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Best Tonyless performers
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#25re: Best Tonyless performers
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.
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wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#26re: Best Tonyless performers
Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:45am
Didn't Elaine get a special Tony for her liberty special?
Gotta throw Rachel York in there 
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#27re: Best Tonyless performers
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?
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#28re: Best Tonyless performers
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)
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NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#29re: Best Tonyless performers
Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:49am
Sam Byck!
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#30re: Best Tonyless performers
Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:50amNathan, you'll love this... Nathan Lane played Byck in the original workshop...
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#31re: Best Tonyless performers
Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:50am
Audra McDonald, without a doubt!
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TheBoyfromChi
Featured Actor Joined: 10/11/04
#32re: Best Tonyless performers
Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:50amTomMonster, 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.
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#33re: Best Tonyless performers
Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:51am
I'll also join those who said Julie Andrews. They should have given her a special Tony.
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MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#34re: Best Tonyless performers
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.
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Updated On: 7/10/06 at 12:54 AM
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#35re: Best Tonyless performers
Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:54amMano?! 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.
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NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#37re: Best Tonyless performers
Posted: 7/10/06 at 12:59am
TomMonster - I know!!! He must have been great!! I can toatally picture him as Sam!
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#38re: Best Tonyless performers
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.
#39re: Best Tonyless performers
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!
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NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#40re: Best Tonyless performers
Posted: 7/10/06 at 1:13am
Richard Kind
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#42re: Best Tonyless performers
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???)
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NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#43re: Best Tonyless performers
Posted: 7/10/06 at 1:54am
Oh yeah! He hasn't originated a role yet! I forgot!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#44re: Best Tonyless performers
Posted: 7/10/06 at 2:40amTotally 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
#45re: Best Tonyless performers
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
#46re: Best Tonyless performers
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!
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
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bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#47re: Best Tonyless performers
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.
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#48re: Best Tonyless performers
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.
#49re: Best Tonyless performers
Posted: 7/10/06 at 4:11amGraciela Daniele. bjivie2 you are so right! It'll happen.
"It's not so much do what you like, as it is that you like what you do." SS
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