The 76th Tony Awards SNUBS!

[brdwybound04]

Posted: 6/11/23 at 8:20pm

What were this year’s upsets and snubs?

[bjh2114]

Posted: 6/11/23 at 8:52pm

Only real upset so far is Sweeney for Sound Design, but there wasn't exactly a frontrunner in that category that was snubbed. It probably should have gone to & Juliet or Into the Woods.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 6/11/23 at 9:09pm

That was Nikki Crawford's award. Boooo. 

[Robbie2]

Posted: 6/11/23 at 9:52pm

No SNUBS yet in my eyes 

[MCW1227]

Posted: 6/11/23 at 11:41pm

Everyone who won totally deserved their awards. No snubs, just an abundance of talent out there right now. 

[PipingHotPiccolo]

Posted: 6/11/23 at 11:50pm

I dont think its a snub but Sean Hayes' win a surprise, or the closest to a surprise, in my eyes.

 

 

[Robbie2]

Posted: 6/11/23 at 11:56pm

Robbie2 said: "No SNUBS yet in my eyes"

 

As stated earlier, no SNUBS picked all the winners.

[jkcohen626]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 12:16am

The only real snub to me was Life of Pi for costumes. Those puppets are on another world. However, the Leopoldstadt costumes were gorgeous and in any other year I'd say it was very well deserved. 

To me the only people who didn't deserve their awards were Patrick Marber and Nevin Steinberg. But, I wouldn't count those as snubs because there wasn't one other nominee who distinctly deserved the award. Direction could have gone to Lloyd, Ali, Walker-Webb, or Webster and Sound Design to Woods or &Juliet in my opinion. 

Steinberg was also the only true surprise of the night for me. I got 22/26 categories right in my prediction, but acknowledged the possibility of Hayes for actor, Leopoldstadt for costumes, and Marber for direction. I would have ranked Steinberg 5/5 for likelihood of winning and personal preference of winner. 

Updated On: 6/12/23 at 12:16 AM

[Broadway61004]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 12:20am

jkcohen626 said: "The only real snub to me was Life of Pi for costumes. Those puppets are on another world. However, the Leopoldstadt costumes were gorgeous and in any other year I'd say it was very well deserved."

Gut feeling says there was some backlash to the puppet designers being looped in with the costumers. Otherwise it seems very odd that voters would vote for it in the other three technical categories but not the fourth (although we certainly have seen that before--War Horse lost costumes but won the other 3 as did Mormon that same year). Just a guess, but I have a feeling they wanted to reward the more traditional "costume design" instead of "costume design plus puppets".

[uncageg]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 12:24am

As much as I like and enjoyed Alex Newell in "Shucked", I really think Justin or Kevin should have won. Those two are giving superb performances from top to bottom. 

[Andy51]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 12:54am

While there is no question that Sean Hayes is giving a very fine performance, I think that every one of the other nominees in the category deserved the award more than him.  My own view is that Corey Hawkins and Stephen McKinley Henderson gave the best performances (and I would have had a hard time choosing between them).

Updated On: 6/12/23 at 12:54 AM

[PianoMann]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 1:11am

Andy51 said: "While there is no question that Sean Hayes is giving a very fine performance, I think that every one of the other nominees in the category deserved the award more than him. My own view is that Corey Hawkins and Stephen McKinley Henderson gave the best performances (and I would have had a hard time choosing between them)."

Not to diminish Hayes' win, but it really hurt all of the others that "Good Night, Oscar" is the only show in the category still running. Yes, voters had to have seen at least four of the five performers in order to cast a vote, but it really helps when you see a strong performance right before or during voting, versus perhaps having the impact of some of the earlier work from the fall diluted with the passing of months. It is absolutely a factor in some of these tighter races.

 

[B212323]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 1:39am

Sweeney Todd for sound (did we see the same show?) I was surprised that the Tony voters didn't spread the wealth more. I was bummed Fat Ham went home empty handed and felt Steven McKinley Henderson should've won. 

[Wayman_Wong]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 3:25am

''War Horse lost costumes but won the other 3 as did Mormon that same year''

''War Horse'' wasn't up for Costumes at the 2011 Tonys.

 ''The Importance of Being Earnest.'' won that category.

Updated On: 6/12/23 at 03:25 AM

[FLarnhill]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 5:36am

Let's see:

Chastain losing

Ruffin losing

Into the Woods losing

Sean Hayes winning

I don't get any of this. It's as if they wanted to be taken less seriously.

[perfectpenguin]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 7:43am

FLarnhill said: "Let's see:

Chastain losing

Ruffin losing

Into the Woods losing

Sean Hayes winning

I don't get any of this. It's as if they wanted to be taken less seriously."

Nah that was Jodie Comer award from the get-go. Would have been an upset of Comer lost, in my opinion anyway. 

[perfectpenguin]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 7:44am

PipingHotPiccolo said: "I dont think its a snub but Sean Hayes' win a surprise, or the closest to a surprise, in my eyes.



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This is how I feel. Idk I just wasn’t expecting this. But I’m happy he won! I been thinking about seeing it and maybe his win is the push I need to finally buy a ticket. 

[Wick3]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 8:11am

I thought Sean Hayes did a great job and I wasn’t surprised he won. All the other nominees were great as well.

Unfortunately there can only be 1 winner. Someday I wish they’d disclose the percentage of votes each nominee received.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 8:24am

Oh gosh, no!  

 

I mean I know that WE would like to know, but the nominees shouldn't.  How would it feel to see you got only 3% of the votes....or lost by only a smidgen?  Or only won by a narrow margin. Takes away the honor of being nominated. 

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 8:42am

Absolutely not to disclosing percentages. No no. Why on earth would you put the nominees through that?? We as the public are not entitled to everything behind the scenes of awards shows. We get to celebrate theater and the winners. That's what it's about. 

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 8:59am

The only award that surprised me was, as others have said, Sweeney for Sound Design. Even from a premium seat, I was surprised the sound design didn’t feel more expansive. The sound design for Into the Woods was far superior. I could hear every instrument crystal clear and the balance between cast and orchestra was perfection 

The rest of the awards were either locks or a quick glance at Tony voter polling and generally reading the vibe would show you the front runners. I’m disappointed Stephen McKinley Henderson didn’t win, but Sean Hayes is by all accounts giving the most awards bait-y performance of that category.

[Broadway61004]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 9:42am

Wayman_Wong said: "''War Horse lost costumes but won the other 3 as did Mormon that same year''

''War Horse'' wasn't up for Costumes at the 2011 Tonys.

''The Importance of Being Earnest.'' won that category."

Correct, I should say it's not that uncommon to win 3 out of 4 tech awards (either not being nominated for the 4th or being nominated and losing--and I highly suspect had War Horse been nominated, Earnest still would have easily won costumes.) I still think Pi's losing had much more to do with backlash over puppet designers being included, but we'll never know.

 

[Amy Archer]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 9:43am

FLarnhill said: "Let's see:

Chastain losing

Ruffin losing

Into the Woods losing

Sean Hayes winning

I don't get any of this. It's as if they wanted to be taken less seriously."

You make it sound like the Tony voters went for mindless fluff over serious fodder. Comer is in an unflinching play about sexual assault and has won acclaim and awards on both sides of the Atlantic. David Lindsay-Abaire, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has won for adapting his own eccentric, singular original play that for all of its comedy has a deep melancholy running through it as the central character copes with her own mortality. The very good revival of Into the Woods didn't lose to Ankles Aweigh - it lost to Parade, an even more uncompromising work in an excellent production that highlights all of that show's virtues in ways that weren't always apparent in its original production - the very definition of what a good revival should do. I was rooting for Stephen McKinley Henderson, but Sean Hayes is great playing Oscar Levant, which is not exactly a character that you would think equals easy commercial gold. In no way do I think these wins make the voters seem frivolous.

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 10:10am

Yeah I was a bit confused that Sweeney won sound design. When I saw it, the sound cut out and I couldn't hear Josh Groban! How on earth did it win

[Kad]

Posted: 6/12/23 at 10:20am

There weren’t any real snubs this year- IE obvious winners who didn’t actually win. It actually ended up being a fairly predictable evening if you actually, y’know, followed the industry over the last decade or so. 
 

Best Actor in a Play was arguably the most competitive category of the night. I imagine it was a very tight race, but Hayes had the advantage of being fresh in everybody’s memory and having an incredibly awards baiting role written explicitly for him.