Lauren AKA the girl from the Windows commercial is really Lauren De Long, a SAG-eligible actor with special skills including cheerleading, stage combat, and ear prompting.
To say nothing of eligible non-actors whose achievements come equally quickly to mind; Nicola Benedetti, Diana Athill, JK Rowling, Judith Kerr, Angela Hewitt, Dr Anita Brookner, Cornelia Parker, Sarah Waters, Joanna Hogg (assuming none of them rejected damehoods).
(The producers of "Matilda" had asked that Mr. Carvel be deemed eligible as best actor; he won the Olivier Award, Britain's Tony equivalent, as best actor in "Matilda" last year).
The producers of the play asked that only Mr. Larroquette be eligible as best actor, according to two members of the eligibility committee; however, when those same producers mounted the same play 12 years ago, they had asked for the three actors in those three roles to all be eligible for best actor (and not just the one in Mr. Larroquette's part).
The producers of the play asked that only Mr. Larroquette be eligible as best actor, according to two members of the eligibility committee; however, when those same producers mounted the same play 12 years ago, they had asked for the three actors in those three roles to all be eligible for best actor (and not just the one playing Mr. Larroquette's role).
Besides the two actors from "The Book of Mormon," and the two from "Priscilla," the two above-the-title stars of "Catch Me If You Can" - Norbert Leo Butz and Aaron Tveit - are eligible for best actor.
Among the Hollywood stars on Broadway this season, Robin Williams, who was already above the title in the play "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," and Ben Stiller in "Blue Leaves" (ditto) will remain eligible for best actor nominations.
"You cannot advertise showing that you have a preference for one racial group over another," McLaughlin said on Tuesday to CBS. "As an artistic question – sure, he can cast whomever he wants to cast, but he has to give every actor eligible for the role an opportunity to try".
In the end, the committee decided to make all three actors eligible in the lead category.
Issue #1: How are the White Christmas actors eligible if the show is not?
The producers had wanted Mr. Baldwin to be eligible for a best actor Tony, and his co-stars, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge, to be eligible for featured actor nominations.
