Chilina Kennedy from Paradise Square should have won the Tony for best supporting actress in a musical. Not Patti.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 1:24pm

I doubt many will agree with me, but I think Patti was just playing Patti Lupone in Company. .

Updated On: 6/30/22 at 01:24 PM

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 1:27pm

Tell another one!

[Huss417]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 1:29pm

I think you should win an award for most words put in a subject line. 

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 1:29pm

You mean an icon? A person who you cannot keep your eyes off of when they're on stage? A bolt of electricity through your body when they open their mouth or shoot a look that could freeze time?

Yeah, those people usually win Tonys. 

[markypoo]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 1:34pm

And the punctuation following the word "musical" in your mammoth heading should have been a semicolon, not a period.

[Sally Durant Plummer]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 1:34pm

Well, this should have been Patti's 5th Tony (at least). So, we can't always get what we want, can we?

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 1:36pm

Oh but I love when muscle23ftl pops by from left field to throw one out.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 1:40pm

markypoo said: "And the punctuation following the word "musical" in your mammoth heading should have been a semicolon, not a period."

Nope, just a comma.  But still...you UNDERSTOOD what they meant, so communication was achieved. 

Updated On: 6/30/22 at 01:40 PM

[JBroadway]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 2:00pm

God, I thought Kennedy was genuinely awful in that show. Not really her fault – she was a victim of poor direction, rendering her performance a bizarre cartoon that really threw off the tone and pitch the show every time she was onstage. Definitely a directorial issue, but still totally unworthy of a award recognition IMO. 

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 2:17pm

When the heading shoulda been:

Chilina Kennedy should have won the Tony

Then the rest shoulda been the body of the post.

Sadly, proper grammar isn’t free so not everyone can afford it. 

[expectingtheworst]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 2:22pm

muscle23ftl said: "I doubt many will agree with me, but I think Patti was just playing Patti Lupone in Company. ."

oh shut up Jeffrey Chrzczon. 

[verywellthensigh]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 2:23pm

Ok

[quizking101]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 2:37pm

She’s entitled to her supremely wrongheaded opinion

[Sauja]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 2:52pm

Good lord. Someone actually thinks this? I thought Kennedy was legitimately embarrassing to watch in this show. 

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 3:28pm

I don't think Patti should've won either. I would've chosen Simard. 

[RippedMan]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 3:31pm

I mean, Lupone is always basically playing Lupone. But think he Rose and her Joanne were different characters acting wise. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 3:42pm

Hey muscle23ftl, it looks like your cat got onto your Broadwayworld account and started typing nonsense. Might want to put a cat lock on your computer.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 4:00pm

Chilina Kennedy will win a Tony award playing a much better role in a much better musical some time in the future.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 4:04pm

I’m sick of people saying Patti “always plays herself.” She is never going to play Glinda, or Nellie Forbush, or Johanna. Just like Nathan Lane will never play Tony in West Side. Patti brings tools from her toolkit and infuses life into these characters. She works with what she has, and boy, does she have a lot to work with. She’s brassy, she’s ballsy. She can belt to the rafters. She happens to be a stupendous actress. She is a remarkable creature of the stage, and her vocals are unparalleled. I’ve never seen her give the same performance twice.

 

She deserved that Tony. 

Updated On: 6/30/22 at 04:04 PM

[Georgeanddot2]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 4:57pm

People who think good acting has to be "transformative" or whatever know nothing about acting.

[BroadwayRox3588]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 5:00pm

Chilina Kennedy is a friend of mine, and I don't agree with this. Though I also don't agree with those who have said she was awful.

However, I do agree with the last two words. No disrespect at all to Patti, I just wish it had gone to L Morgan Lee or Jennifer Simard.

Updated On: 6/30/22 at 05:00 PM

[YvanEhtNioj]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 5:07pm

muscle23ftl said: "I doubt many will agree with me, but I think Patti was just playing Patti Lupone in Company. ."

I don't think Chilina should have won, but I DO agree that Patti is just playing Patti in that role. 

[JBroadway]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 5:33pm

LuPone wouldn't have been my 1st choice, nor would those 5 actors necessarily have been my 5 picks to be nominated.

But @TotallyEffed and @Georgeanddot2 are right on the money with this. There are a wide range of components that can make up a good piece of acting, the most important of which, IMO, are to be dropped in, focused, listening and responding to your scene partner, navigating the text with a sense of clarity of meaning and intent, understanding your character -- and yes -- bringing YOURSELF to the role. And in fact,  really getting in touch with your own patterns of speech and behavior, and bringing them into your performance, is actually a sign of great maturity in an actor. Many of the best actors of every generation have done this.

True, sometimes you see actors lean on their reliable schtick INSTEAD of putting effort into the technical scene/text/character work. But that's not what LuPone is doing with this performance.

This isn't to say that transformative performances can't ALSO require/display a significant level of skill in their own way, but as Georgeanddot2 said, it's an unfortunate misconception - even among members of the industry - that actors should aspire to disappear into every role.

[mrCellophane]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 6:02pm

I saw both performers - on the same day. Kennedy gave a shrill, one-note, screamed, cartoon performance. Given the way she growled and yelled, I was shocked to hear a completely different sound when she sang. I fear she is doing some real vocal damage in her choice of delivering her spoken lines. 

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 6/30/22 at 6:50pm

The screaming of every line was unbelievably grating. I also worry for her instrument.