LOS ANGELES: Rachel Bloom started the year with a Golden Globe win for her starring role in the CW sitcom “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” A week later, she added a Critics’ Choice Award to her mantle.
So, a 2016 Emmy nomination for lead actress in a comedy series seemed within reach. But no.
“It was a bummer,” Bloom acknowledged in a recent interview. “But,” she continued, “the fact that I was even in the conversation, on the short list to get any nomination, is unbelievable.”
But she’s still a double nominee. The show received four Emmy nominations for original songs, main-title theme, choreography and single-camera editing — and Bloom plays into the music nods.
Those awards will among those presented at Saturday’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, which, unlike next weekend’s prime-time show, in general celebrate technicians and others working behind the scenes.
“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” casts Bloom as a New York lawyer, Rebecca, who, on a whim, abandons her posh but miserable existence to be with the love of her life, Josh (Vincent Rodriguez III).
Problems are that her so-called “love” was a decades-old summer-camp crush who is engaged to another woman and now lives in California. And when Rebecca arrives, Josh has no idea why Rebecca is really there.
Bloom co-wrote the main-title theme with long-time collaborator Adam Schlesinger.
“I really miss that old-school television opening with a song telling you what the show is going to be, because it seems kind of cheesy and outdated,” Bloom said.
Her nominated song is “Settle for Me,” a Cole Porter-esque ballad, which places Rebecca and Josh’s best friend Greg in a lavish recreation of a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie-musical production number. “A dream come true,” Bloom said of creating that sequence.
So, a 2016 Emmy nomination for lead actress in a comedy series seemed within reach. But no.
“It was a bummer,” Bloom acknowledged in a recent interview. “But,” she continued, “the fact that I was even in the conversation, on the short list to get any nomination, is unbelievable.”
But she’s still a double nominee. The show received four Emmy nominations for original songs, main-title theme, choreography and single-camera editing — and Bloom plays into the music nods.
Those awards will among those presented at Saturday’s Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony, which, unlike next weekend’s prime-time show, in general celebrate technicians and others working behind the scenes.
“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” casts Bloom as a New York lawyer, Rebecca, who, on a whim, abandons her posh but miserable existence to be with the love of her life, Josh (Vincent Rodriguez III).
Problems are that her so-called “love” was a decades-old summer-camp crush who is engaged to another woman and now lives in California. And when Rebecca arrives, Josh has no idea why Rebecca is really there.
Bloom co-wrote the main-title theme with long-time collaborator Adam Schlesinger.
“I really miss that old-school television opening with a song telling you what the show is going to be, because it seems kind of cheesy and outdated,” Bloom said.
Her nominated song is “Settle for Me,” a Cole Porter-esque ballad, which places Rebecca and Josh’s best friend Greg in a lavish recreation of a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie-musical production number. “A dream come true,” Bloom said of creating that sequence.
