Tony Winning Moment

Each year, as we all know, five actors and actresses compete in two categories for which they are nominated: Best Leading and Featured Actor/Actress.

These five are, of course, nominated by a committe seperate from those who vote for the winner.

These five performances must be very special in order to garner a nomination, but one has to be better than the other four.

There have been times when I am watching a performance that I am loving and, all of a sudden, there comes this moment. One defining moment where and actor or actress crosses the boundary from nominee to winner.

While, yes, the performance as a whole must be exemplary...I've often noticed one particular moment in a performance where I just knew this person was going to win a TONY.

For instance, Julie White's monologue that closed Act I of "The Little Dog Laughed." I was loving her performance up until then, but at that very moment when she was delivering those lines, I just knew that was it. She would win.

There have been a few other instances where that has happened for me and I'm interested in hearing from others who've felt this and can share their stories.

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Nathan Lane singing Betrayed.

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Christine Ebersole singing Another Winter in a Summer Town.

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-Norbert's "Great Big Stuff"

-Christian Hoff's first five minutes on stage

-Idina's "Defying Gravity"

-Chenoweth's "My New Philosophy"

-Betty's "Memory"

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Audra and Your Daddy's Son, Frances and On My Own, Lea and I'd Give My Life For You, Harvey and Dick- Timeless To Me, Donna and The Music and the Mirror, Cady and When You Got Flaunt it.
Need I say more...

Bernadette's Rose's Turn

Who did Bernadette lose to again?

A very deserving Marissa Jarret Winokor who I personally felt won herself a nomination with "Good Morning Baltimore," and won the award with "I Can Hear the Bells."

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Kerry Butler should at least got a nom for Hairspray from clips I've seen and from the recording she really embodied the character, in my opinion if she was nominated her moment would have been Without Love for the nonmination and for the win You Can't stop the beat

I think Cerveris's "Epiphany" was very deserving of the Tony... I have no idea why JLY won...

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Kerry Butler in Without Love and You Can't Stop The Beat. I though for sure she'd be nominated but....

If you've seen Jersey Boys, you know what I'm talking about. The moment when Frankie gets that phone call and reacts to the news he gets, I knew that that was the moment John Lloyd Young deserved the Tony.

Just watching clips of Audra performing Raunchy, Old Maid, and Simple Little Things made me believe she would be the one to pull an upset.

Bernadette's Rose's Turn certainly convinced me that she deserved the Tony.

Listening to Toni Collette raging at Mandy Patinkin during Love Ain't Nothin'/Welcome To Her Party convinced me who really deserved that Tony.

Call me an idiot but I've "somehow" seen clips of Stephanie D'Abruzzo singing There's A Fine, Fine Line and I would have given her a Tony for that moment alone.

Felicia P. Fields' second scene in the second act of The Color Purple convinced me that she deserved the Tony more than Beth Leavel.

Watching Raul Esparza on the Tonies singing Being Alive. I almost cried.

When Victoria Clark is on the bed explaining what happened to Clara, her first monologue in Act II of Piazza, and then when she says, "No one with a dream should come to Italy", that was what convinced me that she deserved the Tony.

LaChanze yelling "Nettiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeee!!!!" convinced me that she won the Tony.

Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley belting it out in "Who Will Love Me As I Am?"

Marin Mazzie singing "Back To Before"

Natasha Richardson bearing her soul in her rendition of "Cabaret".

edit:

"Kerry Butler in Without Love and You Can't Stop The Beat. I though for sure she'd be nominated but.... "

Purple Prince, I thought a lot of those original cast members would be nominated.

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Updated On: 8/16/07 at 03:47 PM

Preview performance of "The Life" - Lilias White launches into "The Oldest Profession" - 3 minute ovation ensues stopping the show cold. That was a Tony Winning Moment for sure.

1995 "Carousel" revival... a nobody named Audra McDonald nails "Mister Snow" - Tony Winning Moment without a doubt...

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