2025 Tony Awards -- Who SHOULD Win, and why? (Your picks and my picks)

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 6/5/25 at 11:43pm

Remember the poll I posted a while back about which 2025 nominees should win the Tonys? (Preferences not predicions.)

My new post lists the results of the poll, plus my personal preferences, and my reasoning. 

 

2025 Tony Awards: Who SHOULD Win, and Why

 

[broadway86]

Posted: 6/6/25 at 10:06am

What a strong season! These are my choices in each category.

 

Best Musical  Maybe Happy Ending 

Best Play  English

Best Revival of a Play  Yellow Face

Best Revival of a Musical  Sunset Boulevard

Best Direction of a Musical  Michael Arden, Maybe Happy Ending

Best Direction of a Play  Danya Taymor, John Proctor is the Villain

Best Leading Actress in a Play  Laura Donnelly, The Hills of California

Best Leading Actor in a Play  Cole Escola, Oh, Mary!

Best Leading Actress in a Musical  Jasmine Amy Rogers, BOOP! The Musical

Best Leading Actor in a Musical  Jeremy Jordan, Floyd Collins

Best Featured Actress in a Play  Jessica Hecht, Eureka Day

Best Featured Actor in a Play  Francis Jue, Yellow Face

Best Featured Actress in a Musical  Justina Machado, Real Women Have Curves

Best Featured Actor in a Musical  Jak Malone, Operation Mincemeat

Best Original Score  David Yazbeck and Eric Della Penna, Dead Outlaw

Best Book of a Musical  David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson & Zoë Roberts, Operation Mincemeat

Best Scenic Design of a Play  Todd Rosenthal, Purpose

Best Scenic Design of a Musical  Dane Laffrey and George Reeve, Maybe Happy Ending

Best Lighting Design of a Play  Jon Clark, Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Best Costume Design of a Play  Marg Horwell, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Best Choreography  Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck, Buena Vista Social Club

Best Orchestrations  Marco Paguia, Buena Vista Social Club

Best Sound Design of a Play  Paul Arditti, Stranger Things: The First Shadow

Best Costume Design of a Musical  Paul Tazewell, Death Becomes Her

Best Lighting Design of a Musical  Ben Stanton, Maybe Happy Ending

Best Sound Design of a Musical  Dan Moses Schreier, Floyd Collins

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 6/6/25 at 7:34pm

The nearly-universal consensus seems to be: Maybe Happy Ending, Cole Escola and Jak Malone.