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| Handicapping the Tonys: Which actors will make the cut? | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 05:36 pm EDT 08/25/20 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 05:33 pm EDT 08/25/20 | |
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| TheaterMania's David Gordon offers his observations on how the acting nominations could turn out. The trickiest category is Leading Actor in a Musical. Only two are eligible: Aaron Tveit (''Moulin Rouge!''); Chris McCarrell (''The Lightning Thief''). To me, both were wonderful and deserve to be nominated. I hope the Tonys don't cancel the category due to a lack of candidates. Besides, there's a historic precedent for this: There were only 2 nominees for Leading Actress in a Musical in 1959 and 1995. Gordon also notes that 3 actors from ''The Inheritance'' are eligible for Leading Actor in a Play: Andrew Burnap, Samuel Levine, Kyle Soller. Any chance all 3 make it in Leading? It's rare. In 1960, Jackie Gleason, Robert Morse & Walter Pidgeon did it with ''Take Me Along.'' |
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| Link | TheaterMania: Predicting the Tonys: A Guide to the Eligible Actors in This Very Strange Season |
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| re: Handicapping the Tonys: Which actors will make the cut? | |
| Posted by: kess0078 09:04 am EDT 08/26/20 | |
| In reply to: Handicapping the Tonys: Which actors will make the cut? - WaymanWong 05:33 pm EDT 08/25/20 | |
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| Do we think non-gendered performance categories might be a possibility? Give out four acting awards in total for Leading Performance in a Play/ Musical and Featured Performance in a Play/ Musical. The categories would feel full of work that feels deserving of recognition, the awards would feel competitive, and it would start a conversation on WHY the categories are separated by gender in the first place. Outstanding Leading Performance in a Musical could have a worthy slate of nominees in Adrienne Warren, Elizabeth Stanley, Aaron Tveit and Karen Olivo. I’d rather see this than shoehorning Aaron Tveit into a Featured category. |
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| I so hope this is Elizabeth Stanley's year. | |
| Posted by: GabbyGerard 10:47 am EDT 08/26/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Handicapping the Tonys: Which actors will make the cut? - kess0078 09:04 am EDT 08/26/20 | |
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| I know that most people are predicting Warren will win, but, damn, I sure love Stanley in Jagged Little Pill. Not only did she have the comic timing to nail all the comic bits and the gravitas to land the dramatic scenes, it might be the most healthily, technique-based vocal performance of a rock score I've ever heard on Broadway. | |
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| re: Handicapping the Tonys: Which actors will make the cut? | |
| Posted by: Manager-561 10:17 pm EDT 08/25/20 | |
| In reply to: Handicapping the Tonys: Which actors will make the cut? - WaymanWong 05:33 pm EDT 08/25/20 | |
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| Wayman, between parts 1 and 2, Theatermania accepted that the verb “handicap” is offensive to some people, and switched to “predicting” for this article. I might suggest you consider making the same change going forward. | |
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| re: ************ the Tonys: Which actors will make the cut? | |
| Posted by: sirpupnyc 10:34 pm EDT 08/25/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Handicapping the Tonys: Which actors will make the cut? - Manager-561 10:17 pm EDT 08/25/20 | |
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| We're not going to have many words left...isn't there a point at which we acknowledge that some of them genuinely have multiple unrelated meanings, and that every usage isn't necessarily offensive? Especially in a case like this, where the "weighting chances in a race" meaning far predates the other? | |
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| Predicting the Tonys: Which actors will make the cut? | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 10:27 pm EDT 08/25/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Handicapping the Tonys: Which actors will make the cut? - Manager-561 10:17 pm EDT 08/25/20 | |
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| Manager-561, I took the cue from TheaterMania, which initially called this series ''Handicapping the Tonys.'' But thanks for your suggestion. Will do! | |
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| It would be a shame to cut the category. | |
| Posted by: dramedy 07:21 pm EDT 08/25/20 | |
| In reply to: Handicapping the Tonys: Which actors will make the cut? - WaymanWong 05:33 pm EDT 08/25/20 | |
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| It’s not Tveit’s fault that the season was cut short. If the potential nominees were bad performances then cut it but Tveit got very good notices and worthy of a tony. | |
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| re: It would be a shame to cut the category. | |
| Posted by: mikem 07:41 pm EDT 08/25/20 | |
| In reply to: It would be a shame to cut the category. - dramedy 07:21 pm EDT 08/25/20 | |
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| I wonder if the committee will decide that Daniel J Watts for Tina and Sean Allen Krill for Jagged Little Pill are Leads after all, and make the category a four-nominee category. I think the two shows would be okay with that. Danny Burstein deservedly has the Featured Actor Tony all sewn up, and there's a legitimate possibility that either Watts or Krill could win the Tony as Lead. | |
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