Broadway Roles that win Tonys

I don't know if it's what your thinking of, but all but one revival of La Cage Aux Folles has won the Tony for Best Actor for whoever played Albin.

Anna from The King and I

Whoopi Goldberg said: "I was thinking about some instances where it seems like no matter who played the character in the original (if they have some form of broadway talent), most of the replacements in shows would have won the tony award.



Elphaba Stache from Peter and the Starcatcher, Mama Rose



Any contributions?

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Rose is only 3 out of 5 (Merman and Peters did not win)

Too soon to know about Elphaba - and at this point, it's unlikely to happen because a revival may be decades away. I mean, only one actor has won a Tony playing the Phantom.....

Leading Player in Pippin. Both a man and woman have won.

Also, Emcee in Cabaret. Featured actor originally, then leading for Alan Cumming. One of those roles.

I think "Whoopi" may have been talking less about the statistics of revivals and numbers of wins vs. the role being well written and moving enough to be Tony-worthy no matter who the original actor is. I see where that's coming from.

It's more possible to prove the power of a role based on the revival actors also being nominated or winning, for sure.

Another thought from this is that the original actor probably made contributions to the creation of the character, or things were changed based on who was in the room at that time. Maybe a role like Elphaba would be a little different if one of the replacements, per say, had originated it and given the creators other ideas.