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Jaston Williams’ Lubbock Tony inflation
So don’t go looking for an under-the-table Jaston Williams dig here.
Yet when I received a press packet from the Lubbock Community Theatre advertising the debut of Williams’ “Blame It on Valentine, Texas,” I was taken aback by the line above the title for the coming attraction at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Theatre show — “4-Time Tony Award Nominee.”
How do we say this? Jaston probably deserves a Tony Award nomination, but Broadway voters have not wised up to that fact yet.
I rifled through the press material and I think I see where the theater’s publicity department went wrong. He’s a 4-time nominee for the Helen Hayes Award, given in the Washington D.C. market, where the “Tuna” series is almost as popular as in Austin.
I know Jaston is cringing right now. And the LCT is wishing it could recall the mail. Only Jaston could come up with the appropriate, half-indulgent West Texas joke to insert here, maybe about the psychic distance between Lubbock and Broadway or the Kennedy Center being roughly equal.
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By mike neill
January 30, 2009 3:39 PM | Link to this
where the heck does the slam at The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal fit in this; the mistake evidently was made in a press release by the theater.
By Jim Bush
January 30, 2009 2:35 PM | Link to this
The tape on Jaston's picture? Right now I wish it was on my mouth! We certainly did not intentionally mis-count or mis-catagorize those nominations; perhaps it was a chad-thing . . . or our Marketeers were actually Mouseketeers, or a simply typo (who'da thunk it?)from a well-meaning but uninformed, or mis-informed, or un-proofed volunteer, God bless their hearts every one. To sum it up,oops,end of story. In any case, we stand corrected, a very tiny bit embarrassed, but still very excited about Jaston's fund-raiser for the Lubbock Community Theatre, Blame it on Valentine Texas. It's a good thing, so come see for yourself! Jim Bush, President, Lubbock Community Theatre
By Anonymous Coward
January 30, 2009 11:54 AM | Link to this
I would like to ask Mr. Adair just how many award winners of any kind have offered to raise money, with nothing in return, for a theatre he has been involved in? I bet that number is zero. LCT is trying to raise money in order to provide a better Community Theatre experience to everyone. Your negativity is just petty and uncalled for.
By Aaron Adair
January 30, 2009 10:58 AM | Link to this
I wish I could say I was surprised at the lack of research by Lubbock Community Theatre and reporting by the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
You're right: Mr. Williams DOES deserve to be nominated multiple times.