Who Deserves the Next Lifetime Achievement Tony Award? — Page 2

Shouldn't it go to someone who has never won a Tony Award -- like Stephen Schwartz?

Jeffrey Karasarides said: "Schwartz already received the Isabelle Stevenson Award in 2015.I don’t know if previous recipients of that can still eventually get a Lifetime Achievement prize. I guess maybe they could since the accolades themselves are very different."

Exactly. The Stevenson Award is sort of the Tonys’ equivalent to “Miss Congeniality”.

Bright ideas just pop into me head...

Sweeney and Woods make this a perfect year to give the Lifetime Achievement Tony to the greatest orchestrator in the history of a Broadway . . . Jonathan Tunick!

It's still nuts that he only has one Tony (TITANIC in 1997), but that category didn't exist until '97, and after that he was working with mostly smaller ensembles or slimming down his own previous charts for revivals.

I wouldn't be surprised if Jeffrey Seller and his press agent Matt Ross have already made a pitch to the various committees for this.

chewy5000 said: "Speaking of the Isabelle Stevenson Award, why hasn't Seth Rudetsky already received it by now?"

Honestly I was shocked they didn’t select him last year with all the money he helped raise through STARS IN THE HOUSE. He would be incredibly deserving.

Not necessarily a lifetime achievement Tony, but a special award to Richard Ridge would be well-deserved.

The Other One said: "Not necessarily a lifetime achievement Tony, but a special award to Richard Ridge would be well-deserved."



An award for what, Most Annoying On-Air Personality??

David10086 said: "Glenn Close.

No denying she turned ALW's "Sunset Boulevard" around and made it the hit that it became in 1994-95. And she did it again in 2017, in a re-imagined revival. Give her the LATA - she's paid her dues since 1976, has won three Tonys and is a box office star. She deserves it at 76."

I think that is a very good recommendation, to me better than the original names, although I do see valid arguments in the Julie Andrews arguments.

However, if it is true that john Kander has not got one, that would seem like a no-brainer to me, especially with NYNY opening and him probably not eligible for a Tony nominations, although the title song and And the World Goes Round are as good as anything on Broadway IMO.

In my latest piece for Gold Derby, I’ve provided a poll asking people which female Broadway veteran deserves the next Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. Among the options are…

Debbie Allen
Patricia Birch
Stockard Channing
Glenn Close
Adrienne Kennedy
Carol Lawrence
Donna McKechnie
Liza Minnelli
Vanessa Redgrave
Lillias White

https://www.goldderby.com/article/2024/tonys-lifetime-achievement-award-poll-women/

In my latest piece for Gold Derby, I’ve provided a poll asking people which male Broadway veteran deserves the next Lifetime Achievement Tony Award. Among the options are…

Harvey Fierstein
John Guare
John Lithgow
Terrence Mann
Trevor Nunn
Austin Pendleton
Tim Rice
Charles Strouse
Jonathan Tunick
Alfred Uhry

https://www.goldderby.com/article/2024/tonys-lifetime-achievement-award-poll-men/

Liza, Harvey and Jonathan Tunick

Julie Andrew is SO overdue for a Lifetime Achievement Tony. She's created two of the most iconic leading lady roles as Eliza in ''My Fair Lady'' and Guinevere in ''Camelot.'' She's known worldwide as the film star of ''The Sound of Music.'' She's always been such a goodwill ambassador for musical theater. She's now 88, and 2024 marks the 70th anniversary of her Broadway debut in ''The Boyfriend.''

How old does an actor usually have to be before they are considered a veteran?