New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

#1

New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

Posted: 3/14/08 at 11:50pm

After seeing CRY BABY's invited dress rehearsal tonight, I think Christopher J. Hanke has a serious shot at the Best Featured Actor Tony. His line delivery was amazing, and his jokes were the best in the show.

I also think this will win Best Choreography. Rob Ashford is brilliant. The dancing in "A Little Upset" was jaw dropping.

The show is great - it's pure fluff, but so entertaining. I dare say better than HAIRSPRAY. Go see it!

Updated On: 3/14/08 at 11:50 PM

#2

re: New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

Posted: 3/15/08 at 12:40am

Why is his name familer? Was he in In My Life?

#3

re: New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

Posted: 3/15/08 at 12:43am

Yes, he was. He was also in RENT.

#4

re: New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

Posted: 3/15/08 at 12:45am

Thanks antiandrewx, I apparently saw him in both come to think of it. Guess he wasn't very memorable to me in either.

#5

re: New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

Posted: 3/15/08 at 12:48am

I like Hanke, and haven't seen Cry Baby yet but let me just say...

Boyd Gaines
Danny Burstein
Matthew Morrison
Michael Cumpsty
Tony Roberts
Chris Fitzgerald
Robin DeJesus
Shuler Hensley

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[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

#6

re: New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

Posted: 3/15/08 at 12:50am

I think Chris Fitz has the best chance of the Tony, and I love his performance dearly, but I seriously think Hanke has a shot. You have to see it. It was comedic gold. I was so surprised with how much I liked him.

Updated On: 3/15/08 at 12:50 AM

#7

re: New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

Posted: 3/15/08 at 12:55am

Two words:

Boyd Gaines.

#8

re: New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

Posted: 3/15/08 at 12:57am

I think Boyd Gaines should and will get the Tony. I'd bet money on it.

If not him, I'd go with Morrison or Burstein, who should both be nominated.

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[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

#9

re: New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

Posted: 3/15/08 at 12:58am

I find it hard to believe that any show besides In The Heights has any shot at winning Best Choreography. But I have yet to see Cry Baby so I have no opinion on it yet. But we will have to wait and see.

#10

re: New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

Posted: 3/15/08 at 1:13am

As much as i love him, Dejesus isnt gonna get a nomination. The role jsut isn't substanative enough. Shuler won't get a nom either. Hanke deserved a nomination for the much maligned In My Life, but there was no way they were going to give one for that show so hopefully he'll get his shot this year.

#11

re: New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

Posted: 3/15/08 at 1:52am

Hanke deserved a nomination for the much maligned In My Life, but there was no way they were going to give one for that show so hopefully he'll get his shot this year.

I've only listened to a live audio, but even without having seen him life, he sounds magnificent in an otherwise horrific show. I agree both him and Turner should have been nominated. How pleasant to hear he has a shot at a nod this year. Oh, and I really don't think Gaines is a lock at all.

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"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

#12

re: New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

Posted: 3/15/08 at 1:54am

Gaines is a lock for a nom, but not for the win.

And yeah, Hanke was amazing in IML (i saw it twice). And Jennifer Boevers understudy should have been playing the lead and should have also gotten a nom.

#13

re: New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

Posted: 3/15/08 at 12:05pm

How would you say CRY-BABY compares to WEDDING SINGER? LEGALLY BLONDE? HAIRSPRAY? THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE?

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"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

#14

re: New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

Posted: 3/15/08 at 1:16pm

I'm a big fan of Rob Ashford's works, and really looking forward to this one!

#15

re: New candidate for Best Featured Actor Tony...

Posted: 3/15/08 at 1:31pm

Sorry, Boyd Gaines is winning this one. He had in the bag last summer.