I wanna talk about everyone Audra beat... because it's amazing.
1994 - Best Featured Actress in a Musical Marsha Lewis - GreaseSally Mayes - She Loves Me Marin Mazzie - Passion WINNER: AUDRA ANN MCDONALD - Carousel
1996 - Best Featured Actress in a Play Viola Davis - Seven Guitars Michele Shay - Seven Guitars Lois Smith - Burred ChildWINNER: AUDRA MCDONALD - Master Class
1998 - Best Featured Actress in a Musical Anna Kendrick - High Society Tsidii Le Loka - Lion King Mary Louise Wilson - CabaretWINNER: AUDRA MCDONALD - Ragtime
2004 - Best Featured Actress in a Play Essie Davis - JumpersSanaa Lathan - Raisin' in the Sun Margo Martindale - Cat on A Hot Tin Roof Daphne Rubin Vega - Anna in the Tropics WINNER: AUDRA MCDONALD - Raisin' in the Sun
2012 - Best Lead Actress in a Musical Jan Maxwell - FolliesCristin Milioti - Once Kelli O'Hara - Nice Work Laura Osnes - Bonnie & Cylde WINNER: AUDRA MCDONALD - Porgy & Bess
2014 - Best Lead Actress in a Play Tyne Daly - Mothers and SonsCherry Jones - Glass Menagerie Estelle Parson - Velocity of Autumn Latanya Richardson-Jackson - Raisin' in the Sun WINNER: AUDRA MCDONALD - Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
She only has ever lost to Christine Ebersole and Heather Headley. Discuss.
Will Swenson. Oops, we're not supposed to talk about performer's private lives.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
From what I understand, there is a Society of Audra-Losers that meets once a week in a basement, tells stories, sings songs, cries, gets in touch with their feelings, and drinks vodka.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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Why do you keep typing Raisin' in the Sun?? Why are you putting the apostrophe in raisin? I promise I'm not being catty, but obviously it's not a typo. The title comes from a Langston Hughes poem, titled Harlem (aka A Dream Deferred). It's really beautiful.
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
As much as I love these "losing" actresses and their performances, the only time I was disappointed/surprised was when she beat Viola Davis for Seven Guitars. The rest of these wins were richly deserved. Imo
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I remember Cherry Jones getting great notices for Glass Menagerie last year. I didn't see either performance, but could most of the Tony voters have voted for her just to make history in the way they did? Or was Audra's performance genuinely superior? (That's a matter of opinion, I know)
I'm in the camp that really wished Jan Maxwell won for Follies instead of Audra. I thought she was very good in Porgy and Bess and otherwise wouldn't begrudge her win, but Jan was giving the performance of her lifetime and I'm terribly sad she was overlooked! Not to mention she has yet to win a Tony Award...
Please, no shade, and agree to disagree, but no one needs a Tony. It should always go to the best performance, IMO. I adored Maxwell in Follies, but MacDonald's Bess was an acing and vocal master class. She only eclipsed it with her amazing Lady Day.
Ms. Maxwell is a stunning actress. I wish she had more exposure for her talents!
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She was AWFUL in PORGY AND BESS. That was one performance she shouldn't have won for. Last year was tough. She was excellent, but so was Cherry Jones, and I would have voted for Cherry, because I LOVED everything about that production of THE GLASS MENAGERIE. It was, sadly, mostly overlooked last Tony season.
"Please, no shade, and agree to disagree, but no one needs a Tony. It should always go to the best performance, IMO. I adored Maxwell in Follies, but MacDonald's Bess was an acing and vocal master class. She only eclipsed it with her amazing Lady Day. Ms. Maxwell is a stunning actress. I wish she had more exposure for her talents!"
No, no shade from, and I agree that nobody needs a Tony Award; however, I thought Maxwell actually deserved the Tony over Audra for her performance in Follies, and, whether it is "appropriate" to think this way or not, hurts more considering Audra already had four while Maxwell has never had the honor.
PM, total respect for that. I just disagree with anyone winning an award because they haven't yet. It just diminishes the honor. Ms. Maxwell will win her deserved Tony, no doubt, and if she doesn't, she'll be okay.
Audra's Bess was "awful"? I am quite sure you didn't "see" it.
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
I would have voted for Jan Maxwell that year, too, but I'm not upset Audra won. She was excellent in Porgy and Bess. I just thought Maxwell was better.
Maxwell's performances are always so different and so memorable (from Phyllis to the Baroness Bomburst)- it's really more of a shame to me that she has never won, moreso than Kelli O'Hara.
Audra McDonald is an incredible performer, but sometimes I feel she didn't always deserved all those Tonys... which doesn't mean she's overrated or something, she's not! She's just over-awarded. Jan Maxwell and Cherry Jones should have won over Audra in my opinion.
doddlenyc, I did indeed see Audra in DIANE PAULUS' PORGY AND BESS. I don't know why you would say I didn't. And what I saw was a mannered, pretentious, "Oh look at me! I'm acting!" performance. It was terrible. Just because she sang it well doesn't mean it was good.
Just because I didn't like it didn't mean I didn't see it.