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Various Thoughts (sorry, it's long!):

BEST MUSICAL: Nominators have a better track record than voters at remembering closed shows, but could two closed shows get in? Going strictly by the best reviewed shows, you'd have to admit the 5 nominees should be Illinoise, Here Lies Love, Wine & Roses, Suffs, and Hells Kitchen. But will both HLL & DoW&R get in? Seems lofty.  I would love to see The Outsiders here as it was my personal favorite of the season.  Perso

Oh gosh Headley was very very good. So was Goldsberry. Yikes. Thats close.  And I bet the voting would have been close.  If it were me, I would probably have voted for Headley, but since she already had a Tony, I bet that would have tipped the scales a bit towards REG and she would still have won. Who knows though, since these things can be so much about narrative...

As for choreography, I was very glad they gave it to Hamilton.  It was the one I was hoping they would ge

BEST: Merrily We Roll Along. I've always loved this show and felt that it worked in many previous iterations as well. But in this production, it worked the best.  Glad to see others finally feeling the Merrily love :-)

WORST: The Shark is Broken. I can't fully explain it, but sitting through this play made me angry. Maybe I was having a bad day, but I found this so dull and pointless and inept all at the same tim

So....

Can I request some pretty major spoilers?

I was at the show tonight, but they canceled the performance about half-way through because when the actor playing Paco slammed the door on his way inside the house (during his war flashback), the doorframe got lodged out of place and they decided to cancel the show because of it.

And I was really loving it.  And leaving town tomorrow, so can't see it next week. And I'm assuming the script isn't published y

The biggest reason there were so many ties last year resulting in more nominees was because so many people from the nominating committee had to recuse themselves because they missed  a key performance or show (because of canceled shows and understudies...usually due to COVID), therefore there were less people voting on nominees (and more of a statistical chance for a tie).

I don't think we will see so many ties this year.  We will be operating with a full nominating commi

Additionally, because so many members of the nominating committee had to recuse themselves this year (because of not seeing everything because of COVID cancellations and other factors), the pool of nominators was significantly smaller…thus raising the chances that two shows would receive the same number of votes, especially when you’re getting down to 4th and 5th place. I assume this was a big factor that led to so many categories having “extra” nominations this year

jkcohen626 said: "MrJNLong said: "Also excited to see Gabby Beans in lead although I think she would have been a lock in featured...this might be a little more difficult to break into..."

Lock for a nomination or for a win? I think she'd be very likely to be nominated in either, but IDK about her chances of winning.

I meant lock for a nomination. But I think that she would have been a very likely win in Featured.  Now she is in Lead