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#1

Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:01pm

For those of you that don't know, the Clarence Derwent Awards are two awards (one actor, one actress) who have made an awesome splash on the stage in a supporting performance each season. Last years winners were Leslie Kritzer for Serena in Legally Blonde and Lin-Manuel Miranda for Usnavi in In the Heights. I don't know when they are being announced this year (they were announced May 9th last year). Predictions as to who will receive it?

Mine:
Male - one of the men from Passing Strange
Female - between the 3 women of Passing Strange, Alli Mauzey, and Loretta Ables Sayre
#2

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:07pm

Actor - Aaron Tveit in NEXT TO NORMAL.*
Actress - Jennifer Damiano in NEXT TO NORMAL.

*if he's not eligible, then Chad Goodridge in PASSING STRANGE or Andre Ward in XANADU.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
#3

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:10pm

who have made an awesome splash on the stage in a supporting performance each season.

It has nothing to do with a supporting performance.

John Tartaglia won it for his Leading performance in AVENUE Q.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#4

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:12pm

It goes to "the most promising female and male performers on the New York metropolitan scene."
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#5

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:12pm

Isn't for most promising young performer? and i think the young part is relative ...ha!
#6

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:13pm

It has nothing to do with being young, either.

Denis O'Hare won it for TAKE ME OUT, and he was like 42 years old at the time.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#8

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:23pm

That changes everything. I mean - that's so open. It could go to ANYONE! Patti LuPone, Faith Prince, ANYONE, no?!

Female: Kerry Butler (XANADU) or Alice Ripley (NEXT TO NORMAL) or Laura Benanti (GYPSY).

Male: Cheyenne Jackson (XANADU) or Curtis Holbrook (XANADU) or Aaron Tveit (NEXT TO NORMAL).
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
#9

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:25pm

yeah, I didn't think that was right. I copied it loosely from Clarence Derwent's original concept of the award. I made corrections to the fact it was Broadway (since Miranda won last year as an obvious example), but I knew other stuff was wrong. Anyways, I'm for Daniel Breaker for the men.
#10

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:38pm

Kerry Butler already won the year of HAIRSPRAY.

That year was Kerry Butler and Denis O'Hare.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#11

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:44pm

So I'm a little confused. By "most promising performance" do they mean someone who's fairly new to Broadway / off-Broadway or is it just that you can't win twice?
#12

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:51pm

You can only win once.

Someone who has already proven themselves by winning a Tony Award (like Broadway veterans Patti LuPone or Faith Prince) don't qualify.

Someone like Benanti has already received two Tony nominations. She doesn't qualify either.

It's for a breakthrough performance of sorts.

The year before last, Felicia P. Fields won for THE COLOR PURPLE and Jason Ritter won for THIRD.

Here is the article about last year's winners:

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/107958.html
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#13

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:51pm

The year that John Tartaglia won for AVENUE Q, Anika Noni Rose was the female winner for CAROLINE, OR CHANGE.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#14

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:52pm

It goes to someone who has a breakthrough performance in the New York theater scene.

For instance, last year, Leslie Kritzer was the female recipient. She had done theater in New York before then, but her performance in Legally Blonde is what really got her noticed. Same thing with Kerry Butler; she had already been Belle in Beauty and the Beast, Eponine in Les Misérables and a slew of other roles, but Penny in Hairspray is definitely what turned heads.
#17

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 9:02pm

So it's like a Theatre World Award of sorts?
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#18

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 9:03pm

Sort of, only more selective, since there are only two winners, one female and one male.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#19

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 9:09pm

Right. That's what it seems like. Anika Noni Rose, Tartaglia, and Felicia P. Fields are all Theatre World Award winners.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#20

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 9:11pm

I would love to see it go to Paulo Szot and Loretta Ables Sayre this year.

They just appeared out of nowhere and delivered these magnificent performances.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#21

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 10:01pm

I agree about Szot, but predict Larkin might take it for the ladies.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#22

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 10:12pm

Is this for musicals only?
If not, I'm thinking this will go to Deanna Dunagan or Amy Morton. Nobody - musicals or plays - can compete with their performances this season.
#23

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 10:19pm

It's for plays too.

Denis O'Hare won for TAKE ME OUT, which was a play.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#24

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/12/08 at 11:57pm

I'm predicting Daniel Breaker and Amy Morton (if she is eligible -- unlike Theatre World, which often picks well-established actors making their New York debuts, the Clarence Derwent award generally seems to go to "fresh faces"). I also wouldn't be surprised to see someone like Tobias Segal or Bobby Steggert get it -- they often pick performers in Off-Broadway shows.
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#25

re: Clarence Derwent Predictions

Posted: 5/13/08 at 12:22am

Leigh Ann Larkin IMO is terrible in GYPSY.
She should win for overacting in a legendary role.

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