Barbara Barrie earned a nomination for the original "Company" without having any solo singing. On the OBC recording she has some dialog interpolated into a couple of songs and she does some ensemble singing, though her voice is not detectable in the chorus, because she's photographed singing at the microphone in the "Company" documentary.
Similarly to Blaxx's Contact example, four actors from Movin' Out (John Selya, Elisabeth Parkinson, Ashley Tuttle, and Keith Roberts) were nominated for non-singing roles in 2003.
Best Performance in a Musical, not Best Musical Performance.
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That's not completely true. She doesn't have any songs to herself, but she does have a few solos in some of the songs.
Is that true, bjh? Where? I guess I missed them.
Everyone who was ever nominated for Best Actor, Best Featured Actor, Best Actress, or Best Featured Actress in a Play.
The original post mentioned "in a musical." Also, from this year alone, Tracie Bennett, Christian Borle, and Celia Keenan-Bolger are nominated for singing roles in plays; two plays are nominated for Best Score; and if anyone in Master Class were nominated... Well, Audra won her second Tony in the original production.
Larry Haine was nominated for playing Dr. Dreyfus in the original PROMISES PROMISES. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that's a non-singing role.
Gilbert Price for LOST IN THE STARS (Absalom).
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Bringing this back to add Robin de Jesus. Nominated for playing Jacob in the 2010 La Cage aux Folles, who only sings a single verse (then repeats it) in "Cocktail Counterpoint" Any new ones since this thread was started in 2012?
Did Fraulein Kost sing anything in the original Cabaret? If she did, it wasn't on the recording. Either way, Peg Murray won the Tony.
And according to wikipedia (and my cast album), Patsy Kelly as Pauline in the 1971 revival of No, No, Nanette did no singing! And still, she won the Tony.
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