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Sarah Jessica Parker is another bold name glaringly absent from the nominees list. Director Sam Gold was conspicuously (and rightfully) not nominated. That revival only received three nominations: Ruth Negga for her performance as Lady Mac, Jane Cox for lighting, and Mikaal Sulaiman for sound. The nominators were able to ignore Daniel Craig for his leading role in Shakespeare's Macbeth. It's just another reminder that we in the New York theatre cannot ignore David Mamet, no matter how much we would like to. The fifth slot in the Best Revival category instead went to Neil Pepe's production of American Buffalo, which neither my colleague not I predicted, despite the production being very good. I was surprised that Lincoln Center Theater's monumental revival of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth did not receive a nomination for Best Revival of a Play, but it did receive six other nods, including for director Lileana Blain-Cruz, actor Gabby Beans, and set designer Adam Rigg (who built a three-story fun slide onstage). It seems the Tony nominators were not as moved, though: The show got nothing, not even for lead actress Debra Messing. One play that is very much open but was completely snubbed is Noah Haidle's Birthday Candles, which I found touching. Both productions have been closed for months, however, and memories get fuzzy following the April rush of new show openings. Keenan Scott II's Thoughts of a Colored Man and Douglas Lyons's Chicken and Biscuits were also completely shut out of the Tonys this year, despite having design elements and performances that could have merited nomination. It ran in rep at the Lyceum with Tina Satter's Is This a Room (the omission of that one wasn't much of a surprise, as the script was entirely lifted from an FBI transcript). I was also surprised by the omission of Lucas Hnath's Dana H in the Best Play category. The nominators decided to completely pass over the play, giving it not one nomination. The 2021-22 season was an especially good one for new plays, and there were several surprising omissions in the Best Play category: Most shocking to me was Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's Pass Over, which set the pace for the season by being the first Broadway play to open following the long pandemic shutdown. (As it turns out, three is a more acceptable number for this sort of thing, as all three of the actors in The Lehman Trilogy were nominated in the Leading Actor in a Play category, making that a seven-man race.) As my colleague David Gordon and I both predicted, the nominators were unable to select one or two of the women to elevate over the others, and putting all six of them in the category must have seemed like a bridge too far when considering all of the other talented musical leads this season. Unfortunately, none of them went to the six actors who play Henry VIII's six wives, all of whom were eligible for the Leading Actress category. Six got a lot of love, with eight total nominations. Leaving him off the list would have been a crime. The single nomination went to Jared Grimes for his portrayal of Eddie Ryan and his remarkable tap routine. I predicted that enough of the nominators would agree with me that she would earn a nod in the Leading Actress in a Musical category, but they did not.īeanie is in good company over at the August Wilson Theatre: Funny Girl was not nominated for Best Revival, nor was Ramin Karimloo for his performance as Nick Arnstein, nor was Jane Lynch for playing Mrs Brice. The most polarising performance of the year, Beanie has attracted hordes of haters, but also plenty of defenders (I was charmed by her comic timing and palpable vulnerability). It's not much of a surprise, but the biggest snub of the 2022 Tony nominations is Beanie Feldstein for Funny Girl. Leslie Flesner, Afra Hines, Beanie Feldstein (Fanny Brice), and Ramin Karimloo (Nick Arnstein) in a scene from Funny Girl
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