One Thousand Three Hundred Fifty-Seven Bad Luck

It's Renly Hall again.

Two months ago, Renly won his first Oliver Award for his performance in "Les Miserables" at the Almeida Theater.

A month ago, Renly won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for his impressive performance in "The Ballad of the Drunken Country".

Now that the sixty-seventh Tony Awards are about to kick off at Radio City Music Hall in New York, can Renly continue to go strong?

Renly-Hall! Renly-Hall! Renly-Hall! Or Renly Hall!

Old-fashioned, endless, irritating, annoying, and repeatedly without any new ideas, for some audiences, it is bound to feel bored, or even rejected from the heart, as if there is only one actor left in the whole world , seeing this name and that face in every corner and every moment is really annoying.

But for more audiences, they are witnessing an era and a history.

Strictly speaking, Renly is not the kind of actor that everyone loves, at least not comparable to Robert Downey Jr. and Johnny Depp, because he has starred in too few commercial films, and in works of art It is often difficult for his performances to win wide audience recognition; but no one can deny Renly's excellence and excellence, and he has carved out a world of his own.

In the history of the film industry, there are countless actors who have had their own moments and periods, but very few actors who have left their mark.

Popularity is just a bubble after all, unless they can become the sex/sensory/symbol of the entire era like Rita-Hayworth or Marilyn-Monroe, they will eventually be submerged in a long river of time, no longer exists.

The real factor to measure an actor is the work, whether it is commercial or artistic. Those classic works have settled down after going through the big waves and become an indelible part of the history of film development. Only then can they be called famous in history.

Now, Renly is on this path, one step at a time, steady and strong.

No one knows whether he can reach the peak and write miracles; but what is certain is that he is now continuing to move in the right direction. This is precisely the most beautiful part of history. Only after waiting for time to settle can people be able to. Knowing what I have experienced and witnessed, and reminiscing about the years in which I have been involved, the feeling is really indescribable.

This year's Tony Awards may be such a moment.

In early May, shortly after the Oliver Awards ended, the Tony Awards officially announced this year's nomination list, and "Boots" became the biggest winner in the nomination stage.

In 2005, a British film based on a real story, "Boots Enchantress" came out, which attracted a lot of attention in the UK, and then Broadway started the adaptation work. Not optimistic, until October 2012, they held an audition in Chicago, and they toured and auditioned in other cities in North America step by step. After accumulating enough word of mouth, they officially returned to the Broadway stage in April.

Unexpectedly, once it was staged, it completely detonated the reputation of drama critics, which can be said to be born out of nowhere.

Among the nominations for the Tony Award, "Boots Enchantress" has won thirteen nominations, including Best Musical, Best Actor in a Musical, Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, Best Director of a Musical, All the important awards, such as the best musical screenplay, are endless and unique.

On top of that, two reruns of musicals are also in the limelight, "Matilda" and "The True Story of Pepin," which received twelve and ten nominations, respectively.

The former, based on the most successful West End musical of the past decade, has also been a huge success on Broadway, after sweeping ten trophies at the 2010 Oliver Awards and now at the Tony Awards. A good opportunity to reach the top, the story is adapted from children's literature,

A large number of underage child actors have been exposed, and they also carry the future of the theater.

The latter is an adaptation of the 1972 Tony Award-winner's classic play, focusing on the real historical characters Prince Pepin and Charlemagne's constant search for value in life. It won ten nominations and five trophies that year, and was rerun in early 2013. After that, it created a frenzy that the audience had to queue up, and even reached the height of hard to get a ticket. This is also another excellent work besides "Les Miserables" that has reawakened the market boom.

Of course, "Les Miserables" is definitely a player not to be underestimated this year.

Best Revisited Musical, Best Actor in a Musical, Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, Best Supporting Actor in a Musical, Best Director in a Musical, Best Screenplay in a Musical, Best Sound Design in a Musical, Best Music Theatrical set design, best musical lighting design, best choreography, etc.

Best Supporting Actress in a Musical won two nominations. A total of eleven nominations are added up, and "Les Miserables" is also one of the biggest winners in the nomination stage, which further intensifies the competition and direction of this year's awards.

It is no exaggeration to say that compared with the musical department, the drama department has fallen behind this year. Whether it is word of mouth or popularity, whether it is in the industry or outside the industry, all the attention is focused on the musical department, especially the rearrangement. The musical has recreated the peak of the golden age——

Among the four nominees for best revival musical, "The True Story of Pepin", "Matilda" and "Les Miserables", the last "Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella" is also a big winner. The hot work has won nine nominations.

After the nomination list came out, the top five with the largest number of nominations were all swept up by musicals, four of which were revival musicals, and all of them won the nomination for the best revival musical. Such competition can be described as red with a bayonet. No problem either. This has also become one of the biggest highlights of this year's Tony Awards ceremony.

Of course, none of the focus can match the competition for Best Actor in a Musical. Even members of the American Dramatic Association have repeatedly said in private that this may be the most competitive event of the millennium.

In other words, Renly was out of luck.

At the Oliver Awards two months ago, despite the suspense, Renly's overall performance was still very strong, and the chance of winning the award far exceeded that of several other competitors. In comparison, the awards ceremony at that time On top of that, the competition for Best Actor in a Drama is what really heats up.

But the Tony Awards have just switched positions.

This year's Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical is no less intense than the Best Rehearsal Musical. The five nominees are of equal strength and indistinguishable. Even the nominees' performances are full of weight and indistinguishable. Xuanlin.

Billy-Porter and Stark Sanders in "Boots", Bertie-Carvel in "Matilda," "Rogers & Hammerstein" Cinderella's Santino-Fontana, and Les Miserables' Renly Hall.

The five actors are all from this year's most high-profile nominations for Best New/Revisited Musical, and the competition is so fierce that "Pepin's True Story" actor Patina-Miller ) directly out of the nomination stage.

Of the five nominees, four are long-standing Broadway stars.

Billy Porter, 44 years old, starred in a series of classics such as "Grease", "Dreamgirls" and "Angels in America", has been seen on Broadway and Off-Broadway for the past two decades The figure, which is a professional theatre actor.

Stark Sens is only thirty-five years old, but his works such as "Journey's End", "Twelfth Night" and "American Fool" have already won numerous acclaim on Broadway and won a Tony Award for Outstanding Rising Star. , In addition, he has also starred in many movies and TV series, including the classic American drama "Under Six Feet", "Spoof House", "Plastic Surgery Room" and so on.

By the way, not long ago, he starred in "Drunken Country Ballad" with Renly. He played Troy Nelson, the soldier singer who was favored by Albert Grossman, and also played with Jim and Jane. Chorus "Five Hundred Miles".

Bertie Cavill was the actor in the original West End version of "Matilda", for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical last year; in addition, he also starred in last year's "Les Miserables" film version Among them, attempts to smear and arrest Fantine's sheriff's role.

Sandino-Fontana is a movie actor who dubbed Hans in "Frozen". In addition, he can be seen in "The Good Wife" and "Desire/Sea Medical Heart". Of course, stage plays are still his forte, and works such as "Dancing Out of My World", "Hamlet", and "Exhausted" have won countless praises on Broadway.

In comparison, Renly is undoubtedly the most junior.

Interestingly, none of the five nominees have ever won a Tony Award for Best Musical or Actor in a Play, and it would be their first time for any of them to win.

Despite this, the competition between the five actors is still difficult to choose. Each actor has dedicated the best performances in his own works, and has received unanimous praise on Broadway. In other words, this It is a battle between strong players and a peak match, and the judges must choose the "better" from the "best".

Undoubtedly, this is a difficult problem, a very difficult and fatal problem.

Everyone knows that with just one Tony Award trophy away, Renly will achieve EGOT, and this year's Les Miserables has performed so strongly that it seems that the right time, place, and people have been perfectly matched. For the layman, choosing Renly is a natural choice without knowing it; but for the layman, it is a cruel torment——

They may make a history, or they may kill a history.

However, Renly's competitors didn't make the choice easy this time, and there is no doubt that any one of the five nominees will win in the end, so that means... all personal preference?

On top of the Tony Award, which has always respected professionalism and authority, has it come to this step of personal preference? This, is not good? 8) For more wonderful novels, welcome to visit our school