More Tony Eligibility News - Morton, Dunagan Lead, Perez Featured

Per Playbill:

Max Crumm and Laura Osnes will be considered in the Leading Actor and Actress in a Musical categories for their performances in Grease.

Rosie Perez will be considered in the Featured Actress in a Play category for her performance in The Ritz.

Boyd Gaines and Jay O. Sanders will both be considered in the Featured Actor in a Play category for their performances in Pygmalion.

Daniel Sunjata will be considered in the Featured Actor in a Play category for his role in Cyrano De Bergerac.

Brian Cox and Rufus Sewell will both be considered in the Leading Actor in a Play category for their performances in Rock 'n' Roll.

Roger Bart will be considered in the Leading Actor in a Musical category for his performance in Young Frankenstein.

Martha Plimpton will be considered in the Leading Actress in a Play category for her performance in Cymbeline.

Deanna Dunagan and Amy Morton will both be considered in the Leading Actress in a Play category for their performances in August: Osage County.

Norbert Leo Butz will be considered in the Leading Actor in a Play category for his performance in Is He Dead?

Raúl Esparza, Michael McKean, James Frain and Gareth Saxe will all be considered in the Featured Actor in a Play category for their performances in The Homecoming.

All other decisions were consistent with the opening night credits.

Out of the plays ive seen so far this year:
S.Epatha Merkerson
Deanna Dunagan
& Amy Morton

are the 3 that deserve a nomination IMO so far. I'm sure Laura Linney and Francis McDormand, if they bring their always wonderful work to the stage, will also be big competition. Depending Plimpton may get in, but she might also for her supporting work in TOP GIRLS.

Also glad that all the MAURITIUS folk are elegible for Supporting. Bobby Canavalie and Allison Pill could possibly get nods there as well.

Does that mean Sutton, Megan, and Andrea are all considered Featured as well?

Does anyone have a clue how The Seafarer nominations would work? Is everyone featured?

Best and McShane will both be considered Lead.

FYI -- when Dunagan and Morton went up head-to-head against each other for Lead Actress at the Jeff Awards in Chicago, Dunagan won.

Since it was already a film and well known nationally, I assume A BRONX TALE will be a Revival under the Tony "classics" rule.

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My personal feeling is that David Morse should have been moved to Lead as well as Raul Esparza. I also think that Alison Pill and Bobby Cannavale should be Leads as well.

I think it is reasonable that Eve Best is in Lead -- if Ian McShane is going Lead, then she should as well. I would agree though that she is going to have a hard time getting nominated, particularly if The Homecoming closes by the end of April as currently advertised -- unless someone underwhelms, the nominations in that category are almost certainly going to Dunagan and Morton, S Epatha Merkerson, Frances McDormand, and Laura Linney.

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Updated On: 1/22/08 at 03:48 PM

If Alison Pill is featured she's got a damn good chance at a nod, if not a win. Other than Laurie Metcalf (assuming her role has expanded significantly since I saw November) and Rondi Reed (August: Osage County) I can't think of anyone else who would be competition for her.

uncageg - I think Morton has the best shot of a nomination (and a win), considering she carries Acts II and III of A:OC on her shoulders. The applause she got after she growled "I'm running things now!" at the end of Act II was unlike anything I've ever heard.

My jaw just dropped to the floor at the end of Act II and then I said "whoa" out loud before I could stop myself!

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Or put spoilers in the post title.

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There is absolutely no spoiler in my post. It just leaves you wondering what the quote is in reference to. Like "WHAT IS THAT THING?" in the commercials for Cloverfield.

Yankee, unless the play is COMPLETELY twisty and unexpected, one can pretty much imagine what the line means if you already know Morton plays the middle-aged daughter to Dunagan's pill-popping, alcoholic matriarch. I just wish I hadn't read your post, that's all.
I feel Laura Osnes and Max-Can't-Never-Remember-His-Last-Name have been screwed by being placed in the leading categories, now they really DON'T have a chance of anything.

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Bloom and Bialystock?