The Big Yawn

Helen Hayes has come and gone without a speck of "drama." I commend Jim for beating his previous run time by nearly two hours, but the rest of the show was...um...conventional.

I don't want be one of the Helen Hayes nay sayers, in fact what I like about them is the feeling of legitimacy that they bring to the DC theatre community. I just wish it were more exciting.

Four ties, in significant categories. I can't decide if it's good or bad. On the one hand it seems like there is a parity that should be good, so much good work that no consensus can be reached. But on the other hand, if we're gonna try and make the judgment shouldn't we make it - otherwise they should just give everyone a statuette when they walk in the door, sing a song and start the party.

My other issue was the slide show for Ming Cho Lee and Jane Greenwood. Their work is stunning, and worthy of a presentation that at least understands positive and negative space, layering, and has a rudimentary understanding of the cross dissolve. I'm an editor, it makes me a snob.

I did see a bright shining light in the results though; a certain morally bankrupt former assistant to the "great teacher" was rightfully shafted. Karma is a bitch.