''Had McCarrell been nominated, he would not have had a snowball's chance in hell of going home with the Tony.''
I agree 100%. There's no way he would've won, and I bet even McCarrell would agree. But to me, McCarrell did stellar work that was WORTHY of a Tony nomination. And even in the negative notices for ''The Lightning Thief,'' he got singled out for praise. Of course, who does and doesn't deserve to be nominated, let alone win, is a subjective call. I've seen lesser performances than McCarrell's that got Tony-nominated (and even a couple that won). I still think it's important to recognize excellent work whether it's in a hit or a flop. And to my way of thinking, McCarrell and his ''Lightning Thief'' castmate Ryan Knowles, whom the N.Y. Times cited among ''the Best of Theater 2019,'' were wrongfully written off by Tony nominators.
Finally, it's silly to think a Tveit win would be somehow less legitimate because he's the only Tony nominee in his category.
For its first decade, the Tonys simply announced the winners; there were no nominees. (Only in 1956 did they start announcing nominees.) |
