Bertie Carvel Opposite Gender

[JackHell]

Bertie Carvel Opposite Gender#1

Posted: 4/11/13 at 9:47pm

Is Bertie Carvel going to be the third person to win a tony for playing the opposite gender.

Updated On: 4/11/13 at 09:47 PM

[CapnHook]

Bertie Cravel Opposite Gender#2

Posted: 4/11/13 at 10:03pm

Can you just.

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Bertie Cravel Opposite Gender#2

Posted: 4/11/13 at 10:05pm

It's Carvel, and this question could have easily been posed in one of the 1,922,435 threads about the Tonys, or one of the 2,932,656 threads about MATILDA.

And yes, he will win.

[henrikegerman]

Bertie Cravel Opposite Gender#3

Posted: 4/11/13 at 11:50pm

3? Who, besides Harvey Fierstein for Hairspray, has won a tony for playing the opposite gender?

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Bertie Cravel Opposite Gender#4

Posted: 4/11/13 at 11:52pm

I believe Mary Martin won for PETER PAN, didn't she?

[henrikegerman]

Bertie Cravel Opposite Gender#5

Posted: 4/12/13 at 12:02am

^right!

[Wishing Only Wounds]

Bertie Cravel Opposite Gender#6

Posted: 4/12/13 at 12:59pm

Well, it's the opposite sex, as gender is learned and you're born with sex. We're led to believe that his character is a female. ...sorry, huge pet peeve of mine.

Douglas Hodge also won for La Cage, if you count that.

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[DrJekyll]

Bertie Cravel Opposite Gender#7

Posted: 4/12/13 at 1:09pm

As did George Hearn.

[suestorm]

Bertie Cravel Opposite Gender#8

Posted: 4/12/13 at 1:45pm

somewhere Tyler Perry is nodding his head in approval

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[AEA AGMA SM]

Bertie Cravel Opposite Gender#9

Posted: 4/12/13 at 8:22pm

"Douglas Hodge also won for La Cage, if you count that."

In terms of what the OP is asking I don't think he, or George Hearn, would count, since they were still playing men on stage, just men who happened to be wearing dresses.

[binau]

Bertie Cravel Opposite Gender#10

Posted: 4/12/13 at 8:26pm

I believe the technical terminology is Drag Queen.

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[Playbilly]

Bertie Cravel Opposite Gender#11

Posted: 4/12/13 at 8:38pm

You forgot Jefferson Mays in I AM MY OWN WIFE.

"Through The Sacrifice You Made, We Can't Believe The Price You Paid..For Love!"