Actors / Actresses that should've won a Tony

[CoolDogeGuy]

I was watching a bunch of Tony Award performances and one of them was LaChiusa's The Wild Party. Eartha Kitt's performance of "When it Ends" gave me goosebumps and I was wondering if she won the Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical or not. I looked it up and it turns out she didn't. One person in the comments said, "It will always be bull**** that Eartha Kitt didn't win the Tony." I TOTALLY agreed! I then thought about making a thread about who I think should've won a Tony. Welp, what are yours?

[blaxx]

Ugh, another one of these. Shoulda woulda. Obviously the voters didn't feel like you; the rest is irrelevant.

[UncleCharlie]

Tracy Letts absolutely should have won the Tony for Virginia Woolf over Tom Hanks. Just because Hanks is a big movie star doesn't mean... oh wait... Letts won. OK, I'm good.

I hope the OP will understand that some of us find it absolutely adorable that he thinks by seeing one 4 minute YouTube clip of 1 nominee singing 1 song at the Tonys, he's in a better position to determine who should have won a Tony than the voters who saw the complete performances of all 5 nominees live.

[Alexander Lamar]

Tonya Pinkins - Caroline, or Change

[newintown]

I don't ask for new, interesting questions - I'm no fool. But if evolution truly exists, someday, we can hope that all humanity will know how to search for pre-existing threads. 

[yankeefan7]

Robert Cuccioli - Jekyll & Hyde (1997), lost to James Naughton ( Billy Flynn) in Chicago. Playing the dual Jekyll & Hyde is so much more challenging than playing Billy Flynn. Just the "Confrontation" scene alone should have won Mr. Cuccioli the Tony IMO.

I will also add Jonathan Groff (Spring Awakening) should have won over David Hyde Pierce (Curtains) IMO.

[TotallyEffed]

Bertie Carvel for Matilda and Kristine Nielsen for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.

[Wick3]

This is when it really depends on the competition. Some years are so competitive that any of the actors nominated could have won the Tony! Ultimately it depends on the Tony voters voting that year but I think a better thread title would have been "actors/actresses that would have won a Tony had the production been on a different Bway season"

[newintown]

"Actors/Actresses that would have won a Tony were I the only voter"

[yankeefan7]

"Ultimately it depends on the Tony voters voting that year but I think a better thread title would have been "actors/actresses that would have won a Tony had the production been on a different Bway season"

The first one that comes to my mind is in any other year, Alex Brightman (School Of Rock) would have won. He just happened to have the misfortune of being in his show the same year as "Hamilton".

[Withonelook2]

Such venom in some of these replies

[Demitri2]

Though it's hard to believe, I don't think the great Geraldine Page ever won a Tony Award. I was fortunate enough to see her six times on stage. She was definitely a one of a kind actress. Occasionally I'll watch her in DVD's of her films SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH and SUMMER AND SMOKE. Not long ago I caught the TV version of SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH starring Elizabeth Taylor in Page's role. Where Page was mesmerizing to watch, Taylor didn't have a clue as how to play the part. 

Still feel Bernadette Peters deserved the Tony for GYPSY over the girl from HAIRSPRAY. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Kelli O’Hara for Light in the Piazza, South Pacific and Bridges
Kristin Chenoweth for On the Twentieth Century

[BroadwayConcierge]

Andy Karl for Groundhog Day. Should've at least tied with Platt.

And Kelli's performance in Bridges was most Tony-worthy of all those you listed, I think, Jorge. She was truly transcendent as Francesca.

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

yankeefan7 said: ""Ultimately it depends on the Tony voters voting that year but I think a better thread title would have been "actors/actresses that would have won a Tony had the production been on a different Bway season"

The first one that comes to my mind is in any other year, Alex Brightman (School Of Rock) would have won. He just happened to have the misfortune of being in his show the same year as Hamilton."

That's how I felt about Danny Burstein's incredible performance as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. Though what a headline it would've made had Hamilton lost Lead Actor in a Musical.

[Eliza2]

BroadwayConcierge said: "Andy Karl forGroundhog Day. Should've at least tied with Platt.

And Kelli's performance inBridgeswas most Tony-worthy of all those you listed, I think, Jorge. She was truly transcendent as Francesca."

Completely agree on Andy Karl, and I'll add Lucas Steele from this year too.

 

[MVintheheartland]

Andrew Rannells for "Falsettos". I was only able to see the filmed production as a movie, but he was simply amazing. 

[GeorgeandDot]

It's a good thing ya'll aren't Tony voters........

[Jarethan]

Recent:

-- Laura Linney in The Little  Foxes

-- Donna Murphy for Hello Dolly.  I have ALWAYS loved Bette, but she called in the performance I saw

 

Long Time Ago:

-- Jason Robards in A Moon for the Misbegotten

-- Patti Lupone in Anything Goes.  Criminal loss and I am not a Patti groupie.  But her Reno was GREAT

-- Chita Rivera for Chicago.  Donna McKechnie was terrific...in a supporting role

-- Raul Julia for Nine.  I assume he was disliked; losing to a supporting player in Dreamgirls was insulting

-- David Dukes for Bent...one of the great supporting performances I have ever seen

-- Kathleen Turner for Virginia Woolf.  Got this day, I don't understand all the fuss about Cherry Jones' performance.  IMO, it paled next to Turner.

 

[starcatchers]

Gideon Glick for Significant Other

[theater_tech]

christ, people, if you're so bothered by this thread then just move along.

The usual: Danny Burstein, Christopher Fitzgerald, Andy Karl (saw GHD with minimal expectations but was I blown away by his performance)

Rachel Bay Jones 100% deserves that Tony, but I will argue that Brittain Ashford should've been nominated until the day I die. 

[mamaleh]

I still maintain Steven Pasquale should at least have been nominated for BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY.  

[hork]

Jenn Colella. I actually thought Rachel Bay Jones was kind of bad.

[Call_me_jorge]

hork said: "Jenn Colella. Iactually thought Rachel Bay Jones was kind of bad."

How?

[hork]

Call_me_jorge said: "hork said: "Jenn Colella. Iactually thought Rachel Bay Jones was kind of bad."

How?"

By not acting well.