Actors / Actresses that should've won a Tony

I was watching a bunch of Tony Award performances and one of them was LaChiusa's The Wild Party. Eartha Kitt's performance of "When it Ends" gave me goosebumps and I was wondering if she won the Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical or not. I looked it up and it turns out she didn't. One person in the comments said, "It will always be bull**** that Eartha Kitt didn't win the Tony." I TOTALLY agreed! I then thought about making a thread about who I think should've won a Tony. Welp, what are yours?

Tracy Letts absolutely should have won the Tony for Virginia Woolf over Tom Hanks. Just because Hanks is a big movie star doesn't mean... oh wait... Letts won. OK, I'm good.

I hope the OP will understand that some of us find it absolutely adorable that he thinks by seeing one 4 minute YouTube clip of 1 nominee singing 1 song at the Tonys, he's in a better position to determine who should have won a Tony than the voters who saw the complete performances of all 5 nominees live.

Updated On: 11/22/17 at 03:29 AM

I don't ask for new, interesting questions - I'm no fool. But if evolution truly exists, someday, we can hope that all humanity will know how to search for pre-existing threads.

"Actors/Actresses that would have won a Tony were I the only voter"

Such venom in some of these replies

Updated On: 11/22/17 at 09:23 AM

yankeefan7 said: ""Ultimately it depends on the Tony voters voting that year but I think a better thread title would have been "actors/actresses that would have won a Tony had the production been on a different Bway season"

The first one that comes to my mind is in any other year, Alex Brightman (School Of Rock) would have won. He just happened to have the misfortune of being in his show the same year as Hamilton."

That's how I felt about Danny Burstein's incredible performance as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. Though what a headline it would've made had Hamilton lost Lead Actor in a Musical.

Andrew Rannells for "Falsettos". I was only able to see the filmed production as a movie, but he was simply amazing.

Recent:

-- Laura Linney in The Little Foxes

-- Donna Murphy for Hello Dolly. I have ALWAYS loved Bette, but she called in the performance I saw



Long Time Ago:

-- Jason Robards in A Moon for the Misbegotten

-- Patti Lupone in Anything Goes. Criminal loss and I am not a Patti groupie. But her Reno was GREAT

-- Chita Rivera for Chicago. Donna McKechnie was terrific...in a supporting role

-- Raul Julia for Nine. I assume he was disliked; losing to a supporting player in Dreamgirls was insulting

-- David Dukes for Bent...one of the great supporting performances I have ever seen

-- Kathleen Turner for Virginia Woolf. Got this day, I don't understand all the fuss about Cherry Jones' performance. IMO, it paled next to Turner.

christ, people, if you're so bothered by this thread then just move along.

The usual: Danny Burstein, Christopher Fitzgerald, Andy Karl (saw GHD with minimal expectations but was I blown away by his performance)

Rachel Bay Jones 100% deserves that Tony, but I will argue that Brittain Ashford should've been nominated until the day I die.

Jenn Colella. I actually thought Rachel Bay Jones was kind of bad.

Updated On: 11/23/17 at 02:04 AM

Call_me_jorge said: "hork said: "Jenn Colella. Iactually thought Rachel Bay Jones was kind of bad."

How?"

By not acting well.