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cotous6 said: "Sarah Norman in Children of a Lesser God. "
Sarah has a lot of dialogue. A LOT. It’s just not spoken dialogue. ASL is a different language but it’s still a language.
Posted: 1/17/21 at 12:00pm
Zohra Lampert was nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 1963 for her performance of Kattrin in Mother Courage and Her Children.
Kattrin is mute and has no spoken lines.
Posted: 1/17/21 at 12:55pm
Aunt Maggie Far Away in THE FERRYMAN doesn't have much dialogue aside from her long monologue at the top of Act Two.
Posted: 1/17/21 at 12:57pm
Posted: 1/17/21 at 1:11pm
LarryD2 said: "Aunt Maggie Far Away in THE FERRYMAN doesn't have much dialogue aside from her long monologue at the top of Act Two."
Love, that monologue is eternal. Certainly not a character with little to no dialogue, I didn't know if the lady would ever stop talking.
Posted: 1/17/21 at 1:12pm
Kate in Come Fly Away.
Posted: 1/17/21 at 2:57pm
blaxx said: "LarryD2 said: "Aunt Maggie Far Away in THE FERRYMAN doesn't have much dialogue aside from her long monologue at the top of Act Two."
Love, that monologue is eternal. Certainly not a character with little to no dialogue, I didn't know if the lady would ever stop talking."
Not really. It's a two-page monologue. Maybe 10 minutes total in a play that's over three hours. And the character has about five lines of dialogue otherwise.
It's equivalent to Lucky in WAITING FOR GODOT.
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Savion Glover was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical for his work in "Bring in 'da Noise/ Bring in 'da Funk" in 1996, and he did not speak or sing a word in the show (though there was a recorded speech he danced to).
Bill Irwin was nominated for Best Actor in a Play in 1989 for "Largely New York" and I don't think he spoke at all, but I may be mistaken.
Posted: 1/17/21 at 8:21pm
I would not consider any role with one meaty monologue to have "little or no dialogue."
Posted: 1/17/21 at 9:01pm
Would you count Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch?
Posted: 1/17/21 at 9:03pm
Yitzhak in Hedwig doesn't say much
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Isn't dialogue supposed to be between 2 and more characters? You know, di- means two.
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I feel pretty confident that the OP meant speaking and not dialogue. If you ask the question about dialogue then every one person show that produced a nomination would be listed.
Posted: 1/18/21 at 12:38am
The MC from Cabaret. The character sings and speaks a few lines within the songs, but has very little dialogue.
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Deborah Yates in "Contact" - featured actress in a musical
Posted: 1/18/21 at 1:46pm
How about Elizabeth A Davis as Reza in Once? I didn't see her in the role, but I was shocked when I found out someone got nominated for that role. I don't know the show that well, but she probably has fewer than 10 lines and I'm not sure she has any solo singing lines at all.
Although no one has been nominated for a Tony for the Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd, Merle Louise in the original cast was nominated for a Drama Desk that year. A local actress in Philadelphia also got nominated for that part for the local Barrymore Awards in 2005. In both the Drama Desks and the Philadelphia award, the actress who played Johanna did not get nominated. I did not see the original Broadway cast, but the Beggar Woman is a tiny part, and Johanna is quite a large one.
