Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
commasplice
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/29/04
#1Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 12:23am
Pretty much what the subject line says -- who are some folks (performers or other) who have been nominated for multiple Tony Awards, but have not won (whether it be "yet" or "never")?
So far, I've come up with:
Carolee Carmello - 2 (Parade, Lestat)
Charlotte D'Amboise - 2 (Jerome Robbins' Broadway, A Chorus Line)
Marc Kudisch - 2 (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
Howard McGillin - 2 (The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anything Goes)
Daphne Rubin-Vega - 2 (Rent, Anna in the Tropics)
Patrick Wilson - 2 (The Full Monty, Oklahoma!)
Tim Curry - 3 (Amadeus, My Favorite Year, Spamalot)
Raul Esparza - 3 (Taboo, Company, The Homecoming)
Judy Kuhn - 3 (Les Miserables, Chess, She Loves Me)
Marin Mazzie - 3 (Passion, Ragtime, Kiss Me Kate)
Jeanine Tesori (Twelfth Night, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Caroline or Change)
Gregg Edelman - 4 (City of Angels, Anna Karenina, 1776, Into the Woods)
Victor Garber - 4 (Deathtrap, Little Me, Lend Me a Tenor, Damn Yankees)
Stephen Schwartz - 6 (Pippin, Godspell, Working [Book and Score], Rags, Wicked)
#2re: Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 12:27amKelli O'Hara: nominated for Light in the Piazza, Pajama Game, and South Pacific.
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#2re: Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 12:27am
Jane Greenwood, costume designer
15 nominations stretching back to 1965, no wins.
(Nominated for Tartuffe, More Stately Mansions, Hay Fever & Les Blancs, Medea, Heartbreak House, Our Town, Two Shakespearean Actors, The Sisters Rosensweig, She Loves Me, Passion, The Heiress, A Delicate Balance, Morning's at Seven, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Heartbreak House)
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Updated On: 9/2/08 at 12:27 AM
#3re: Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 12:30am
Carolee and Kelli both need to win one of these years...
and Judy Kuhn needs a hit show to make her comback to Broadway! Unfortunately, she was only in the Les Mis revival for a few months before it closed...
#4re: Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 12:32amAnd of course the great John McMartin is forgotten again. 6 nominations.
#5re: Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 12:35amI'm sure there are tons of names that could go on this list...it could get quite lengthy!
#7re: Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 1:47amDana Ivey (5)
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#8re: Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 1:52am
Julie Andrews- 3 (My Fair Lady, Camelot, Victor/Victoria)
Yes, technically she declined her nomination for V/V, but her name was still on the ballot and could have won.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#9re: Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 2:04am
John McMartin was the first one to come to mind. I can't believe he has yet to win one of those buggers.
I'll also add the brilliant Kate Burton to the list.
It's still baffling to me that Victor Garber has yet to win a Tony.
Dana Ivey and Marin Mazzie definitely need one as well.
This list is sad when you consider some of the people who HAVE won Tonys.
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Updated On: 9/2/08 at 02:04 AM
#10re: Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 2:16am
I thought that this was about shows that had multiple Tony nominations and no wins.
I'd say the Granddaddy of them all would be the original production of "Chicago" that had ten or eleven nominations and didn't win one.
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Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
#11re: Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 6:08am
The real question is how many times has Susan Lucci been nominated for a Tony. 
#12re: Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 6:48amsondheimboy, another Kander and Ebb show, Steel Pier, also had like eleven nominations with no wins. and it, interestingly enough, was competing in some categories against the revival of Chicago.
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Jazzysuite82
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/6/05
#13re: Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 1:56pmI think Jonathan Tunick has been nominated several times and never one.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#14re: Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 2:01pmTunick won the first year of the Tony Award for orchestrations for Titanic.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
commasplice
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/29/04
#15re: Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 2:02pm
Jazzy, Tunick won in 1997 for his orchestrations for Titanic. (eta: beat me to it, Smaxie)
I sincerely thought that John McMartin had won a Tony. Wow.
Updated On: 9/2/08 at 02:02 PM
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#16re: Multiple Tony Nominations, No Wins
Posted: 9/2/08 at 5:32pmJane Greenwood never won? Wow! I always love her costumes...it's a shame she didn't get a nod for The Scarlet Pimpernel! One of the few shows that makes you look at the costumes .. alot!
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