Posted: 6/18/15 at 3:39pm
If someone stars in two shows in the same season, what happens if they deserve to be nominated for both shows? Do they get 2 nominations?? or just one but listed for 2 shows...?
Posted: 6/18/15 at 3:49pm
Posted: 6/18/15 at 4:16pm
In addition to Jan Maxwell in 2010....
Amanda Plummer 1982-Best Actress in a Play-A Taste of Honey and Best Featured Actress in a Play-Agnes of God---Won Featured
Dana Ivey 1984 Best Featured Actress in a Play-Heartbreak House and Best Featured Actress in a Musical -Sunday in the Park with George
Kate Burton-2001 Best Actress in a Play-Hedda Gabler and Best Featured Actress in a Play-The Elephant Man
Mark Rylance-2014 Best Actor in a Play-Richard III and Best Featured Actor in a Play -Twelfth Night. Won Featured
Posted: 6/18/15 at 4:18pm
Has anyone ever been nominated twice in the same category in the same year? It looks like these were all nominations in two different categories.
Posted: 6/18/15 at 4:19pm
"Has anyone ever been nominated twice in the same category in the same year? It looks like these were all nominations in two different categories. "
My question exactly
Posted: 6/18/15 at 4:24pm
"team elphie, your question didn't specify. "
Sorry I didn't make that clear :)
Posted: 6/18/15 at 4:29pm
The same actor in two slots in the same category? I doubt any producer would let it happen.
Posted: 6/18/15 at 4:58pm
It's not as glamorous as being the star of the show but the 2013 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical was a showdown between:
Kenneth Posner
Kenneth Posner
Kenneth Posner
and
Hugh Vanstone
So, yes, technically someone can be against themselves in a category
Posted: 6/18/15 at 10:21pm
it also happened to Megan Hilty's character from Smash.
Posted: 6/19/15 at 12:41am
I remember the year Mark Rylance won Best Actor in a Play for Jerusalem. He was also eligible that year for Best Actor in a Play for La Bete in which he was also very brilliant and had something like a 20-minute monologue. Any way, they were probably the 2 strongest Leading Male performances that year, and very different from each other...but he was only nominated for Jerusalem. There is no rule that says they can't be nominated twice in the same category I don't think, but I got the idea that year that the nominating team just didn't want him competing against himself...
Posted: 8/2/15 at 12:35am
I was just perusing the wikipedia page for Best Actor in a Play and I found this fascinating occurrence: in 1967 Donald Moffat was separately nominated for Best Actor in two plays, Right You Are If You Think You Are and also for The Wild Duck (both plays only played approximately 40 performances and were in repertory together with 4 other plays, which ran for a total of 6 months or so). I think this is the only occurrence where an actor was nominated in the same category in the same season.
Edited: Corrected some info regarding the two plays performed in repertory, thanks to Hogan.
Updated On: 8/2/15 at 12:35 AM
Posted: 8/2/15 at 12:46am
Both plays were part of the APA Phoenix Rep season. The Lyceum was an outright lease by the Shuberts to them for 4-5 seasons in the latter half of the 60s.
Posted: 8/2/15 at 12:53am
Michael John LaChiusa was nominated twice in the Best Score category at the 2000 or 2001 Tonys, for The Wild Party and Anastasia, unfortunately he didn't win for either show.
Posted: 8/2/15 at 12:56am
Wow! I was looking right at the IBDB pages and somehow skimmed right over that fact. Right You Are closing many months before Wild Duck must have confused me. Still, 2 noms for an actor in 1 category is otherwise unheard of.
Posted: 8/2/15 at 1:11am
It is indeed an achievement, and it highlights Ellis Rabb's overall accomplishment with the APA Phoenix undertaking. He was married to Rosemary Harris at the time and his other friends who made up the rep company are mind-blowing. What they did was something that had not been done by anyone else since well before the Tony era, and certainly has not since. It is interesting that it was also happening at the same time that Joe Papp was bringing the Public Theater to full fruition. The APA did not really survive after the 60s however as a force in NY theatre.
Posted: 8/2/15 at 3:55am
"Michael John LaChiusa was nominated twice in the Best Score category at the 2000 or 2001 Tonys, for The Wild Party and Anastasia, unfortunately he didn't win for either show."
This is wrong. He was nominated 4 times in 2000. For Best Book and Best Score of Marie Christine AND Best Book and Best Score of The Wild Party.
Posted: 8/2/15 at 3:57am
"Michael John LaChiusa was nominated twice in the Best Score category at the 2000 or 2001 Tonys, for The Wild Party and Anastasia, unfortunately he didn't win for either show."
It was 2000. And Mr. LaChiusa was nominated for "The Wild Party" and "Marie Christine".
Edit: As pointed out above.
Updated On: 8/2/15 at 03:57 AM
Posted: 8/2/15 at 4:10am
In the 2000 tonys alone there were many people who were nominated for different shows.
^ Michael John LaChiusa was nominated 4 times (2x book, 2x score - Marie Christine and The Wild Party).
Susan Stroman was nominated 4 times as well (2x choreo, 2x direction - The Music Man and Contact).
Michael Blakemore won in BOTH directing categories. Play-Copenhagen, Musical- Kiss Me Kate.
Stroman won direction and choreo for the producers in 2001
In 2005 Jerry Mitchell was nominated for choreo 2 times (La Cage and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels).
Bill Irwin was nominated for Choreo, Direction, writing?, and leading actor in some play i forgot what its called
The Book of Mormon writers won book and score in 2011. Nicholaw won direction but was also nominated for choreo
Jerry Mitchell won choreo for Kinky Boots, but was also nominated for direction
I'm sure Lin will be nominated next year for Book, Score, and leading actor in a musical
it def happens all the time. These are just the ones i know of off the top of my head, i know theres a lot more. I don't know of any actors being nominated in the same category though
Posted: 8/2/15 at 11:56am
Fun Fact: Nancy Marchand, in 1994 was nominated for Lead Actress in a Play twice for her performances in The White Liars and Black Comedy
Updated On: 8/2/15 at 11:56 AM
Posted: 8/2/15 at 6:56pm
Thank you Phillypinto and sing _dance_love for the extra information. I was just thinking off the top of my head and for some reason Anastasia popped in!
