Personal Non-Eligable "Should Have Been Nominated" List (2023/2024 Season)

In the lead-up to the Tonys, I always find NYT's "Who Will Win (and Who Should)" interesting, particularly the "Should Have Been Nominated" category, in which they will sometimes include non-eligible productions or performers. Looking back on the past season, I can think of a few notable Off-Broadway standouts; thus, I've decided to try out a list of my own. Of course I would love to hear your own choices and opinions as well (and feel free to include any of the Technical/Design categories).

BEST MUSICAL: Here We Are, Walk On Through

BEST PLAY: All The Devils Are Here, The Doctor, The Hunt

BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY: The Effect

BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL: I Can Get It For You Wholesale

LEAD ACTOR IN A PLAY: Tobias Menzies (The Hunt), Patrick Page (All The Devils Are Here), Josh Radnor (The Ally)

LEAD ACTRESS IN A PLAY: Juliette Stevenson (The Doctor), Diane Weist (Scene Partners)

LEAD ACTOR IN A MUSICAL: Gavin Creel (Walk on Through)

LEAD ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL: Rachel Bay Jones (Here We Are), Ruthie Ann Miles (The Light in the Piazza), Hannah Cruz (The Connector)

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A PLAY: Josh Hamilton (Scene Partners)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A PLAY: Johanna Day (Scene Partners)

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL: Dennis O'Hare (Here We Are), Jin Ha (Here We Are), David Hyde Pierce (Here We Are), Fergie Philippe (The Connector)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL: Tracie Bennett (Here We Are), Michaela Diamond (Here We Are), Julia Lester (I Can Get It For You Wholesale), Jessica Molaskey (The Connector)

Updated On: 5/2/24 at 05:40 PM

Your omission of anything “Oh, Mary” is glaring.

quizking101 said: "Your omission of anything “Oh, Mary” is glaring."

I assumed it was because it will be eligible next year.

I'm not going to think too hard about categories, but some of my Off-Broadway faves from the past year were:

• Here We Are (the writing and the entire, immaculate production around it)
• Jelly's Last Jam (the production, choreo, direction, and performances)
• Light in the Piazza (the performances but not the production)
• Sutton Foster, Michael Urie, David Patrick Kelly, and Harriet Harris in Mattress
• The Doctor (Juliet Stevenson's performance and & Rob Icke's stark production)
• The Effect
• The MasterVoices concert of The Frogs
• Oh Mary

Updated On: 5/3/24 at 11:53 PM

Awards are great but I'm still pinching myself that we even got to see a brand new Sondheim musical with that cast and in that production. And something that was so funny, satisfying and poignant. And then being able to see the stunning revival of "Merrily" the next night, and pop back over to London to see Bernadette sing "Send in the Clowns", read lines as dot and then perform a spectacular "Sunday". Sometimes I genuinely can't believe how lucky I am Being Alive.

• Dead Outlaw
• Here We Are
• Job
• The Comeuppance
• Teeth
• Terce: A Practical Breviary
• Once Upon a Mattress (Encores)
• I Can Get It for You Wholesale
• Wet Brain
• School Pictures

Wet Brain should definitely be on this list but I guess you didn't see it?

LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY: Gabby Beans (Jonah)

BEST MUSICAL: Dead Outlaw

BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL: Light on the Piazza (Encores!)

BEST PLAY: Small

LEAD ACTOR IN A PLAY: Robert Montano (Small)

LEAD ACTOR IN A MUSICAL: Andrew Durand (Dead Outlaw)

LEAD ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL: Rachel Bay Jones (Here We Are)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A Musical: Anna Zevelson (Light on the Piazza)

SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL: Thom Sesma (Dead Outlaw), David Hyde Pierce (Here We Are)