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2018 Featured Actress in a Play
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2018 Featured Actress in a Play#1
Posted: 5/9/18 at 11:20am
Debates and discussions for the category of Featured Actress in a Play. I also included some contenders that didn’t get nominated.

FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
- Susan Brown [as Hannah Pitt, et al], ANGELS IN AMERICA
- Norma Dumezwini [as Hermione Granger], HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
- Deborah Findlay [as Hazel], THE CHILDREN
- Denise Gough [as Harper Pitt, et al], ANGELS IN AMERICA
- Laurie Metcalf [as B], THREE TALL WOMEN

10 contenders that didn’t receive nominations:
Francesca Annis [as Rose], THE CHILDREN ... Laura Benanti [as Laura], METEOR SHOWER ... Tammy Blanchard [as Cora], THE ICEMAN COMETH ... Blair Brown [as Jeanette], THE PARISIAN WOMAN ... Anna Camp [as Hazel Conway], TIME AND THE CONWAYS ... Alison Pill [as C], THREE TALL WOMEN ... Bel Powley [as Dawn], LOBBY HERO ... Phillipa Soo [as Rebecca], THE PARISIAN WOMAN ... Celia Weston [as Ruth], MARVIN’S ROOM ... Olivia Wilde [as Julia], 1984
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2018 Featured Actress in a Play#2
Posted: 5/9/18 at 11:32am
Gough will win.
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2018 Featured Actress in a Play#3
Posted: 5/9/18 at 11:33am
I think Denise will win as well. Partly for consideration of her zenith performance in People, Places and Things too.
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2018 Featured Actress in a Play#4
Posted: 5/9/18 at 11:34am

I hope it's Gough but I could see it going to Dumezweni. Interesting that the OCC went to Metcalf (and I wouldn't be mad if she won either.)

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2018 Featured Actress in a Play#5
Posted: 5/9/18 at 11:36am

I don't think this is a runaway category for anyone. I could easily see Gough, Metcalf or Dumezweni winning.

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2018 Featured Actress in a Play#6
Posted: 5/9/18 at 11:39am

I think if Metcalf didn't just win a Tony, she'd be the frontrunner.

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2018 Featured Actress in a Play#7
Posted: 5/9/18 at 11:44am

AC126748 said: "I don't think this is a runaway category for anyone. I could easily see Gough, Metcalf or Dumezweni winning."

I liked their performances quite a bit more than Gough’s but I think this will be her year.

She was pretty remarkable in People, Places & Things though.

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2018 Featured Actress in a Play#8
Posted: 5/9/18 at 3:58pm

I've seen both Gough and Noma, and there's no way Noma can win this. Gough's final monologue at the airplane is just perfection.

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2018 Featured Actress in a Play#9
Posted: 5/9/18 at 4:38pm
I would personally vote for Metcalf, but I think it’ll go to Gough, partly (as someone mentioned) as an acknowledgment of her ineligible performance in People, Places, and Things. I don’t think the voters will ride the Potter wave of love in the same way the Olivier voters did, so while Dumezweni’s performance is wonderful, she’s up against some fierce competition in more intense, meatier roles.


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