If Andrea Martin wasn't running for Best Featured Actress...

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 5:10pm

Who do you think would won?

I think Lauren Ward would have won "Best Featured Actress". And I am not saying that because I loved Matilda.

She really broke my heart from the beginning of Pathetic to the end. And it was great to see her getting stronger and you feel really happy when she gets her happy ending. Laura did great, portraying her when she was so terrified of Trunchbull.

My whole audience almost applauded when *SPOILERS* Ms. Honey became the new headmistress *END OF SPOILERS*

Annaleigh was great in Kinky Boots and I love her, but after HOWG (which was hysterical), she faded into the background to me.

My personal runner up for BFA would be Victoria Clark. She’s amazing in There’s Music in You.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 5:12pm

I bet if she wasn't in the running that somebody else would have won.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 5:12pm

^^No, really? :P LOL, jk.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 5:15pm

Yes, really. They wouldn't have just not given the award to nobody. I think that's against the rules.

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 5:15pm

I'm so surprised she decided to run!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 5:16pm

I thought she was nominated. I didn't know it was her decision to run. That's kind of cool!

[MusicalTheatreGeek2]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 5:16pm

Well they gave the best replacement award to nobody they one year they ran it! But to be honest even if she hasn't been in the running she would have won it anyway!

Updated On: 6/14/13 at 05:16 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 5:19pm

That would have been cool. I love Andrea Martin. I saw her a show once but I can't remember what it was.

[broadwaybabytn]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 5:20pm

Honestly, she was the only person in the category I really would have wanted to award. I wish Rachel Bay Jones and Lesli Margherita had been nominated.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 5:30pm

Yeah, I'm surprised that Lesli Margherita wasn't nominated!

Anyway, it's so cool that it was a choice of her to run. Go Martin!

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 6:38pm

If Andrea wasn't in the running, then Rachel Bay Jones would have been nominated and she probably would have won. It was a masterful performance, especially for what is usually a throwaway role.

[Wishing Only Wounds]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 6:45pm

I think Annaleigh may have won; most people love(d) her performance. Jessie Mueller or Chita Rivera may have been nominated if there was another opening.

[jnb9872]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 6:48pm

I loved Lauren Ward, and thought her role at least had more range than Lesli Margherita's very loud (and one-note) performance, but to me the clear runner-up to Ms. Martin was Keala Settle. She would have been my pick, both as the most deserving entrant in that field but also as the most deserving highlight to recognize from HANDS ON A HARDBODY, which deserved better than it got.

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 7:00pm

Anyway, it's so cool that it was a choice of her to run. Go Martin!

I know! It's amazing how the Tonys called her up and asked her if she wanted to run and then she said yes, how incredible!

[jackieoh]

Posted: 6/14/13 at 10:28pm

Oh, this thread.

I second jnb's suggestion of Keala Settle.

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 6/15/13 at 12:18am

I'd say Annaleigh - she got a lot of great notices from the critics, so I'd say she would have been it.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 6/15/13 at 7:39am

She'd probably be walking,

[JudyDenmark]

Posted: 6/15/13 at 4:41pm

I'm one who vastly preferred Matilda to Kinky Boots, but I would've given it to Annaleigh. She was easily my favorite thing about KB.

I really liked Lesli, Lauren, and Rachel's performances, though... so would've been happy any way it (hypothetically) fell.

[AC126748]

Posted: 6/15/13 at 5:52pm

These questions are pointless hypotheticals, but if Andrea Martin for some reason wasn't in the running, looking at the other 4 nominees, Ashford likely would have ridden the KINKY BOOTS wave to a victory.

[JP2]

Posted: 6/15/13 at 6:07pm

Keala Settle.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 6/15/13 at 6:58pm

JNB, to be fair, there isn't much depth you bring to Mrs. Wormwood. And since her song is called Loud, I'd imagine that's how she was directed to play it.

[Blockhead24]

Posted: 6/15/13 at 7:10pm

JP2, I'm in complete agreement.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 6/16/13 at 12:50am

Not sure what the point of this is, but it surely would've been Annaleigh Ashford.