and Sons,” while a stronger box office draw — the play “The Realistic Joneses” — received no nominations.
So,
did the nominators embrace critically acclaimed small fries over
commercial hits? Not necessarily. Two of the best musical nominees, “Aladdin” and “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,”
are selling briskly. But those two shows, and others favored by the
nominators, were well-executed productions of familiar material.
Times Minute | Tony Award Nominations
On the Minute, the theater reporter Patrick
Healy breaks down the nominees for the 68th Tony Awards. Find out who
was nominated and who got snubbed.
Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
Still, one of the boldest surprises was also one of the most successful: “Twelfth Night,” Shakespeare’s dark comedy about desire and identity, received seven nominations, tying the revival of “The Glass Menagerie”
for the most of any play. “Twelfth Night,” on a double bill with
“Richard III” and featuring the same all-male ensemble from Britain, was
not only critically acclaimed but also a box office hit; the two
productions grossed a total of $14 million over 18 weeks. “Twelfth
Night” received nominations for best play revival; Samuel Barnett for
best actor (as Viola); and three of the five featured actor nominations
(for Paul Chahidi, Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry).
“We
benefited from being a group of actors who have worked together many
times before, played many roles together, so we took risks with each
other every night and responded with playfulness to what was happening
in the audience,” Mr. Rylance said on Tuesday.
Mr.
Rylance, already a double Tony winner, was also nominated for best
actor in a play for “Richard III,” becoming the first man to earn two
acting nominations in the same year. (Several actresses have achieved
that status.) With all of the British actors nominated for Shakespeare,
there was little room left for several stars like Mr. Radcliffe, as well
as James Franco (“Of Mice and Men”), Michael C. Hall (“Joneses”), Ian
McKellen and Patrick Stewart (“No Man’s Land” and “Waiting for Godot”),
and Zachary Quinto (“The Glass Menagerie”).
Mr.
Quinto aside, “Menagerie” did snap one of the longest streaks in
theater history: the lack of any Tony nominations for Broadway
productions of this Tennessee Williams play. “Menagerie” will compete
with “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” “A Raisin in the Sun” and “Twelfth
Night” in the category for best play revival; its other actors — Cherry
Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Brian J. Smith — were all nominated.
Ms.
Jones, a two-time Tony winner, is in another tough, unpredictable
category, facing, among others, Audra McDonald, a five-time Tony winner
who is nominated for playing Billie Holiday in “Lady Day at Emerson’s
Bar & Grill.” Ms. McDonald, 43, could become the first performer to
win six Tonys for acting, as well as the first to win a Tony in each of
the four acting categories. (Julie Harris is the only performer with six
Tonys, though one is a special lifetime achievement award.) Also
nominated are Tyne Daly (“Mothers and Sons”), LaTanya Richardson Jackson
(“Raisin”) and Estelle Parsons (“The Velocity of Autumn”). Ms.
Parsons’s play will close on Sunday, the producers announced after the
nominations, because of weak ticket sales.
For
best play, in addition to “Casa Valentina” and “Mothers and Sons,” the
nominees are “Outside Mullingar” and two bio-plays: “Act One,” about the
playwright Moss Hart, and “All the Way,” about President Lyndon B.
Johnson. The Tony nominators may have been lacking in enthusiasm,
however: None of those new plays were represented in the best director
category. Those four directors were all in charge of play revivals: John
Tiffany (“Menagerie”); Kenny Leon (“Raisin”); Tim Carroll (“Twelfth
Night”); and Michael Grandage (“Inishmaan”). James Lapine (“Act One”)
and Bill Rauch (“All The Way”), who each kept many characters in motion
in large-cast productions, went unnoticed, though their stars — Tony
Shalhoub and Bryan Cranston — received nominations.
One
year after women won the Tonys for best direction of a play and a
musical, the only female director nominated on Tuesday was Leigh
Silverman for the musical “Violet.” Women were absent in several other
categories, including best play, best score and best book.
The
two front-runners for musical revival are “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”
and “Violet,” thanks to excellent reviews and Tony-nominated
performances by their stars, Neil Patrick Harris (“Hedwig”) and Sutton
Foster (“Violet”). (The revival “Cabaret” and its star, Michelle
Williams, were passed over.) Ms. Foster, a two-time Tony winner, is in
an especially tough category, facing, among others, Kelli O’Hara (now a
five-time nominee with “The Bridges of Madison County”) and Idina Menzel
(“If/Then”).
As
for musicals, “Gentleman’s Guide,” a sly operetta about an Englishman
who bumps off relatives to get their fortunes, will try to turn its
momentum into a campaign to persuade Tony voters (and ultimately
audiences) that it is the best new show out there. Another nominee,
“Aladdin,” based on the 1992 film, is a box office hit and the first
Disney animated-movie-turned-musical to score a best musical nod since
“The Lion King,” which won the award in 1998.
The other two best musical nominees, “After Midnight”
and “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,” also have pluses and minuses.
“After Midnight,” which recreates numbers from the Cotton Club era,
earned great reviews, yet it is a revue, not a book musical. And
“Beautiful” is popular mostly for the jukebox score by Ms. King (which
was not eligible for a Tony) and the performance of Jessie Mueller, a
best actress nominee as the singer.
With
no front-runner, the shows are likely to mount publicity blitzes aimed
at Tony voters, hoping to create the sort of feel-good buzz and seeming
momentum that helped the crowd-pleaser “Kinky Boots” topple the onetime
front-runner “Matilda the Musical” in the race for best musical last
year. Ms. King, for one, said she would do anything she could to help
win Tony victories for “Beautiful,” which is being produced by her
daughter Sherry Goffin Kondor, among others. She said she planned to
attend and perform at the Tony Awards ceremony on June 8, which will be
televised on CBS, though she does not know which song she might sing.
“Once
I got over my fear of how the show would affect me emotionally — seeing
my life onstage — I decided I was all in on helping the show,” Ms. King
said on Tuesday from her home in Idaho.
Joey
Parnes, one of the lead producers of “Gentleman’s Guide,” said on
Tuesday that the nominations were in part a testament to perseverance:
Not only did its creators spend a decade developing and fine-tuning the
musical before Broadway, but the show also continued to run through the
brutal winter months when other shows closed because people were staying
home.
“Now,
with the nominations, we’re already doing 10 times better at the box
office today than we were doing last Tuesday,” Mr. Parnes said.
The
Tonys are the theater industry’s highest honor, as well as a major
marketing tool for shows in New York and on national tour. The awards in
top categories, especially for best musical, can also help improve
ticket sales. The winners will be chosen by 806 eligible voters; they
include theater producers, directors, designers, actors and tour
presenters, many of whom have business or personal interests at stake.
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