Now that I've seen everything this season, I'm going to take a stab at some predictions in key categories. What are yours?
MUSICAL American Idiot Come Fly Away Fela! Memphis
PLAY Enron Next Fall Red Time Stands Still
MUSICAL REVIVAL A Little Night Music Finnian’s Rainbow La Cage Aux Folles Promises, Promises
PLAY REVIVAL A View from the Bridge Fences Lend Me a Tenor The Royal Family
ACTRESS MUSICAL Sherrie Rene Scott – Everyday Rapture Catherine Zeta Jones – A Little Night Music Montego Glover – Memphis Barbara Cook – SOS Kate Baldwin – Finnian’s Rainbow
ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Douglas Hodge - La Cage Aux Folles Kelsey Grammar – La Cage Aux Folles Sahr Ngaujah - Fela! John Gallagher Jr. - American Idiot Sean Hayes – Promises, Promises
ACTRESS IN A PLAY Laura Linney - Time Stands Still Jan Maxwell - The Royal Family Valarie Harper - Looped Linda Lavin - Collected Stories Carrie Fisher – Wishful Drinking
ACTOR IN A PLAY Christopher Walken – A Behanding in Spokane Alfred Molina - Red Liev Schreiber – A View from the Bridge Denzel Washington – Fences Norbert Leo Butz – Enron
F. ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL Angela Lansbury, A Little Night Music Katie Finneran in Promises, Promises Rebecca Naomi Jones in American Idiot Vanessa Williams, SOS Carolee Carmello, The Addams Family
F. ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Christopher Fitzgerald, Finian’s Rainbow Robin De Jesús, La Cage Aux Folles Kevin Chamberlin, The Addams Family John Selya, Come Fly Away Tony Vincent, American Idiot
F. ACTRESS IN A PLAY Rosemary Harris, The Royal Family Jan Maxwell, Lend Me a Tenor Viola Davis, Fences Alicia Silverstone, Time Stands Still Scarlett Johanson, A View from the Bridge
F. ACTOR IN A PLAY Brian d’Arcy James, Time Stands Still Eddie Redmayne, Red Reg Rogers, The Royal Family Jon Michael Hill, Superior Donuts Gregory Itzin, Enron
DIRECTOR/MUSICAL Michael Mayer, AMERICAN IDIOT Terry Johnson, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Bill T. Jones, FELA! Trevor Nunn, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
DIRECTOR/PLAY Rupert Goold, ENRON Michael Grandage, RED Daniel Sullivan, TIME STANDS STILL Gregory Mosher, A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
CHOREOGRAPHY Sergio Trujillo, MEMPHIS Lynne Page, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES Steven Hoggett, AMERICAN IDIOT Twyla Tharp, COME FLY AWAY
BOOK OF A MUSICAL Sherie Rene Scott and Dick Scanlan, EVERYDAY RAPTURE Joe DiPietro, MEMPHIS Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer, AMERICAN IDIOT Jim Lewis, FELA!
SCORE Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, MEMPHIS Maury Yeston, THE ROYAL FAMILY Branford Marsalis, FENCES Andrew Lippa, THE ADDAMS FAMILY
MUSICAL American Idiot Addams Family or Everyday Rapture Fela! Memphis
PLAY Enron Next Fall Red Time Stands Still
MUSICAL REVIVAL A Little Night Music Finnian’s Rainbow La Cage Aux Folles Promises, Promises
PLAY REVIVAL A View from the Bridge Collected Stories Lend Me a Tenor The Royal Family
ACTRESS MUSICAL Sherrie Rene Scott – Everyday Rapture Catherine Zeta Jones – A Little Night Music Montego Glover – Memphis Bebe for Addams Family Kate Baldwin – Finnian’s Rainbow
ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Douglas Hodge - La Cage Aux Folles Kelsey Grammar – La Cage Aux Folles Sahr Ngaujah - Fela! John Gallagher Jr. - American Idiot Nathan Lane-Addams Family
ACTRESS IN A PLAY Laura Linney - Time Stands Still Jan Maxwell - The Royal Family Valarie Harper - Looped Linda Lavin - Collected Stories Carrie Fisher – Wishful Drinking
ACTOR IN A PLAY Christopher Walken – A Behanding in Spokane Alfred Molina - Red Liev Schreiber – A View from the Bridge Denzel Washington – Fences Norbert Leo Butz – Enron
F. ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL Angela Lansbury, A Little Night Music Katie Finneran in Promises, Promises Jackie Hoffman (sp) , Addams Family Vanessa Williams, SOS Kyrsta Rodreguiz (sp), The Addams Family
F. ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Christopher Fitzgerald, Finian’s Rainbow Robin De Jesús, La Cage Aux Folles Kevin Chamberlin, The Addams Family Tom Wopat, SOS Tony Vincent, American Idiot
F. ACTRESS IN A PLAY Rosemary Harris, The Royal Family Jan Maxwell, Lend Me a Tenor Viola Davis, Fences Alicia Silverstone, Time Stands Still Maria Dizzia, In The Next Room
F. ACTOR IN A PLAY Brian d’Arcy James, Time Stands Still Eddie Redmayne, Red Reg Rogers, The Royal Family Jon Michael Hill, Superior Donuts Gregory Itzin, Enron
I'm notoriously bad at predicting these things, but I want to give it a shot. Bear with me.
MUSICAL American Idiot Fela! Sondheim on Sondheim Everyday Rapture
PLAY Enron Next Fall Red Time Stands Still
MUSICAL REVIVAL A Little Night Music Finian’s Rainbow La Cage Aux Folles Promises, Promises
PLAY REVIVAL A View from the Bridge Fences Lend Me a Tenor The Royal Family
ACTRESS MUSICAL Sherie Rene Scott – Everyday Rapture Catherine Zeta Jones – A Little Night Music Montego Glover – Memphis Barbara Cook – Sondheim on Sondheim Kristen Chenoweth: Promises, Promises
ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Douglas Hodge - La Cage Aux Folles Kelsey Grammar – La Cage Aux Folles Sahr Ngaujah - Fela! Nathan Lane: The Addams Family John Gallagher Jr. - American Idiot Alternate: Sean Hayes – Promises, Promises (I wouldn't be surprised to see Hayes in and Gallagher out. I think the first four are locks, though.)
ACTRESS IN A PLAY Laura Linney - Time Stands Still Jan Maxwell - The Royal Family Valarie Harper - Looped Abigail Breslin - The Miracle Worker Laura Benanti - In the Next Room
ACTOR IN A PLAY Christopher Walken – A Behanding in Spokane Alfred Molina - Red Liev Schreiber – A View from the Bridge Denzel Washington – Fences Daniel Craig - A Steady Rain (or Victor Garber or Anthony LaPaglia or Norbert Leo Butz or even, dare I say, Jude Law?. Again, I see four locks and a totally open slot)
F. ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL Angela Lansbury, A Little Night Music Katie Finneran in Promises, Promises Rebecca Naomi Jones in American Idiot Lillias White - Fela Karine Plantadit -Come Fly Away
F. ACTOR IN A MUSICAL Robin De Jesús, La Cage Aux Folles Kevin Chamberlin, The Addams Family Charlie Neshyba-Hodges, Come Fly Away Tony Vincent, American Idiot Bobby Steggert - Ragtime
F. ACTRESS IN A PLAY Rosemary Harris, The Royal Family Jan Maxwell, Lend Me a Tenor Viola Davis, Fences Scarlett Johansson - A View from the Bridge Jessica Hecht - A View from the Bridge
F. ACTOR IN A PLAY Eddie Redmayne, Red Sam Rockwell - A Behanding in Spokane Jon Michael Hill, Superior Donuts Stephen Kunken, Enron Jay Klaitz - Lend Me a Tenor (shot in the dark)
EDIT to note this is not what I WANT to happen, but what I think might)
The F. Actress category was a hard one for me to widdle down. I don't think both hecht & johanssen will get a nomination, but I can see the nominators including Johanssen instead of Maria Dizzia and completely snubbing In the Next Room completely. Like I said, I had trouble with it - but I think Harris, Maxwell, and Davis are each solidly in their. And Silverstone about 80% sure. The other slot could go one of several ways.
That category for me really depends on how they rule Viola Davis. She is DEFINITELY nominated if she's featured, but I don't know that she gets a nomination if she's leading (which I could see them petitioning for).
Well, I'm not even going into the nominations, but am cutting straight to the chase with the without-doubt winners:
Best Play: A Steady Rain Best Musical: The Addams Family Best Revival of a Play: Oleanna Best Revival of a Musical: Bye, Bye Birdie Best Actor in a Play: Bill Pullman Best Actress in a Play: No award -- no actress this season was in the same league as the others. Best Actor in a Musical: Bill Irwin Best Actress in a Musical: Michael Feinstein
There's something really wrong with the Tony's if these aren't the winners of the 2009-2010 season!
I will be pretty shocked if Eddie Redmayne (Red) isn't considered a lead. I know he was featured at the Olivier Awards, but the logical behind that totally escapes me as he's onstage every minute that Molina is and talks nearly as much.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
- Sadly, I think so. He deserves recognition, but it's such a tight category. Now Aaron Lazar has a much better chance of a nomination in his category. If he is not nominated, I will be pissed. He is truly deserving in what is a pretty awful category this season.
That woman is an idiot. Was she smoking crack when she came up with these nominations?
Come Fly Away and Million Dollar Quartet for Best Musical?? Chad Kimball for Best Actor? DeJesus was almost universally panned in an otherwise praised production- he won't be nominated. No one remembers Jude Law's Hamlet anymore. Ragtime AND Finian's both being nominated?
Musical The Addams Family American Idiot Come Fly Away Sondheim on Sondheim
Musical Revival: A Little Night Music Finian's Rainbow La Cage Aux Folles Promises Promises
Actor/Musical John Gallagher Jr.-American Idiot Kelsey Grammer-La Cage Aux Folles Sean Hayes-Promises Promises Nathan Lane-The Addams Family Sahr Ngaujah-Fela!
Actress/Musical Kristin Chenoweth-Promises Promises Barbara Cook-Sondheim on Sondheim Bebe Neuwirth-The Addams Family Sherie Rene Scott-Everyday Rapture Catherine Zeta-Jones-A Little Night Music
Featured Actor/Musical Kevin Chamberlin-The Addams Family Christopher Fitzgerald-Finian's Rainbow Tony Goldwyn-Promises Promises Aaron Lazar-A Little Night Music John Selya-Come Fly Away
Featured Actress/Musical Angela Lansbury-A Little Night Music Rebecca Naomi Jones-American idiot Krysta Rodriguez-The Addams Family Lillas White-Fela! Vanessa Williams-Sondheim on Sondheim