Who do you think will win Best Actor and Best Featured Actor in a Musical?

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 12:46pm

Who do you think will win Best Actor and Best Featured Actor in a Musical?

For the women's categories, there seem to be definate favorites...what about the men?


Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik, and Kiril Kulish – Billy Elliot, The Musical
Gavin Creel, Hair
Brian d’Arcy James, Shrek The Musical
Constantine Maroulis, Rock of Ages
J. Robert Spencer, Next to Normal


Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
David Bologna, Billy Elliot, The Musical
Gregory Jbara, Billy Elliot, The Musical
Marc Kudisch, 9 to 5: The Musical
Christopher Sieber, Shrek The Musical
Will Swenson, Hair

Updated On: 5/10/09 at 12:46 PM

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 12:54pm

There are one set of answers as to who I WANT and think SHOULD win:
Gavin Creel &
Will Swenson

And who I think WILL win:
The BE boys.
Chris Sieber (this wouldn't bother me in the slightest.)

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 12:55pm

I think it'll be the Billys and Will Swenson.

[jagfkb]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 1:05pm

Even my dad, who loved Hair and found Shrek to be ok thinks that Chris Sieber has this award.

[little_sally]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 1:11pm

I feel like Will Swenson may win it, as a way to reward the entire Hair cast. (The Tonys seem to do this a lot, like Cerveris in Assassins or Fogler in Spelling Bee.)

[Shannon Bo Dannon]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 1:12pm

I want it to be Gavin and Will, but I also think it'll be the BE boys and Christopher.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 1:28pm

The Billy Boys - no doubt.

And I think the featured will be harder. They are all good performances, but they tend to give the Featured award to the more comedic performance, no? So maybe Sieber? He does turn in a hilarious performance.

[Jersey Girl2]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 2:13pm

I can't see how they can give it to the Billys.
I didn't see Shrek.
Constantine has it over Gavin- IMO

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 2:17pm

"I can't see how they can give it to the Billys.
I didn't see Shrek.
Constantine has it over Gavin- IMO"


That was funny. Thanks for making me laugh!

[adamgreer]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 2:22pm

The Billy boys, as much as I will be rooting for anyone else to win the award (out of principle) are going to win Best Actor.

Will Swenson should, and probably will, win Best Featured Actor, though a win by Sieber would not be unexpected or surprising. As long as it isn't Greg Jbara (one of the most overrated performances I've ever seen- nearly three hours of shouting).

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 2:23pm

The Billys and Will Swenson.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 2:26pm

I'm pretty sure that the Billys will win Best Actor. As for Featured, it SHOULD be Will Swenson, but I have a feeling it might be Sieber. Oh, well. I thought they were both great performances.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 2:31pm

I agree ^ I would be happy for ANYONE other than the Billys to get the award.

This is not meant to be snarky, but the only thing the boys do REALLY well is dance -- and they do that beautifully. The rest is simply manipulation. And I truly think that if it does happen, they end up rewarding the ROLE not the actor.

What are others thought on the Billys?

[adamgreer]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 2:34pm

Dramamama, I agree with you. The three boys are all fantastic dancers, passable singers, and fairly bad actors. Plus, there's the whole thing about the voters only seeing one of the three of them. And you'd be awarding someone a Tony for something they do 2-3 times a week. They really should have just given them a special Tony award. I'd have been perfectly happy with that.

[little_sally]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 2:36pm

adamgreer, I agree with you 100%.

[Testing1232]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 2:37pm

The Billys and Sieber.

[sgv123]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 2:42pm

I wonder why the other Billys (London and Sydney) got the award. There were 4 Sydney Billys so they performed less.

I hope either the Billys or Gavin get it for leading and Swenson gets it for featured.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 2:51pm

Sieber is playing a cartoon character. Swenson is playing an iconic human character with perfection in the most raved about revival of the season. Swenson has it in the bag.

If I were voting for Leading, I'd choose Creel, but sadly I think those Billys are going to win.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 2:54pm

Excuse me? Christopher Sieber is playing a cartoon character? Tony winner Carol Channing IS a cartoon character.

[yay_gerb]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 3:00pm

i agree with WBAF. i liked Seiber but anyone can be funny on thier knee's in that costume. swenson really looks like he lets the charactar take him over for 2 and a half hours a day. and i know it's for a featured role, but swenson does so much more than seiber does in shrek. swenson definitely deserves it. i agree about it awarding the cast as well.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 3:01pm

The Billys and Sieber.

Yes, he is playing a cartoon, but he plays it to perfection.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 3:03pm

I want Sieber to win, but I have a feeling Swenson will take it.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 3:26pm

I am seriously hoping Swenson will take it.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 3:27pm

There have been other "cartoon" character winners before.

Kristen Chenoweth and Rogar Bart as Sally Brown and Snoopy.

And I would assume that Mrs. Hannigan is a cartoon character too.

And plenty have been nominated too!

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/10/09 at 3:29pm

The Billys, in my mind, are fantastic dancers and actors and fine singers. They're going through puberty so I give them a bit of a break on the singing (plus they're KIDS playing an extremely demanding role). They deserve the award although Creel would not be a dissapointment if he upsets, which he won't. But still.

And yes, I think Swenson will be awarded for the exact reason little_sally mentioned. To award, in some way, the entire cast of HAIR. He's excellent in the role and deserves the award as well.