Final round of Tony Eligibility Announced

The productions discussed were King Lear; Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!; Burn This; Hadestown; Hillary and Clinton; Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; Arthur Miller's All My Sons; Tootsie; Ink and Beetlejuice.

The committee made the following determinations:

Jayne Houdyshell, Elizabeth Marvel, Aisling O'Sullivan, Ruth Wilson, Pedro Pascal and John Douglas Thompson will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actress/Actor in a Featured Role in a Play categories for their respective performances in King Lear.

Damon Daunno and Rebecca Naomi Jones will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in Leading Role in a Musical categories for their respective performances in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!


Reeve Carney and Eva Noblezada will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical categories for their respective performances in Hadestown.

Benjamin Walker will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play category for his performance in Arthur Miller's All My Sons.

Santino Fontana will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical category for his performance in Tootsie.

Jonny Lee Miller will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play category for his performance in Ink.

Alex Brightman and Sophia Anne Caruso will be considered eligible in the Best Performance by an Actor/Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical categories for their respective performances in Beetlejuice

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Breaking-Tony-Awards-Administration-Committee-Announces-Eligilibity-Rulings-for-HADESTOWN-TOOTSIE-More-20190426

Updated On: 4/26/19 at 12:52 PM

And Lili Cooper is Featured (in a rather crowded field), poor Lili.

Don't think Lili would've been recognized in leading anyway

Famebroadway2 said: "So does this mean Hadestown is eligible for score? I know there were rumblings that it might not be eligible because of the concept recording."

I think as the original recording always featured multiple artists singing specific roles in the recording, it doesn't fall into the the rule created because of Tommy's best score win that caused future concept albums turned rock/pop operas like American Idiot to be deemed ineligible.

Honestly didn't occur to me as an option until reading the Featured Actress in a Musical thread yesterday, but I'm kind of disappointed that Hadestown didn't petition the Fates to be jointly eligible. (Or maybe they did and it was rejected.) But the more I think about that beautiful production, the more I think about how they totally stole the show for me.

Updated On: 4/26/19 at 04:26 PM

Valid point about the group nominees.

But I genuinely find it unfathomable that someone can love this show, see it twice, and not remember the Fates who are present (and sing) through almost the entire thing.