It may not have spelled the award’s hardware for Sally Field in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” at Oscars 2013, but Mary Todd Lincoln eventually had her day at the Tony Awards on Sunday.
Star-Playwright Cole Escola won the best actor in a play Tony for his riotically fun work in the Outland comedy “Oh, Mary!”, The first time marks a non-binary artist has received a Tony win for all gaming categories for acting.
Escola portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln as a Boozy Kabaret’s singer hopeful in a Madcap production in John Waters-style, where she rattles and ravens while a queer-lend Abe Lincoln (Conrad Ricamora) is heading for a predetermined murder.
Escola has had a healthy leadership of the Pre-Cursor Awards, winning Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for their high-threaded action by a performance. Recently when he was on a scheduled leave, “American PrimeVal” star Betty Gilpin and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” Breakout Tituss Burgess Mary Todd played to big messages.
The show has attracted that Steven Spielberg, Melissa McCarthy, Mark Hamill, Sally Field and Mia Farrow, among dozens and dozens of celebrity visitors on both Broadway and in their original off-Broadway quay in West Village in New York City.
However, this is not the first time Tony’s has shining a light on non -binary artists. Just two years agoJ. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell won best actors in a musical and best presented actor in a musical on the same evening, for their work in “Some like it hot” and “shucked”.
Tony’s – just like Oscars and Emmys – has continued to separate gender call categories Over the years, while some others, such as Drama Desk Awards, La Film Critics Association and The Independent Spirit Awards, have created long lists with only lead and supportive nominees where all identifying actors can compete in either.
