My 2008 Tony predictions, right at this point in time (Musical)- Page 4

[blaxx]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 8:43pm

Oh, and it wasn't a demo. The recording I was referring to is a live recording of the complete show.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 8:45pm

LOL Just because someone has only heard a live recording of a show it doesn't suddenly mean that the music (which he was talking about) morphs in to something different

[jaystarr]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 8:54pm

jagfkb- Thanks for your response. I think youre getting Scenic Design confused with the music & book with Passing Strange & Spring Awakening. Ive seen both productions on the 1st week of previews and I can assure you the only similarities (to me) is the scenic designs..which is a platform stage with walls of lights (neon in both cases) and both originated from off-Broadway, that's why there is no cahnge of scenery much.

Passing Strange deals with the journey & self-discovery of an African America youth and how Art affects him, while Spring Awakening is a story of teenagers in 19th Century Germany and their sexual, emotional, religious awakenings...

Passing Strange music range from Gospel, Funk to Punk Rock while Spring Awakening is more of an alternative music/pop music to me...

The only similarity in my opinion is not using a typical showtunes in the style of Cole Porter, R&H and even Jerry Herman...in other words ..they dont use this music that we gotten used to...no big production numbers that changes the scenery.

and another thing.. both shows uses microphones...that's about it...

for me ITS A TOTAL DIFFERENT SHOW! Its like me saying..if I was born in the 50's that Sound of Music and West Side Story is the same type of musical..


Passing Strange & Spring Awakening are contemporary musicals that uses contempory music that's playing on the radio now.



J*



Updated On: 3/10/08 at 08:54 PM

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 9:11pm

Best Scenic Design - David Farely, Sunday in the Park With George
Best lighting design - Ken Billington, Sunday in the Park With George
Best Costume Design - Cathy Zuber, South Pacific
Best Choreography - Andy Blankenbuehler, In the Heights
Best Direction - Sam Buntrock, Sunday in the Park With George
Best Score - Stew and Heidi Rodewald, Passing Strange
Best Crchestrations - Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman, In the Heights
Best Book of a Musical - Douglas Carter Beane, Xanadu

Acting (Musical)
Best Actor - Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights
Best Actress - Patti LuPone, Gypsy
Best Featured Actor - Christopher Fitzgerald, Young Frankenstein (Boyd Gaines stands a chance for Gypsy, too)
Best Featured Actress - Most debatable, but I'll say Laura Benanti, Gypsy (Olga Merediz stands a chance too)

Acting (Play)
Best Featured Actress - Amy Morton, August: Osage County
Best Featured Actor - Unsure as of yet.
Best Actor - Unsure as of yet, but possibly Patrick Stewart, Macbeth
Best Actress - Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County

Best Play - August: Osage County
Best Revival of a Play - Macbeth
Best Revival of a Musical - Sunday in the Park with George
Best Musical - In the Heights

[Derrickg]

Posted: 3/10/08 at 9:21pm

Amy Morton is going to be considered leading, so she and Deanna Dunagan will be up against each other.

It's an interesting year... I can see it going several different ways...

http://obsessedwithbroadway.blogspot.com/

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 12:29am

Featured Actor in a Play has got to be Jim Norton.

[joe5]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 1:11pm

Best Musical : Passing Strange Best Score : Passing Strange

[jv92]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 3:32pm

Are you people kidding me? Passing Strange is BAD. At least In the Heights had sprighty choreography and some charm.

[buddharich]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 6:33pm

Subject to change:

Best Musical: In The Heights
Best Book: Douglas Carter Beane, Xanadu
Best Score: In The Heights
Best Lead Actor: Daniel Evans, Sunday In The Park With George
Best Lead Actress: Patti LuPone, Gypsy
Best Featured Actor: Robin DeJesus, In The Heights
Best Featured Actress: Olga Merediz, In The Heights
Best Director: Sunday In The Park With George
Best Scenic Design: Sunday In The Park With George
Best Lighting Design: Sunday In The Park With George
Best Costume Design: Sunday In The Park With George
Best Orchestrations: Sunday In The Park With George
Best Revival: Sunday In The Park With George

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 3/11/08 at 7:24pm

Hmm, it will be such a great show that night I can't wait! How many already have it on your calendar

[jrb]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 9:44am

Best Musical: Xanadu or Passing Strange
Best Book: Xanadu
Best Score: In the Heights
Best Orchestrations: In the Heights
Best Lead Actor: Daniel Evans (Sunday)
Best Lead Actress: Patty LuPone (Gypsy) or Kelli O'Hara (South Pacific)
Best Featured Actor: Robin DeJesus (ITH) or Danny Burstein (South Pacific)
Best Featured Actress: Olga Merediz (ITH)
Best Director: Sunday in the Park
Best Scenic Design: South Pacific
Best Lighting Design: Sunday in the Park
Best Costume Design: South Pacific
Best Orchestrations: In the Heights
Best Revival: South Pacific

[joe5]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:48am

jv92, Passing Strange is Amazing.

[kylestefanie]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 2:40pm

Best Actor - Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights

I think Roger Bart deserves best actor

[BlueRoses321]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 3:02pm

If Sunday doesn't win lighting, I will be very very surprised.
It'd be kind of funny in a sadistic sort of way.

That being said, I thought it was a gorgeous production, and I really tried my hardest to not see or hear Mandy & Bernadette. Damn you, DVD!!!

[jrb]

Posted: 3/12/08 at 3:44pm

Here's my question, folks - Sunday in the Park's sets are pretty bland, if you remove the projections. In fact, it amounts to a big, white, space. If it were that alone, I wouldn't imagine it garnering an award or even a nomination for sets.
So do the projections qualify as "lighting" or as "set design"?

My vote is for lighting - sets should go to South Pacific.

And as for Orchestrations, I just cannot give it to Sunday. They replaced the French Horn with a Saxophone and cut the orchestra back to a half-synth chamber group. Made me sad.
Updated On: 3/12/08 at 03:44 PM

[SFFrontRow]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 3:40pm

jrb --

I may be wrong, but, the revival of Into the Woods used projections to portray Mrs Giant once she came down from the beanstalk and started stepping on all the characters.

That won a Tony for Best Lighting Design. My guess is the projections of the brush strokes and the multiple Young George in Act II would be considered lighting and not set.

And how about Osage County for set design? The acting and writing overshadowed everything else - but that set is pretty impressive.

As for acting, what happened to Megan Mullaly and Andrea Martin fans? I saw YF in November and I thought Megan was GREAT - funny and a little loopy. Granted that high falootin accent was a bit much. And Andrea Martin stole the whole show.

I read all these posts for Best Musical being In the Heights or Passing Strange and I wonder what push/pull thinking will be for rewarding a more traditional musical like A Catered Affair. When I heard about this production and the talent associated with it, I expected BIG BIG things and RAVE RAVE reviews.

Seems like Broadway is going to be torn between rewarding cutting edge productions (Passing Strange), youth oriented/young blood audience productions (In the Heights) and more traditional (even i if it may not quite fit that stereotype) productions (A Catered Affair). Once you throw in the camp productions (Xanadu and Cry Baby), the too overhyped to meet expectations production (Young Frankenstein) along with the Disney/kid friendly production (Little Mermaid) and you have a very eclectic season of musicals that has something for everyone.

Not to mention the off-broadway stuff (Gone Missing, Title of Show, Adding Machine - and the earlier production of In the Heights).

What a great year this has been - and I didn't even talk about ALL the high quality plays (August:Osage County was incredible) and revivals (Sunday and the upcoming Gypsy and South Pacific)!!! No wonder I had a hard time whittling down the productions between 3 visits and about 27 slots to see shows (even with the strike on one of my visits).

[jv92]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 5:05pm

Some less sketchy predictions for the musical categories-
Best Musical- Catered Affair
Best Book- Harey Fierstein
Best Score- John Bucchino
Best Actor in a Musical- Tom Wopat or Daniel Evans
Best Actress in a Musical- LuPone
Best Featured Actor in a Musical- Boyd Gaines
Best Featured Actress in a Musical- Laura Benanti
Best Director of a Musical- Sam Buntrock
Best Choreography- In the Heights (Who did the dances for that? I don't feel like digging up credits.)
Best Sets- South Pacific
Best Costumes- South Pacific
Best Lighting- Sunday...
Best Orchestrations- A Catered Affair
Best Revival- Sunday...

And onto a few play categories- August: Osage County will win Play and Norbert Butz will win Actor.

[blaxx]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 5:18pm

How are those "less sketchy"?

[jv92]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 5:25pm

Ha ha, blaxx. Basically I was trying to say, "Here are my predictions in list format." Before I typed some random thoughts in a paragraph. You got me there. I knew I'd get caught on that one.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 5:31pm

I remember two years ago someone saying that they hoped LaChanze would win because this would be her only chance and that Patti would be up for the award again.
Well, LaChanze did win and Patti will be up for the award this year and will probably win.

Kelli O'hara will occupy a "filler" spot again.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 5:36pm

I think Sunday's projections count as set design, but I'm not sure.

Either way, those projections should win something. They were brilliant.

[jv92]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 5:40pm

I was couting them in lighting. If Sunday's projections count as sets, my set prediction goes to them.

[musicalmaster703]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 7:56pm

"Best Lead Actor: Daniel Evans, Sunday In The Park With George
Best Director: Sunday In The Park With George
Best Scenic Design: Sunday In The Park With George
Best Lighting Design: Sunday In The Park With George
Best Costume Design: Sunday In The Park With George
Best Orchestrations: Sunday In The Park With George
Best Revival: Sunday In The Park With George"

So what Broadway shows have you seen?

[roadmixer]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 10:34pm

broadwayman17 -

Thanks for being the only poster (correct me if I'm wrong) in this thread who actually remembered that there is a new Sound Design category this year for both plays and musicals. I hope that the voters know how to judge a sound design and it doesn't simply get thrown in with orchestrations or get handed to the most nominated show... Discuss...

[MiracleElixir]

Posted: 3/13/08 at 11:37pm

Whoa.

Are people really thinking "Xanadu" is going to be WINNING any sort of awards?