Tony Award Upsets?
Tony Award Upsets?
#1Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:03pmJust thought it would be interesting... What were some of the upsets at previous Tony Awards that you can recount? What were some of the surprises that you were happy/angry about? Recently, I know that people didn't expect Avenue Q to win Best Musical - what are others you can think of...
rentgal589
Leading Actor Joined: 3/22/07
#2re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:04pm
Avenue Q winning best musical is what I thought of as well, right away.
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Updated On: 4/2/07 at 07:04 PM
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#3re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:05pm
Avenue Q winning over Wicked was the first one I thought of when I read your thread's title actually... Haha
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wiggum2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/21/03
#4re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:05pm
Yes I think it would
Sweney Todd not winning best revival would count I think
FutureAladdinOnB'Way
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/07
#5re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:05pmThis isn't a winning one, but more a nomination upset and to me that was when Aida wasn't nominated for Best Musical..In my opinion it was one of the best that season and another was Sherie Rene Scott not being nominated for her role as Amneris, I mean she made that show!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#6re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:06pmTwo Gentlemen of Verona to be mentioned in 5...4...3...
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#7re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:07pm
^ The critics basically slaughtered AIDA, didn't they? No chance in hell it was going to get a Best Musical Nod.
SWEENEY TOOD not winning last year, definitely counts.
Bernadette losing for Mama of course counts.
People expected WICKED to win, but many of feel it didn't deserve to win, and it didn't.
FutureAladdinOnB'Way
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/07
#8re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:09pmIt was pretty abused by critics, but please picking Wild Party or Swing over it? And the critics thought Sherie was awesome in the show so I don't see how she didn't get a nom.
#9re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:13pm
Two Gentlemen of Verona over Follies (Happy Smaxie?).
PJ Game over Sweeney.
Would Nine over Dreamgirls be considered an upset?
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#10re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:14pm
Did you really just say that AIDA should have been nominated for a Tony over WILD PARTY? *Sigh*
Weren't Christine Ebersole's 42ND STREET and Donna Murphy's THE KING AND I wins considered upsets in their respective years?
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FutureAladdinOnB'Way
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/07
#11re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:19pm
Either Wild Party or Swing! And yes I would consider Dreamgirls losing to Nine an upset.
Updated On: 4/2/07 at 07:19 PM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
buddharich
Featured Actor Joined: 3/23/07
#13re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:49pm
Maybe it wasn't an upset but it surprised me, and that was just last year, when LaChanze won over Patti Lu and Sutton Foster and Kelli O'Hara... it was one of only 2 of my predictions that didn't win (the other was Ian McDiarmid)...
Titanic winning best musical shocked me as well...
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Featured Actor Joined: 5/21/04
#14re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:58pmWhen Curtins wins Best Musical over SA.
Happy Happy Joy Joy
FutureAladdinOnB'Way
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/07
#15re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 7:59pmAlright so Swing! is awesome and deserved a nom.......but I don't know much about Wild Party so I just thought that Aida should have been nominated...
#16re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 8:00pm
Curtains winning would be anything BUT an upset. It would be an upset if Grey Gardens won.
Forgot about Patti last year. She should've won.
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#17re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 8:01pm
Sweeney Todd not winning best revival. I was watching and went "What the hell?" out loud.
Updated On: 4/2/07 at 08:01 PM
FutureAladdinOnB'Way
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/07
#19re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 8:25pm
Avenue Q winning over Wicked
Spamalot winning over Light in the Piazza
Pajama Game winning over Sweeney Todd
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Elphie4ever
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#20re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 8:28pm
Avenue Q unfortuntely stealing the tony away from Wicked.
>_>
#21re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 8:31pm
When Curtins wins Best Musical over SA.
CURTINS will never win over SA. CURTAINS, however, might. 
And Patti may have been spectacular in SWEENEY TODD (I don't know, I didn't see her, I saw Judy Kaye) but come on, nobody saw La Chanze winning? That was the one award that always seemed a lock, at least to me.
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#22re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 8:45pm
^So true, D2 (Hah, that rhymes). I remember yelling a few choice words at my TV set when La Chanze won.
There wouldn't be lights bright enough!
Updated On: 4/2/07 at 08:45 PM
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#23re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 9:32pm
Alright so Swing! is awesome and deserved a nom.......but I don't know much about Wild Party so I just thought that Aida should have been nominated...
So because you don't know about it it shouldn't have been nominated? There's logical sense for you. Wild Party is, in my opinion, brilliant. Although I think both Aida and WP were decimated by the critics.
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FutureAladdinOnB'Way
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/07
#24re: Tony Award Upsets?
Posted: 4/2/07 at 9:34pm
No I just didn't know how good it was so I was just saying it would have been nice to see Aida nominated, but I can see that it wasn't because of the critics
Updated On: 4/2/07 at 09:34 PM
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