Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
bwaybri2
Featured Actor Joined: 6/11/08
#1Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 4:00pm
Relatively new to the Broadway scene, I remember last year at this time how many people were saying that Ripley was a for sure thing.
In recent memory, what are some other slam dunks? Thanks -
#2Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 4:02pmPatti winning for Mama Rose
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 4:06pmAngela Lansbury as Mme. Armfeldt. ::Snickers::
#3Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 4:06pm
In the Heights winning best Musical. Angela winning for Blithe Spirit.
Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?"
Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"
#4Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 4:09pm
Christine Ebersole (2007)
Victoria Clark (2005)
#5Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 4:29pm
Mary Louise Parker in PROOF
Zoe Caldwell in MASTER CLASS
Audra--any time she's won
Patti and Mandy in EVITA
Glenn Close in SUNSET BLVD--granted, she was only up against one other person
Geoffrey Rush in EXIT THE KING
Frank Langella in FROST/NIXON
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#6Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 4:30pmNathan Lane for THE PRODUCERS.
#7Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 4:35pmRaul Esparza for Company.
#8Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 4:40pmOh snap, TotallyEffed...
dg22894
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/08
#9Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 4:43pm
Spring Awakening for Best Musical
Hyde Pierce for Curtain
August Osage County
#10Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 4:44pmI thought last year a lot of people thought they might give it to Allison Janney?
#11Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 4:47pm
The Billy boys were a slam dunk. Of course the majority of voters would vote for them.
Hugh Jackman for The Boy From Oz comes to mind.
~Steven
#12Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 5:51pm
I would not personally say that In the Heights as Best Musical as a "sure thing." Passing Strange actually came out on top of the NY Times pre-Tony discussion with a small number of Tony voters, and some thought that Passing Strange might pull off an upset.
Besides the ones already mentioned, I would say that Laura Benanti for Gypsy was a lock.
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#13Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 7:42pm
There have been a ton...
Best Play:
GOD OF CARNAGE
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
THE COAST OF UTOPIA
THE HISTORY BOYS
DOUBT
TAKE ME OUT
THE GOAT
PROOF
Best Musical:
BILLY ELLIOT
IN THE HEIGHTS
SPRING AWAKENING
JERSEY BOYS
SPAMALOT
HAIRSPRAY
THE PRODUCERS
Book of a Musical:
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
...SPELLING BEE
HAIRSPRAY
URINETOWN
THE PRODUCERS
Best Score:
SPRING AWAKENING
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
HAIRSPRAY
URINETOWN
THE PRODUCERS
Best Revival of a Play:
THE NORMAN CONQUESTS
BOEING-BOEING
JOURNEY'S END
AWAKE AND SING!
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY...
Best Revival of a Musical:
HAIR
SOUTH PACIFIC
COMPANY
NINE
42ND STREET
Best Actress/Musical:
Patti LuPone, GYPSY
Christine Ebersole, GREY GARDENS
Victoria Clark, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Sutton Foster, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
Best Actor/Musical:
John Lloyd Young, JERSEY BOYS
Norbert Leo Butz, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
Hugh Jackman, THE BOY FROM OZ
John Lithgow, SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
Nathan Lane, THE PRODUCERS
Best Actor/Play:
Geoffrey Rush, EXIT THE KING
Frank Langella, FROST/NIXON
Richard Griffiths, THE HISTORY BOYS
Jefferson Mays, I AM MY OWN WIFE
Brian Dennehy, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY...
Best Actress/Play:
Julie White, THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED
Cynthia Nixon, RABBIT HOLE
Cherry Jones, DOUBT
Vanessa Redgrave, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY...
Mary-Louise Parker, PROOF
Best Feat. Actor/Play:
Roger Robinson, JOE TURNER...
Ian McDiarmid, FAITH HEALER
Brian F. O'Byrne, FROZEN
Denis O'Hare, TAKE ME OUT
Best Feat. Actress/Play:
Angela Lansbury, BLITE SPIRIT
Frances de la Tour, THE HISTORY BOYS
Adriane Lenox, DOUBT
Audra McDonald, A RAISIN IN THE SUN
Best Feat. Actor/Musical:
John Gallagher, Jr., SPRING AWAKENING
Dan Fodler, ...SPELLING BEE
Dick Latessa, HAIRSPRAY
Shuler Hensley, OKLAHOMA!
Gary Beach, THE PRODUCERS
Best Feat. Actress/Musical:
Katen Olivo, WEST SIDE STORY
Laura Benanti, GYPSY
Mary Louise Wilson, GREY GARDENS
Beth Leavel, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
Sara Ramirez, SPAMALOT
Jane Krakowski, NINE
Harriet Harris, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
Cady Huffman, THE PRODUCERS
Best Direction/Play:
Jack O'Brien, THE COAST OF UTOPIA
Nicholas Hytner, THE HISTORY BOYS
Doug Hughes, DOUBT
Jack O'Brien, HENRY IV
Best Direction/Musical:
Stephen Daldry, BILLY ELLIOT
Bartlett Sher, SOUTH PACIFIC
Michael Mayer, SPRING AWAKENING
John Doyle, SWEENEY TODD
Joe Mantello, ASSASSINS
Jack O'Brien, HAIRSPRAY
Susan Stroman, THE PRODUCERS
Best Choreography:
Peter Darling, BILLY ELLIOT
Kathleen Marshall, WONDERFUL TOWN
Twyla Tharp, MOVIN' OUT
Rob Ashford, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
Susan Stroman, THE PRODUCERS
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#14Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 8:16pmI don't think Karen Olivo or Dan Fogler were locks. Karen was neck and neck with Haydn, and didn't a lot of people think the award was going to Matthew Morrison over Dan Fogler?
#15Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 8:21pmAs far as I can recall, there was no doubt in my mind that Olivo and Fogler would win. Personally, I wanted Matthew Morrison to win, but it was painfully clear that Fogler had it in the bag.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#16Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 8:54pmI wouldn't consider Dennehy a lock for Long Day's Journey.... Eddie Izzard took the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards that year and I think was favored to win the Tony by many.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
kidbroadway2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/26/10
#17Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 9:16pmWicked for best musical.
#18Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 9:18pmOh, wait...
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#19Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/22/10 at 10:10pmIf we're speaking more in recent years of the awards(which actually we apparently are not) I thought it was pretty widely accepted that Hair had Best Revival in the bag last year. Am I wrong?
Can, can I have it?
#20Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/23/10 at 12:26am
Sunset Boulevard for Best Musical, Best Actress, Best Score, and Best Book.
~Steven
#21Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/23/10 at 12:34am
As far as I can recall, there was no doubt in my mind that Olivo and Fogler would win.
um, but that still doesn't make them locks. That just means that you really thought they were going to win. There was no doubt in my mind that Patti LuPone was going to win a Tony for Sweeney Todd, but that didn't happen.
I would love to see the breakdown of votes for the Tonys, to see how wide margins actually have been. For example, there were enough people saying that Kelli O'Hara might beat Patti in 2008, and I'm genuinely curious as to what percentage of the vote she got.
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
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#22Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/23/10 at 4:07amI'll be honest, I find it hard to say that any Tony Award is a "sure thing." Given the extreme fluctuation of "sure things" winning and/or losing in the past, it seems that the Tonys are perhaps the most fickle of the major awards shows. Even with the aforementioned Ripley and LuPone wins, who can say that they were 100% sure that the award was theirs to win? Note the important difference between "sure thing" wins and "sure thing" deserve-to-wins.
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#23Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/23/10 at 8:31am
Definitely Hugh Jackman, as stated above, for THE BOY FROM OZ.
Does any awards body confer a Performance of the Decade accolade? If so, Jackman should win it for the "aughts," hands down.
Tom1071
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/04
#24Besides Ripley's Tony win last year, what were some other Tony 'sure thing'
Posted: 4/23/10 at 9:18am
If I remember, David Hyde Pierce's win in 2007 came as a total surprise. Many thought that Raul Esparza had it in the bag for Company.
Updated On: 4/23/10 at 09:18 AM
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