ASSASINS OR WICKED? Who will take the Tony?- Page 2

Posted: 4/24/04 at 10:37pm

TPDC,
The only thing is that I think Tonya Pinkins will get the best actress nod and Wonderful Town will be empty handed. And also.. Wonderful Town is also going out on a national tour. Oh well.. all of a sudden the tony race this year will exciting. Cool. :)

[Plum]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 10:46pm

Well, Passion beat Beauty and the Beast, didn't it?

*hopes fervently for a repeat*

[nystateomind04]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 10:52pm

i dont know about this one, it is very difficult to call- are the tonys usually like this, or is this just a tight year or something?

but what is this about joey fatone in little shop?

[Corine2]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 11:14pm

Why Assassins or Wicked? I have yet to see Assassins so i can't
judge but if there is any justice Avenue Q will take Best Musical.
Now i have not seen Assassins and the cast is great but i adore Avenue Q. I also love Caroline Or Change.
I loved the women in Wicked and the sets but was not thrilled with the score.

Posted: 4/24/04 at 11:15pm

I also love Q. And in a ideal world it would win. But I just don't see it happening.

[Corine2]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 11:18pm

Why because it is the most creative, funny, charming and exciting musical to come to Broadway.
Avenue Q is the smartest musical i have seen in a long time.
(Smartest since Hairspray! And so much fun) Updated On: 4/24/04 at 11:18 PM

[tpdc]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 11:30pm

I think many of the Tony races will be interesting this year. Best actress could go to Pinkins, Murphy, Chenoweth or Menzel and you could make the case easily for any of them. I think if WICKED and WONDERFUL TOWN invite Tony voters back to their shows, the race will be even tighter. It pushed Harvey over the top last year.

[StateOfJade]

Posted: 4/24/04 at 11:58pm

I sincereley hope it will be Asassins.

[johny0828]

Posted: 4/25/04 at 12:21am

wow 2 totally different shows. i would say assassins, if it was considered best "new" musical, if it's a revivial it's a no brainer. if it's wicked and ave q, without a doubt, ave q.

[DAME]

Posted: 4/25/04 at 1:10am

Hey State,
Is that Mel from Queer as folk on your icon?

[leomaxfrank]

Posted: 4/25/04 at 3:41am

smartest since hairspray? what??????

[henry]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 5:41pm

I don't know if anyone here has seen "Caroline, or Change" yet, but I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that it is a likely Best Musical winner. Especially with the Tony Kushner pedigree.

Frankly, "Wicked" is a well-produced but mediocre musical IMO, with an awful score. "Avenue Q" is more worthy.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 5:51pm

Given Tony Award history, Assassins will probably fall under Revival and win with Wicked winning Musical and Avenue Q winning Book and Score. Either that, or it will be a Wicked watershed. The 93-94 season was an anomoly that Passion won (and rightly so) mainly because there was a rather large anti-Disney furor. A Grand Night for Singing and Cyrano didn't stand a chance aginst Sondheim and Disney.

[Plum]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 8:50pm

The weird revival rule is only a couple of years old, and hasn't been tested a whole lot yet. I guess you could say that this is almost like another Urinetown/Millie situation, except we'll have to go through it twice over. Wicked vs. Assassins right now, and Wicked vs. Avenue Q once the nominations are made. (If Assassins is ruled a revival.) We'll see...

[Zola Q. LaPlaya]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 8:53pm

Avenue Q should win but something else will win -- just like Ragtime should have won and didn't.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 9:36pm

Who really cares? The Tony Awards are rigged.

[HunterFosterIsMyGod]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 9:50pm

no, Wicked would win.

but assassins should be a revival.

[alwy15]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 10:03pm

in a perfect world, assassins will get best revival and ave q will get best musical. id love to see assassins compete for best musical... and even though i would vote for it... id feel uncomfortable doing so since its not a new work.

[lvpblues]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 10:26pm

What a precarious situation this revival rule puts shows in. I could understand why the Tony people would want to prevent "La Boheme" from winning Best Musical since its been around longer than any of us, but "Assassins" and "Little Shop" are being robbed of Tony honors (in terms of nominations) for their marvelous scores. Oh what a tangled web...

(I think "Wicked" might be a lock for top honor. Whichever category "Assassins" gets into, it will win, me thinks. And that is almost guaranteed to be in the revival category)

I guess we can only wait and see...

~Kevin Updated On: 4/26/04 at 10:26 PM

[nystateomind04]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 11:19pm

avenue q got much better reviews, didnt it? how much does that usually factor into it? Updated On: 4/26/04 at 11:19 PM

[DAME]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 11:32pm

DOLLYPOP! Corine missed you so. She kept insisting I was you. Can you set the hussy straight?

Posted: 4/26/04 at 11:42pm

I think the reason Passions won over BATB is the Disney blacklash that was thrown all over Broadway when it first opened

[lvpblues]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 11:50pm

Avenue Q got some of the best reviews of the season. However, remember the fate of "Urinetown" at the Tonys? Best Book, Score and Director, while the biggie went to "Thoroughly Modern Millie. Similar with "Into the Woods" and "Phantom". I would love for the precedents to be broken.

~K

[DAME]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 11:55pm

I think the most important thing for Avenue Q is not wether it wins or looses... but how their number comes thru in the Tony telecast. Seriously; if they do a great number.. it will help them inmensley towards becoming a boxoffice blockbuster.

[nystateomind04]

Posted: 4/26/04 at 11:58pm

i just heard "the internet is for porn" on bwwradio, hehe. love it.