| re: 1979 Best Actress Tony Award (Angela Lansbury) | |
| Posted by: Guillaume 12:29 am EDT 03/21/22 | |
| In reply to: 1979 Best Actress Tony Award (Angela Lansbury) - bobby2 11:45 pm EDT 03/20/22 | |
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| Loudon gave a really wonderful performance that showed she was not just a comic but an actress; the vulnerability Michael Bennett got out of her was amazing and he found unexpected moments to quickly show and hide it that made your heart ache. Alexis Smith got nominated because she was Alexis Smith - her non-role and non-show were besides the point. Tovah Feldshuh gave a one note performance as a sex pot; she served it up with brio. Lucie gave a one and half note performance as a type we were expected to love just because she was coocoo and the one or two supposedly "honest" moments spackled into the script could not be taken seriously because the entire show was pitched with a "Three's Company" School of Dramatic Arts style so we were in sitcom land so who cared. Still, Lucie should have been given the nomination over Feldshuh because Lucie had a lot more material to deliver along with having to grin and bear Robert Klein's nonstop mugging and garbage disposal vocals on his songs. For the fourth Tony nomination I'd have given it to Georgia Brown in Carmelina, who was offbeat funny in a here's my warts and all way, but I suspect they didn't want four middle aged actresses up in front of the cameras when production numbers were shown, and Lansbury and Loudon definitely needed to be honored and Smith is sexier than Brown, so bye bye Brown and let's get one of the younger ladies on camera; and Felshuh looked terrific in those dresses shaking her maracas. | |
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