2020 Tony Award Nominees with Broadway’s Nate Patten

On this special bonus episode all about the recent Tony Award Nominations, I’m so happy to introduce music director, conductor, and fellow podcaster Nate Patton. Nate and I first met when he was associate conducting Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on Broadway. And his podcast called Booked It. The title to one of his episodes was “Broadway is broken and I alone can fix it.” And it's this kind of witty, tongue in cheek and knowledgeable opinions that I wanted to bring on the show as we talk about these Tony nominations: The lone best actor nomination of Aaron Tveit The complete snubbing of the lightning thief Only plays being nominated for best original score Nate and I will also get into these topics and more, including what these nominations in general say about the state of theater today, and even make a few Tony predictions. Broadway reaches for normalcy with Tony Award nominations  Snubs and Surprises: The Tonys Point a Middle Finger at The Lightning Thief  Tony Award Snubs, What Ifs And That Strange Case Of Aaron Tveit The 2020 Tony Award nominations were weird and sad  Tony Awards Announces 2019-2020 Nominating Committee Outer Critics Circle Honorees  Tony Nominee Reactions  Support WINMI and get access to a members-only private podcast feed. Join the monthly WINMI Newsletter by going to whyillnevermakeit.com  --------- Music in this episode provided by Chad Crouch and Admiral Bob.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices