James Corden's hopes of an award for One Man, Two Guvnors are revived After One Man, Two Guvnors failed to get a look in at the Oliviers, its producers are determined that their commercially successful show shouldn't come away empty-handed from the Tony Awards in New York. Although it was trumpeted as a new work in London and was entered in the Oliviers in that category, the producers behind the Broadway transfer have written a letter to the Tony judges arguing that they should consider it as a revival. They argue that Richard Bean's show is an adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century piece Servant of Two Masters. "In the past, the Tony administration committee has decided adaptations of classics are revivals - for instance, Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie, which is based on August Strindberg's Miss Julie, was considered eligible as a revival," a spokesman for the show, which stars James Corden, tells me. Some Broadway insiders believe the new categorisation is a matter of expediency, not least because the show has at best a nodding acquaintance with Goldoni's work. Some of the producers of the New York show are also involved with Other Desert Cities, a new Broadway play by Jon Baitz. They may well have decided not to compete against themselves when there is a chance of picking up two awards. Precedent is, however, not necessarily on the side of One Man, Two Guvnors. Many shows based on classics have been deemed to be new - The Blue Room, Indiscretions, Crazy for You and Lysistrata Jones among them. A spokesman for the New York production of One Man, Two Guvnors adds that its team "is honoured to be considered eligible for any award." The nominations for the Tony Awards will be announced tomorrow. If it doesn't go Corden's way, at least he won't have to journey across the Atlantic to be humiliated, as he was with the Oliviers.