| re: Best Featured Actress in a Play is a real toss-up | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 03:39 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 03:22 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
| In reply to: Best Featured Actress in a Play is a real toss-up - mikem 02:26 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
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| I really wouldn't be surprised if Crystal Lucas-Perry won it for Ain't No Mo', as a gesture to the show because it has little chance at Best Play or Best Actor or Best Director. But I dunno... the category for Best Actor is looking surprisingly unexciting given that Oscar Isaacs was shut out... Sam Jackson was not winning universal raves from the production, I remember more a respectful "of course he's good..." so I do not think winning is by any means a given (i was actually a bit surprised he was nominated at all); with Leopoldstadt the buzz is about the play more than any single performance (I know I personally loved the play but am not thinking Uranowitz as an obvious winner); the only thing anyone's talking about with Doll's House is Chastain and the direction (I've heard and read very good and very bad things about both but nothing about any other actor or element), and I think (based on seeing it) that the women of the Cost of Living cast have the better shot at winning, and given that it's closed and wasn't a big hit, it's unlikely Zayas can win it. ...so maybe Jordan E. Cooper has a strong shot at winning Best Actor. I didn't get to see it but I've heard he was fanastic. And given the MASSIVE outcry and celebrity response to Ain't No Mo' not selling and closing so quickly, if there's a gesture to make, it could easily be to give the creator/writer/star the Tony (and yes it doesn't hurt that he is black and queer, especially since Fat Ham will lose to Leopoldstadt -- controversial to even suggest this comes into play with Tony voting, but it absolutely does and will -- i'm not saying it's bad or good that it does, but it does). Actually... I'm calling it here and now, Jordan E. Cooper will win Best Actor. (however, count me among the people who were very disappointed in Crystal Lucas-Perry's performance in 1776 -- which I blame the directors for as well, but she isn't blameless... the role is the role, and I've never seen such a charmless, energetic-dead-zone of a supposed-to-be central and anchoring performance from someone playing that role) |
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