Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#1
Posted: 4/21/17 at 3:59pm
Who will be nominated? Win?
Kevin Kline - Present Laughter
Jefferson Mays - Oslo
Mark Ruffalo - The Price
Simon McBurney - The Encounter
Gideon Glick - Significant Other
Denis Arndt - Heisenberg
Joe Mantello - The Glass Menagerie
John Benjamin Hickey - Six Degrees of Separation
Corey Hawkins - Six Degrees of Separation
John Slattery - The Front Page
Liev Schreiber - Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Richard Roxburgh - The Present
Nick Kroll - Oh, Hello
John Mulaney - Oh, Hello
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#2
Posted: 4/21/17 at 4:02pm
I doubt they would nominate only John Mulaney or Nick Kroll, and I doubt that with so many stellar performances this season either of them will be nominated. Especially considering how stand-up-y their show was, and how long it will have been closed by the time noms roll around.
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#3
Posted: 4/21/17 at 4:06pm
I think the first 5 guys on the list will be nominated.
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#4
Posted: 4/21/17 at 4:13pm
My guess would be:
Kline
Arndt
Glick
Hawkins
Mantello
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#5
Posted: 4/21/17 at 4:16pm
You don't think Mays will be nominated??
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#6
Posted: 4/21/17 at 4:17pm
No, it's a very thankless and non-dramatic role with no weight or meat.
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#7
Posted: 4/21/17 at 4:32pm
I disagree about Mays. I think he'll be nominated over Arndt, who will likely (sadly) be forgotten. Plus, Mays is a Tony darling. I think a lot of this will ride on the Six Degrees reviews AND how the producers petition (or don't) Hickey and Hawkins.
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#8
Posted: 4/21/17 at 4:43pm
I'm not sure having one win and one nomination, a decade apart, can qualify an actor as a Tony "darling." I love Mays, but to me Oslo was all about the featured players. Mays and Ehle were narrators and provided the dramatic conceit. I wish they had been offered more to do.
In the original Six Degrees, Courtney B Vance was nominated in Lead. I could see a scenario where Corey Hawkins could break through there as well. John Benjamin Hickey, though wonderful, doesn't have as much weight to his role, comparatively, and I cant see him competing in such a crowded field.
Kline, Glick, and McBurney for sure things. Ruffalo, Hawkins, Arndt, and Mays compete for the last 2 slots.
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Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#9
Posted: 4/21/17 at 4:51pm
No one thinks Roxburgh? I'm surprised by that.
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#10
Posted: 4/21/17 at 4:53pm
I think Arndt will be forgotten. Agree that McBurney will get a nomination.
Kline, Glick, McBurney, Mays. Ruffalo and Hawkins compete for last slot.
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#11
Posted: 4/21/17 at 4:56pm
henrikegerman said: "No one thinks Roxburgh? I'm surprised by that.
I thought he was great but not great enough to get in over the men in the spring. I think it'll be Kline, Glick, Ruffalo, McBurney, and Mays.
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#12
Posted: 4/21/17 at 5:12pm
Not saying it's impossible for him to be nominated, but I think McBurney is far from a sure thing.
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#13
Posted: 4/21/17 at 6:00pm
Denis Arndt - Heisenberg
Gideon Glick - Significant Other
Kevin Kline - Present Laughter
Jefferson Mays - Oslo
Simon McBurney - The Encounter
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#14
Posted: 4/21/17 at 6:20pm
Willie4316 said: "
Denis Arndt - Heisenberg
Gideon Glick - Significant Other
Kevin Kline - Present Laughter
Jefferson Mays - Oslo
Simon McBurney - The Encounter
Is he who you want to win or think will win? Given how small its audience have been and that it will be closed before noms come out, I don't see that happening. I am assuming Kline will win. Despite the show having gotten meh reviews, he got mostly great ones.
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#15
Posted: 4/21/17 at 6:21pm
Jarethan said: "Willie4316 said: "
Denis Arndt - Heisenberg
Gideon Glick - Significant Other
Kevin Kline - Present Laughter
Jefferson Mays - Oslo
Simon McBurney - The Encounter
Is he who you want to win or think will win? Given how small its audience have been and that it will be closed before noms come out, I don't see that happening. I am assuming Kline will win. Despite the show having gotten meh reviews, he got mostly great ones."
It is what I think will happen. I didn't manage to catch this show so I am predicting based on critics reviews and audience feedback.
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#16
Posted: 4/21/17 at 6:44pm
It's not that out of the realm of possibility. Julie White won for The Little Dog Laughed in 2007, and that had closed months earlier. By no means is Gideon Glick a lock, but it's not like there's a ton of buzz around anyone else.
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#17
Posted: 4/21/17 at 6:48pm
wonderfulwizard11 said: "It's not that out of the realm of possibility. Julie White won for The Little Dog Laughed in 2007, and that had closed months earlier. By no means is Gideon Glick a lock, but it's not like there's a ton of buzz around anyone else. "
To be fair, though, Julie White had received RAVE reviews universally. Her biggest competition was from Angela Lansbury (only because she's a legend, but she was in an AWFUL play) and Eve Best (who got a love letter from Brantley but normal good reviews from everyone else). Gideon Glick didn't receive the kind of reviews that Julie White got.
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Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#18
Posted: 4/21/17 at 7:23pm
bjh2114 said: "To be fair, though, Julie White had received RAVE reviews universally. Her biggest competition was from Angela Lansbury (only because she's a legend, but she was in an AWFUL play) and Eve Best (who got a love letter from Brantley but normal good reviews from everyone else). Gideon Glick didn't receive the kind of reviews that Julie White got."
I don't agree. Glick's reviews, even by critics who disliked the play, gushed over him. Adam Greene's review in New York is case and point. Brantley only called him an Expert Performer, but I'm pretty sure the sweat/indecent/Sig O reviews were all anti-Isherwood related. And the industry knows that.
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#19
Posted: 4/21/17 at 7:30pm
"I don't agree. Glick's reviews, even by critics who disliked the play, gushed over him. Adam Greene's review in New York is case and point. Brantley only called him an Expert Performer, but I'm pretty sure the sweat/indecent/Sig O reviews were all anti-Isherwood related. And the industry knows that."
There is so much wrong with what you just wrote, I don't even know where to begin. So I won't.
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#20
Posted: 4/21/17 at 8:02pm
IntoTheWords said: "bjh2114 said: "To be fair, though, Julie White had received RAVE reviews universally. Her biggest competition was from Angela Lansbury (only because she's a legend, but she was in an AWFUL play) and Eve Best (who got a love letter from Brantley but normal good reviews from everyone else). Gideon Glick didn't receive the kind of reviews that Julie White got."
I don't agree. Glick's reviews, even by critics who disliked the play, gushed over him. Adam Greene's review in New York is case and point. Brantley only called him an Expert Performer, but I'm pretty sure the sweat/indecent/Sig O reviews were all anti-Isherwood related. And the industry knows that.
I agree with BJH. Her reviews were euphoric. Click got excellent but not 'you're out of your mind if you miss this great comic performance' reviews. She not only beat Lansbury; she beat Redgrave, who got great reviews in Year of...
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Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#21
Posted: 5/2/17 at 11:46am
Okay, so truthfully, I thought Gideon Glick had this award totally locked up.
Now that we know our nominees (Denis Arndt, Chris Cooper, Corey Hawkins, Kevin Kline, and Jefferson Mays), who is the effective frontrunner?
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Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#23
Posted: 5/2/17 at 11:50am
Looks like I was right about Arndt, but wrong about Glick and Mays!
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#24
Posted: 5/2/17 at 3:04pm
Gideon Glick was snubbed and had one of the best performances of this season. How did the Tony voters miss that?
Best Leading Actor in a Play 2017#25
Posted: 5/2/17 at 4:19pm
Hours later, I'm still bothered that Glick's performance was not acknowledged. I was never a fan before, but he completely changed my mind. Revelatory.
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