We have heard nothing about Boop! The Musical being added to the list of shows performing at the Tony Awards tomorrow night…so either that ain't gonna happen or they've added it and are keeping it ultra-super-duper-secret to make it a huge surprise. Since the show's sets would have to be moved in and out at some point and the company would have to block and rehearse, it's tough to believe the latter is possible.
So I'll predict that the only love the show will get on the telecast will be a big audience cheering when the name of Jasmine Amy Rogers is read as a nominee for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical…an award she won't win. Something could be said if — and this, I hear, is likely — the show's director Jerry Mitchell wins for Best Choreography but I don't think that award is presented on-air.
It is worth reminding ourselves that award shows like this don't always get it right. As I've mentioned here, I was once on a committee for the Television Academy that looked into ways to make the awards for animated shows fairer. The committee never reached any conclusions — or if it did, I didn't participate in the final reaching. But the conclusion I came to on my own was that the awards weren't fairly decided and that all the people involved in this kind of thing wanted for was them to be looked on as important and as a really big, legitimate "win" for those whose names wound up in the envelopes.
A gent named Chris Peterson who heads up a widely-read blog about the theatre wrote this piece listing some times he feels the Tonys picked the wrong Best Musical…and it's certainly true that sometimes, a show which didn't nab the trophy has had a longer life and earned more respect than the one that did that year. I don't think I agree with all his examples but that's kind of the point.