Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
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Aug 31, 2026
Ryan GarciaHOST
Jefferson Mays.
Ryan GarciaHOST
Tony award-winning Jefferson Mays, he played Charlotte von Malsdorf and a dozen other characters in Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife, which is a solo play that he did on Broadway and won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
Ryan GarciaHOST
He also was in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder in 2014, where he worked with Darko Trezniak, which won Best Musical.
Ryan GarciaHOST
And that's where Darko got his Tony for Best Direction.
ChuckHOST
... uh, in a production of Hair in '68 to '69.
ChuckHOST
Broadway, he earned three Tony Award nominations for his Best Actor in a Play for his role as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus-
RoxyHOST
Okay
ChuckHOST
... 1980 to '81.
Philip TeresiHOST
He was in the original production of Hair.
Philip TeresiHOST
He turned up in Bro- on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Transvestites, and then in Amadeus, the latter of which he got a Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Play.
Philip TeresiHOST
1975, Rocky Horror comes and goes, and then in the '80s, Rooster Hannigan in Annie, Wadsworth the butler in Clue, the Lord of Darkness in Legend, Pennywise in It.
Philip TeresiHOST
He was in Home Alone 2 alongside Donald Trump.
CharlieHOST
The original Broadway production of Torch Song Trilogy opened at the Little Theater in New York on 10th of June, 1982, and ran for 1,222 performances until its close on 10th of May, 1985.
CharlieHOST
The play won the Tony Awards in 1983 for both Best Play and Best Actor in a Play.
BenHOST
Yeah.
CharlieHOST
Mm.
DaveHOST
Okay, okay.
MarkHOST
He won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of Mark Twain in Mark Twain's The
DaveHOST
Night.
DaveHOST
He very famously plays Mark Twain in a lot of things.