Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Joviedamian
Broadway Star Joined: 11/9/10
#1Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 4:56pm
With all this talk about the CABARET REVIVAL coming next year, and with Alan Cummings in talks to star as the MC (again), it got me thinking what if he is nominated and wins again come Tony time?
Has a situation like that ever happened before?
Updated On: 7/30/13 at 04:56 PM
#2Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:02pm-s
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:02pmThe closest I can think of is Stephen Spinella. I think he won twice for playing the same character in Angels In America, but technically they are considered different plays. I think also the first year he won Featured Actor and the second year he won Lead Actor.
#3Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:05pm
Alan won't be eligible.
It was a surprise when Arthur Laurents was eligible and nominated for directing the 2008 Gypsy but it was a new production he directed.
Updated On: 7/30/13 at 05:05 PM
#4Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:07pm
Alan Cumming (no "s") wouldn't be eligible for a Tony, since he already played the role on Broadway.
Stephen Spinella played the same role in two different plays, so that's the reason he wasn't ruled ineligible.
... and yes, he won both times!
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Joviedamian
Broadway Star Joined: 11/9/10
#5Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:07pm
"Alan won't be eligible"
Yeah I though that would be the final solution too.
Thanks!
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#6Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:08pm
Does this count?
Liza at the Winter Garden
Liza at the Palace
#7Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:09pmJoel Grey, Carol Channing, Yul Brynner, Lonette McKee, and many others have played the same role on Broadway more than once. They were only eligible the first time.
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finebydesign
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/17/07
#8Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:09pmDon't the Tony rules change after the game anyway? It seems like they wait till the end of the season to decided what is what. I can't believe he is actually doing this again.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#9Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:14pm
Well....how many actors have played the same part on b'way?...so my mind went immediately to Yul Brynner.
He WON for the original in '51
He was nominated for the first revival in '77
He rec'd a "special" Tony for the 2nd revival in '85
(And Lou Diamond Phillips was nominated in '96)
Any others?
#10Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:20pm
I just listed several above. And Yul wasn't nominated for a Tony in 1977, because he was ineligible. He was nominated for a Drama Desk Award in '77, though.
Other actors who played the same role more than once on Broadway:
Stephanie Mills in The Wiz
Martha Scott in Our Town
I'll try to think of others ...
EDIT: Ethel Merman in Annie Get Your Gun
The entire five-person cast of Ain't Misbehavin'.
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ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#11Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:27pm
per IBDB:
Richard Burton in Camelot
Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#12Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:52pmoops! totally misread IBDB. My bad!
RUkiddingme
Broadway Star Joined: 12/9/11
#13Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 5:56pmdoes Judith Light count?
#14Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 6:58pmZiegfeld revived Showboat with many members of the original cast in 1932 (the original ran from 1927-1929).
#15Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 7:03pm
Zero Mostel in Fiddler
Maria Karnilova in Fiddler
Angela Lansbury in Mame
Jane Connell in Mame
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henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#16Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 8:38pmJason Robards was nominated twice for playing Jamie Tyrone, once for Long Day's Journey Into Night and once for A Moon For The Misbegotten.
#17Has an actor ever won a TONY for playing the same role more than once?
Posted: 7/30/13 at 10:55pmHehe, that Judith Light joke still makes me laugh. Because it's true.
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