tazber said: "I would say direction of a musical and score are Hamilton's to lose, but it's not inconceivable that something else could snatch them.
Do you think Spring Awakening could take direction? What are your thoughts for Score? Just the little I heard, I'm thinking Hamilton could take score, as well, like ITH... but that's just my opinion. Especially since Lin-Manuel is the lead, giving him Score and/or Book would still be a good way to honor his overall work on the show.
I don't think any of the acting races are foregone conclusion.
I agree, especially because of all the potential candidates coming in:
Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a Musical: Alex Brightman-School of Rock: The Musical Danny Burstein-Fiddler on the Roof Andrew Keenan-Bolger-Tuck Everlasting Telly Leung-Allegiance Zachary Levi-She Loves Me Austin McKenzie-Spring Awakening Lin-Manuel Miranda-Hamilton Josh Segarra-On Your Feet! Benjamin Walker-American Psycho
Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Musical: Laura Benanti-She Loves Me Cynthia Erivo-The Color Purple Eloise Kropp-Dames at Sea Sarah Charles Lewis-Tuck Everlasting Audra McDonald-Shuffle Along, Or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed Jessie Mueller-Waitress Phillipa Soo-Hamilton Ana Villafane-On Your Feet!
Already have my Hamilton tickets for Tony Tuesday. I would love to see Lin take book and score and Odom Jr. take whichever category he's nominated in (which I think should be lead). I'm so excited already!
I was really hoping to go to the Tonys this year. Seemed like something I want to do once in my life and I thought this would be the perfect year to try since Hamilton is my favorite show. I'm bummed that it's probably not going to be at Radio City as it sounds like there's a chance if it's at the Beacon there may not be tickets publicly available. I guess I'll keep my fingers crossed and wait and see when they announce the venue.
ugh I hope LMM doesn't get nominated in the acting categories. give it to another more deserving person. he may be a great composer and lyricist but a great actor/ singer he is not.
The thing is, besides being an utter toad of a human being, Riedel usually has the least knowledge of the topic in the room. He doesn't usually understand the content or approach of a show, and is always completely and unfailingly socially ignorant, which makes it really infuriating when Susan can't get a word in edgewise. A definitive mansplainer; it's always painful when he has female guests. I watch the show sporadically when I really want to see a guest, because it's the only theatre talkshow we have, but it would be so much better without this hateful clown in a dadcoat. (thanks ScaryWarhol)
jacobsnchz14 said: "I'm really hoping they do something special; I love it when shows celebrate milestones. 70's a big one! lol.
Also... I'm wondering if Hamilton will top any of the records set by The Producer, whether we're talking nominations and/or wins.
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Well, most likely expect Spring Awakening to get Best Direction. Also, there could be another Ruthie Ann Miles vs. 3 FH Girls, Like the 2 sisters (Phillipia [spelling] will be Leading Actress) vs. Krysta in Spring Awakening, LMM/Odom vs Danny in Fiddler and so forth.
I'm interested to see if they'll dual nominate the deaf and singing actors in Spring Awakening. I think Sandra Mae and Katie are absolutely knock out in that show and would love to see them nominated together.
Can someone refresh my memory as to how the Tony Awards treat new musicals vs. revivals? It would be separate "Best" categories for the overall award (e.g. Best Musical vs. Best Musical Revival) but all of the other categories are merged, is that correct? If so, that will certainly make it more exciting, since Spring Awakening is really getting great reviews.
There are so many great performances in "Hamilton," I'll be very interested to see how the nominations shake out. I too feel that Leslie Odom Jr. deserves a "Best Actor" nomination, not Best Supporting, and I suspect that's what he'll get. Not sure how these decisions are made; is there actually a formula used or is it all up to the committee's discretion?
There have been times before where an actor/actress was placed in the leading category despite the fact that they weren't even the star of their own show.
Clive Revill-Oliver! Jack Gilford-Cabaret George Rose-My Fair Lady Terrence Mann-Les Miserables Hank Azaria-Spamalot Norbert Leo Butz-Catch Me If You Can Bertie Carvel-Matilda
Lotte Lenya-Cabaret Susan Browning-Company Elaine Stritch-Compamy Leland Palmer-Pippin Donna McKechnie-A Chorus Line Dorothy Loudon-Annie
LizzieCurry said: "You mean Phillipa Soo?! Google's hard...
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Sorry, was on my iPad.
GreasedLightning said: "Krysta will not be considered a leading actress. Have you ever seen Spring Awakening? Her character is on stage for 17 minutes, maybe.
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I meant in the Featured categories. And no, I haven't seen it.
jacobsnchz14 said: "Also... I'm wondering if Hamilton will top any of the records set by The Producer, whether we're talking nominations and/or wins."
We counted one time, and they have about 18 people eligible (including multiple noms for LMM and all featured actors/no ensemble) so in theory, yes they could pull it off. However, with some of the other shows coming in I highly doubt they would get that many as it would fill the featured actor category.
On how it is determined, from what I understand, if a person is listed above the title, they are automatically considered as "leading" and all those below are "featured". However, producers can petition to have someone moved to the other category (so LMM, and/or Leslie Odom, Jr. and Phillipa Soo can be petitioned into their respective leading categories).