Tony Question - Shows in Rep

[GilmoreGirlO2]

Posted: 2/18/14 at 1:13pm

Forgive me if this has already been discussed (a search turned up nothing, but perhaps I wasn’t typing in the correct keywords), but how do shows in rep get nominated for Tony’s (such as this year’s “Twelfth Night/Richard III” and “No Man’s Land/Waiting for Godot”)? Are each of the shows judged as their own production or are both shows judged as one full production together?

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 2/18/14 at 1:20pm

Each show is being considered as an individual production.

[GilmoreGirlO2]

Posted: 2/18/14 at 1:50pm

Thank you!

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 2/18/14 at 2:11pm

Related question: Can an actor be nominated twice in the same category in the same season for two different plays? Might we see Rylance, McKellan, Stewart or depending on his placements as Viola and Elizabeth, Barnett, each competing against himself for two different portrayals? Or are the tony's like the oscars where an actor can't get nominated for two different roles in the same category?

[dreaming]

Posted: 2/18/14 at 2:14pm

Rylance=featured for Twelfth Night and leading for Richard III
Barnett=Leading for Twelfth Night
These were the decisions made by the producers/Tony committee.

I think they didn't want them to cancel each other out (or themselves potentially). My prediction is that Bryan Cranston walks home with the Best Actor Tony and Rylance with Featured Actor for Twelfth Night.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 2/18/14 at 2:23pm

So Barnett and Rylance could be twice nominated in both lead and featured categories (Barnett for Viola (lead) and Elizabeth (featured?) and Rylance for Richard (lead) and Olivia (featured)). This has happened before to women (Amanda Plummer, Dana Ivey, Kate Burton and Jan Maxwell... of the four, only Plummer went home with a tony (as featured)) but not to my knowledge to men.

In any event, does that mean that Stewart and McKellan could each be twice-nominated as leads?

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 2/18/14 at 2:25pm

In any event, does that mean that Stewart and McKellan could each be twice-nominated as leads?

In theory, yes. (And the same goes for Crudup and Hensley in the Featured Actor category.)