It's still stunning to me that Chita Rivera wasn't Tony-nominated for her iconic Anita, but who knows what the nominators were thinking?
Ironically, one of the most thankless and underrated roles in Tony history has to be Tony ... in ''West Side Story.''
Actresses playing Maria (Carol Lawrence, Josie de Guzman, Josephina Scaglione) and Anita (Debbie Allen, Karen Olivo) got Tony nominated.
But Larry Kert, the original Tony (1957), didn't get a Tony nomination, and neither did Ken Marshall (1980) and Matt Cavenaugh (2009).
It looked like Isaac Powell (2020) would break this trend, but then COVID happened. So the Tonys passed over Tony again. Not cool! |
