Roles that could be either leading OR featured...

[OH_so_TRENDYxx]

Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#0

Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:37pm

This is an OPINION!!
SO that means NO bitching for those of you who have nothing better to do but sit around and tell people why their opinion sucks and why yours is better...


Updated On: 6/13/06 at 03:37 PM

[dirty rotten guy]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#1

Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:42pm

Olive in Spelling Bee

"The hallmark of aristocracy is responsibility. Oh brother, that got me, that did me in!"

[All_For_Laura]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#2

Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:44pm

Count Fosco, WIW
Jake Side Show

...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

[YessicaB]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#3

Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:47pm

Glinda

[pandajen14]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#4

Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:48pm

Most everyone in Les Mis besides Jean Valjean.

"Writing should be easy, like a monkey driving a speedboat..." -[title of show] "I'm tired of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and meet up with them later." -Mitch Hedberg

[WickedGeek28]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#5

Posted: 6/13/06 at 3:51pm

Fosco WIW
Eileen Wonderful Town
Janet Drowsy

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

[Broadwayluva]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#6

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:03pm

what about Edna Turnblad . . . especially when Harvey did the role

[Enjolras77]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#7

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:09pm

The Emcee in Cabaret

In 1967, Joel Grey won the Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, whereas in 1998, Alan Cumming won the Tony for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for the same role.

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man

[mrslovett7]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#8

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:12pm

Clara in Light in the Piazza
Clara in Passion

~H* "I slept through the nominations, as I always do. Anything I need to know, I'll find out when I get up at a reasonable hour!" -Michael Cerveris

[30/90 Playout]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#9

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:16pm

Mrs. Lovett and Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd

It is always called an "ensemble cast", but they are obviously the leads.

Roger and Mark in Rent

Right?

[bwaybabe3]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#10

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:17pm

all the boys of jersey. personally I think they are all leading...

[ljay889]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#11

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:18pm

Sweeney Todd and Mrs Lovett in the standard Sweeney Todd are the two leads, and nothing less.

[Horton]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#12

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:38pm

Captian Von Trap in The Sound of Music

[Marguerite Chauvelin]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#13

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:41pm

John Adams in 1776 is leading, but William Daniels was nominated as featured, no wonder he turned it down.

If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....

Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)

[ashley0139]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#14

Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:44pm

Christine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

[Stagerage2003]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#15

Posted: 6/13/06 at 5:19pm

Christine in Phantom

[melissa errico fan]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#16

Posted: 6/13/06 at 5:23pm

Trina in FALSETTOS
Deena Jones in DREAMGIRLS

[EponineThenardier]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#17

Posted: 6/13/06 at 5:26pm

Velma & Roxie in Chicago.
The Engineer in Miss Saigon (but is usually given higher billing than Chris)

[ljay889]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#18

Posted: 6/13/06 at 5:33pm

Though Roxie does not get many musical numbers. She is still the lead, considering the whole plot revolves around her. Velma can be argued.

[singingshowgirl]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#19

Posted: 6/13/06 at 5:34pm

Adelaide in Guys and Dolls

[NYC4Life]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#20

Posted: 6/13/06 at 5:36pm

The cast of Into the Woods

[GirlforTartaglia]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#21

Posted: 6/13/06 at 6:26pm

Rosemary from H2$ seeing as she's basically out of Act2 until the end..but she's the primary female..but Finch and Biggley are like overpowering the entire show lol

And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps... What did she realize, Kitten? That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs. What's wrong with that? Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had... Where? On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.

[The Distinctive Baritone]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#22

Posted: 6/13/06 at 6:43pm

Many actors in leading roles have been nominated/made eligible in the featured category for reasons having nothing to do with their part size, i.e. not wanting to make two actors compete against each other in the same category, or wanting to give an actor a better shot at winning. For example, even though Linda in "Death of a Salesman" is a leading role, the producers asked that Elizabeth Franz be eligable at the Tonys as a "featured" actress since everyone knew Judi Dench would win that year as lead actress. The Tony commitee consented, and Franz ended up winning the featured actress award.

William Daniels was, I think, the one who basically changed the format of eligibility. Before him, it was pretty cut and dry: upove the title = lead, below = featured. (For example, if you can believe it, Carol Lawrence was nominated for featured actress as the original Maria in WSS, Tom Bosley won for featured actor for originating the title role in Fiorello!) When Daniels refused his Tony nomination as featured actor (since John Adams is most definitely the lead in 1776), I think that's when they started allowing producers to petition an actor for a particular category.

[popular_elphie]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#23

Posted: 6/13/06 at 7:06pm

All the Jersey Boys
All parts in Drowsy

[icantbelive]

re: Roles that could be either leading OR featured...#24

Posted: 6/13/06 at 7:23pm

Booth in Assassins
Jonathan in TTB