Seems like the Tony Nominations provided a rude wake-up about something I've railed about all season long:
Those powers-that-be, the producers, only gave us two musicals with original scores this year.
So, as has happened many times before, the "Best Score" category includes music from non-musicals.
Make you mad? Want to do something about it? I have a modest proposal:
NEVER pay money to see a musical that uses pre-existing music, not written for the theatre. That means, this season, boycott “American Idiot” 'Million Dollar Quartet' 'Everyday Rapture' “Fela!” and “Come Fly Away,”
ONLY pay money to see the musicals that were written for the theatre. I realize that the ever-popular Mary Poppins and The Lion King are hard to categorize, as half their songs were written for the original Disney films, half weren't.
If every theatre-goer followed my modest proposal, you'd see plenty of original musicals open on Broadway each season. The public, voting with ticket purchases, has to state its preference.