if Shmegadon!the Broadway adaptation of the Emmy Award-winning television series of the same name any Of the 12 field-leading Tony Awards she’s nominated for at Sunday night’s Tony Awards — she’s the favorite to win numerousincluding Best Music Tony, Best Musical – will mark a historic achievement for Apple TV.
In fact, the company, which produced the TV show and co-produced the Broadway production, will have completed an EGOT — winning at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award — and in a shorter period of time than any other streaming service.
Apple TV launched in November 2019, just six and a half years ago. The Apple TV product was first honored at the Emmys in 2020, when Billy Crudup won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Morning show; At the Oscars in 2022, when Coda It won three awards, including Best Picture; And at the Grammy Awards in February of this year, when Chris Stapleton’s song “Bad As I Used to Be” from the film was featured F1won the Best Country Solo Performance award.
if Shmegadon! If Apple TV wins the Tony, Apple TV will beat by nearly six years the streaming service’s current record of 12 years since launch to EGOT, which is held by Netflix. Netflix completed the EGOT test when Stranger Things: The First Shadow He won a Tony last year.
All the other major streamers are missing at least one part of the EGOT. Hulu, founded in 2007, is just missing Tony. Prime Video, founded in 2006 (and an extension of Amazon, founded in 1994), and HBO Max, founded in 2020 (and an extension of HBO, founded in 1972), are both winning Grammy and Tony Awards. Meanwhile, YouTube, which was founded in 2005; Paramount+, founded in 2014 as CBS All Access (and an extension of Paramount Pictures, founded in 1912); Disney+, founded in 2019 (an extension of The Walt Disney Company, founded in 1923); And Peacock, founded in 2020 (and an outgrowth of NBC, which was founded in 1926), has won only two Emmys.
Today’s major Hollywood studios – or their predecessors – were founded decades before the first Tony Awards were held in 1947, and, moreover, Hollywood rarely supported theatrical productions until recent decades.
NBCUniversal is an outgrowth of Universal Pictures, founded in 1912, and NBC, founded in 1926; Theatrical adaptation of the international film Ride the destruction again He won a Tony Award in 1960, 48 years after the film studio was founded. Sony Pictures Entertainment is an outgrowth of Columbia Pictures, founded in 1924, and Sony Corporation, founded in 1958; Sony Pictures Entertainment supported villa!which won a Tony Award in 2009, 51 years after Sony was founded, and 85 years after Columbia Pictures was founded. Warner Bros. Discovery is an outgrowth of Warner Bros. Pictures, founded in 1923, and Discovery Channel, founded in 1985; Theatrical adaptation of the Warners film 42nd Street He won a Tony Award in 1981, 58 years after founding the film studio.
Meanwhile, Paramount Pictures was founded in 1912 and produced Agnes God which was backed by Paramount Theater Productions, won a Tony Award in 1982, 70 years later. The Walt Disney Company was founded in 1923, 71 years before the play was adapted for a Disney film beauty and the beast He won a Tony Award in 1994.
