Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys

[mattporter17]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#1

Posted: 6/20/15 at 12:03am

Can you think of any songs that single handedly won their performers Tonys?  

Off the top of my head I can think of:

- Your Daddy's Son, Audra McDonald (Ragtime)

- Gimme Gimme / Forget About the Boy, Sutton Foster (Thoroughly Modern Millie)

- Sal Tlay Ka Stiti, Nikki M. James (Book of Mormon)

- James Monroe Iglehart, Friend Like Me (Aladdin)

Now, some of these are just such great moments that I'm sure they played a hand in them winning. Obviously one song isn't everything, but sometimes, if its that grand, it just might do the trick!

Are there any other obvious one's I'm missing? These are just off the top of my head so I'm probably missing some big one's

Updated On: 6/20/15 at 12:03 AM

[TexanAddams18]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#2

Posted: 6/20/15 at 12:12am

I would say "Anything Goes" and/or "Blow Gabriel Blow" for Sutton as well

[trpguyy]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#2

Posted: 6/20/15 at 12:19am

"Don't Break the Rules" from Catch Me If You Can

[gstrus2]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#3

Posted: 6/20/15 at 12:21am

I would think Andrea Martin's song in Pippin falls under this?

[Phillypinto]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#4

Posted: 6/20/15 at 12:26am

Friend Like Me

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[mattmarkowski99]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#5

Posted: 6/20/15 at 12:27am

^ "No Time At All"

[RaiseYouUp]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#6

Posted: 6/20/15 at 12:30am

Would Today 4 U from Rent fall in this category?

[RaiseYouUp]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#7

Posted: 6/20/15 at 12:34am

And also probably Cady Huffman as Ulla in The Producers for "When You Got It, Flaunt It"

[Fan123]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#8

Posted: 6/20/15 at 2:03am

The Lees of Old Virginia for Ron Holgate

[Tag]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#9

Posted: 6/20/15 at 2:08am

Obvious answer: You're Gonna Love Me - Jennifer Holliday

[Fantod]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#10

Posted: 6/20/15 at 2:38am

I Don't Want to Know - Angela Lansbury for Dear World

[JBroadway]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#11

Posted: 6/20/15 at 2:50am

Judy Kaye - "Looking for a Boy" in Nice Work. 

Katie Finneran - Promises, Promises - I'm not familiar with the show, but I thought I've heard that her character only really sings one song. Am I right?

Michael Cerveris - "The Ballad of Booth" - Assassins

Betty Buckley - "memory" - Cats

Donna McKechnie - "Music and the Mirror" - A Chorus Line

 Also, I know this isn't quite the same, but I'd say Paul's monologue in A Chorus Line won Sammy Williams the Tony

[Call_me_jorge]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#12

Posted: 6/20/15 at 3:05am

I believe the role of elphaba is an endearing role, but I don't think it would be all to memorable without Defying Gravity in the shows so I believe Idina Menzel pretty much won just because I'd Defying Gravity.

My father (AIDS) My sister (AIDS) My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS) The gays and the straights And the white and the spades

[peerrjb]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#13

Posted: 6/20/15 at 5:02am

When Barbara Harris (who'd already played Eve, Barbera, and Ella) became "Passionella" in the song "Gorgeous", her Tony was secured.  (And besting Mary Martin and Lotte Lenya was no mean feat.) 

Linda Hopkins, in "Inner City"...choose your song.

Larry Blyden in  "Forum".... First Act "I'm Calm" was riotous, but the Act Two reprise of "Lovely" with Phil Silvers [who also deserved his Tony if only for "Free"] was unforgettable.

Gwen Verdon - "Whatever Lola Wants";  Randy Graff - "You Can Always Count on Me"; Donna Murphy - "Hello, Young Lovers";  Faith Prince - "Adelaide's Lament" or "Sue Me";  Len Cariou - "Epiphany" (or pretty much anything in "Sweeney"; Angela Lansbury - "Mame" (Because even though she never sang a note, she knockout danced the Onna White stuff, and made EVERYONE onstage or in the audience realize the Mame was, indeed, the best of the best.)

 

 

 

 

 

[bwayphreak234]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#14

Posted: 6/20/15 at 5:53am

Katie Finneran - "A Fact Can Be A Beautiful Thing"

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[Sally Durant Plummer]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#15

Posted: 6/20/15 at 7:19am

Donna Murphy - "I Read" 

 

"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium." - Patti LuPone, a Memoir

[The Other One]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#16

Posted: 6/20/15 at 8:24am

Katie Finneran's only song in PROMISES PROMISES was A Fact Can Be A Beautiful Thing, but she was hilarious in not only the song but the scenes (I think two?) her character appeared in.  I'm not sure it was just the song that did the trick.

 

Jennifer Holliday in DREAMGIRLS -- yes.  Just "that song", with I Am Changing providing a little icing.

[followspot]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#17

Posted: 6/20/15 at 9:09am

"The Grass Is Always Greener" — Marilyn Cooper (Woman of the Year)

 

"Tracy... Hold Mama's waffles."

[TimesSquareRegular]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#18

Posted: 6/20/15 at 9:12am

Ten minutes on stage was all Marilyn Cooper needed to win her Tony  in WOMAN OF THE YEAR singing the comic gem "The Grass Is Always Greener" ......  clips on YouTube!

2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)

[Kad]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#19

Posted: 6/20/15 at 10:27am

"We'll Take a Glass Together"-  Grand Hotel, for Michael Jeter.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[Smaxie]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#20

Posted: 6/20/15 at 10:55am

"My New Philosophy" for Kristin Chenoweth.  

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.

[bjh2114]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#21

Posted: 6/20/15 at 10:58am

Lillias White - "The Oldest Profession"

[supersam1026]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#22

Posted: 6/20/15 at 11:00am

Just this year! Ruthie Ann Miles for "Something Wonderful".

[TheBoyFromNC]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#23

Posted: 6/20/15 at 11:14am

Definitely agree with "Something Wonderful" for Ruthie. I listened to the cast recording just a few days before the Tonys, and it alone was almost enough to change camps from Judy to Ruthie.
Also adding "Hold Me In Your Heart" for Billy Porter, "I Am What I Am" for both George Hearn and Douglas Hodge, and "Diva's Lament" for Sara Ramirez.

Updated On: 6/20/15 at 11:14 AM

[ggersten]

Songs That Won Their Performers Tonys#24

Posted: 6/20/15 at 11:14am

Didn't Tom Bosley basically "sing" only one song in Fiorello!?  (Ok, he has two songs).

But Marilyn Cooper and Jennifer Holliday were the two names that first came to my mind.

and then there was this discussion of non-singing roles nominated for performances in musicals:  Nominated and Winning Performers with No Songs in a Musical