Situations in Which the Best Person Didn't Win- Page 2

[disneybroadwayfan22]

Posted: 6/18/18 at 6:09pm

-Tim Minchin for Best Score (Matilda)

-Christopher Nightingale for Matilda Orchestrations 


-Ethan Slater and Gavin Lee for Spongebob

-Tina Ladeu or Michael Arden and Rachel C. (Great Comet) for Direction

-Peter Darling for Matilda Choreography

-Andrew Randells for Falesettoland

-Walter Trarbach and Mike Dobson for Sound Design (Spongebob)

 
 

Updated On: 6/18/18 at 06:09 PM

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 6/18/18 at 11:53pm

Robert Cuccioli  (Jekyll & Hyde) lost to James Naughton (Chicago) which I thought was horrible. Just the performance in the "Confrontation" scene alone should have giver Mr. Cuccioli the Tony IMO. Mr. Naughton had already won Tony for "City Of Angels" and was in the hit revival "Chicago" while Mr. Cuccioli was relatively unknown at that time.

[MrPeach]

Posted: 6/19/18 at 12:21am

I’ve been seeing a lot of B’way and trying to keep up for about 3 or 4 years. The biggest headscratcher has been Gideon Glick not even receiving a nomination for “Significant Other.” He was much more deserving than at least two of the nominees in Lead Actor of a Play.

[uncageg]

Posted: 6/19/18 at 1:00am

MrPeach said: "I’ve been seeing a lot of B’way and trying to keep up for about 3 or 4 years. The biggest headscratcher has been Gideon Glick not even receiving a nomination for “Significant Other.” He was much more deserving than at least two of the nominees in Lead Actor of a Play."

Agreed. I saw it off-Broadway and still can't shake those final moments of the play.

 

[hanabana]

Posted: 6/19/18 at 1:04am

Completely agree on the Robert Cuccioli comment!  It is still very difficult to understand how the voters decided that one.  In my opinion, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde is one of the most demanding roles in theater, and Cuccioli was simply impeccable and absolutely deserved the Tony.  And I may be in the minority for this one, but I somehow always thought of Billy Flynn as more of a featured role in Chicago, not a leading role.

[Elegance101]

Posted: 6/19/18 at 1:08am

There's at least one of these each year (probably more). However, it's completely up to one's opinion of who "deserved" it. This entire topic is wildly subjective.

[Soaring29]

Posted: 6/19/18 at 2:51am

This happens all the time at every awards show and in life in general-  it's naive to think that it barely ever happens.  the Tony's maybe a little less political then the Oscars, but choices of winners who are chosen due to other reasons then how good their performance is happen every year.