2000 Awards - Fun With Math!
This week we'll manipulate the data from the Great-Big Summary Chart to achieve some pointless results.
The Big Losers
"We won a Tony!"
Ah, shaddup! How many did you lose?
To level the field we can subtract the number of wins from the total nominations in order to reflect only the awards lost. This reveals the big losers. Here they are in order of losses.
| Ranking | Show | No. of losses |
|---|---|---|
| 67. | Meridith Wilson's The Music Man | 22 (Big Loser) |
| 66. | Kiss Me, Kate | 20 |
| 65. | The Wild Party (NYSF) | 18 |
| 64. | The Wild Party (MTC) | 17 |
| 63. | James Joyce's The Dead | 15 |
| 62. | Contact | 14 |
| 61. | Swing! | 13 |
| 58. (3-way) | Amadeus, Dirty Blonde, Marie Christine | 12 |
| 57. | True West | 11 |
| 55. (2-way) | The Real Thing, Uncle Vanya | 10 |
| 54. | Aida | 9 |
| 53. | A Moon for the Misbegotten | 8 |
| 51. (2-way) | Kat and the Kings, Waiting in the Wings | 6 |
| 47. (4-way) | Dinner with Friends, An Experiment with an Air Pump, The Price, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan | 5 |
| 43. (4-way) | The Green Bird, Jesus Christ Superstar, Saturday Night, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife | 4 |
| 40. (3-way) | Copenhagen, The Iceman Cometh, Saturday Night Fever | 3 |
| 25. (15-way) | The Big Bang, The Bomb-itty of Errors, The Cider House Rules, Coyote on a Fence, Jar the Floor, Jitney, Jolson & Co., Putting It Together, Ring Round the Moon, Shockheaded Peter, Space, The Time of the Cuckoo, Waste, Wrong Mountain | 2 |
| 4. (21-way) | American Buffalo, The Author's
Voice/Imagining Brad, Chesapeake, Contact with the Enemy, East
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