Tonys: Spamalot Men all considered Leading, Gleason/Jbara are Featured — Page 3

You know, we all knew lead actress in a play would be tough this year, but I was just taking inventory, and the men have it pretty tough too.

Brian F. O'Byrne*
Bill Irwin*
James Earl Jones*
Philip Bosco
Boyd Gaines
John C O'Reilly
Adam Arkin
Ben Shenkman
Denzel Washington
Billy Crudup?
Jeff Goldblum?
Glengarry boys

Whatta year!

* = Nomination; I haven't seen Pillowman, Glengarry, or Streetcar yet to figure out where the last 2 nods go...

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Updated On: 4/14/05 at 06:10 PM

blah blah blah. It just so happens this year that who I WANT to win is who SHOULD win.


So there. :)

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yeah.... its been a long week an im a little slow on the uptake.

im back with it now.

about the "canceling out" theory.... not only do the Wicked Ladies prove this wrong, but Nathan Lane did win for the Producers. I know there probably wasnt as much talk aobut those tow cancelling each other out, but they certainly could have.

Well, I'm jumping in a bit late here....
I don't think that all three men will be nominated for Spamalot, I really hope that Hank will not lose out when it comes to the nominations.

And I agree with Matt (who is SO predicatble ) Raul has no chance this year, even if it's just a nomination.

QM

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Updated On: 4/14/05 at 06:14 PM

After seeing Both DRS and SPAMalot, if John Lithgow and David Hyde Pierce (and Curry, but i think hes got a nomination... i mean, hes Tim Curry..) get the nominations, it will honestly be because of thier name. IMO, none of those three gave the best performance of the year... not even in the top 5.

My Picks would be:
Norbert Leo Butz
Cheyenne Jackson
Hank Azaria
Gary Beach
and probably Tim Curry.

QM, I hope so, but I fear for his chances.

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John deserves to be nominated... but now that all three Spamalot men are fighting for five positions his chances have certainly decreased.

QM

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Updated On: 4/14/05 at 06:28 PM

EponineThenardier: Don't worry. Sara Ramirez is *definitely* winning the Tony for featured actress this year. She just has no competition.

If Sara Ramirez wins a Tony, I will buy Michael Reidel lunch.

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I am very puzzled by the designation of David Hyde Pierce and Hank Azaria as leads -- they are on stage a fair amount of the time, but they each play the same character for only about 10 minutes at a time and have just one song. If they weren't "names," no one would consider them to be leads. Christian Borle has more impact and more songs (and possibly more lines) than either of them, but no one thinks he should be in the lead category.

My personal prediction: only one of the two of them will be nominated. Lithgow, Pierce, and Azaria are all extremely good actors, but none of them are strong singers (I don't think Azaria even had an entire song to himself -- I think he only sang about half of the Lancelot song) and none of them can dance AT ALL. I can't see the Tony committee giving 3 of the 5 lead musical actor noms to folks who are neither strong singers nor strong dancers. It would be an interesting comment on what chops you need to get nominated for a Tony for Best Actor in a Musical. That, plus the fact that one would want to spread the wealth, means that I think a DRS/Spamalot strangehold on lead actor is unlikely.

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Does the line go "we're knights of the Round Table. We dance as well as we're able" ?? Pardons that I haven't memorized the song word for word.

Heehee. Doesn't mean anything, just thought I'd chuck that out.

jonart, Sara Gettlefinger is billed below the title (though her name is the same size as Gleason's and Jbara's) so I guess it's just assumed that she is in the featured category. And even though she's only onstage for maybe 15-20 minutes, I would love to see her get a nomination. She does a great job.

One of the things in Norbert's favour ( other than his being the outstanding performer lol) is that he toured w Cabaret & may actually have some connection to the non New York members of the guild as opposed to the "name" recognition performers. Hope so! Anything that stacks the deck in favour of Norb is a good thing to me!