TONY Winners Who never worked on Broadway Again?- Page 4

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 3:29am

The only Tony winners for The Tap Dance Kid were Hinton Battle and Danny Daniels. Neither of whom could be described as "a big, fat girl."

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 8:29am

Oh, you're right! Well, no wonder the big, fat girl didn't do Broadway again!!






Winthrop Paroo
River City, Iowa
Updated On: 6/29/06 at 08:29 AM

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 9:33am

Roger Rees has been in several Broadway shows since Nicholas Nickleby. In addition to that, he's done dozens of films and tv appearances, and he's currently the artistic director of the Williamstown Festival.

[Jon]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 11:56am

To clarify: Michael Maguire became involved with a future multi-Tony Award winning direcgor/choreographer, who was virtually unknown at the time. Allegedly, he was physically abusive to her. She went on to became arguably one of the most powerful people on Broadway, and now no one will hire him.

[ozone20]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 1:26pm

Dee Dee Bridgewater won for Glinda the Good Witch in THE WIZ. never seen on broadway again.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 1:35pm

I wish Joan would come back to Broadway. I also wish I could find a clip of her acceptance speech, or atleast read it.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 1:37pm

Jane Krakowski was in the most recent revival of Nine. And was just in the West End in London as Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls.

[madbrian]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 1:42pm

Did Jane Laportaire ever appear on Broadway after winning the Tony for 'Piaf'?

[MisterRussell]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 3:36pm

Re: George Rose...

Although his career was indeed cut short by his untimely death while in Africa on vacation, AND at the hands of his adopted son, he had previously won a Tony in 1976 for his Alfred Doolittle in a revival of "My Fair Lady." Incidentally, he had been nominated in 1970 for "Coco," which he lost to co-star Rene Auberjonois.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:30pm

Neither Maggie Smith nor Judi Dench has been back since winning Tonys and unfortunately I think that neither of them is likely to be. Of course, Dench had only been on Broadway once before in a limited engagement with the Old Vic back at the beginning of her career. But Smith had been on Broadway several times.

[coolphantom919]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:38pm

Wilson Jermaine Heredia. HE DESERVED THAT TONY!

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:39pm

ozone20 --- If you dig back earlier in this thread, you'll see that Dee Dee Bridgewater did work on Broadway again (post Tony), in "The 1940's Radio Hour."

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 4:58pm

"The Tony winner in No, No, Nanette who never appeared again on Broadway was Helen Gallagher."

But Helen had a very busy career prior to NNN, including winning two Tony Awards. And really, how many roles are there for a 45 year old dancer? She has since taught musical theater at HB Studios and worked on a few soaps.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:05pm

Did I say differently about Gallagher?

I thought that the question mostly had to do with Tony winners whose wins didn't lead to other major Broadway roles. Gallagher had a long track record as both singer and actress in musicals, not just as a dancer. She had played Gooch for a long time, a nondancing role. One might have expected her Tony win to have led to more Broadway roles for her. I do think it's odd that a woman who had an extensive (if decidedly up-and-down) Broadway career prior to her Tony win had no Broadway career at all after her Tony win.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:18pm

"I do think it's odd that a woman who had an extensive (if decidedly up-and-down) Broadway career prior to her Tony win had no Broadway career at all after her Tony win."

NNN was her second win. She certainly had a career after her first win "Pal Joey".

Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:32pm

Has Hinton Battle worked since Miss Saigon? Sure he won a handful of Tonys before Saigon but I was more curious than anything.

I'd start a new thread asking whatever happened to Willy Falk but no one ever takes those WEHT threads seriously. heh heh

[best12bars]

Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:45pm

Hinton Battle was one of the 2,000 people to play Billy Flynn in the Chicago revival on B'way. That was post-3rd-Tony.

Posted: 6/29/06 at 5:50pm

Thanks, best.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 1:50am

But it does remain odd that Gallagher never again appeared on Broadway after her second Tony win.

And she had a pretty checkered career after her first win, starting with Jule Styne's attempt to make her a star in Hazel Flagg kind of backfiring. Then she had to go backward (thought it was very smart of her to be willing to do so) as a replacement Gladys in The Pajama Game. And it had to have been sad for her that her next big Broadway leading role (not counting a City Center Sharon in Finian's Rainbow) in the notorious Portofino, which I think she described performing in as having been "the two longest hours of my life." And perhaps it was even worse when she was Kaye Ballard's understudy in another notorious show, the out-of-town closer Royal Flush.(Though I'm sure she was glad if she never actually had to go on.)

Talented woman, no question, but a very up-and-down career.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 2:02am

Not at all
She took a hard but more regular job on RYAN'S HOPE and won a Daytime Emmy as Best Actress and it was well deserved.
How many others will that?

[KJisgroovy]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 2:18am

"Although his career was indeed cut short by his untimely death while in Africa on vacation"

"George Rose was murdered while vacationing in Africa. No, I'm not kidding. "

Not kidding? So then do you just not know that the Dominican Republic is an island in the Carribean?

kmc

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 6/30/06 at 2:25am

OK.

All this from a simple, factual statement: "The Tony winner in No, No, Nanette who never appeared again on Broadway was Helen Gallagher."

[wexy]

Posted: 7/5/06 at 8:39pm

Brian Backer who sat next to me in 6th grade. Best known for "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" won a Tony in a Woody Allen play "The Floating Light Bulb."

Updated On: 7/5/06 at 08:39 PM

[OzarkElphaba]

Posted: 7/5/06 at 8:55pm

Jennifer Holliday anyone?

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 7/5/06 at 9:20pm

You know, if you think about it, even many Broadway stars spend a lot of time unemployed. In interviews when they're asked what they have coming up, they'll be like, "Oh, I have a couple of concerts two months from now" or "I recently did a workshop of such and such" but what are they doing with the rest of their time? Facts are facts: it's almost impossible to make a living from being a stage actor, unless you're one of the VERY few people who work CONSISTANTLY on Broadway. Sigh.