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?
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.
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.
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.
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"
"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".
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.
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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.
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