2010 Tony Award (musical) winners

Since this is a music blog we are featuring only the musical awards. Sorry plays. If you want to see a full list of all winners, visit the Tony Awards winners.


Here are the 2010 Tony Award winnners, starting with the Best Musical, Memphis:

Memphis 4 awards, 9 nominations

• Best Musical
• Best Book of a Musical (Joe DiPietro)

• Best Original Score Written for the Theatre (Music: David Bryan; Lyrics: Joe DiPietro, David Bryan)

• Best Orchestrations (Daryl Waters, David Bryan)

American Idiot 2 awards, 3 nominations

• Scenic Design of a Musical (Christine Jones)

• Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Kevin Adams)

This week in Music History: May 30- June 5

May 30
1909 - Benny Goodman, clarinetist/bandleader born in Chicago
1964 - Beatles' "Love Me Do," single goes #1
1968 - The Beatles began recording the "White Album."
1997 - Neil Young canceled his European tour because he had cut his finger while slicing a ham sandwich.
1999 - In New Jersey, Lenny Kravitz walked off stage after 40 minutes and collapsed from heat exhaustion. He had been performing in a fur coat.

May 31
1809 - Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian composer, dies at 77
1917 - 1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
1979 - In New York City, the restored Radio City Music Hall was reopened
1982 - Survivor released single "Eye of the Tiger."
1999 - VH1's "Behind the Music" began airing nightly. The premier show was "The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Behind the Music."

American Idiot...the movie?

Listening to: Green Day. All of it.

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Can Tom Hanks do for American Idiot what he did for Mamma Mia!??

American Idiot: the Movie. Just imagine! There actually are talks in the blog-o-sphere that Hanks may produce a film version of Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening)’s new hit Broadway musical. That would rock, as long as it doesn’t suck.

I wasn’t a fan of Mamma Mia. The cheese was overwhelming and sickening at times. The movie version of Rent didn’t make me want to puke as much as Mamma Mia did. Tom, please go that route, or better yet, more like Tommy (The Who)...thanks.

Anyway, more recently concrete news about A.I. - the 64th annual Tony Award nominees were announced yesterday. The only show out of the list that I’ve seen is American Idiot. Actually I’ve seen it twice: first on the very first night of previews (March 24, when Billie Joe and Tre were also in attendance), and again last week. 

American Idiot received 3 Tony nominations: Best Musical, Best Lighting Design for a Musical and Best Scenic Design of a Musical.