The Tony Awards' nomination list gives The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon 12 nominations each, with both competing for Best Musical and both carrying source material from outside Broadway: a 1987 teen-vampire film and an Apple TV series. [1]

Friday's paper said the Tony slate had turned Best Musical into a derivative-work race; Saturday's update is that the official list makes the commercial logic impossible to hide. AP's account names the field plainly: The Lost Boys, Schmigadoon, Titanique, and Two Strangers are the Best Musical nominees, with Ragtime leading the revival lane separately. [2]

The MSM story is nominations; X will turn the race into taste, nostalgia, or Apple jokes. The paper's story is the balance sheet of imagination: Broadway's most visible new-musical contest now asks whether the stage can still originate a mass property, or whether it mainly converts one.

-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles