Actor/actress that should have a tony award(name the musical they were in)- Page 2

[Lavinia]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 2:23am

Definitely Tonya Pinkins for CoC. I think I cried when she lost.

[TheaterAddict7652]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 2:33am

This is completely off-topic, but, Lavinia, your avatar made me laugh out loud.

[ruprecht]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 9:20am

Orfeh for Saturday night Fever (most glaring oversight, IMO) and more recently, Tonya Pinkins.

[jewishboy]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 10:09am

I know this has been mentioned thousands of times and is kind of pointless because her role is just no big enough, but Laura Benanti was glorious as Claudia in Nine.

While I agree that Tonya Pinkins should get a Tony for Caroline Or Change, I do not think she should have won it over Idina Menzel.

Barbara Harris, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

Vanessa Williams, Into The Woods, though not in when competing against Sutton Foster for Thoroughly Modern Millie

Gregg Edleman, Into the Woods

Sarah Uriarte Berry, Light in the Piazza

And if you could give Tonys to Encores! preformers then Debbie Gravitte would have to get one for her breathtaking preformance in Tenderloin (this show introduced me to the wonder that is Debbie Gravitte)

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 11:04am

Ethel Merman in Gypsy and Katharine Hepburn in Coco

[WickedOne2]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 12:16pm

Raul Esparza (Taboo)

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 12:17pm

Emily Skinner

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 12:28pm

Toni Collette, THE WILD PARTY
Bernadette Peters, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Bernadette Peters, GYPSY
Antonio Banderas, NINE
Mary Stuart Masterson, NINE
Tonya Pinkins, CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
Mandy Patinkin, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Matthew Morrison, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Daphne Rubin-Vega, RENT
Daphne Rubin-Vega, ANNA IN THE TROPICS

[broadway86]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 1:04pm

If we're talkin' plays...

Ned Beatty, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Gabriel Byrne, A Touch of the Poet
Kevin Anderson, Death of a Salesman
Amy Ryan, A Streetcar Named Desire (although, Lenox was excellent)
Gary Sinise, One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
Michael Hayden, Judgment at Nuremberg
Eddie Izzard, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Kathleen Turner, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Kate Burton, Hedda Gabler

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 1:07pm

Plays:

Michael Stuhlbarg (SP?), THE PILLOWMAN
Daphne Rubin-Vega, ANNA IN THE TROPICS
Brian F. O'Byrne, DOUBT
Dominic Cooper, THE HISTORY BOYS
Omar Metwally, SIXTEEN WOUNDED

[catstagestud]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 1:08pm

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ragtime

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 1:14pm

He was amazing, yes, but certainly not better than Alan Cumming. Cumming deserved that award.

[scooter38432]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 2:05pm

Did someone actually (and seriously) list Vanessa Williams for INTO THE WOODS? You've got to be kidding me.

Anyway...

All of the usuals that I agree with...

Tonya Pinkins for CAROLINE

Brian S. Mitchell for RAGTIME (even tho I loved Alan Cumming in CABARET, Brian's role was larger and far more challenging.)

PLUS...

Nathan Lane for GUYS & DOLLS (He was textbook-perfect as Nathan Detroit. Gregory Hines won for playing a role that should have been a piano player, not a tap dancer.)

John Malkovich for BURN THIS

Joe Mantello for ANGELS IN AMERICA

Victor Garber for LEND ME A TENOR

Bernadette Peters for SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

David Carroll for CHESS and for GRAND HOTEL

[jewishboy]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 3:17pm

Yes! David Carroll for Grand Hotel!

On the subject of Vanessa Williams, I tought she played a darker and more frightning witch then Peters and her Last Midnight was much better. In my opinion.

Disagree that Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a bigger part then the MC and I actually feel that the MC is a more challenging role. Maybe not vocally but dramatically it is.

Denis O'Hare and Marc Kudisch for Assassins. actually everyone should have been nominated, it was a perfect cast. But, I actually would have preffered Denis O'Hare winning over Cerveris.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 3:19pm

Coalhouse is obviously a more vocally demanding role than the Emcee, but Cumming's challenge was far, far greater than that of Mitchell.

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 3:20pm

Patti Cohenour for "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (and I saw all her competition that year). She deserved the award.

Liz Callaway in "Baby" comes to mind as well.

EDIT: Also, Patti LuPone in "Anything Goes."

Updated On: 5/31/06 at 03:20 PM

[Kevo711]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 3:27pm

Kelli O'Hara in The Light in the Piazza!

[All_For_Laura]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 3:33pm

Carolee For Parade

And Maria For WIW

[scooter38432]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 4:03pm

I completely disagree, Munkustrap.

Apples and oranges, I suppose.

Nothing you say will convince me that the Emcee is more challenging than Coalhouse.

Loved Alan Cumming. Loved BSM (and I'm usually not a fan of his -- in fact I really haven't liked him in anythings since RAGTIME).

The role of the Emcee is kind of a fun one, in a dark sort of way. He gets to be dirty and play with the chorus girls/boys as well as the audience. (And Joel Grey won a SUPPORTING Tony and Oscar for the role.)

Coalhouse needs to run the gamut of emotion throughout the entire script of RAGTIME and has much, much tougher songs to sing than the Emcee.

Maybe it should have been a tie that year.

Then again, come to think of it, the Tony voters that year were a little weird when it came to shelling out the awards. Who in their right mind would choose THE LION KING over RAGTIME for Best Musical? Thank God the writing awards went the right way...

Updated On: 5/31/06 at 04:03 PM

[little_sally]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 4:26pm

Marin Mazzie deserves a Tony. She was great in Passion, Ragtime, and Kiss Me, Kate. It's a total unjustice that she has yet to win a Tony in her career.

Others:
Mary Stuart Masterson, Nine
Antonio Bandares, Nine
Corey Reynolds, Hairspray
Kelli O'Hara, The Light in the Piazza
Hunter Foster, Urinetown (wasn't even nominated!?)
Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change
Carolee Carmello, Parade
Isabel Keating, The Boy From Oz
Raul Esparza, Taboo
Idina Menzel, Rent

[jimnysf]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 4:27pm

Orfeh! And "Saturday Night Fever" in general!

[kidmanboy]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 4:38pm

Theses are my HANDS DOWN should have won....even based on the competition...nothing to do with being a fan of a particular performer:

Antonio Banderas, Nine
Toni Collette, Wild Party
Tonya Pinkins, Caroline or Change

Three of the most amazing performances to grace the modern stage and completely blasphamous that none of them won a tony.

[broadway86]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 4:59pm

I'd like to add Marin Mazzie for Kiss Me, Kate and Rachel York for Victor/Victoria.
Updated On: 5/31/06 at 04:59 PM

[Dre2387]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 5:04pm

With Vanessa Williams, I liked her singing better than Bernadette but I liked Bernadette's acting better than Vanessa.

Terrence Mann -Les Mis
Gary Sinise -One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Eddie Izzard - A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Jonathan Pryce- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Rachel York -Victor/Victoria
Gregory Jbara -Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Harry Groener -Crazy For You
Bruce Adler -Crazy For You
Michele Pawk -Crazy For You

[Horton]

Posted: 5/31/06 at 6:19pm

Brian Stokes Mitchell Man of La Mancha