Tony Winning Moment

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 2:05pm

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.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 2:50pm

Jerrod Emick (Is that his name?) in Damn Yankees came down into one, stayed center in a hot white spotlight and just blew the roof off with 'Goodbye Old Girl', and I said to my friends, "That's the Tony right there."

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 2:54pm

Nathan Lane singing Betrayed.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 2:58pm

Anika Noni Rose singing "I Hate The Bus"

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 2:59pm

Christine Ebersole singing Another Winter in a Summer Town.

[iluvny04]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:10pm

Even though she was not tony winner, I'd Louise Pitre in Mamma Mia!, her Winner Takes It All blew her orginal London counterpart right out of the water. All these feelings and emotions that are deep down inside her and finally she just hold in any longer and just goes to town on shes feeling. Also, if there was a best replacement Tony(even though there never will be) Reba McEntire should have won for Annie Get Your Gun, i saw and she was phenomenal, definitely leagues above bernadette. also even though I saw it after the tonys, i saw Drowsy Chaperone and when Beth leavel sang "As We Stumble Along", I saw why she won. She was just wonderful. She was spot on and ahd the audience in te palm of her hand the entire number and then some.
Updated On: 8/16/07 at 03:10 PM

[Princeton78]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:12pm

-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"

[jv92]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:13pm

Certainly the last a few years have been filled with these types of things-
Norbert Leo Butz had the Tony in the bag for Great Big Stuff. Same thing for Victoria Clark and Dividing Day, Beth Leavel and Stumble Along and Ebersole doing The Revolutionary Costume/Around the World/Another Winter/Whatever number in the second act that you think got her the Tony.

[iluvny04]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:20pm

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...

[BrianIdol]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:23pm

When I saw the 2003 Gypsy revival and Bernadette said "My daughter can do it" - the entire audience gasped with horror (including myself, and I know the show well).. I knew then that Bernadette SHOULD have won the Tony.

[rosekwbp]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:25pm

Bernadette's Rose's Turn

[rosekwbp]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:25pm

Double post Updated On: 8/16/07 at 03:25 PM

[jv92]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:28pm

Who did Bernadette lose to again?

[iluvny04]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:29pm

Marissa Jaret Winokur for Hairspray

Forget mention Michael Crawford that man is The Phantom of Opera-Music of the Night just clinched it

[Princeton78]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:30pm

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."

[jv92]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:35pm

Oh that's right.

[iluvny04]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:35pm

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

[bwaygal1]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:36pm

I'll say Christine Ebersole clinched with "Will You?". Then, she totally took it away with the entire second act.

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:36pm

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

[Pippin]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:37pm

Heather Headley performing "all I have to do" in Aida

Audra walking on stage.

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:40pm

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

[little_sally]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:45pm

"Jerry Likes My Corn" and the scene following it. It was then I knew Mary-Louise Wilson was going to win her Tony.

The scene between Richard Griffiths and Samuel Barnett that closed the first act of The History Boys. Griffiths' just screamed "TONY!" at that particular moment.

Also, the moment Ian McDiarmid began his monologue in Faith Healer. What a perfect performance.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:47pm

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.

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

[thevolleyballer]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 3:54pm

Not gonna lie, some of these are definitely not what I picture as amazing Tony-winning moments...

[Barihunk]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 4:11pm

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...