John Cullum gets nominated for Featured Actor for Scottsboro Boys. I'm also predicting noms for Scottsboro for Musical, Score, Director, Choreographer, and Orchestrations, so 6 in total.
I think Catch Me is getting snubbed for Musical/Book/Score, with WOTV taking its score slot, although I think Butz and Butler are both getting noms, and possibly Wopat as well.
I think Arcadia is getting shut out. as will That Championship Season, Wonderland, and possibly Ghetto Klown among currently running shows.
"What was the name of that cheese that I like?"
"you can't run away forever...but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start"
"well I hope and I pray, that maybe someday, you'll walk in the room with my heart"
Two nominations for Good People in Best Supporting Actress in a Play. Some combination of Becky Ann Baker, Estelle Parsons, and Reneé Elise Goldsberry. Really pulling for Goldsberry.
I think snubs for Catch Men and Priscilla are possible. I also think Ranellis might be the sole Best Actor nominee from Mormon (have this feeling Gad might be snubbed). Women on the Verge has picked up such momentum in the past few days I think Sherie will take the 4th Best Actress slot and Lupone and Benanti will be in featured.
Current Avatar:The sensational Aaron Tveit in the soon to be hit production of Catch Me If You Can.
I love Sherrie Rene Scott, but how can Tony voters vote for her when her show closed suddenly and not enough voters had a chance to see her? I thought voters needed to see all the shows in a category to cast a vote.
Paul Reubens is nominated for Best Actor in a Play. Patrick Breen, John Benjamin Hickey, Lee Pace and Jim Parsons are all nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Play. Catch Me If You Can is shut out.
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
Geraldine Hughes gets nominated for Best Featured Actress for Jerusalem.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Karen Mason for Best Supporting Actress in a musical.
When the critics weren't gulping down bucketfuls of Wonderland's blood, they would take a breath for a quick word of praise for her. She is amazing, after all!
Wonderland is nominated for Best Musical. It's cute, it's family friendly, it's already had a rich life in regional theater, and the actors are singing the crap out of the score.
The Normal Heart takes 3 of the Featured Actor slots (for Pace, Hickey, and Parsons).
The Tonys people give the puppets of War Horse a Special Tony rather than trying to figure out what category they go in (since the "Best Props" category doesn't exist).
"What was the name of that cheese that I like?"
"you can't run away forever...but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start"
"well I hope and I pray, that maybe someday, you'll walk in the room with my heart"