It's Lanley Hall again.

Two months ago, Lan Li won his first Olivier Award for his performance in Les Misérables at the Almeida Theatre.

A month ago, Lan Li's impressive performance in "Drunken Country Ballads" successfully won the Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival.

Now that the 67th edition of the Tony Awards is about to kick off at Radio City Music Hall in New York, can Blue Rite continue its strong streak?

Lanli-Hall!Lanli-Hall!Lanli-Hall!Lanli-Hall!Or Lanli-Hall!

Old-fashioned, endless, thunderous, annoying, and repeatedly without any new ideas, for some audiences, it is bound to be bored, even repulsed from the heart, as if there is only this one actor left in the whole world, and this name and that face can be seen in every corner and every moment, which is indeed too annoying.

But for a larger audience, they are witnessing an era and a piece of history.

Strictly speaking, Lan Li is not the kind of actor who everyone loves, at least not compared with Robert Downey Jr. and Johnny Depp, because he has starred in too few commercial films, and it is often difficult for his performances in artistic works to win the recognition of a wide range of audiences, but no one can deny that Lan Li is excellent and outstanding, and he has broken out of his own world.

In the history of the film industry, there are countless actors who have had their own moments and even periods, but there are very few actors who have left their own mark.

Popularity is just a bubble after all, and unless they can become the sexuality/sensuality/symbol of the entire era like Marita Hayorth or Marilyn Monroe, they will eventually drown in the long river of time and cease to exist.

The real factor that judges the actor is the work, whether it is commercial or artistic, those classic works have precipitated after the big waves and become an indelible part of the history of film development, which can be called famous in history.

Now, Lanli is walking on this path, step by step, steady and strong.

No one knows if he will be able to reach the top and write miracles, but what is certain is that he is now moving in the right direction, and this is precisely the best part of history, and it is only after waiting for time to settle down that people will be able to understand what they have experienced and what they have witnessed, and it is difficult to describe the feeling of revisiting the years in which they were inscribed.

This year's Tony Awards may be such a moment.

In early May, shortly after the Olivier Awards, the Tony Awards officially announced the nominees for this year, and "The Boot Queen" became the biggest winner in the nomination stage.

In 2005, a British film based on a true story "The Enchantress in Boots" came out, which attracted a lot of attention in the United Kingdom, and then Broadway began to adapt the work, because the theme of the sword went sideways, the preparation and market prospects were not optimistic, until October 2012, they held auditions in Chicago, and step by step in other cities in North America toured auditions, after accumulating enough word-of-mouth, in April officially returned to the Broadway stage.

Unexpectedly, once it was staged, it completely detonated the reputation of drama critics, and it can be said to be born.

Among the nominees for the Tony Awards, "The Enchantress in Boots" has received 13 nominations, including Best Musical, Best Actor in a Musical, Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, Best Musical Director, Best Musical Screenplay, and other important award categories.

In addition, two rearranged musicals were also in the limelight, "Matilda" and "Pehei", which received 12 and 10 nominations respectively.

The former, based on the most successful West End musical of the last decade, has also been a huge success on Broadway, and after sweeping ten trophies at the 2010 Olivier Awards, it is now at the top of the Tony Awards, with a story based on children's literature, a large number of underage child actors who have been showcased and who carry the future of theatre.

The latter is an adaptation of the 1972 Tony Award-winning classic, focusing on the process of the real historical characters Prince Pepin and Charman the Great's continuous search for value in life, won ten nominations and five trophies that year, and after its rehearsal in early 2013, it created a frenzy of audiences having to queue up, and even reached the height of a hard to get a ticket, which is also another excellent work in addition to "Les Miserables", which is another excellent work to revive the market craze in addition to "Les Miserables".

Of course, "Les Miserables" is definitely a player to be reckoned with this year.

Best Rehearsal Musical, Best Actor in a Musical, Best Supporting Actress in a Musical, Best Supporting Actor in a Musical, Best Director of a Musical, Best Musical Screenplay, Best Musical Sound Design, Best Musical Stage Design, Best Musical Lighting Design, Best Choreography, and more.

Best Supporting Actress in a Musical won two nominations. With a total of 11 nominations, Les Misérables is also one of the biggest winners in the nomination stage, which further intensifies the competition for this year's awards.

It is no exaggeration to say that compared with the musical theater department, the theater department has fallen behind this year, whether it is word-of-mouth or popularity, whether it is in the industry or outside the industry, all the attention is focused on the musical theater department, especially the rearranged musical is to recreate the peak of the golden age

Among the four nominees for Best Rehearsal Musical, "Peping", "Matilda" and "Les Miserables", the last film, "Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella", was also a hit, with a total of nine nominations.

After the list of nominees came out, the top five with the most nominations were all musicals, four of which were rehearsal musicals, and all of them won nominations for best rehearsal musical. This has become one of the biggest attractions at this year's Tony Awards.

Of course, all the focus is not comparable to the competition for best actor in a musical. Even members of the American Theater Association have said privately that this may be the most competitive event since the turn of the millennium.

In other words, Lan Li was unlucky.

At the Oliver Awards two months ago, despite the suspense, in fact, Lan Li's overall performance was still very strong, and the odds of winning the award far exceeded that of several other competitors.

But the Tony Awards have reversed the position.

This year's Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical is no less intense than Best Rehearsal Musical, with the five nominees equal in strength and equal quality, and even the nominees' participation in the work is full of weight and indistinguishable.

Billy-Porter and Stark Saunders for "The Enchantress in Boots", Bertie-Carvel for "Matilda", Santino-Fontana for "Rogers and Hammerstein", and Lanli Hall for "Les Miserables".

The five actors, all from this year's highest-profile nomination for Best New/Rehearsed Musical, were so competitive that Patina Miller, the lead actor of "Pihei Masa", was dropped directly at the nomination stage.

Of the five nominees, four are long-time Broadway celebrities.

Forty-four years old Billy Porter has starred in a series of classics such as "Grease", "Dream Girl" and "Angels in America", and he has been seen on Broadway and Off-Broadway for the past two decades, and is a professional theater actor.

Stark Sanz may only be 35 years old, but his films such as "The End of the Journey", "Twelfth Night", and "American" have already won numerous critical acclaim on Broadway, won a Tony Award for Outstanding Rising Star, and he has also starred in many movies and TV series, including the classic American drama "Six Feet Under", "Family Guy", "Plastic Surgery Room" and many more.

By the way, not long ago, he had just co-starred with Lan Li in "Drunken Country Folk", where he played Troy Nelson, the GI singer who was favored by Albert Grossman, and also sang "Five Hundred Miles" with Jim and Jane.

Bertie Cavill is the original actor in Matilda's West End, winning an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical last year, and he also starred in the role of Sheriff in last year's Les Misérables movie as an attempt to defame and arrest Fantine.

Sandino Fontana is a film actor who voiced Hans in "Frozen", and can be seen in "The Proud Wife" and "Desire/Sea Doctor", and of course, stage plays are still his forte, with productions such as "Dancing My World", "Hamlet" and "Exhausted" all winning numerous accolades on Broadway.

In comparison, Lan Li is undoubtedly the least qualified.

Interestingly, none of the five nominees have ever won a Tony Award for Best Musical or Actor in a Play, and it would be their first time winning for any of them.

Still, the competition between the five actors was difficult to choose, and each actor gave the best performance in his own production, and received unanimous praise on Broadway, in other words, it was a battle of the best, and the judges had to choose the "best" among the "best".

Undoubtedly, this is a difficult problem, an incomparably intractable and incomparably deadly one.

Everyone knows that with only one Tony Award trophy left to make EGOT now, and with Les Miserables performing so strongly this year, it seems that the right time and place have come together perfectly. For the layman, in the absence of any knowledge, the choice of Lan Li is a natural choice, but for the insider, it is a cruel torment

They may make a history or they may kill it.

However, Lanli's competitors did not make the choice easier this time, and among the five nominees, it is not disputed that any one of them will win in the end, so this also means that ...... It's all about personal preference?

On top of the Tony Awards, which have always respected professionalism and authority, they have actually come to this point of personal preference?