Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Musicaldudepeter
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#1Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 8:32pm
What do you think? Not the slightest chance??
I know a lot of people think she was nominated just because of her name, but could they turn this thing around and give her the Tony and not Laura.
Mind you it could always go to Victoria Clark...
I think it's an interesting category this year...
#2Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 8:33pmI think it's a horse-race between Laura Benanti and Nikki James.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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Featured Actor Joined: 4/11/11
#2Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 8:36pmIt seems to be a three way race between Victoria, Nikki and Laura. I think Laura will win. Tammy and Patti seem to be fillers. I don't think the Tony Awards like Patti. I know it sounds crazy but she loses Tony Awards when she is the front runner by far. Me and my paranoia.
#3Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 8:37pm
It'll be Benanti, unless there is a TOTAL Mormon sweep.
I don't think the Tony Awards like Patti. I know it sounds crazy but she loses Tony Awards when she is the front runner by far.
HUH?? Where were you in 2008?
#4Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 8:38pmWhy does everyone think Clark has a chance? She's won no awards thus far.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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#5Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 8:39pm
I mean she has 2 but if she lost those ones it would have been crazy. She should have won for Sweeney and Anything Goes. But I have a weird way of thinking. ;p
I'm just going with what everyone says about Victoria.
Updated On: 6/9/11 at 08:39 PM
#6Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 8:42pmVictoria has no chance. She's wonderful, but with all due respect, I think a lot of people even forgot she was in the show.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#7Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 8:42pmI really hope Benanti wins.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#8Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 8:46pm
I think Clark deserves to be a frontrunner, but her performance has practically been forgotten. Absolutely no buzz.
It should be Benanti. If James wins, I will not be happy.
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#9Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 8:46pmSame, WOTV is the show that made me start liking her. I heard Model Behavior and it was so funny.
#10Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 9:05pmI think it's Benanti with James a close second and LuPone in third. Though I would say LuPone had more depth and range of character than James. I don't think LuPone was nominated for her name, but for the poignancy of her performance of a character that was more fully realized than its original incarnation on film. As soon as she performed Time Stands Still, I pegged her for a Tony nomination. But when I saw Model Behavior, I knew Benanti had it in the bag. The most difficult complex patter song since the Witch's entrance in Into the Woods and performed to perfection. Too bad Burstein wasn't nominated as well. I think he could've won again. I found him much more memorable than the front-runner, O'Malley.
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#11Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 9:07pmAny chance? How's 20%?
"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
--Aristotle
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#12Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:26pm
Burstein has not won yet, but should have both times he was nommed.
I'd actually prefer Patti to win over Missy B, I didn't understand a word she said during MODEL BEHAVOIR in the theatre.
I can't imagine how many voters actually saw WOTVOANB. So most voters are lying if they vote for either of them.
I predict the deserving Nikki will beat them both.
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#13Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:29pmBernstein got a Tony for Wonderful Town.
#14Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:31pmLOL. Danny Burstein is not Leonard Bernstein.
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Featured Actor Joined: 4/11/11
#15Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:33pmOpps Ahahaha. That is embarrassing. Boy am I red in the face.
ahhrealmonsters
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/10
#16Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:33pm
^ +1
I don't think she's going to win. I also don't think she's expecting to win.
#17Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:35pmNo. Oh and Vicki Clark is in Sister Act for the paycheck. End of story.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#18Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:37pm
I don't think she's going to win. I also don't think she's expecting to win.
I agree. This may be the first and only time that LuPone is NOT expecting to win. I think she's genuinely surprised and thrilled with her nomination.
#19Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:45pm
Oh and Vicki Clark is in Sister Act for the paycheck. End of story.
That statement is extremely rude. Who ISN'T on Broadway for the paycheck? You think she can just CHOOSE when to do a "meaningful" show over an "entertainment" show? Not every actor is as lucky as those were who got to do NEXT TO NORMAL, THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, PASSING STRANGE, CAROLINE OR CHANGE, or HAIR.
"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
--Aristotle
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#20Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:46pmPatti LuPone is the sun, the moon and the stars.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#21Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:50pmI'm not rude. Im being honest. Let me clarify-she is well aware she is in a theme park show and isn't expecting kudos for a thankless part. She's making great money and is aware of the trade-off.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#22Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:51pmIf Patti wins, it will prove that the gay mafia does indeed exist.
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#23Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:54pmThey wouldn't have set up a win in 1988?
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#24Is there any chance at all that LuPone will win that Tony?
Posted: 6/9/11 at 11:57pm^ They wanted to let the drama build so that Patti could win her next Tony in the seminal role of Madame Rose.
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