Maybe they should just call them the Maltz Jupiter Carbonell Awards. For the second year in a row, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre dominated the awards for professional theater in South Florida. Handed out Monday evening at the Broward Center were the 37th annual awards named for sculptor Manuel Carbonell, nine of which went to the Maltz Jupiter. An even more impressive measure of … [Read more...]
Tony Awards were unpredictable (at least by me)
Forbidden Broadway, that delicious satirical revue about the commercial New York theater, used to do a number declaring Thoroughly Modern Millie as “the worst best musical ever.” But that was before Once won the top Tony Award on Sunday night. And seven other Tonys, too. Mind-boggling. OK, chalk my derision up to sour grapes, since I did terribly at predicting the winners of … [Read more...]
Tony Awards show was as lame as Broadway’s season
When you consider what a mediocre season it was on Broadway, did anyone really think the Tony Awards show would be any good? Sunday night’s ceremony was, as expected, just like the season for musicals – loud, punk and uninspired. As I previously reported, however, it was a terrific year for plays, but CBS and the people who assemble the Tonys show have no patience for … [Read more...]
Carbonell Awards in jeopardy
Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008 The topic on the minds of most of the South Florida theater community at the moment, that has heated flurries of e-mails zapping back and forth through cyberspace, is the proposed suspension and likely subsequent demise of the controversial Carbonell Awards. Without consulting with or giving advance notice to the army of volunteer nominators and … [Read more...]