TONY nominees 2010! The web's most popular picks! final update

[PReeves2]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 1:35am

I've been keeping track from many websites including BWW posts, different blogs, recent award nominations and news site predictions. These are the most popular from what I have gathered on the web. This certainly does not predict what the Tony voters will say on Tuesday but, these are the most popular among theater fans.

in order of popularity...

BEST PLAY:
Enron
Next fall
Time Stands Still
Red

BEST MUSICAL:
American Idiot
Fela!
Memphis
Come Fly Away

BEST REVIVAL PLAY:
Lend Me a Tenor
A View from a Bridge
The Royal Family
Fences

BEST REVIVAL MUSICAL:
La Cage
A Little Night Music
Finian's Rainbow
Promises, Promises

BEST DIRECTOR PLAY:
Gergory Mosher - A View from a Bridge
Michael Grandge - Red
Rupert Gould - Enron
Daniel Sullivan - Time Stands Still
(this was a very close catagory)

BEST DIRECTOR MUSICAL:
Michael Mayer - American Idiot
Terry Johnson - La Cage
Bill T. Jones - Fela!
Trevor Nunn - A Little Night Music

BEST ACTOR PLAY:
Alfred Molina - Red
Christopher Walken - A Beheading in Spokane
Liev Shreiber - A View from a Bridge
Denzel Washington - Fences
Nobert Butz - Enron

BEST ACTRESS PLAY:
Viola Davis - Fences
Jan Maxwell - The Royal Family
Laura Liny - Time Stands Still
Valerie Harper - Looped
Linda Lavin - Collected Stories

BEST ACTOR MUSICAL:
Douglas Hodge - La Cage
Sahr Ngaujah - Fela!
Nathan Lane - The Addams Family
John Gallaghar Jr. - American Idiot
Kelsey Grammar - La Cage

BEST ACTRESS MUSICAL:
Catherine Zeta Jones - A Little Night Music
Sherrie Rene Scott - Everyday Rapture
Montego Glover - Memphis
Kate Baldwin - Finian's Rainbow
Bebe Neuwirth - The Addams Family

BEST FEATURED ACTOR PLAY:
Jon Michael Hill - Superior Donuts
Eddie Redmayne - Red
Brian d'Arcy James - Time Stands Still
Stephen Kunken - Enron
Gergory Itzin - Enron

BEST FEATURED ACTRESS PLAY:
Viola Davis - Fences
Jen Maxwell - Lend Me a Tenor
Rosemary Harris - The Royal Family
Scarlett Johansen - A View from a Bridge
Alicia Silverstone - Time Stands Still

BEST FEATURED ACTOR MUSICAL:
Tony Vincent - American Idiot
Bobby Steggart - Ragtime
Robin de Jesus - La Cage
Christopher Fitz - Finan's Rainbow
Kevin Chamberlin - The Addams Family
(again this is a very close race)

BEST FEATURED ACTRESS MUSICAL:
Angela Lansbury - A Little Night Music
Barbara Cook - Sondheim on Sondheim
Katie Finneran - Promises, Promises
Rebecca Jones - American Idiot
Lilias White - Fela!

BEST BOOK:
Everyday Rapture
Memphis
American Idiot
The Addams Family

BEST SCORE:
Memphis
The Addams Family
Enron
Fences

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY:
Twyla Tharp - Come Fly Away
Steven Hoggett - American Idiot
Lynn Page - La Cage
Sergio Trujillo - Memphis










Updated On: 5/4/10 at 01:35 AM

[MrJNLong]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 1:42am

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If Trevor Nunn gets nominated for Best Director ahead of so many other brilliant directing outings this year (namely MMDodge), I am going to pee pickles. And that is not a good thing.

Also, just a heads up, it is my understanding that TShalhoub & VDavis are elligible in Leading not Featured for their respective categories.

[PReeves2]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 1:43am

Mr.Long, you may be correct, i'll check it out. i was still under the assumption they were featured by the counting from the votes on the websites
Updated On: 5/3/10 at 01:43 AM

[PReeves2]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 1:47am

if Shalhoub is out for featured then he doesn't have the votes for leading and Gergory Itzan will take his slot on the Featured Actor Category. if Viola is Leading for a Play then Carrie Fisher is out in the Leading Category which will mean Jessica Hecht is in for Featured Actress. hope that makes some sense.

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 1:53am

Yes, both Tony Shalhoub and Viola Davis were deemed leading performances.

And the score for American Idiot is ineligible.

I finally saw Night Music today. Trevor Nunn should not and will not be nominated. (And wow, Catherine is a hot mess on that stage!)

~Steven

[perfectliar]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 1:54am

American Idiot is ineligible for Best Score.

Nevermind, someone else got there first. And I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought CZJ was terrible! Updated On: 5/3/10 at 01:54 AM

[PReeves2]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 1:58am

yes, American Idiot is not able to be nominated for Best Score, I updated the list under that category. I'm working on the others as well to be sure everyone is placed in the correct category. please correct me in the listings

[willep]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 2:03am

Also, Liev Schreiber is not in Red...

[PReeves2]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 2:05am

thanks all, I've updated all categories due to your proof reading!

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 2:07am

perfectliar, I don't think she got one line in "The Glamorous Life" correct. She either mumbled them or didn't sing. She was stumbling on lines throughout the show. This is our supposed frontrunner? You can tell that somewhere within her is the understanding of the character, but this is certainly not the "Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical." I saw Sherie in Everyday Rapture last night, seeing the "frontrunners" back to back. There is absolutely no question in my mind about who deserves it more. Sherie is phenomenal. Even those who don't care for the show can't deny what an amazing performance she's giving.

~Steven

[PReeves2]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 2:20am

Kristen and Bebe are pretty close in snagging the last slot in terms of popularity for leading actress in a musical. CZJ is by far a front runner and Sherie is building a lot of momentum right now after opening. My personal picks are very different from the front runners in most categories.
Updated On: 5/3/10 at 02:20 AM

[MrJNLong]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 2:27am

So I saw ALNM the day after I saw Ragtime and 2 days before I saw Finian's back in December. I was of the opinion that ALNM was a FAR inferior show to the other two. Although I didn't terribly mind the three leads, I pretty much hated the characterizations of everyone else in the cast. All of them. I thought CZJ was fine. But I would hate to give a Leading Actress Tony to someone who was just fine. Angela was Angela, and although super-awesome and funny, I did not find her performance amazingly over-the-top phenominal. Don't remember much about Hanson anymore... Could tell the material was awesome! Both the music and the book. Blamed Nunn for the failure of it to keep my interest and how much I hated every other performer.
Dodge and Carlyle did much better jobs with their shows in my opinion. Much better. And I thought (and still think) that Norton, Fitzgerald, Noll and Steggert all deserve nominations this year. Hmmm, OK, well maybe not Norton given the tough competition in his category, but I thought he was great!

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 2:36am

I very much agree with you. Nunn is definitely to blame here. "Miller's Son" is an absolute atrocity (and Leigh Ann Larkin is terribly miscast), but it's all Trevor Nunn's fault I think. Alexander Hanson was definitely one of the better actors on that stage. And I think I liked Angela much more than you did. She is being Angela, as you said, but she's darn good at it. At least the show livened up each time she took the stage.

~Steven

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 2:39am

PReeves - Your list looks good, I imagine the final Tony nomination looking something like this.

[MrJNLong]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 2:40am

Don't get me wrong, Angela was definitely the highlight of the show.
Oh, and I think I remember not hating Aaron Lazar as much as the rest of the supporting cast at times. But they all seemed like they were in a different (much more cartooney) show than the 3 leads (and the composer and playwright for that matter) were.

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 2:44am

I know exactly what you mean. Except I saw Aaron Lazar's understudy, unfortunately. (But that also meant a friend of mine went on as Mr. Lindquist and he looked as if he actually understood Trevor Nunn's direction, which can't be said of every member of the cast.)

~Steven

[PReeves2]

Posted: 5/3/10 at 2:47am

I can only guess about the musicals this year as that is all I had time to see when I was last in NYC. I'll admit I wasn't able to see Everyday Rapture but, I have seen all of the other new musicals this year and most of the revivals. So I'm going to take a wild guess based on my personal preferences and reviews of others.

NEW MUSICAL:
Fela!
Come Fly Away
American Idiot
Memphis

REVIVAL MUSICAL:
Finian's Rainbow
La Cage
A Little Night Music
Ragtime

DIRECTOR MUSICAL:
Bill T. Jones - Fela!
Michael Mayer - American Idiot
Terry Johnson - La Cage
James Lapine - Sondheim on Sondheim

ACTOR MUSICAL:
Sahr Ngaujah - Fela!
Alexander Hanson - A Little Night Music
Douglas Hodge - La Cage
Robert Petkoff - Ragtime
Keith Roberts - Come Fly Away

ACTRESS MUSICAL:
Sherie Rene Scott - Everyday Rapture
Catherine Zeta Jones - A Little Night Music
Montego Glover - Memphis
Karine Plantadit - Come Fly Away
Katie Baldwin - Finian's Rainbow

FEATURED ACTOR MUSICAL:
Bobby Steggart - Ragtime
Charlie Neshyba Hodges - Come Fly Away
Christopher Fitz - Finian's Rainbow
Levi Kreis - Million Dollar Quartet
Tony Vincent - American Idiot

FEATURED ACTRESS MUSICAL:
Katie Finneran - Promises, Promises
Angela Lansbury - A Little Night Music
Barbara Cook - Sondheim on Sondheim
Lilias White - Fela!
Vanessa Williams - Sondheim on Sondheim




Updated On: 5/3/10 at 02:47 AM

[PReeves2]

Posted: 5/4/10 at 2:27am

Here is the final tally from what I counted up on various websites and blogs before this years Tony nominations are announced in a few hours....

BEST PLAY:
Next fall
Time Stands Still
Red
Enron

BEST MUSICAL:
American Idiot
Fela!
Memphis
Come Fly Away

BEST REVIVAL PLAY:
Lend Me a Tenor
A View from a Bridge
The Royal Family
Fences

BEST REVIVAL MUSICAL:
La Cage
A Little Night Music
Finian's Rainbow
Promises, Promises

BEST DIRECTOR PLAY:
Michael Grandge - Red
Gergory Mosher - A View from a Bridge
Rupert Gould - Enron
Daniel Sullivan - Time Stands Still
(this is a very close catagory for the last 2 slots and top 2 slots)

BEST DIRECTOR MUSICAL:
Michael Mayer - American Idiot
Terry Johnson - La Cage
Bill T. Jones - Fela!
Christopher Ashely - Memphis

BEST ACTOR PLAY:
Alfred Molina - Red
Liev Shreiber - A View from a Bridge
Christopher Walken - A Beheading in Spokane
Denzel Washington - Fences
Nobert Butz - Enron

BEST ACTRESS PLAY:
Viola Davis - Fences
Jan Maxwell - The Royal Family
Valerie Harper - Looped
Laura Liny - Time Stands Still
Linda Lavin - Collected Stories

BEST ACTOR MUSICAL:
Douglas Hodge - La Cage
Sahr Ngaujah - Fela!
Nathan Lane - The Addams Family
John Gallaghar Jr. - American Idiot
Kelsey Grammar - La Cage

BEST ACTRESS MUSICAL:
Sherrie Rene Scott - Everyday Rapture
Catherine Zeta Jones - A Little Night Music
Montego Glover - Memphis
Kate Baldwin - Finian's Rainbow
Bebe Neuwirth - The Addams Family

BEST FEATURED ACTOR PLAY:
Eddie Redmayne - Red
Brian d'Arcy James - Time Stands Still
Jon Michael Hill - Superior Donuts
Stephen Kunken - Enron
Stephen Henderson - Fences

BEST FEATURED ACTRESS PLAY:
Scarlett Johansen - A View from a Bridge
Jen Maxwell - Lend Me a Tenor
Rosemary Harris - The Royal Family
Jessica Hecht - A View from a Bridge
Alicia Silverstone - Time Stands Still
(very, very close category for the top 3 spots)

BEST FEATURED ACTOR MUSICAL:
Tony Vincent - American Idiot
Bobby Steggart - Ragtime
Kevin Chamberlin - The Addams Family
Robin de Jesus - La Cage
Christopher Fitz - Finan's Rainbow
(again this is a very close race in the top 2 slots, it's tied by my counts)

BEST FEATURED ACTRESS MUSICAL:
Angela Lansbury - A Little Night Music
Katie Finneran - Promises, Promises
Barbara Cook - Sondheim on Sondheim
Rebecca Jones - American Idiot
Lilias White - Fela!

BEST BOOK:
Everyday Rapture
Memphis
Fela!
The Addams Family

BEST SCORE:
Memphis
The Addams Family
Enron
Fences

BEST CHOREOGRAPHY:
Twyla Tharp - Come Fly Away
Sergio Trujillo - Memphis
Steven Hoggett - American Idiot
Bill T. Jones - Fela!