Friday, April 15, 2011
Nominees Announced for Inaugural Off Broadway Alliance Awards
Playbill.com: "The Off Broadway Alliance has announced the nominees for the 1st Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards, honoring commercial and not-for-profit productions that opened Off-Broadway between May 1, 2010, and May 1, 2011.
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I like the idea of introducing these new Off-Broadway awards because being able to call yourself an "awards winner" is often a big draw for audiences. The biggest challenge for these awards is to make sure audiences know that they exist. This is no small feat, and may actually prove to be impossible for the first few years, but if these awards can find a footing, it will definitely help draw ticket sales for shows that would be closing much quicker otherwise. The Tony's, of course, have really helped shows survive much longer than expected (In the Heights immediately comes to mind), so this may help in that respect.
Am I the only one who things there are too many sets of Off-Broadway awards? Between these, the OBIEs, and the Lucille Lortels, the Critics' circle awards, the outer critits circle awards, and others, I feel like each time we add a set of awards they all do the same thing. If they didn't overlap so badly I might see the use in having more, but there should be one universal set of off-broadway awards just as the TONYs cover all of Broadway. It would make things less confusing, in my opinion, even though off-broadway is less strictly defined than Broadway.
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