AYAA Survey: Tony Battles

After the success of the AYAA Twitter Surveys last time, I decided to do some more. This time around, the polls where Tony battles -- four past Tony winners pitted against each other to see who reigned supreme! I included the result of each poll and a video of the winning performance!

Best Actor in a Musical 2012-2015
Michael Cerveris as Bruce Bechdel in Fun Home - 23%
Neil Patrick Harris as Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch - 38%
Billy Porter as Lola/Simon in Kinky Boots - 38%
Steve Kazee as Guy in Once - 0%

There was an initial tie in this category, so I posted a second poll to break the tie!

Neil Patrick Harris as Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch - 59%
Billy Porter as Lola/Simon in Kinky Boots - 41%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIaFn5lsLd8

Best Actor in a Musical 1993-1997
James Naughton as Billy Flynn in Chicago - 38%
Nathan Lane as Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - 13%
Boyd Gaines as Georg Nowack in She Loves Me - 25%
Brent Carver as Luis Molina in The Kiss of the Spider Woman - 24%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC2g7GFu_uk

Best Actor in a Musical 1998-2001
Nathan Lane as Max Bialystock in The Producers - 72%
Brian Stokes Mitchell as Fred Graham/Petruchio in Kiss Me, Kate - 0%
Marin Short as Noble Eggleston, Amos Pinchley, Benny Buchsbaum, and others in Little Me - 6%
Alan Cumming as The Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret - 22%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdneMgkNUDI

Best Actor in a Musical 2002-2006
John Lloyd Young as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys - 36%
Hugh Jackman as Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz - 14%
Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray - 50%
John Lithgow as J. J. Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success - 0%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vUSeDCc9Us

Best Actor in a Musical 2007-2010
Douglas Hodge as Albin in La Cage aux Folles - 33%
David Álvarez, Trent Kowalik, and Kiril Kulish as Billy Elliot in Billy Elliot - 44%
Paulo Szot as Emile de Becque in South Pacific - 11%
David Hyde Pierce as Lieutenant Frank Cioffi in Curtains - 12%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1RB_T85nQk (This video features Trent Kowalik performing "Angry Dance." However, the award went to all three boys.)

Best Actress in a Musical 1992-1995
Glenn Close as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard - 20%
Donna Murphy as Fosca in Passion - 13%
Chita Rivera as Aurora/Spider Woman in The Kiss of the Spider Woman - 13%
Faith Prince as Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls - 54%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBK-0W4MG28

Best Actress in a Musical 1996-2000
Heather Headley as Aida in Aida - 14%
Natasha Richardson as Sally Bowles in Cabaret - 10%
Bebe Neuwirth as Velma Kelly in Chicago - 71%
Donna Murphy as Anna Leonowens in The King and I - 5%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60JYQ7HEf-U

Best Actress in a Musical 2001-2004
Idina Menzel as Elphaba in Wicked - 35%
Marissa Janet Winokur as Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray - 24%
Sutton Foster as Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie - 35%
Christine Ebersole as Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street - 6%

There was an initial tie in this category, so I posted a second poll to break the tie!

Idina Menzel as Elphaba in Wicked - 44%
Sutton Foster as Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie - 56%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYmjDSpGmtE

Best Actress in a Musical 2006-2011
Sutton Foster as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes -  61%
Alice Ripley as Diana Goodman in next to normal - 17%
Patti LuPone as Mama Rose in Gypsy - 17%
LaChanze as Celie Harris Johsnson in The Color Purple - 5%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo6lPifGnGA

Best Actress in a Musical 2012-2015
Kelli O'Hara as Anne Leonowens in The King and I - 13%
Jessie Mueller as Carole King in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical - 26%
Patina Miller as The Leading Player in Pippin - 61%
Audra McDonald as Bess in Porgy and Bess - 0%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpNKfFAnUO4

Best Revival of a Musical 1996-1999
Annie Get Your Gun - 17%
Cabaret - 6%
Chicago - 78%
The King and I - 0%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBrsfuCXcCE

Best Revival of a Musical 2000-2003
Nine - 0%
Into the Woods - 72%
42nd Street - 11%
Kiss Me, Kate - 17%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSTM2NCmP-g

Best Revival of a Musical 2004-2007
Company - 50%
The Pajama Game - 6%
La Cage aux Folles - 19%
Assassins - 25%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8kYfPoHyos

Best Revival of a Musical 2008-2011
Anything Goes - 63%
La Cage aux Folles - 15%
Hair - 19%
South Pacific - 3%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWbhuY5lMQs

Best Revival of a Musical 2012-2015
The King and I - 19%
Hedwig and the Angry Inch - 23%
Pippin - 50%
Porgy and Bess - 8%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI7SZnwRCJI

Best Musical 1996-1999
Rent - 52%
Titanic - 6%
The Lion King - 42%
Fosse - 0%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vVnzD0itSE

Best Musical 2000-2003
Contact - 0%
The Producers - 30%
Thoroughly Modern Millie - 30%
Hairspray - 40%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H4j_6ksNa8

Best Musical 2004-2007
Avenue Q - 24%
Spamalot - 14%
Jersey Boys - 34%
Spring Awakening - 28%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM4fMmMq1S0

Best Musical 2008-2011
In the Heights - 22%
Billy Elliot - 0%
Memphis - 0%
Book of Mormon - 78%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVJgmp2Tc2s

Best Musical 2012-2015
Once - 18%
Kinky Boots - 21%
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder - 50%
Fun Home - 11%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtlcEvPDkfM


Thank you to everyone who voted!