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| 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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| re: Best Featured Actress in a Play is a real toss-up | |
| Last Edit: mikem 01:07 pm EDT 05/25/23 | |
| Posted by: mikem 01:05 pm EDT 05/25/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Best Featured Actress in a Play is a real toss-up - Chazwaza 03:22 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
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| I think you make a good argument for why Cooper is in the mix, but I think Brandon Uranowitz is the frontrunner. As the only acting nominee for Leopoldstadt, he is going to get support from those who loved the show, and I think he stuck out among the large cast. He's also a Broadway vet who's in his 6th Broadway show in less than 10 years and on his fourth Tony nomination without a win. I'm not sure that the voters are going to feel like they have to recognize Ain't No Mo'; if there is any play that they are going to feel that way about, I think it is Fat Ham. And I think the shutout for Slave Play indicated that maybe the voters don't feel compelled in general in that way. There's also the question of how many voters actually saw Ain't No Mo', since it closed early right before the holidays. Cooper may benefit from Zayas being nominated, since voters are only allowed to have missed one show. So you can't vote if you missed both Ain't No Mo' and Cost of Living, and I think only a fraction of potential voters are going to be voting in this category. That fraction may not be representative of the entire voting pool. The acting nomination list is skewed towards closed shows for plays; only 8 of the 19 acting nominees are in shows that are currently open. |
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| re: Best Featured Actress in a Play is a real toss-up | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 05:48 pm EDT 05/25/23 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 05:25 pm EDT 05/25/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Best Featured Actress in a Play is a real toss-up - mikem 01:05 pm EDT 05/25/23 | |
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| Uranowitz is great and has had an INCREDIBLE career in a short span of time... I think his 4 Tony noms are more than enough reward. The Tonys don't owe him a win because they decided to nominate him so often is such a short time, and given how short the time span is and how many noms he's had, I don't think the voters will feel the push based on that -- i think it'll be because of his performance. But i do genuinely think, without passing judgement, that race and diversity will play into this and with the media and celebrity coverage of Ain't No Mo', and the reputation of his work as a writer and actor, the push will be for Cooper to win even if it's, for some, motivated by the desire to make the Tonys and broadway look good (I'm not saying Cooper doesn't deserve a Tony, I think it's clear he and all the noms do, I'm discussing what might also motivate votes). Back to Uranowitz, as good as Uranowitz was in all his shows, i'm not sure his noms for Falsettos or American in Paris were undeniable, I'd have to look at who didn't get nominated those years to be sure how I feel - but I will say he wouldn't have gotten my votes those years (they would have gone to Max von Essen in 2015, or maybe Andy Karl, and Lucas Steele in 2017, of course none of them won either). I didn't see that Burn This but i heard he was a stand out. Actually the amount of recognition he's already gotten in his short career make me root against him for winning this year. Ha. I also think Fat Ham cannot be compared to Slave Play... I get why Slave Play was "shut out", I don't think that applies as the voters not feeling compelled toward "of the moment" things or black plays or celebrating diversity among stories and playwrights. But I do think this year more than ever they will be compelled (beyond voting for talent or word of mouth about it), because part of the appeal to the WGA for not picketing the Tony was that it showcases an especially wide amount of diverse nominees -- I am assuming (but could be wrong) that adding that to the pot of what motivates an award voter to vote a certain way will push Cooper over the edge, since he is the creator/writer and star, so his award (unlike any other acting award this year) would be a vote for giving the writer and force behind Ain't No Mo' a Tony. Also it's not as if Slave Play lost to like Other Desert Cities or something, aka a small stakes play with one rich white family in a room arguing. It lost to a 7 hour epic and acclaimed gay play written by a hispanic gay writer. Back to Fat Ham, the fact that it won the Pulitzer already both pre-validates the legit literary support for it as a play (unlike Slave Play, which of course didn't win a Pulitzer and was talked about by many, in the camp of those who liked it, as an exciting theatrical piece but not actually a great play), but on the flip side this also makes it a bit more okay to not vote for it since it already won the highest main-stream honor a new play can win. I really do think Cooper will win. |
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| and, for the record, I also personally hope Cooper does win | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 05:52 pm EDT 05/25/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Best Featured Actress in a Play is a real toss-up - Chazwaza 05:25 pm EDT 05/25/23 | |
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| and I say that having loved Leopoldstadt and Uranowitz's performance. Though i actually found David Krumholtz as or more memorable. | |
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| re: Best Featured Actress in a Play is a real toss-up | |
| Posted by: dbarnum 09:31 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Best Featured Actress in a Play is a real toss-up - Chazwaza 03:22 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
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| A very confusing post until I realized that you are talking about Best FEATURED Actor in a Play. You keep saying Best Actor when not one actor mentioned is in that category, not even the two who could have been in that category. | |
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| re: Best Featured Actress in a Play is a real toss-up | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 05:28 pm EDT 05/25/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Best Featured Actress in a Play is a real toss-up - dbarnum 09:31 pm EDT 05/24/23 | |
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| Fair enough, as I was, i'm just realizing, confusing the two categories! I did think Uranowitz, Cooper, Jackson etc were nominated in Lead. Perhaps my eyes just stopped reading at "Actor" in this category: Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Re-looking at the Best Actor nominees, it is obvious how silly it was that I forgot all those Leading performances would of course have been nominated. Anyway, I still say Cooper will win (for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play). |
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