Best Tonyless performers- Page 2

[jam_man]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:44am

Oh, alright then. But technicly she has never been awarded a Tony.

I'll be honest, I got that info from IBDB.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:45am

Didn't Elaine get a special Tony for her liberty special?

Gotta throw Rachel York in there

[TomMonster]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:45am

Margo, I don't remember if it was the Tony's or the Emmy's when Elaine wouldn't leave the stage during her speech? "I've waited __ years for this and I'm not leaving now..."

Do you recall?

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:46am

Greg Edelman
Raul Esparza

NathanLaneStalker - I love Mario Cantone. That man is amazing. I don't really knwo what he could have a tony for (other than Laugh Whore which was amazing)

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:49am

Sam Byck!

[TomMonster]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:50am

Nathan, you'll love this... Nathan Lane played Byck in the original workshop...

[kyle.]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:50am

Audra McDonald, without a doubt!

Tony voters need to learn to give credit where credit is due! Come on! Five broadway shows, and not ONE award! What are they thinking?!?

[TheBoyfromChi]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:50am

TomMonster, I am pretty sure that was the Emmys. She also apologized to the other people in her category, but said she wasn't too sorry because she wanted the Emmy. It was a pretty amusing speech.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:51am

I'll also join those who said Julie Andrews. They should have given her a special Tony.

Updated On: 6/26/07 at 12:51 AM

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:54am

It was her speech at the Tonys that went on so long that they finally had to cut her off her mic and go to commercial. Her category wasn't even broadcast at the Emmys that year.

Under Tony rules, the award for Special Theatrical Event goes to the producers and not to the performers, writers, directors etc..... But for AT LIBERTY, given Stritch and her life were the whole show, one of the producers gave her an award.

Updated On: 7/10/06 at 12:54 AM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:54am

Mano?! The guy turned in a great performance, but one performance an amazing career does not make. Mano cannot be mentioned in the same context as Julie Andrews.

[Nathan_Lane_Rules!]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:54am

Julie has to win lifetime acheivement

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:59am

TomMonster - I know!!! He must have been great!! I can toatally picture him as Sam!

[azelma]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 1:00am

kyle.-Audra McDonald has won four Tonys, if I'm not mistaken.

Julie Andrews definitley should have a Tony, it's suprising that she doesn't have (at least) one.
I'm not sure who else.

[TomMonster]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 1:12am

Um, I'm assuming, Kyle was sooooooo kidding! Unless he's been under a rock all these years...

I also want to bring up Rachel York, and Marin Mazzie!

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 1:13am

Richard Kind

[kyle.]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 1:14am

It was my bad attempt at a joke :)

[TomMonster]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 1:27am

Actually, Kyle, I thought it was very funny.

And HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT RICHARD KIND!

Sorry for yelling, but geeeez....

Oh wait, has he ORIGINATED a role on Broadway? (Since the replacement category is gone--well never was???)

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 1:54am

Oh yeah! He hasn't originated a role yet! I forgot!

[C is for Company]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 2:40am

Totally Marin and Julie Andrews. It is safe to say I think that the days of Andrews having a chance at it is just slim unless in achievement or something. Marin, I feel badly that she has done great things with various sorts of roles yet slipped past everytime without getting one. Very unusual IMO

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 3:01am

John McMartin

Several of the people who've been mentioned have never originated a role in a Broadway production and thus have never been eligible or have been eligible only once.

One of the most bizarre things is that Boyd Gaines has three, something that seems to amaze even him.
Updated On: 7/10/06 at 03:01 AM

[TomMonster]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 3:12am

I agree about John McMartin. "Sweet Charity" and others...we always forget how many famous characters he's created in the theatre!

Julie Andrews turned down her nomination for "Victor/Victoria" because the committee did not nominate anyone else in show. She was pretty much a lock for that year's award. Gotta love her for that!

[bjivie2]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 3:18am

The year Andrew would have gotten her Tony was the year she boycotted and therefore lost it. I say it's her own fault.

Amy Spanger, Mary Testa and Carolee Carmello are my faves so far.

Tim Curry
Patti Cohenour
Nancy Opel
Harry Groener

Jeanine Tesori needs one, even though she's not a performer.

Same with Graciela Daniele. 10 nominations, no wins.

And Babs needs to come back and win a Tony for an actual performance. None of this honorary Tony crap.

Updated On: 7/10/06 at 03:18 AM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 3:54am

I wouldn't say "boycotted" so much as declined her nomination. No one else connected with her show was nominated. It's a little severe to say its her own fault when I doubt her decision was motivated by an ego in need of bolstering. There was no guarantee she would've won. Upsets, as we've noted the last few years, are not impossible. But she's my childhood hero, so I'm biased.

[TomMonster]

Posted: 7/10/06 at 4:11am

Graciela Daniele. bjivie2 you are so right! It'll happen.