Cynthia Erivo is an Oscar away from an EGOT — Page 2

I thought I had read some where that the performers didn't get the Emmy but the show it was on. So in this case, I thought The Today Show was the winner of the Emmy, not the cast. Am I wrong?

Cynthia tweeted that she also gets an Emmy award. The producers confirmed this with her.

MadsonMelo said: "I, actually, find interesting that she won 3 awards for the same role. Imagine if they do a film version of the musical lol

And there are only 12 people who have an EGOT, so it's a select club that only enjoy 3-4 per decade, so it's something, especially because it's really hard to win an Oscar and, lesser extent, a Tony. For the AMOUNT of categories that Grammy and Emmys, they are easier, but Elton John, ALWebber and Sondheim doesn't have the Emmy, Mr Menken is trying hard to get one (openly trying) and the list of actors that can't get a Grammy is tremendous as well.



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Joel Grey would have won 3 awards for the MC if vocalists got OBCR Grammys back then

edited to say that I did look at it and he's listed as a winner for the OBCR so he did win 3 awards for the same role according to the Wikipedia information for the 10th annual Grammy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Annual_Grammy_Awards

Updated On: 4/29/17 at 03:49 PM

IdinaBellFoster said: "Cynthia tweeted that she also gets an Emmy award. The producers confirmed this with her.



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Thanks for the clarification!

Isn't it interesting that the Today show performance that she wins the Emmy for was filmed the morning he was nominated for the Tony!

MadsonMelo said: "And there are only 12 people who have an EGOT, so it's a select club that only enjoy 3-4 per decade, so it's something, especially because it's really hard to win an Oscar and, lesser extent, a Tony. For the AMOUNT of categories that Grammy and Emmys, they are easier, but Elton John, ALWebber and Sondheim doesn't have the Emmy, Mr Menken is trying hard to get one (openly trying) and the list of actors that can't get a Grammy is tremendous as well."

Alan Menken actually has a Special Emmy Award he received in 1990 for a song he and Howard Ashman wrote for Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. So technically, he has an EGOT, just not competitively.

I would've been very confused if she hadn't gotten a trophy. The category itself is about performance.

Unless the Grammy rules have changed, the award for a revival cast album goes to the producer of the album and the label. Not the cast. So while she was obviously part of the recording, unless they've changed the wording, no, she did not win a Grammy. And unless they gave each and every cast member who appeared with her on the talk show a Grammy, then...

Hellob said: "MadsonMelo said: "I, actually, find interesting that she won 3 awards for the same role. Imagine if they do a film version of the musical lol

And there are only 12 people who have an EGOT, so it's a select club that only enjoy 3-4 per decade, so it's something, especially because it's really hard to win an Oscar and, lesser extent, a Tony. For the AMOUNT of categories that Grammy and Emmys, they are easier, but Elton John, ALWebber and Sondheim doesn't have the Emmy, Mr Menken is trying hard to get one (openly trying) and the list of actors that can't get a Grammy is tremendous as well.



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Joel Grey would have won 3 awards for the MC if vocalists got OBCR Grammys back then

edited to say that I did look at it and he's listed as a winner for the OBCR so he did win 3 awards for the same role according to the Wikipedia information for the 10th annual Grammy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Annual_Grammy_Awards





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Not for the same role, but if the current rules applied in 2005, then Kristin Chenoweth would have been an Oscar away from EGOT as well.

Anyway, as for the idea that EGOT wasn't really a sought after thing until 30 Rock made a joke out of it based on Miami Vice's Phillip Michael Thomas did an interview and introduced the acronym into the public consciousness AND even made a necklace with the acronym, here is The Atlantic article about that:

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/06/the-strange-tragicomic-history-of-egot/486182/

I think before it was a nice trivia question sort of thing and something some writers may have mentioned about the subject of their articles, but now some more ambitious celebs have now made it into a goal and are conscious of it as a status symbol that didn't quite exist before the way it does now. Also, stans use it as tools to attack their goddess/god's rivals. Something did change once "EGOT" became a thing in recent history.

"And only two (Rudin and Lopez) achieved EGOT status and realized it at the time, since EGOT didn’t really exist before 2009."

Updated On: 5/1/17 at 10:20 PM