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________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
#26re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 12:51pmSTEPHEN SCHWARTZ!!!! Hello??????????????????
Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?"
Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"
Sondheim_Geek
Broadway Star Joined: 2/20/07
#28re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 12:54pm
CAROLEE CARMELLO
Raul Esparza
Sherie Rene Scott
John McMartin
brochatkid
Stand-by Joined: 5/10/08
fbueller
Leading Actor Joined: 9/30/07
#33re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 1:47pmI'd like to see Twelfth Night transfer to Broadway if only for the chance that Jane Greenwood's beautiful work might finally win her a Tony.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#34re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 1:56pmBrian Murray
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#35re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 2:06pmKelli O'Hara
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
Renart
Stand-by Joined: 2/26/09
#36re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 2:38pm
"Note: this is not intended to disparage any of the above mentioned performers, whom I mostly like. It's just that there are folks who have been working in the theater for DECADES without a Tony."
I agree. It takes more than just one or two big shows to be in the category of "needs to win a Tony already" unless they happen to give a great performance IN THE FUTURE (which is unknowable). We can't say that So-and-so should have won for Such-and-such that one year therefore he deserves to win one in the future. I'm sure that if this question were asked in 1965 many people would have written that "Barbra Streisand needs to win a Tony already." The problem is that she never did another show after Funny Girl so it would be kinda hard to win one. Theater history is littered with people who've had a great year or two and then were never heard of again (on Broadway anyway).
Now, on the other had you've got the veterans who've been around for years and have been consistent in their work and keep coming back and giving us more but have still never won. Those are the ones that seem to fit the subject of this thread.
My votes:
Estelle Parsons
Dana Ivey
Victor Garber
Judy Kuhn
Julie Andrews (Would probably have to be in a play because of her voice problems.)
#37re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 2:51pmGarber and Kuhn definitely deserve to be included.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#38re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 2:56pmgood call with Dana Ivey!
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#39re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 3:54pm
Raul Esparza
Gavin Creel
Kelli O'Hara
Judy Kuhn
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
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#40re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 4:06pmwithout a doubt....Julie Andrews
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#41re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 4:36pm
Stephanie J. Block
Megan Hilty
Stephanie D'Abruzzo
John Tartaglia
hmpeterson
Featured Actor Joined: 6/19/08
breakfree303
Chorus Member Joined: 1/17/09
#43re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 6:30pm
the "Susan Lucci of Broadway" as Hunter Bell called her, Kelli O'Hara.
Raul Esparza.
Victor Garber.
Gavin Creel.
Will Swenson (I personally think he and Greg Jbara should have tied for Best Feautured Actor)
"'Cats' is the second worst thing that ever happened to New York City"-Jersey Girl
#44re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 6:50pm
I disagree, Swenson should have won landslide.
Anyways, definitely agree with Jane Greenwood, Estelle Parsons, and my favorite, Victor Garber.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#45re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 6:58pm
I'd love to see Allison Janney take one for something some day, Andy Karl too. :)
And if someone would fkdsjlfsd revive Evita and let Orfeh have a go at it, she'd take the award in a second.
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#46re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 7:11pm
Where is all the love for Sherie 
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-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#47re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 7:15pmThen again, re: Allison Janney, who needs a Tony when you've got four Emmy's and a SAG Award? : Still, it'd be nice!
TIGGOSAURUS
Broadway Star Joined: 12/5/05
#48re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 8:09pm
Raul Esparza. HE needs to even out his ratio. He should win one in every acting category for the next four years, that'll show the idiots who voted for DHP.
I'd LOVE to see Raul Esparza finally win the Tony Award he thoroughly deserves in the next few years - but you are actually showing yourself up as an UTTER ***** for the comment I've highlighted above.
DHP is a FINE actor, only a blinkered fool would characterize his Tony win as anything other than a surprise - NOT an injustice! Opinions like the one I've quoted do R.E. absolutely NO favours at all! :-{
Seen some shows in my time....
TIGGOSAURUS
Broadway Star Joined: 12/5/05
#49re: ________ Needs to Win a Tony Already
Posted: 6/30/09 at 8:09pmDouble post, sorry.
Seen some shows in my time....
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