Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony
Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony
#0Performers 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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#1re: 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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#2re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony
Posted: 12/3/05 at 6:38pm
Betty Buckley, SUNSET BLVD.
Elaine Paige, SUNSET BLVD.
#3re: 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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Doogie
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#4re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony
Posted: 12/3/05 at 7:31pmehhh... 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
#5re: 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."
#6re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony
Posted: 12/3/05 at 7:35pmThe role of Polly garnered enough "award type attention" for a Tony nomination for the original performer.
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#7re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony
Posted: 12/3/05 at 7:47pmWHAT? 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
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#8re: 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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#9re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony
Posted: 12/3/05 at 8:13pmRaul Esparza for Cabaret
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#10re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony
Posted: 12/3/05 at 8:14pmCarolee Carmello in Urinetown
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#11re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony
Posted: 12/3/05 at 8:20pmLa D'Amboise for anything she did for atleast 6 months at a time.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
BroadwayGirl107
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#12re: 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
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#13re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony
Posted: 12/3/05 at 8:26pm
Matt McGrath for Cabaret
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#14re: 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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#15re: 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
#16re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony
Posted: 12/3/05 at 9:48pmHugh Panero in Phantom. He might be eligible still, I'm not sure.
#17re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony
Posted: 12/3/05 at 9:53pm
Brooke Shields - Wonderful Town
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#18re: 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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#19re: 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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#20re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony
Posted: 12/3/05 at 10:04pmOf 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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#21re: 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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Updated On: 12/3/05 at 10:21 PM
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#22re: 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.
Idina: Somehow I got myself to the stage, came out at the end of the show, and I had some kind of closure.
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05
#23re: Performers that WOULD have won the Best Replacement Tony
Posted: 12/3/05 at 11:48pmi 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.
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#24re: 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
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