Tony winners who tour

[Zamedy154]

Tony winners who tour#1

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? 

[Call_me_jorge]

Tony winners who tour#2

Posted: 6/11/17 at 12:18pm

LaChanze toured with If/then. 

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[Call_me_jorge]

Tony winners who tour#3

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.

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[HeyMrMusic]

Tony winners who tour#4

Posted: 6/11/17 at 12:29pm

Alice Ripley toured with Next to Normal.

[luvcaroline]

Tony winners who tour#5

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]

Tony winners who tour#6

Posted: 6/11/17 at 12:31pm

HeyMrMusic, great timing, lol!

[HeyMrMusic]

Tony winners who tour#7

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). 

[AC126748]

Tony winners who tour#8

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. 

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[canadian fan]

Tony winners who tour#9

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]

Tony winners who tour#10

Posted: 6/11/17 at 1:53pm

Andrea Martin did some west coast dates with the Pippin tour.

[KnewItWhenIWasInFron]

Tony winners who tour#11

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]

Tony winners who tour#12

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]

Tony winners who tour#13

Posted: 6/11/17 at 2:45pm

Carol Channing toured Hello, Dolly! a good number of times 

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Tony winners who tour#14

Posted: 6/11/17 at 3:53pm

Norbert Leo Butz did at least the Los Angeles stop of the DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS tour.

"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop

[BrodyFosse123]

Tony winners who tour#15

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.  

[South Florida]

Tony winners who tour#16

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.

Stephanatic

[trpguyy]

Tony winners who tour#17

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. 

[ChildofEarth]

Tony winners who tour#18

Posted: 6/11/17 at 4:59pm

Lena Hall! I'm still holding out hope she'll do the closing leg in DC