Profile for Markie27

jakethesnake said: "Markie27 said: "Oh god I thought Brian is gay!!!! So sorry! Forget what I said. Now I’m at a loss. Wonder now who would be a great black gay actor of a certain age to play George. I know I know he doesn’t have to be gay. But I just wish they can cast all gay characters for gay roles. There are a lot of straight characters there as well so why not cast the gays for the gays."

I never understand this logic. So only someone w

Though I was rooting for Queen Audra, I’m still happy that both Best Performance by an Actor AND Actress in a leading Role in a musical were both of Filipino decent. Legendary Lea Salonga was so happy and proud!  I didn’t know Marco Paguia is Filipino!  There are now 5! Tony winners of Filipino decent - Lea Salonga (Miss Saigon), Clint Ramos (Eclipsed, Costume Design), Marco Paguia (Buena Vista Social Club, orchestrations), Darren Criss (Maybe Happy Ending) and

Best Play : Danger and Opportunity 

         Runner Up: Grangeville

                             Pre-Existing Condition

Best Actor in a Play (tie) : Paul Sparks and Brian J. Smith, Grangeville 

        Runner Up: Ryan Spahn and Juan Castano, Danger and Opportunity 

               

CoffeeBreak said: "In the last 15 years - 9 of the DramaLeague Distinguished Performance winnerswon a Tony for the same performance/role. (60%)

2010 Alfred MolinaRed -Drama Desk forRed

2011Mark Ryance Jerusalem *** and La Bete- Tonys for Twelfth Night & Boeing-Boeing

2012 Audra McDonaldPorgy and Bess *** -Tonys for LadyDay a

TotallyEffed said: "CoffeeBreak said: "A wig, fake eyebrows and robotic movement are not him but the team."



You realize he's an actor and not a puppet, right?

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I was taken aback by that comment as well.  No matter how good the costume designer, movement director, Arden’s masterful direction, you still need a great actor to pull that off.  Yes darling he is not an actual robo

bear88 said: "It’s been a couple of weeks since my New York City trip, and I still can’t get over ‘Dear Bill’ and Jak Malone.

I knew it was an acclaimed, change-of-pace ballad in the otherwise comic show that had received a lot of praise and an Olivier Award for Malone. I just wasn’t prepared for how good it turned out to be.

In the midst of a fast-moving, fast-talking, sometimes-hard-to-understand-every-word musical comedy, we get

BroadwayGirl107 said: "Am I crazy or is Sadie Sink not nominated? That’s very surprising to me.



Cole seems like the obvious choice for Distinguished Performance."

They’re giving it recently to established performers whose work in their winning year was sub par (Sutton in Music Man and Annaleigh in Sweeney) so I wouldn’t be surprised if they give it to Idina Menzel for Redwood, or Denzel Washington for Othello.  (Although

I guess that could create a lane for someone e

kdogg36 said: "FolliesCabaret said: "I could see this, especially with the possibility of Audra and Nicole splitting the vote."

I know I'm a little annoying about this, but I have to ask: what vote would McDonald and Scherzinger be splitting? This claim implies that there's some natural class of Tony voters who would vote for those two but not Rogers. How would you characterize that group of voters?

Again, I know I'm a pain, but I

Jordan Catalano said: "I'm sure I'm in the minority on this one but, while it's a great great honor to have a theater renamed for you, I'd hate for so many of these great houses to lose their iconic names."

Oh God yes I agree completely.  please please do not touch Majestic, Palace, CITS, Winter Garden, Ambassador, Broadway, Longacre, Lyceum, Lyric, Music Box, Studio 54 and the new Amsterdam.  I really don’t care much about houses rena

Based on very strong production, book and score, I think in my opinion these four would be nominated in all three categories:

1. MAYBE HAPPY ENDING

2. OPERATION MINCEMEAT

3. DEAD OUTLAW 

4. REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES

and I think the fifth slot and the only one for obvious reason would not be nominated for Best Score and probably won’t get in for a weak book, but production wise, resonates with a lot of people:

5. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
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