The nominations for the Tony Awards were announced today. The Hollywood Reporter has broken down the surprises and snubs. "Stereophonic" became the most nominated play in the awards' history and "Merrily We Roll Along" saw nominations for its three leads, Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez. However, there was nothing for "The Wiz" or Steve Carell, who made his Broadway debut in "Uncle Vanya."
This week on Memory Muses: Music photographer Ed Caraeff, writer Thornton Wilder, the musical Carousel, a word of the week and a poem, all in about 5 minutes.
This line in "The Great Gatsby" (as Nick Carraway's riding the train from Long Island into New York City) is a transitional fossil record:
"My commutation ticket came back to me with a dark stain from his hand."
Because the modern verb "commuting" and nouns "commuter" and "commute"....
stem from names for multi-ride railroad/streetcar passes that truncated or "commuted" fare payments ("commute" here being the same verb we use in "commuted their original prison sentence").
New blog post about "The Great Gatsby", Nick Carraway's struggle to love, multiple new stage adaptations, what's hard about porting a story to another medium, anti-racism tradeoffs, and @jacob being a patient friend