2007 tony predictions — Page 2

Best Revival Musical: LES MIS, COMPANY, A CHORUS LINE, 110 IN THE SHADE.

Norm Lewis will win Best Actor in a Musical.

Christine Ebersole will win Best Actress in a Musical.

Best Musical nominees: MARY POPPINS, GREY GARDENS, THE TIMES..., THE PIRATE QUEEN.

Julianne Moore will wow everyone in her Broadway debut and win Best Actress in a Play.

considering how Sweeney Todd lost, I can't see the Tony voters voting for Company. Especially since the competition will be better with ACL, Les Miz & 110 in the Shade.

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Ebersole's Tony may as well be engraved now.

Well I like my revivals to be fresh and re-invented.
But that's just me, i agree ACL was brilliant and I look forward to seeing it again but if it's the same as it was , to me that is not award worthy.
just my opinion.

If Billy Elliot does come, and is done right, it could do quite well at the Tonys. I just hope Hayden Gwynne makes the journey to Broadway...

Les Mis will certainly be nominated for Best Revival, but I doubt it will win.

I'd like to see Stephanie J. Block take something for Pirate Queen. Hell, I just want to see Pirate Queen. It's already got the best name ever. :3

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Best Actor in a Musical, Gavin Lee, Mary Poppins.

He's infectious! And I mean that in a good way.

Best Musical will be the as yet unknown, "These Boots Are Made For Walkin". It will use the Nancy Sinatra songbook and will be about her life as Frank's daughter, her rise to the top of the pop charts in the 1960's, her movie (one with Elvis which will allow for an Elvis song) and her later struggles.

Best Actress in a Musical: Britney Spears as Nancy.

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Updated On: 6/13/06 at 12:46 PM

sydney23 - because it's called PIRATE QUEEN! I don't know about everyone else, but I personally find a title like that very inspiring. Obviously if it turns out to suck later, opinions will be revised, but with Stephanie J. Block and that title, it's certainly off to a good start.

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Gustof I agree, but I say it's between Audra and Steph Block.

Company will win for Best Revival BECAUSE Sweeney Todd lost. The New York Times article last week (Friday?) quoted a handful of Tony voters who thought Sweeney's win was a foregone conclusion and then went ahead and voted for Pajama Game. I can't help but think some of those voters will swing their votes back at Company as a way of rewarding both productions. It will be interesting to see if John Doyle gets nominated again. By most accounts his Company is in some ways better directed than his Sweeney, yet having already won an award for the latter I'm curious as to whether voters will even consider him for "doing the same thing" again.

And don't forget "These Boots Are Made For Walkin"!

And there is always "Oprah!, The Musical!" waiting in the wings.

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Your statement is quite silly, Broadwaybaby6. The original stars were only together in the show for about 8 months or so (the show opened at the end of July 1975 and then half the cast left around April '76 to head up the LA company and the whole group never all performed together again) yet the show continued to thrill and dazzle audiences for another 14 years (and beyond that on tour). You make it sound like the show doesn't work without the original cast which is ludicrous given the incredibly short amount of time they were together and how many brilliant casts of the show there were after their 8 months (not counting the run at the Public).

I saw the original cast of ACL back in 1976 and returned to the Shubert Theatre over a half dozen times after that and found the show to be electrifying every single time -- and I saw several replacement casts that were even more powerful and dynamic than the originals were. THAT'S why it's one of the most successful shows in the history of theatre -- ANY cast of first rate dancer/singers can re-create the magic of the show. It is completetly unreliant on stars or the original cast. And frankly, other than maybe McKechnie and perhaps Kelly Bishop, I wouldn't call any of the original cast the definitive interpreters of their roles. While yes, they were present at the creation and part of it with their stories, and yes there was something special and different about them from any other cast, the fact is that in the past 30 years I've seen better performances in each of those roles. I've seen several far more talented Dianas, Richies, Pauls and Vals than Lopez, Dennis, Williams and Blair and had many magical nights with this show since the orignal cast left (I've seen the show about a dozen times between the Shubert, national tours and regional productions).

As long as Bennett's genius shines through -- and I'm so GLAD that they're recreating one of the most briilliant pieces of staging in the history of Broadway; there's too much energy and electricity in it for it to ever feel like a museum piece -- I think it'll do very well with the critics and I think that a new generation is going to discover this show and it should do fine at the box office. I don't expect another 15 year run, but it'll recoup.

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Updated On: 6/13/06 at 02:45 PM