Broadway Rebounds In Grammy Nominations: First Time In Years For Clean Sweep In Musical Theater Category
deadline.comBroadway cast albums have made a clean sweep of this year’s Grammy nominations for Best Musical Theater Album, the first time in at least several years that the competition hasn’t included music from the West End, Off Broadway, social media and live TV performances.
This year’s nominees are cast albums of two revivals (Caroline, or Change; Into the Woods) and entirely new (at least, in one case, to Broadway) works (MJ the Musical; Mr.
Saturday Night; Six: Live on Opening Night; and A Strange Loop). That means, among other things, that Stephen Sondheim will squaring off against Michael Jackson and Billy Crystal.
Last year, Broadway was nearly shut out of the category, with only Bob Dylan’s Girl From The North Country repping the New York industry that was still recovering from the Covid shutdown (other nominees were West End musicals, concept albums and the winner, TikTok’s The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical).
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