He may not have spent award equipment for Sally Field in the “Lincoln” of Steven Spielberg aux Oscars in 2013, but Mary Todd Lincoln finally had his day at Tony Awards on Sunday.
Star-Playwright Cole Escola won the best actor in a Tony’s play for their funny rotary work in the bizarre comedy “Oh, Mary!,” Marking the first time that a non-binary performer marked a Tony’s victory for any category of play to play.
Escola has portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln as a cabaret singer sprinkled in a mad production of John Waters style, in which she is unleashed and delusions while Abe Lincoln in Queer Sens (Conrad Ricamora) goes to a predetermined assassination.
Escola has experienced a health price advance in good health, winning dramatic prices and prices for external criticism for their high -level performance act. Recently, on planned leave, the star of “American Primeval” Betty Gilpin and the breeze “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” Partass Burgess played Mary Todd in great opinions.
The show attracted Steven Spielberg, Melissa McCarthy, Mark Hamill, Sally Field and Mia Farrow, among dozens and dozens of celebrity visitors to Broadway, and in its original off-brotway berth in West Village in New York.
However, this is not the first time that tones have highlighted non -binary artists. Barely two years ago, J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell won the best actor in a musical actor and the best actor in a musical in the same evening, for their work in “Some Like Hot” and “Scued”, respectively.
Tonys – just like Oscars and Emmys – have continued to separate the categories of sexospecific actor over the years, while others, like the Drama Desk Awards, the film Critics Association and The Independent Spirit Awards, have created long lists of only candidates and support for nominees where all identifying actors can compete.
