Tony Awards snubs: ‘Patriots,’ Steve Carell, Chip Zien …
With 36 productions eligible for this year’s Tony Awards, there were plenty of names missing when nominations were announced by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry on Tuesday morning. Among the most surprising 2024 Tony nominations snubs was “Patriots.” Peter Morgan‘s history play about Russia earned three Olivier Award nominations last year, including Best New Play, Actor (Tom Hollander) and Featured Actor (Will Keen). In New York, it only scored one for Michael Stuhlbarg, who took over the role played by Hollander in the UK; Keen, who reprises his role as Vladimir Putin, did not score a nomination in a category stuffed with “Stereophonic” performers.
The revival of “The Who’s Tommy” also significantly underperformed. Gold Derby users predicted it would land three nominations for Best Musical Revival, Best Actor for Ali Louis Bourzgui and Best Choreographer for Lorin Latarro, but it only earned one bid in the top revival category.
After 50 years on Broadway, Chip Zien looked like he might finally earn his first Tony nomination for his starring role in the shuttered musical “Harmony” after a career originating roles in “Into the Woods” and “Falsettos,” but the nominators gave that show the cold shoulder entirely. Other musicals whose performers were blanked include “The Great Gatsby” and its stars Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada and “Here Lies Love” and its actors Conrad Ricamora and Arielle Jacobs.
In all, eight of the 36 eligible productions did not receive a single nomination. Those omitted shows are musicals “Harmony,” “The Heart of Rock and Roll,” “How to Dance in Ohio” and “Once Upon a One More Time,” musical revival “The Wiz,” and plays “I Need That” “The Cottage” and “The Shark is Broken.”
Below, see the list of snubbed contenders in the top show and performance categories:
NOT NOMINATED: BEST MUSICAL
Here Lies Love
Days of Wine and Roses
The Notebook
Lempicka
The Great Gatsby
Harmony
NOT NOMINATED: BEST PLAY
Patriots
The Shark is Broken
NOT NOMINATED: BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL
The Wiz
Monty Python’s Spamalot
NOT NOMINATED: BEST PLAY REVIVAL
Uncle Vanya
Doubt
NOT NOMINATED: BEST ACTRESS (MUSICAL)
Shaina Taub, “Suffs”
Arielle Jacobs, “Here Lies Love”
Eva Noblezada, “The Great Gatsby”
Nichelle Lewis, “The Wiz”
NOT NOMINATED: BEST ACTOR (MUSICAL)
Chip Zien, “Harmony”
Ali Louis Bourzgui, “The Who’s Tommy”
Jeremy Jordan, “The Great Gatsby”
Andrew Rannells, “Gutenberg! The Musical!”
NOT NOMINATED: BEST ACTOR (PLAY)
Steve Carell, “Uncle Vanya”
NOT NOMINATED: BEST FEATURED ACTRESS (MUSICAL)
Jenn Colella, “Suffs”
Beth Leavel, “Lempicka”
NOT NOMINATED: BEST FEATURED ACTOR (MUSICAL)
Conrad Ricamora, “Here Lies Love”
Paul Alexander Nolan, “Water for Elephants”
Ricky Ubeda, “Illinoise”
Liam Pearce, “How to Dance in Ohio”
Andrew Samonsky, “Lempicka”
Wayne Brady, “The Wiz”
NOT NOMINATED: BEST FEATURED ACTRESS (PLAY)
Francis Benhamou, “Prayer for the French Republic”
Jayne Houdyshell, “Uncle Vanya”
Natalie Gold, “Appropriate”
Alison Pill, “Uncle Vanya”
Zoe Kazan, “Doubt”
Brittany Adebumola, “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”
NOT NOMINATED: FEATURED ACTOR (PLAY)
Will Keen, “Patriots”
Michael Imperioli, “An Enemy of the People”
Alfred Molina, “Uncle Vanya”
Billy Eugene Jones, “Purlie Victorious”
Jay O. Sanders, “Purlie Victorious”
Michael Esper, “Appropriate”
Luke Thallon, “Patriots”
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