For the first time in recent memory, I am so impressed by the "accuracy" of the Tony nominations that I would be happy if, well, any show in certain categories won. What follows are not my predictions - I'm not doing any predicting this year - just what I would vote for if I were a voter.
I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts.
Best Play: August: Osage County
Best Musical: Passing Strange
Best Book of a Musical Xanadu, Douglas Carter Beane
Best Original Score Passing Strange, Music: Stew and Heidi Rodewald Lyrics: Stew
Best Revival of a Play Boeing-Boeing
Best Revival of a Musical Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific
Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a Play Mark Rylance, Boeing-Boeing
Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Play Amy Morton, August: Osage County
Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a Musical Tom Wopat, A Catered Affair
Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Musical Patti LuPone, Gypsy
Best Performance By a Featured Actor in a Play Bobby Cannavale, Mauritius
Best Performance By a Featured Actress in a Play Mary McCormack, Boeing-Boeing
Best Performance By a Featured Actor in a Musical Boyd Gaines, Gypsy
Best Performance By a Featured Actress in a Musical Laura Benanti, Gypsy
Best Direction of a Play Matthew Warchus, Boeing-Boeing
Best Direction of a Musical Bartlett Sher, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Best Choreography Andy Blankenbuehler, In The Heights
Best Orchestrations Alex Lacamoire & Bill Sherman, In the Heights
Best Scenic Design of a Play Todd Rosenthal, August: Osage County
Best Scenic Design of a Musical Michael Yeargan, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Best Costume Design of a Play Gregory Gale, Cyrano de Bergerac
Best Costume Design of a Musical Martin Pakledinaz, Gypsy
Best Lighting Design of a Play Donald Holder, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Best Lighting Design of a Musical Ken Billington, Sunday in the Park with George
Best Sound Design of a Play Simon Baker, Boeing-Boeing
Best Sound Design of a Musical Scott Lehrer, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
1. Passing Strange 2. Xanadu 3. In The Heights 4. Cry-Baby
but of course..I think IN THE HEIGHTS will win the BEST MUSICAL! but not necessarily mean that IF I am a Tony Voter.. I will vote for it... I am just responding to Yankeefan's thread...I am pretending that I am a Tony Voter!
Like Yankeefan, these would be my personal choices based on what I saw this season, not predictions-
Best Play: August: Osage County
Best Musical: In The Heights
Best Book of a Musical Douglas Carter Beane, Xanadu
Best Original Score In The Heights, Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Best Revival of a Play Boeing-Boeing
Best Revival of a Musical Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a Play Patrick Stewart, Macbeth
Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Play Amy Morton, August: Osage County
Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a Musical Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park With George
Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Musical Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park With George
Best Performance By a Featured Actor in a Play Jim Norton, The Seafarer
Best Performance By a Featured Actress in a Play Rondi Reed, August: Osage County
Best Performance By a Featured Actor in a Musical Danny Burstein, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Best Performance By a Featured Actress in a Musical Laura Benanti, Gypsy
Best Direction of a Play Anna D. Shapiro, August: Osage County
Best Direction of a Musical Bartlett Sher, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Best Choreography Andy Blankenbuehler, In The Heights
Best Orchestrations Jonathan Tunick, A Catered Affair
Best Scenic Design of a Play Todd Rosenthal, August: Osage County
Best Scenic Design of a Musical David Farley and Timothy Bird & The Knifedge Creative Network, Sunday in the Park With George
Best Costume Design of a Play Gregory Gale, Cyrano de Bergerac
Best Costume Design of a Musical Martin Pakledinaz, Gypsy
Best Lighting Design of a Play Donald Holder, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Best Lighting Design of a Musical Ken Billington, Sunday in the Park with George
Best Sound Design of a Play Simon Baker, Boeing-Boeing
Best Sound Design of a Musical Scott Lehrer, Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
I'm not ready to weigh in my hypothetical votes yet because I still have some catching up to do, but Yank, what happened to all your proclamations of "hand Raúl that Tony now! Esparza's got it in the bag! He totally deserves it!" and how worthy this performance was? The ones you were making even after Mauritius? And, you know, the smug "I told you so" PM you sent me when he got nominated?
For whatever record there may be, this isn't a defend-my-man kind of thing. It's about the know-it-all doublespeak that I'm not quite understanding.
Emcee - How'd I know this was gonna come up? I still think Esparza is the strongest of the lot, but there was something that Cannavale brought to an absolutely 1-dimensional script that, in thinking about it and having recently read it, was very special. Updated On: 5/29/08 at 09:55 PM
No, really. Should it come as a surprise that it's being brought up after ALL the going on you did about how you thought he definitely deserved it this year? I can't have been the only one wondering about the rather sudden switch after so adamantly standing that ground. Did you think nobody was going to notice? Like I said, contrary to what I'm well aware is probably popular belief, my bringing it up has less to do with the person than it does with the curiously abrupt switch, since a lot of your other "votes" are pretty consistent with what you've said in your reviews all along. I remember you posting that you got the script recently, and figured it probably had something to do with that, which is totally fair enough.
Best Book of a Musical Douglas Carter Beane, Xanadu
Best Original Score In The Heights, Music & Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda
Best Revival of a Play Boeing-Boeing
Best Revival of a Musical Sunday in the Park With George
Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a Play Mark Rylance, Boeing-Boeing
Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Play Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County
Best Performance By a Leading Actor in a Musical Daniel Evans, Sunday in the Park With George
Best Performance By a Leading Actress in a Musical Jenna Russell, Sunday in the Park With George
Best Performance By a Featured Actor in a Play Raul Esparza, The Homecoming
Best Performance By a Featured Actress in a Play Amy Morton, August: Osage County
Best Performance By a Featured Actor in a Musical Boyd Gaines, Gypsy
Best Performance By a Featured Actress in a Musical Laura Benanti, Gypsy
Best Direction of a Play Anna D. Shapiro, August: Osage County
Best Direction of a Musical Sam Buntrock, Sunday in the Park With George
Best Choreography Andy Blankenbuehler, In The Heights
Best Orchestrations Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman, In the Heights
Best Scenic Design of a Play Todd Rosenthal, August: Osage County
Best Scenic Design of a Musical David Farley and Timothy Bird & The Knifedge Creative Network, Sunday in the Park With George
Best Costume Design of a Play Katrina Lindsay, Dangerous Liaisons
Best Costume Design of a Musical David Farley, Sunday in the Park With George
Best Lighting Design of a Play Donald Holder, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Best Lighting Design of a Musical Howell Binkley, In the Heights
Best Sound Design of a Play Simon Baker, Boeing-Boeing
Best Sound Design of a Musical Sabastian Frost, Sunday in the Park With George
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