This Season's Performances You Consider Underrated

Now that the awards groups are announcing their nominees and the season is coming to a close, I ask you: What is a performance you consider wonderful but feel is just a little bit underrated? This is all in the eyes of the beholder, so please just have fun with this.

I'll go first: Will Roland, Dear Evan Hansen. Yes, I know the show has received praise. Ben Platt and Rachel Bay Jones will most likely receive well-deserved Tonys love. In my eyes, the show wouldn't have worked so well without Roland's expert comic timing as Jared--he makes some of the more disturbing laugh lines very funny. We need Jared's bursts of disbelief, his "can you believe this guy?" reactions to Evan's plans, and then his fed-up anger towards the end of the show. Roland pulls off this snark and this arc beautifully. Just listen to "Sincerely Me" and the brilliant way Roland handles the asides when Evan goes on about trees and forestry ("no!" "absolutely not!". I'm writing this before the Tony nominations come out and maybe Roland will sneak into the Best Featured Actor category--I surely hope he does.

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Sas Goldberg in Significant Other....LOVED her performance, so funny.

Betsy Wolfe in Falsettos

Ashley Park in Sunday In the Park...(also adored her in The King and I)

Nancy Zamit in The Play That Goes Wrong (Didnt care for the show but I thought she was brilliant...What I didnt like about the show was that I felt with everyone in the show you can sort of predict what was going to happen as the play "goes wrong" but with Nancy's performance I really was impressed with how every thing she continued to do was new, and fresh in this show that honestly, drags and drags)

Michael Xavier in Sunset. It isn't a "star is born " moment like Karl or Platte. But he deserves better than reviews referring to him as "inoffensive eye candy" and the like.

The Liaisons revival got lukewarm reviews, but I was so impressed by the female ensemble, especially Bridgette Hort Sorrenson ( sorry I butchered her name). Her pain was real.

McLean is indeed sensational as Marya D. She truly terrified me during "In My House." That voice! How she can blast her voice like that for eight shows a week, I'll never know.

Adding my voice to the chorus of praise for Grace McLean. (Not to mention, she's a hoot rocking that leather catsuit during the club scene)

The Entire Cast of Indecent

I was moved by Laura Dreyfuss' multi-layered performance as Zoe in Dear Evan Hansen. There were many moments I couldn't take my eyes off her, even though all the action was happening elsewhere. Her facial expressions told their own story.

" I'd throw in Astrid van Wieren in Come From Away too- Colella gets the big song, but van Wieren for me grounded the whole ensemble."

THIS! I've seen the show twice now and I love this entire cast so much and the show, but Astrid really is doing such fantastic work in this show that unfortunately won't be recognized. Her emotional honesty feels like the true heart of the show. And the way she plays the final phone call with Hannah towards the end of the show ruined me. Equal parts Hilarious and Heartwarming. She is in it and connected in every moment and I will go see her do anything now.

Does any one have any thoughts as to why McClean isn't being as recognized for a possible nomination? Is her part not show enough?



When I saw the show, she stood out a lot more than Amber Gray to me. They were all fantastic, I just didn't really connect with Helene

Allow me to echo Grace McLean!!! Really, really wonderful performance.

I also want to mention Charlie Russell in The Play That Goes Wrong. Every word out of her mouth had me in hysterics!

wonderfulwizard11 said: "Unlike Sonya and Helene, Marya's big moment isn't a solo- it's a shorter scene. She's terrific in that moment, but during Sonya Alone and Charming, it feels like the whole show stops to highlight those respective women. In My House, for me, doesn't have the same effect for Marya as a character."

I just have to say that this is so well-said.

Grace McLean. I love her deep, throaty voice. Plus, she plays "adult" to Natasha and Sonya so well, when she's really not that much older then Benton and Ashford.

The entire supporting cast of SITPWG was marvelous.

Totally second Will Roland - he plays that role so perfectly. I'd be thrilled to see him sneak into the Tony nominations.

For me it's Beanie Feldstein. I think she's hilarious throughout Hello Dolly, even when she's not being highlighted.