{"id":489,"date":"2009-05-06T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2009\/05\/brief-thought-on-best-featured-actor-in-a-musical.html"},"modified":"2009-05-06T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T23:29:00","slug":"brief-thought-on-best-featured-actor-in-a-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Brief Thought on Best Featured Actor in a Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the more interesting aspects of yesterday’s Tony nominations wasn’t the exclusion of 9 to 5<\/span> from Best Musical, or the lack of [title of show], <\/span>et al. It was in the Best Featured Actor in a Musical category, where David Bologna was nominated for his performance in Billy Elliot <\/span>as Michael. Bologna alternates in the role with Frank Dolce, each doing four shows a the week. For the leading category, it was decided that all three actors would share the nomination, but it was certainly not the case here. I’m curious as to whether a joint nomination was even considered. Or perhaps it was an oversight made by the producers, unsuspecting that the character of Michael would garner Tony attention. Regardless, I do feel bad for Dolce who becomes the odd-man out of his cast mates in this horse race. It’s gotta be tough to learn at such a young age that everything about it isn’t appealing… <\/p>\n

However, this isn’t the most bizarre nomination involving child actors. That honor goes to the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music <\/span>in 1960 where it was decided that all seven children (including William Snowden and Joseph Stewart) would share a joint nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Musical. They lost to co-star Patricia Neway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the more interesting aspects of yesterday’s Tony nominations wasn’t the exclusion of 9 to 5 from Best Musical, or the lack of [title of show], et al. It was in the Best Featured Actor in a Musical category, where David Bologna was nominated for his performance in Billy Elliot as Michael. Bologna alternates … Continue reading Brief Thought on Best Featured Actor in a Musical<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2193,1766],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-billy-elliot","tag-tony-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}