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I’m pretty sure it was two separate categories, much like the Drama Desk continues to do (often with different nominees and winners in each). It’s great in a year like 1983 where ALW won for Cats and Howard Ashman won for lyrics. But there was only a single Tony nomination in 1971 for a new musical that wasn’t one of those three shows (an acting award for Two by Two), so if you look at the eligibility list, those nominations are not surprising. But maybe that result mad

Glenda Jackson DID do King Lear at the Old Vic directed by Deborah Warner in 2016, but the Broadway production was completely unrelated (and directed by Sam Gold). I actually saw both and really hated it at the Old Vic and (in the minority, I know) loved the Broadway revival. Specifically, I thought that Jackson was terrifically more moving and persuasive in the Gold production and that, weird as it was, it got out of her way and allowed her to command the stage in a way sh

Oh, and Don Cheadle's role was previously nominated as Featured in Proof. He's clearly going to be above the title, but, as far as I remember the play, I think Lead is a big stretch (and he has much better chance of getting in for featured). Based on past nominations, I think Joe Turner's Come and Gone may shake out as all Featured roles too. 

I think Will Harrison's path is narrow but possible: Mark Strong and John Lithgow are both doing extraor

I do think there's a 3-way situation of votes canceling each other out, but I believe that only benefits MHE. If the tone of MHE isn't winning for a voter, they're choosing between THREE corpse comedies in Dead Outlaw, Mincemeat, and DBH, all of which will have their own fans. Much as I loved Dead Outlaw and look forward to Mincemeat, MHE's critical consensus of "best new musical in years" is going to be hard to beat unless all the anti-MHE voters coalesce around one

I’d say the Best Play noms at this moment are English, Hills of California, Oh Mary!, Purpose and then either Stranger Things or Cult of Love (just based on what I’ve heard from out of town). I adore English but I think Oh Mary! could pull out a win if the voters who don’t want to support it fail to rally around one more serious alternatives. 

Guess Best Actor will be (holy moly) Denzel Washington, Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniel Dae Kim, Robert Downey Jr., and George Cl

DramaTeach said: "
1) After watching an hour and forty minutes, I have no idea what I was supposed to take away from the experience. It's marketing itself as a subversive look at straight white men and identity, but it's not that. There are a few moments when the guys seem like frat boys, but overall, they are well-meaning and fun. So am I supposed to dislike them because they're privileged white boys? Am I supposed to think their relics of a species that's falle

I was there tonight (yes, I just joined BWW; no, I’m not in any way connected to the production). I found Straight White Men engaging and fairly moving, though uneven. The pre-show and first five minutes are wickedly subversive, but the play then settles into a gentle exploration of a family that feels pointed only in its lack of subversion. Framed as it as a play about straight white men (the set is literally a picture frame engraved with those three words), Young Jean Lee’s work