Tony winners who tour
Tony winners who tour
Zamedy154
Featured Actor Joined: 6/26/16
#1Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 12:13pm
Do Tony winners tour with national touring companies or can they retire from the road after winning the gold? Are there any touring now?
#2Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 12:18pm
LaChanze toured with If/then.
#3Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 12:22pm
I'm having trouble think of others, besides Billy Porters one city stint on the kinky Boots tour. I'm sure there are more, though.
luvcaroline
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
#5Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 12:29pm
We had the pleasure of seeing Alice Ripley on tour with Next to Normal in St. Louis.
luvcaroline
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
#7Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 12:33pm
Idina Menzel also toured with If/Then (not sure if we're specifically naming performers touring with their Tony-winning performances).
#8Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 12:41pm
If we are talking specifically about Tony winners touring their Tony winning roles, Cherry Jones did the DOUBT tour.
canadian fan
Featured Actor Joined: 8/15/16
#9Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 1:02pm
Heres one......was in NY when Next to Normal was playing and we were excited to see Alice Ripley as I had read how wonderful she was in the role. Well, unfortunately on the night of our show the understudy was on as Miss Ripley was off that day I guess. (show was awesome, loved it regardless) A year or so later, the touring production comes to Seattle, with Miss Ripley in the lead role again as part of the tour. It was a second chance to see her! So we make the trip down to Seattle and what do ya know.....the understudy was on again for that show as well. Just one of those things, but what are the odds??
UncleCharlie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/26/16
#10Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 1:53pm
Andrea Martin did some west coast dates with the Pippin tour.
KnewItWhenIWasInFron
Leading Actor Joined: 6/23/14
#11Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 2:35pm
Not sure how many cities she did (I only know for sure she did Chicago, since that's where I saw her) but Angela Lansbury toured "Sweeney Todd," with George Hearn as her Sweeney. Glorious.
(And, canadian fan, by that point, you were better off with Ripley's understudy)
rwthib
Swing Joined: 4/23/17
#12Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 2:44pm
canadian fan said: "Heres one......was in NY when Next to Normal was playing and we were excited to see Alice Ripley as I had read how wonderful she was in the role. Well, unfortunately on the night of our show the understudy was on as Miss Ripley was off that day I guess. (show was awesome, loved it regardless) A year or so later, the touring production comes to Seattle, with Miss Ripley in the lead role again as part of the tour. It was a second chance to see her! So we make the trip down to Seattle and what do ya know.....the understudy was on again for that show as well. Just one of those things, but what are the odds??
Be happy you did. She performed when we saw it on tour and her voice was a mess. Shoe was still amazing but I wondered if it was me until I read the reviews next day - same response - Great Show but "Ripley’s voice was both hard to understand and slightly off key." Also tells you how great a show it was when the lead is having issues and everyone still is in awe.
brendanotinger
Swing Joined: 8/6/14
#13Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 2:45pm
Carol Channing toured Hello, Dolly! a good number of times
#14Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 3:53pm
Norbert Leo Butz did at least the Los Angeles stop of the DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS tour.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#15Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 4:02pm
Many Tony Award winners will open the 1st National Tour of the shows they won for but only appear in a couple of the first cities. They don't stay with the tour.
#16Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 4:07pm
I saw Alice tour with N2N, she either had a bad night or the role fried her. That's a tough role for a full Broadway and then tour run.
trpguyy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/05
#17Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 4:12pm
BrodyFosse123 said: "Many Tony Award winners will open the 1st National Tour of the shows they won for but only appear in a couple of the first cities. They don't stay with the tour. "
"Many" is a relative term, but is misleading in this case. Several have done this, probably less than 10 in the past decade.
#18Tony winners who tour
Posted: 6/11/17 at 4:59pm
Lena Hall! I'm still holding out hope she'll do the closing leg in DC
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