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In the end, moving this show to Broadway was a terrible idea. We're not trying to pile on but instead to offer some helpful advice when we say that when we saw the tagline on the show's poster — "What if two 23-year-olds wrote a musical about four 19-year-olds?" — our simple reply was, "Then it would be a great Off–Off Broadway show."

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Certainly it is tough for a show that gets panned by the Times to get nominated, though it's not at all unheard of. Glory Days wasn't Moose Murders; its reviews were gentle pans, not scathing, vicious diatribes. Certainly closing early doesn't send a good message to Tony voters, but shows that didn't do well commercially have been nominated before. But the buzz in Broadway chat rooms is that Glory Days may be out of luck for a simple reason — closing after a single performance means that most members of the Tony nominating committee may not have even had a chance to see the show. In fact, one All That Chat commenter claims that the show isn't even eligible:

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To any theater fan, the logjam in the Tony play categories brings to mind nothing other than, of course, the current standings of the NBA's Western Conference, where the top nine teams have spent the season jostling for position, and even now, only three and a half games separate first place from sixth. But which NBA team corresponds with which dramatic masterpiece? Vulture sorts it out, after the jump.

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The question is made more complicated by the fact that this year, bizarrely, has been ruled by the straight play on Broadway. By our count, only twelve musicals will be eligible for Tony Awards this year, and only four of those are revivals. So that means the competition for acting awards, as well as the big prize, is much thinner than in most years. (Meanwhile, the Tonys for straight plays are going to be brutal this year.) So can Gypsy get the sweep — Revival, Actress, and Featured Actor and Actress? We think it probably can.

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