Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

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Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 6:29pm

If the Best Replacement Tony had been around since the beginning...who do you think would have won?

-Molly Ringwald, CABARET
-Caroline O'Connor, CHICAGO

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#2

re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 6:33pm

Does it have to be within the second season of the show? Cuz if not my vote goes to Deborah Cox for AIDA

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#3

re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 6:38pm

Betty Buckley, SUNSET BLVD.
Elaine Paige, SUNSET BLVD.

#4

re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 7:09pm

Karen Ziemba, CRAZY FOR YOU
Jan Maxwell, DANCING AT LUGHNASA

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#5

re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 7:31pm

ehhh... maybe not Ziemba. I like her a lot, but Polly in C4U is not a role that garners a lot of award type attention, especially if she were up against a lot of the great performances of the early 90's

#6

re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 7:32pm

I swear there was a thread about this recently.

I'm gonna say Reba, specifically because the award has been nicknamed "The Reba Award."

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re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 7:35pm

The role of Polly garnered enough "award type attention" for a Tony nomination for the original performer.

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re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 7:47pm

WHAT? Yes it does garner Tony attention. Its the lead full of singing, dancing and acting. I'm pretty sure she would have been considered.

Updated On: 12/3/05 at 07:47 PM

#9

re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 8:05pm

Julia McGirt, Dreamgirls
Ann Reinking, A Chorus Line
George Hearn, Sweeney Todd

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re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 8:13pm

Raul Esparza for Cabaret

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re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 8:14pm

Carolee Carmello in Urinetown

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#12

re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 8:20pm

La D'Amboise for anything she did for atleast 6 months at a time.

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#13

re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 8:22pm

Jennifer Laura Thompson in Wicked.

Updated On: 12/3/05 at 08:22 PM

#14

re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 8:26pm

Matt McGrath for Cabaret

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re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 8:33pm

V, I do believe that is one of the few things you and the short/busty girl agree on.
I, however, think JLT was a mistake for Wicked. Loved her in Urinetown and even Footloose. But Wicked? :[


Annnnd back on topic:
Charlotte d'Amboise as Roxie in Chicago! She was amazing.

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re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 8:37pm

I second JLT in Wicked, as well as Deborah Cox for Aida.

Updated On: 12/3/05 at 08:37 PM

#17

re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 9:48pm

Hugh Panero in Phantom. He might be eligible still, I'm not sure.

#18

re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 9:53pm

Brooke Shields - Wonderful Town

#19

re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 10:02pm

Actresses:

Sandy Duncan - Chicago

Lea Thompson - Cabaret

Betty Buckley - Sunset Boulevard

Actors:

Howard McGillin - The Phantom of the Opera

Howard McGillin - Kiss of the Spider Woman

Francis Ruvivar - Miss Saigon (RIP FR)

The guy who replaced the original 3rd fork from the right in Beuaty and the Beast

Anyone who replaced the original Skimbleshanks in CATS. The original was sooooooooooooooooooo bad.

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re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 10:04pm

" The guy who replaced the original 3rd fork from the right in Beuaty and the Beast "

That just made my day.

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re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 10:04pm

Of course I second Brooke Shields in Wonderful Town, and Charlotte D'Amboise in Chicago. I didn't see her performance but from the reviews I've read I'm pretty sure Faith Prince in the King and I would have won Best Replacement. Susan Egan in Cabaret. Karen Ziemba in Chicago. Maybe Sarah Jessica Parker in Annie, just because I'm sure she was "fabulous" in the role.

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re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 10:21pm

George Hearn for Sweeney Todd
Hugh Panaro for Phantom of the Opera (hopfully it will happen)
Raul Esperaza - Cabaret

edit- Jai Rodriguez for Rent
Brad Oscar for The Producers

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#23

re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 10:36pm

Jai was not good in Rent.

Love him...but not as Angel.

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re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 11:48pm

i loved his Angel. loved his contact, his I'll Cover you and everything else he did though his Today 4 U could have been a little bit better.

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#25

re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony

Posted: 12/3/05 at 11:52pm

Sally Field in The Goat.

...and I second Sandy Duncan in Chicago...who ever knew the Wheat Thins lady was so damn good?!?!

Updated On: 12/3/05 at 11:52 PM