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Bill Camp, Ciaran Hands and/or Jim Norton - will they cancel each other out or will one of the Crucible actors make it in to the crowded Featured Actor in a Play category? Will King Charles III only get one acting nomination (Tim Pigott-Smith) or can Richard Goulding make it in? Who will get the fifth Featured Actress in a Musical nomination? Looking forward to finding out the answers! (:

Was Eclipsed eligible last year and not this year? Was Saycon Sengbloh eligible because she was new to the production that opened on broadway? I noticed that Danai Gurira got a special award...

these nominations are all over the place!

Surprised by the poor showing for The Crucible. Hoping it gets tons of Tony love next Tuesday...

My gut feeling is that the Tony committee is going to disagree a great deal with the Drama Desk comittee!

 

It's buffering like mad on my computer ): But from the little I got the nominations are totally bizarre, at least in the Featured Actor categories...

Why would they place Shuffle Along... in the revival category? It is so clearly a brand new show in the way that Crazy For You was a reworking of Girl Crazy and My One and Only was a reworking mostly of Funny Face. Shuffle Along... belongs in the new musical category. It will be really surprising to me if the committee chooses otherwise....

 

The reviews for Tuck Everlasting were much stronger than I thought they would be. From everything I had read about past productions and previews I expected mixed to negative reviews, yet I found them to be mostly mixed to positive; how does this affect its Tony nominations chances? I felt it would def. get a Scenic Design nomination and perhaps a Lighting Design nomination - is it going to do better than expected next Tuesday? If it does, at the expense of what other musical?

I am wondering if there will be a livestream of this morning's Outer Critics Circle nominations?

When I saw there were no acting nominations for Eclipsed I thought it must be because it was given an ensemble award; it's inexplicable to me how none of the amazing actresses were nominated.

For me the biggest mistake came in the Best Orchestrations category - I think it's because the nominators don't understand what orchestrators do and what constitutes  award worthiness in the category - Bruce Coughlin's magnificent, exceptional, phenomenal and brilliant orchestrations for the revival of On the Town. He really should have won the Tony for his work.

The forementioned Scott Pask for The Visit is another one.

MUSICALS

Best Musical: Fun Home

Best Revival: On the Town

Best Score: Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron, Fun Home

Best Book: Lisa Kron, Fun Home

Best Actor: Tony Yazbeck, On the Town

Best Actress: Chita Rivera, The Visit

Best Featured Actor: Andy Karl, On the Twentieth Century

Best Featured Actress: Sydney Lucas, Fun Home

Best Director: John Rando, On the Town

Refresh my memory: I think the livestreaming can be found right on the Tony Awards site? Anyone have an exact link?

In regards to Something Rotten! these were only my predictions and not my dream ballot. I have my dream ballot posted on gold derby and Christian Borle is my only citation from this show. It's not my type of show, to put it mildly.

I saw the production of Finding Neverland that played at A.R.T., so there may have been changes for broadway; I liked the show but felt while it had great moments they were too few and far between. My thinking is that there are simply better shows they can nominate and will do so. But who knows? The composition of the committee is all important, and without knowledge of who's on it, and what there biases might be, anything can happen.

I usually do really well predicting the Tonys; let's see how I do this year:

Best Musical:

An American In Paris, Fun Home, Something Rotten!, The Visit

Best Play:

The Audience, Constellations, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Hand To God, and Wolf Hall

Best Revival of a Musical:

The King and I, On the Twentieth Century, On the Town

Best Revival of a Play:

I saw an earlier production of The Visit and I will never forget Chita Rivera's Cliare, truly one of the most powerful performances I have ever seen. From these reviews and other posts on here, it sounds like the thing that makes this production less powerful and riveting is Roger Rees' performance, esp. his singing voice. I don't get a sense that John Doyle changed the actual show much at all?