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'Billy Elliot' lads not alone in sharing Tony nods
The Associated Press
The stars of "Billy Elliot the Musical", from left, Trent Kowalik, Kiril Kulish and David Alvarez, have been nominated for best actor.
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Published: May 5, 2009
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NEW YORK - It's rare but other actors beside the boys in "Billy Elliot" have shared Tony Award nominations, although not for playing the same role.
The three lads who opened the British musical hit on Broadway — David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik, Kiril Kulish — were nominated today for the best actor-musical prize.
Nominations have been shared in the past by Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford for "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" in 1966; John Kani and Winston Ntshona for the double bill of "Sizwe Banzi Is Dead" and "The Island" in 1975; and Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner for "Side Show" in 1998.
Kani and Ntshona took home the actor-play prize.
The oddest shared Tony nomination happened in 1960. It went to Laurie Peters and the six other young actors who played the von Trapp children in the original production of "The Sound of Music." The nomination was in the featured actress-musical category even though two of those nominated were boys.
They all lost — to Patricia Neway who portrayed the Mother Abbess in the musical.
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