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What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
#25What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/15/17 at 3:44pm
Nevermind. I misunderstood the question.
Updated On: 6/17/17 at 03:44 PM
#26What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/15/17 at 3:49pm
That was performed at the Tony awards?
coreman009
Stand-by Joined: 11/30/13
#27What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/15/17 at 3:52pm
This was surprisingly easy & obvious for me!
1) BEN PLATT in Dear Evan Hanse
2) LESLIE ODOM JR in Hamilton
3) NATHAN LANE in The Producers
#28What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/15/17 at 4:52pm
1) Katie Finneran; Promises, Promises
2) Laurie Metcalf; A Doll's House Part 2
3) Norbert Leo Butz; Catch Me If You Can
#29What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/15/17 at 5:02pm
I will never cease to be impressed by Alice Ripley's work in Next to Normal.
"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire
#30What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/15/17 at 5:04pm
Gwen Verdon in Sweet Charity....wait she didn't win. okay
Kristen Chenowith in On the 20th Century...wait she didn't win
Sean Hayes in Promises Promises..wait he didn't win.
ok lets get serious
Tyne Daley in Gypsy
Lauri Metcalf in Dolls House 2
Kristine Nelson in Sonya, Vanya , Natasha and Spike
Angela Lansbury in Mame
Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd
Robert Morse in How to Succeed
Nathan Lane in The Producers..
Maggie Smith in Lettice and Lovage.
#31What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/15/17 at 5:42pm
Male-Musical: Neil Patrick Harris, HEDWIG
Female-Musical: Cynthia Erivo, THE COLOR PURPLE
Male-Play: Tracy Letts, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF
Female-Play: Nina Arianda, VENUS IN FUR
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#32What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/15/17 at 7:00pm
I only got to see Ripley right at the end of the tour when her voice was shot before she called out for the rest of the two weekend performances - so I can't say I can rave about her like some can. I thought Ben Platt one-upped playing the crazy angst and being able to deliver it vocally. Ripley's performance is still special to me though.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
funhamilton_rent
Featured Actor Joined: 9/26/15
#33What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/15/17 at 7:47pm
They may be overrated, but I have to say Ben Platt and Cynthia Erivo.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#34What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/15/17 at 7:47pm
Cynthia Erivo is never overrated.
#35What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/15/17 at 7:56pm
Probably a tie between Patti LuPone in Gypsy and Jessica Lange in Long Day's Journey Into Night - I might give the slight edge to Patti since despite that it's been almost 9 years since I saw it (I was 12 at the time), it's still clear as day in my head.
froote
Broadway Star Joined: 2/14/17
#36What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/15/17 at 8:03pm
Of those that I actually got to see live: Cerveris in Fun Home and Odom Jr. in Hamilton.
Updated On: 6/15/17 at 08:03 PM
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#37What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/15/17 at 8:47pm
The Other One said: "willep said: "The first two that come to mind for me are Mark Rylance in Jerusalem and James Corden in One Man, Two Guvnors."
Good choices, though oddly I would have given Rylance the Tony for the same season's La Bete. I liked the play so much more. Corden? Perfection. Sheer perfection. "
I did LOVE La Bete as well. In fact, that was my introduction to Mark Rylance, and he absolutely blew my mind, so I have a soft spot for that show.
#38What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/15/17 at 8:58pm
Cherry Jones, Doubt
Victoria Clark, The Light in the Piazza
Julie White, The Little Dog Laughed
Christine Ebersole, Grey Gardens
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Willy Loman2
Chorus Member Joined: 6/11/17
#39What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/17/17 at 7:37pm
Jennifer Holliday Dreamgirls. Hands down!
Willy Loman2
Chorus Member Joined: 6/11/17
#40What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/17/17 at 7:38pm
Second place: James Earl Jones in Fences
Updated On: 6/17/17 at 07:38 PM
#41What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/17/17 at 7:46pm
Extremely hard to pick between Patti in Gypsy, Cynthia in Color Purple, and Laurie in Doll's House.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#42What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/17/17 at 8:58pm
Hands down, the best-ever Tony-winning performance was the lightning bolt that shot across the stage of the Imperial in the form of Hugh Jackman in THE BOY FROM OZ.
#43What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/17/17 at 9:15pm
Faith Prince in Guys and Dolls, Ben Platt in DEH, Michael Cerveris in Fun Home, Cynthia Erivo in Color Purple.
leighmiserables
Broadway Star Joined: 4/26/17
#44What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/17/17 at 9:50pm
Overall, probably Alex Sharp in Curious Incident. Cynthia Erivo is a close second, though.
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#45What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/17/17 at 9:51pm
Natasha Richardson in Cabaret (at the Kit Kat Klub/Henry Miller's Theatre before the move to Studio 54). Almost 20 years now since I've seen it and I still can't get her performance out of my head. The expression on her face at the end of the show as she entered to deliver the title number was absolutely haunting.
Jamie Pierce
Leading Actor Joined: 5/11/04
#46What is your favorite Tony Award winning performance of all time?
Posted: 6/18/17 at 3:01pm
Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig
I saw him 13 times. I am NOT an NPH fan and I went in with very low expectations. Mesmerizing.
Katie Finneran, Promises, Promises
It's one of those performances that you lean over to your theatre-going partner and say, "she just won a Tony"
Patina Miller, Pippin
Again, low expectations because I did not enjoy her work in Sister Act and I was sceptical it would pale in comparison to Ben Vereen.
I loved Christine Ebersole in Grey Gardens but then I saw Rachel York in the LA production and I found her performance to be even more touching and inspired. It stayed with me for a long time after.
