From the Tony Awards section of tomorrow's times. Typed in the order of WILL WIN, SHOULD WIN, SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED
Brantley -
Play: August, Rock n Roll, Black Watch Musical: In the Heights, Passing Strange, Slug Bearers Play Revival: Macbeth, BoeingBoeing, Top Girls Musical Revival: South Pacific x 2, Hair in Central Park Actor in a Play: Patrick Stewart x 2, Kevin Kline Actress in a Play: Deanna Dunagan, Eve Best, Elizabeth Marvel Actor in a Musical: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daniel Evans, Cheyenne Jackson Actress in a Musical: Patti LuPone, Patti LuPone and Kelli O'Hara, Alice Ripley Featured Actor Play: Jim Norton x 2, Jay O. Sanders (Midsummer) Featured Actress Play: Rondi Reed, Sinead Cusack, Marisa Tomei Featured Actor Musical: Boyd Ganes x 2, Michael Berressee (Nanette) Featured Actress Musical: Laura Benanti x 2, Mare Winningham (10 Million Miles) Director of a Play: Anna D. Shapiro, Matthew Warchus, Trevor Nunn Director Musical: Bart Sher x 2, Bob McGrath (Slug Bearers) Book of a Musical: Stew x 2, Ben Katchor (Slug Bearers) Original Score: In the Heights, Passing Strange, Patty Griffin (10 Million)
Isherwood:
Best Play: August x 2 Musical: Passing Strange x 2 Play Revival: Boeing, Macbeth, Cyrano Musical Revival: South Pacific x 2 Actor Play: Mark Rylance, Patrick Stewart, Kevin Kline Actress Play: Deanna Dunagan, Dunagan or Amy Morton, Elizabeth Marvel Actor Musical: Paulo Szot, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Cheyenne Jackson Actress Musical: Patti LuPone, Kelli O'Hara F. Actor Play: Raul Esparza, Jim Norton, James Frain or Gareth Saxe F. Actress Play: Mary McCormakc, Rondi Reed, Mary Beth Hurt F. Actor Musical: Boyd Ganes, Daniel Breaker, Coleman Domingo F. Actress Musical: Laura Benanti x 2, Jackie Hoffman or Mary Testa Director Play: Anna D. Shapiro x 2, David Leveaux Director Musical: Bart Sher x 2, Annie Dorsen Book of a Musical: Stew x 2, Josh Schmidt and Jason Loewith (Adding Machine) Original Score: Lin-Manuel, Stew & Heidi, Schmidt and Loewith (Adding Machine)
Seems like Lead Actor in a Musical is the most up-in-the-air category. I'm not sure I understand Brantley's picks. Most of his "should have been nominated" were off-Broadway?
I don't understand the logic behind Off-Broadway included in "Should Have Been Nominated."
It seems pretty stupid to me.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Happy to see some PS love from both of them. It really doesn't matter who wins to me. I wish no bad feelings towards anyother show. joe Music is a freighttrain, inwhich God travels.
Updated On: 5/31/08 at 10:28 AM
Sanda-they both believe that South Pacific will and should win. Interestingly enough, though both think that Patti will win, neither think that Patti should win hands down. Isherwood would prefer it to go to Kelli O'Hara, and Brantley would like a tie between LuPone and O'Hara. Considering Brantley got a chocolate hat out of all this, it's interesting that he wouldn't be a little more biased.
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
I do agree that Sinead Cusack should win for Featured Actress.
Her performance still gives me chills just thinking about it.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Interesting that both picked Elizabeth Marvel for the Leading Actress category when she was eligible for featured. I agree with them, Marlene is a leading role. What I like is that there are certain categories that are up in the air like Best Musical, Best Score, Best Leading Actor in a Musical, and Featured Actor in a Play. I guess Brantley is making a point about Off-Broadway shows being deserving of Tony awards. I remember last year he mentioned that Donna Murphy should have been nominated for her turn in FOLLIES.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Glad to see Brantley and Isherwood agreed that Cheyenne and Elizabeth Marvel were snubs. It's a shame that both were robbed a nomination this year due to politics.
And now that I've seen PS twice, (which I really liked) Stew's "Acting" nomination still confuses the hell out of me.
You're probably right, Jewishboy, and that actually makes sense.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
I cannot agree more with Brantley in regards to Sinead Cusack. She gave one of the most beautiful performances of the year. I'll never get that "...what you love me with..." speech out of my mind.
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
They know a lot Curtainpull. Unlike the Tony voters, they actually see every show. And their conclusion is correct. PS is the best musical of the year.
They both predicted Eve Best would win Best Leading Actress in a Play and Raul Esparza would win Best Leading Actor in a Musical last year, and neither happened.
barcelona20, they're not predicting what the actual best musical of the year is. They are predicting who will WIN the Best Musical Award.
There's a difference.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
They picked what shows/actors "will" win (meaning how the Tony voters will vote), and then picked what shows/actors "should" win (meaning what they would pick).
I did read the article, sweetie pie. But you were replying initially to CPD, who was referring to their WILL WIN predictions.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Wow, Brantley didn't think AUGUST deserved anything. Huh.
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum